New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-17
Book Lovers Organiza-
ton Has Occupied Prem
iSes for Is Years.
DWELLINGS IN LENOX
HILL SECTION SOLD
Builders VIII Replace Houses
with a Big Apartment-Trin"
lily Court Resold.

Some interesting sales were an
nounced in the real estate market yes
terday. The Grolier Club has sold its
property at 20 East 32d ST., which It
has occupied for nearly twenty-five
years.
The club is one Of the best known
book lovers organizations in the coun-
try. Business invasion, which has
been steadily. increasing in the sec
ton, made II necessary tor the club 10
seek a quieter neIghborhood.
The property, which is a three story
and basement building on a lot 25x9S.y
feet, adjoining the northeast corner Of
Madison av., was sold by Pease Ell-
man TO an investor, who will alter II
for business. These brokers have also
obtained for the club a site further
uptown in a residential part OF the
city.
Z. D. Kennedy is president Of the
club, succeeding the late William r..
Havemeyer, and Arthur Scribner II
secretary. The new clubhouse 10 be
erected will have adequate vault facili-
ties TO properly safeguard some $4,000
or more volumes of books owned by
the club, whose membership is largely
composed of publishers, authors, lit
erary men and boOklovers.
An apartment house will replace four
dwellings in the Lenox Hill section as
a result of transaction negotiated by
Douglas l.. Gilman & Co. yesterday.
Julius Tishman & Sons, who have been
identified with a number of successful
West Side apartment operations, have
purchased the four story structures
at 122 to l2S East 10th st. The com
bined parcels comprise a site 69Xl02.2
f. ct, midway between Park and Lexing-
ton avs. The estate OF Virginia Ia
briskie is the seller of l22, 126 and
12s, while l24 was bought from Simon
Levi.
julius Tishman & Sons will improve
the site with a high class, nine story
apartment house. Plans have been
prepared for the new structure, and
show two apartments to a floor Of the
seven and eight room type, for which
there has been an unusual demand in
that section. The entire deal will in
vclve an outlay of about S350,000.
Trinity Court, an old-fashoned six
story office and store building, al 70
10 76 Trinity Place, on a plot 1O4.4x
42.4xl0S.9X52 feet, recently taken over
in foreclosure proceedings by the Nut
ual Life Insurance Company at the
stand OF Joseph p. Day, has been sold
10 the Alliance Realty Company, Will
lam II. Chesebrough, president. Good
ale, Perry & Dwight were the brokers.
The site is admirably adapted for
modern business improvement. Its lO4
feet Of frontage. facing the Trinity
Church grounds, affords exceptional
light Adjoining on the south is q
2S-foot vacant parcel owned by the
United States Express Company, which
separates and preserves the light OF
the company's skyscraper az Rector ST.
To the north is the American Bank
Note Company's Building. A station
Of the new subway will be right at the
Trinity Court property, and the new
owners expect to remodel the building
and install several stores on the street
floor.
The Aldus Construction Company,
which built and disposed Of three
apartment houses or Washington
Heights this wear, has purchased from
Max Marx the block front on the west
side of Nermilyea av, between lsham
and 2i1th SITS. The site contains about
six lots and has frontages of l4N.2 feet
on Vermilyea av., IS feet on lsham St,
OF feet on Filth 81, with rear line
measuring 95.6 feet. Il forms the east
erly end of a triangular block which
intersects al Broadway.
The Aldus company will erect on the
site a high class FIVE story house, ar
ranged with nine apartments on
floor. The apartments will enjoy un-
usual light, through the three street
frontaees. two of the thoroughtares be-
ing so feet wide. The house VIII be
only a short distance from the ZOith
81. subway station. About SIX weeks
ago the Aldus company also purchased
from Max Marx the plot lO0XlOO teet
az the northwest corner Of Nermliyea
av. and 207th ST., one Of the choicest
unimproved parcels Of the city's newest
apartment centre. That site rs also TO
be improved with a five story house
with stores.
Frederick Fox g. Co. sold for Claude
NJ. Boland 208 Lafayette St, -FOUR
story building, on a lot 2l2XlOO feet,
resr Broone 81. The adjoining parcels
al 2O4 and pos are owned by the Conk-
ling family. u
Az ST JoHN.-The Normal constulctIon
Company John Bo%n pcssas s5,tm n 'i house oe
,,,r,i,g plot rsri00. on the east side o. Az
s.b iTrstet III fs-ef south % Beck 81 In
,,rt pavr1rnt The buyer gave the adjoining vacant
nos Ii01l2I 40 Tie northeast corner on AZ. -
80 "a Soy ~ This site will be improved win
snartment h0us- The Normal company has tahen
bscE a ease 81 the house Just disposed 81 Tor
siNfpsON ST The Nehrng Company sold g,9
eimps9n a. ave story apartment house on 20.
900 The buyer. investor. sift. ~ paft
.ss- ne OF ~ llxt00. a. the southeast cor
-, - Issth - and Audubon ~. ute 20 wiich
!. bed by WI Jam Crawford The transaction In
yoly,, about 500 900 .,, .,
PROSPECT Av.-P. y Gladstone purchased p, ns,-
from tho Nagr0m Realty Co-pofanlol' \ ". ., bta
- ,-,s,dTTt the three story business buildlAg
a.,io0 on he southeast corner q Prospect az and
ie5d a. -Four lots on Wi.iamsnndse ROAD near
% an, PARKWAY. were given ln exchange
TfNrON AV-Tho Ann Buidlng 'ofporAuoh
.ott N n P0I,ky the new eve sory Apartment house
so' -, c-xt0O a. the southwest corner OF linton
Az and lGdth 81.