New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
TO ERECT PRINTING
CRAFTS BUILDING.
Plans Provide for a Il
Story Structure Cost
ing $2,5O0,0OO.
SITE AT Bath STREET
AND EIGHTH AVENUE
Much Space Already Has Bee"
Leased from the Plans by
Big Concerns,

Negotiations extending over PERIOD
of eight months were finally concluded
last week. assuring the erection TINS
wear Of the new Printing Crafts Build
inc At saith ST. and Eighth av. Title
TO the entire block front on the west
side of Eighth av.. between $50 ana
saith SITS, and 10 the adjoining parcels
AT 800 West saith st. and SO3 West $50
st. was taken by the 46l Eighth Ave
nue. Company.
Wreckinc of the old buildings now
occupyine the site and the eXcavatlng
for the foundations OF the new strueV-
ure were begun. Announcement wa
also made Of the leasing OF hve entire
floors and parts of two other noorS
from the plans 10 comolnauoh .,
tenants at a total rental OF AROUND
Sl.500.00O.
signed by Edward L. Larkln ana 1ihe ONE.
interests for the purchase of the oIocS
front. i97.6xlO0 feet, on the west slde
of Eighth av.. between SD and satin
sts The property was held by the
owners. Archibald u. Russell, Percy X.
Pvne and Moses T. Pyne, at Sl,OOO,ooC'
They bought it from Robert +. Dowl-
ING in 1906 for a reported consideration
of s725. 900. The Larkins also signed
contracts for the purchase OF the TWO
abuttine parcels 800 West satin ST.,
four story dwelling, on lot l9X9S.9 feet,
owned bv Cornelius +. Sheehan, and oOd
West 33d ST., four story private
house. on lot 20x9S.9 feet, owned by
Wargerv : Ruttman. Joseph ?. Day
negotiated the sale of the block 'front.'
which was occupied by the old Haegef
Storage Warehouse.
In January, 1915, plans were hled by
Edward l.. Larkin, as archtect' TOT q
twentv-one story store, Office and lott
building TO cost S2.5O00 900, covering
the full plot Of $4,000 square teet'
Above the tweuty-one stories the plans
called for a floor of studios and a
story for tank houses and superih-
tendent's living quarters
With some slight notifications the
building will be constructed IN &C
cordance with the original plans ION
tracts for various stages OF the WORE
have been let, and II is expected MA
he completed structure will be turned
oyer n the tenants for occupancy on
Vsv / 1916. The Brett & Goode Com
d
In TO the present time leases nave
boen signed with the Bartlett-Or:
pres the Eugene c. Lewis Company,
pocers & Co.. the Edgar Printing ana
Stationery Company and with Two
other firms, whose names are WIN
hold for the present. The space taken
nv these companies includes the TWEEN
tt-second or studio floor. the twenty
f,st twentieth, twelfth, eleventh, part
IF the third floor and a ground moor
.tore-a total area of 10000 square
Got 4 nrice Of $4,000 a floor was
led for il. and il is understood that
the five tenants paid close 10 inns Hs-
ure. The leases are for .twenty-yeGf
terms from MAY /. 1916. the aggregate
rental approximating S11OOOOO ne
EDGAR Printing and Stationery Com
panv. for many years located at 6S
West Thirtv-ninth Street. New YORK
CITY. has leased store No ?, alongside
the passenger lobby Of the building,
and one-ouarter Of the third floor.
The term Of the lease is for twenty
years, az rental aggregatng Sll2'opV.
In appearance the Printing Crafts
building will compare favOrablY WIN
other noteworthy tall buildings. IT
will be built Of rough gray stone up
n the fourth story and Of plain gray
fade brick above, with band courses OF
fine white terra Gotta at the fourth
and seventeenth floors and a line Of
pillars extending from the seventeenth
TO the twentieth floor. TIE design is
in harmony with the Pennsylvania
Station and the General Postoffice, d.
agonally opposite. As it fronts on
three streets and has an assurance Of
permanent light on the fourth side
over low buildings, the building viii
exhibit finished appearance from all
directions