New-York tribune., 1912-02-09
WESTERN UNION COMPANY ENLARGES SITE
Leases Property Fulton Street from Countess De aeTand-
Perigord for Annex to Proposed New Structure
lNEM FIRM RENTS SPACE IN FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING

Work on the taking down Of the Western
Union Building, at the northwest corner Of
Broadway and Dey street. will begin on
March /. Tearing down the western end OF
the Company's buildings. including two ola
five story structures covering plot 20 feet
at No. n to IS Dey street. will start on that
date. preparatory 10 the erection Of TWEEN
ty-siX story building. which will have an
extension extending 10 Fulton street and
covering a 33-foot plot al Nos. les and no..
owned by Adele Livingston Sandford.
Countess de Talleyrand- -Perigord. The lat
ter property has just been obtained on a
long lease from Brill Brothers, who leased
the property 4 few years ago from the
countess for twenty years renewal
of this lease Is under negotiation with the
countess the papers having been sent
abroad few days ago.
The Fulton street side will not be as high
as the Dey street section. The plans al
ready prepared indicate that a ten or an
eleven story building is to be built there'
and it is understood that II will be Tor the
use Of the company's service departments
including wiremen. cleaners and other en-
ployes part of the upper portion being re-
served for offices This plot is between the
new building Of the New York Law School
and The Mail and Express
When this section is completed, according
10 the plans prepared by William NeIeS
Bosworth. which will be executed by Mar"
Eidlitz a. Son, who have been gwen tu'
general contract for the construction the
annex, at Nos. 10 and L Dey street VIII DE
taken down and rebuilt to the height OF
tventy-six stories. Later on, the old west
ern Union Building itself will likewise tur-
uish a site for n similar extension. mus
completing structure which VIII tA"h
baye a frontage of 75.4 feet In Broadway
90 feet in Dey street and % feet In } ultoh
street, facing ST. Pauls churchyHd.
The company's plan completed will rep
resent an Investment Of more than $3,"@-
o0. exclusive Of the land. Newcomb Carl
ton. vice-presdent. said yesterday that the
first unit Of the new building VIII ne re8nF
for occupancy by May, 1913
The linen firm OF James McCutcheon &
Co. has leased for term OF fourteen
years. from May /. 1913, with option to
renew for twenty-one years more, the
lower portion of the proposed building to
be erected by Henry Corn AT No. ! 10 l5
East 2$d street This property has been
leased from Colonel John JACOB ANl"I' '"'
4 large commercial building IS 20 b"
erected on the site, report OF which was
given in The Tribune yestcrday.
The FIRM Of James McCutcheon Co
now occupies a sixteen story building. At
No. 3n to 3f Fifth avenue. with an OK
tension TO No TO East 5ith street. Tho
proposed building will be a part OF this
structure and viii house tho surplus bust
ness Of the firm.
A newly formed corporation has obtained
the site, 6Oxlc05 feet, IT 80. 20 to 2i9 West
5jth street between Broadway and Eighth
avenue. 1t viii he improved Immediately
with an eleven story automobile building.
which has been leased from tho plans 70
the O. r. Weiss Realty Company. Tn"
building contract has been awarded To- he
Keystone Construction Company