New-York tribune., 1911-12-07
AMSTERDAM AVENUE CORNER PLOT SOLD
Parcel at 18th Street. Valued at S225000 Disposed Of by the
Walton Estate to an investor.
NEW OWNER FOR TWO OLD BUILDINGS IN MURRAY STREET

The two story taxpayer on a plot fronting
i02.2 feet I'm Amsterdam avenue and 100 feet
in 18th street at the southwest corner; has
been bought by g. Waldo Smith, ir., for
client from the Walton estate. The prop
erty has been held at s225,OoO, and will be
kept as an investment by the purchaser.
An interesting sale of downtown property
was transacted by the Charles +. Noyes
Company for the Daniel Birdsall Company
Of the five and four story buildings, on
plot 50x75 feet, at NOS. "a and 46 Murray
street The parcel is Columbia College
leasehold. and has been owned by the same
family for several generations. Before the
structures on the site were erected the
present seller. Catherine Syms. was born
on the property.
Reports OF the sale Of a lot on the
list street side Of the Lenox Library block.
between the plot owned by Otto II. Kahn
and the residence of Charles c. Auchin-
Gloss, were circulated yesterday, but could
not be confirmed, beyond the admission by
{. T. II. Gilbert that he was drawing
plans for six story American basement
residence for a client whose name he was
not at liberty TO disclose.
The old brewery building Of the defunct
Clausen & Price Brewing Company, at the
northeast corner of West End avenue and
59th street. sold at auction yesterday
by Bryan l.. Kennedy, i'm a bankruptcy sale,
for s66 75o, TO j. Jerome Alexander. The
property, which consists of a four story
building covering q plot 125.6X100 feet, will
he altered and used as a storage ware
house.
Horace :. Ely d Co. have sold for Mrs
James Sanders and Mrs Corcoran L. Rose
a plot of five lots on the south side Of
54th street, between First and Second ave
nues. The purchaser Is the Kolp Lumber
Company. 1t is interesting TO note that
there has been quite some activity in this
section recently. The same brokers have
sold seventeen lots in this location this
year for mercantile concerns for occupa-
ton.
Edmund L. Mooney and Andrew J. Ship
man have purchased through Francis b.
Robert the l-4sth interest owned by the
Schell estate i'm the Rockingham apartment
house at the corner of Broadway and 56th
street, covering a plot Of about seven lots
The buyers now own all the outstand-
ing interests except that of the life tenant
Julia VI. Butterfeld. Mooney e Shlpman
acquired their first interest in 1899, and the
others have all been acquired through Mr.
Robert at different times since 1905 one
half being obtained from Justice Gerard
9-4sths from the United States Realty Com
pany and the balance from Mandelbaum &
Levine and the Schell estate
The Mystic Shriners who now occupy
quarters in Madison Square Garden are ne
gotiatng with the interests identified with
the proposed arena TO replace the Garden
and which il to he erected on the block
bounded by Park and Lexington avenues,
18th and 18th streets. owned by TN" New
York Central Railroad. James Young, Of
the Madison Square Garden. is interested
in the new project II the deal Is consum-
mated the ShrinerS will lease two upper
stories Of the building, giving them d
total area of 1000 square feet.