New-York tribune., 1910-06-29

The old Matthews house at Rlversloe
Drive and Goth street has been sold by
Franklin Petit to Mrs Johns H. Peii
through Slawson & Hobbs for about s5Oo'oo.
Mrs. Pell lives at No. East 3eth street and
owns the house adjoining the Matthew's
mansion She purchased the property
chiefly for the purpose of preventing the
encroachment of an apartment house next
to her
The house was built fifteen or twenty
years ago by John Matthews, manufact-
urer of soda fountains. He sold 1t to John
B. Russell, who is said to have spent near
ly 100000 in altering and renovatinS. The
house is on plot 110 feet on the drive and
159 feet in 9Oth street.
This property Is one of the handsomest
along the drive, being only a block above
the famous Clark mansion, formerly the
home of Bishop Henry c. Potter. 1t was
sold to Mr. Petit, real estate operator,
several weeks age
Hancock Court, large six story elevator
apartment house at the northwest corner
of st. Nicholas avenue and 124th street, ad-
joining the West End Theatre, was sold
yesterday by Earle & Calhoun for the
Michael E. Paterno Realty Company. The
by the Cabot Real Estate Company. 1t is
known as No PSI to 2s5 ST. Nicholas ave
nue., where it fronts 1oo1 feet, and has
a frontage of 62.4 feet in 124th street and
63 feet on Hancock Place.
John T. Underwood has engaged Cold
win Starrett & Van Week to draw
plans for an eighteen story building at
vesey and Church streets, facing the Of
fna Of ri,,if
ST. Pauls Church yard 1t will probably
involve an outlay of 100000.
The construction contract has been
awarded to the Tidewater Building Com
pany. Work on the structure will begin
within few weeks.
The proposed building will be in the
nature of a tower having all sides finished
as facades, two stories being in limestone
and the superstructure of brick and terra
Gotta. There will be four high speed ele-
vators.
The ground to be improved has a 'front.'
age of 52.5 feet in Vesey street and rs feet
in Church street, which is rather a small
base for so ambitious a structure Directly
in the rear is ST. Peters Roman Catholic
Church.
The contractors expect to complete the
building by April /, 1911
Plans have been filed for a six story
brick warehouse, to be erected at the south
west corner of Hudson and Beach streets
with frontage of TAG feet on Hudson
street and 100 feet on Beach street by ir-
regular, and with IN extension The
Protestant Society for Promoting RELIGION
and Learning in the State of New York Is
the owner. and the cost is placed at $4,000
by the architect, Charles c. Haight The
building has already been leased by La
mont, Corliss & Co.
Plans have been filed by r. II. Robinson
e. Son, architects for a six story nurses
home for Roosevelt Hospital, to be built
on the south side of 59th street Ss.9 feet east
of Tenth avenue. The FACADE of the build
ing will be Of brick with trimmings of
terra Gotta, with a frontage of 1910 feet
and a depth of 81 feet, with an extension,
and will be freproof, with the exception of
the attic, The basement will contain five
rooms for probationary nurses, six rooms
for maids, the superintendent office, a re-
ception room and a trunk room. The first
floor will contain twenty-five rooms for
matrons The second. third and fourth
floors will each contain twenty-five rooms
for assistant matrons and reading room:
the fifth floor, containir twenty-four rooms
and a reading room, making a total number
of 12S rooms for the use of nurses, and Is
estimated to cost $4,000 by the architects
The Roosevelt Hospital is the owner
lAlbert B. Ashforth has leased the thir-
teenth and fourteenth floors of the Cameron
Building. s4th street and Madison avenue
to the Rail Joint Company for term oi
tai Of