Evening journal., 1914-05-02
BETTER CONDITIONS
IN REALTY TRADE
Contractors Report Much
New Work Under Way
Since Weather Became
Settled
CONCORD HEIGHTS
PROGRESS SHOWN

Plans have been issued by a Phila-
delphia firm Of architects for a hand
some residence for Holstein Harvey.
10 be built on Gilpin avenue, directly
behind Mr. Harvey's present home.
The house viii be Of tile and stucco
and three stories high.
On the FIRST floor will be very
handsome reception hall, finished IN
white oak and white oak floors A
staircase viii add greatly to its
beauty. Other rooms viii be a parlor.
living room. dining room and sun par
lor. On the second floor will be bed
rooms and two baths, and on the
third floor will be the servants quar-
ters. The hoose is expected to cost
about $4,000 A. s. Reed and Com
pany are bidding on the contract
w. II. Jones and Company are maxi
ing repairs i'm tho Avenue Theatre
which re-opened a few days ago, The
theatre win De placed in first class
condition and a new steel moving pic
ture room win be installed The
room will be absolutely freproot
The same firm reports an abund-
ance Of job work. The company IS
waiting on a shipment of bricks be-
fore beginning work on several other
operations that have been mentioned
ina these columns
Roscoe Cook rindali, architect, will
ask for bids on Wednesday for two
! houses for Mrs. A. ID. Miller, OF Read
/ ing. Pa. Il is not expected that Will
mington contractors will bid, but ar
Tindali announced that they could 1t
they so desired.
The Union Stone Company has re-
/ ceived a contract for the stone work
/ for a large three-story home on the
corner of Broome and Twenty-eigbth
streets for Mrs. Anna Boehm. Il Will
be OF stone construction, 29x39, ana
will cost $4,000. It will occupy a plot
of ground 50x100, the elevation OK
which is 14S feet above sea-level. IL
viii have a splendid view of the Della
ware river and the Jersey shore.
\ Work was started yesterday.
Lynch Bros have received the con-
tract TO erect the handsome home for
bwoOd HILBERT, at the corner OF the
Boulevard and Concord avenue. It
VIII be constructed OF art brick, with
vide extending porch with stone col
umns. This residence is embraced
within the Identification plan carried
through last summer between the
city and abutting property owners at
the intersection OF the Boulevard and
Concord avenue, and six other streets.
This Is the ninth large home erected
on the land adjoining this big inn
provement. namely: That OF Mrs
Laura Il. Harrar, A. B. Stayton. VIII
liam II. Jones, l.. w. Syfrit Nj. Nc
Daniels, William Belts. Herman
Glanding, and A. c. Frisch
Another building occupying a COM
manding position in this beautlica-
tion plan, is the Evan G. Shortledge
school house completed last fall
There now remain but ive sites for
homes abutting this Improvement.
two of which are sold 70 parties ex-
pecting to erect fine residences there
on at an early date. With the Cen
eral Thomas A. Smyth monument to
ornament the center OF this beauty
spot under way, this important EN-
trance to the city Is fast nearing COM
pletion, and when the Street and
Sewer Department carry out their
part Of the plan by improving the
street beds of the intersecting thor
oughfares, Wilmington can well bc
proud of this beautiful beautihcation
project
Several contractors are recountine
the apartment house for Bernard
Carr, designed by J. Hardy Bosson g.
OF New York. Plans have been re-
ceiyed for q residence for NJ w
Brashears, 81 Hillcrest The resi-
dence will contain six rooms and will
be modern in every particular.
Bids for the Julian Ortiz house will
be received today and bids for the
- contract for the Thomas Grier house
at New Castle viii be received next
week.
Haddock and Company have receiv-
r ed the contract to build brokerage
: Offices for Laird and Company in the
, DUPONT Building The offices will Do
located in the store room now occu-
pied as a florist shop at the entrance
TO the Playhouse. The enclosure will
T, be in plate glass and the walls will
be marble. The grill work will bs
% brass. The cost Is withheld.
Il was reported this week that the
residence OF the late Judge William
. C.. Spruance, at No. 1911 Delaware
. avenue, had been sold. It IS under
stood that the property was bought
! by Mrs. Jennie n. Field for $4,000
When asked concerning the sale w.
w. Pusey. second. of the Delaware
Trust Company admitted that an
ofier had been made for the property
but would not admit that the sale
had been made