New-York tribune., 1915-03-24
Nine Story Building for
Narrow Plot on Fifth
Avenue.
E. II. RAYNOLDS BUYS
FINE 18TH ST. HOME
Dwelling Is at the Corner of
Madison Avenue-Other
Sales Announced.

A nine story apartment house Is to
be erected opposite the home Of Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 1t will be built
on the block front property Of the
Mary Mason Jones estate, on Fifth
Avenue, between Fifty-seventh and
Ffty-eighth Streets, at 743 Fifth Ave-
nue., on n lot 19.6x100 feet. by Mrs.
Lewis Cruger Hasell, an heir of the
estate. The plans are by Hazard &
Erskine, who estimate the cost at
$4,000.
Stores will occupy the ground floor
and the upper part of the building will
be arranged for bachelor quarters.
Work will be started on May /. Two
of the other dwellings on tIe block
are to be rebuilt for the occupancy Of
William +. Iselin, OF the drygoNds firm
of William Iselin g. Co., and his son.
One Of the houses at 745 Fifth Avenue
10 be altered has been occupied by Mr..
Iselin for many years.
Mr. Iselin had originally intended TO
build two dwelling houses for himself
and son at 9 East Eighty-sixth Street,
on plot 5110x100.8 feet, abutting the
Bradley Martin house and garden,
which he bought for that purpose from
Jules S. Bache, the banker, in Novem-
ber, 1912. The remainder of the block
front to the north of the Iselin project,
comprising three dwelling houses, and
the corner house, until recently occu
pied by the Plaza Bank, are 20 be al
tered. This announcement was made
in these columns recently. There will
be stores on the ground and first floors,
with bachelor apartments above, from
plans by Duncan Gambler. With these
changes the home of Mrs. Hermann
Oelrichs, ut the Fifty-seventh Street
corner, will be the only one remaining
on the block that has not been altered.
Edward II. Reynolds, of the paint
manufacturing concern of F. w Devoe
e. C. r. Reynolds, has bought the five
story dwelling house at the southwest
corner of Madison Avenue and Seventy
ninth Street, on a lot 18x72.2 feet IL
is one of three dwelling houses erected
at the point by the Charles Buck Con-
struction Company three years ago. 1t
was disposed of by the Lawyers Title
and Trust Company. Last week MIR.
Reynolds sold his home, at 12i West
Seventy-second Street, TO a client Of
the Lawyers Title and Trust Company.
It was rumored in real estate circles
yesterday that the parcels figured in
trade.
The Seventy-ninth Street dwelling
house stands on a block once owned by
the late Henry II. Cook, whose home
was at the Fifth Avenue and Fifty
eighth Street corner of the block, now
the site of the new home of James B..
Duke. Mr. Cook. upon building his
home, restricted the remainder Of the
block to the highest class of dwelling
houses.
Other sales follow:
10th ST-IA J. Phillips & Co. have sold 70
Admin Iewisohn for George r. Read nge lots on
fhe south side OF 10th St. 80 feet west o., Broad
way The plot measures l25K90 feet and has been
restricted for term % years to tho erection OF prl
va.s houses This restriction however. expires IN
Tuly next NJ Iewlsohn owns the entire frontage
on the vest side Of Broadway. between l6tth ana
10th Sta with the exception OF the i've stoy iia.
house % feet front az the corner of loeth -
with this latest purchase he controls plot OF ABOUT
twelve lots at this point. c,.-
It'll Avn R0-enbaum has sold for the Ciy
Real Estate Company .ilj and 2tl1 ith aV.. hoftn-
east corner Of l4lst s.. six sory new ia" apart
fuant with stores Oh 4 plot 80. llNlOO feet Inc
nurriaser il Louis Schmidt. q The Bronx who viii
hold the property for investment. The selling com
pany acquired tho house last June from Annie
IsT Ay.-Enest Y Adler purchased from J. j.
Mccormack and others the northeast corner OF lst
av and 18Th st. q four story business building; on
a lot 23rGS feet This property had been owned BY
the Mccormack family since 1863.