New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
TO HAVE SUITES OF
% ROOMS, II BATHS
Will Be Feature of New
9Th Avenue Apartments
at I'D Street.
ROOMS OF UNUSUAL
SIZE ALSO PLANNED
Projectors Say Structure Will
Be Finest of Its Kind
in Manhattan.

The apartment house to be built at
the southeast corner Of I'D ST. and
Fifth av. will have three apartments
on two floors each, consisting OF two
simplex apartments Of unusual size and
one duplex apartment. The simplex
apartments will contain nineteen rooms
and six baths, while the duplex apart
ments will contain twenty rooms and
six baths. There will also be few
floors arranged for one apartment on
q floor consisting of twenty eight rooms
and eleven baths.
A feature of the building will be the
central court, on which the foyer Will
open. This court will be treated archi-
tecturally in the Italian style and will
give an air of spaciousness as one en-
tiers the building The rooms are of
unusual size, the drawing room being
21x3S feet and the dining rooms 2Ox26
feet. The larger apartments have
rooms for sixteen servants, while the
others have rooms for seven and eight
servants.
The projectors say the building will
be the finest apartment house ever built
and will contain every facility for the
comfort of its tenants. The building
will be ready for occupancy by August,
1916.
Title was passed yesterday to the
property to be improved. The premises
were recently sold by Pease Gilman
for the executors Of the estate OF
James A. Burden, who owned the 3D.
foot house on the corner, and for Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, who owned the So
foot vacant plot adjoining the corner,
giving a combined plot with a frontage
of 1l5 feet on Fifth av. and 1875 feet
on 72d st.
Title was taken in the name Of the
GOT Fifth Avenue Company, Robert B.
Knowles, president. Mr.. Knowles is of
the firm of Taylor, Knowles g. Heck,
attorneys, at 1865 Broadway. This com
pany represents Wells Brothers, Inc,
Of Chicago, and j. f. r. Carpenter. The
former company has the general con-
tract for the erection of the building,
while Mr.. Carpenter has arranged the
plans and specifications.
Pease G. Gilman have secured
building loan from the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company for S1,400,000
for the 907 Fifth Avenue Company.
Pease & Gilman have been appointed
agents for the renting of the apart
ments.
Holly Arms, a six story elevator
apartment house at 402 to 410 West
14Sth ST., has been sold by the McKeon
Realty Company, controlled by the
Larkin family, which has been promi-
nently identified with the construction
of several of the big lofts in the vcin-
ity of the Pennsylvania terminal. The
apartment house occupies a plot look
100 feet and is located on the south
side of the street, 100 feet west of st.
Nicholas av.
II is one of two similar structures
erected at that point by Emanuel Krule-
witch about six years ago. He sold
Holly Arms to Ned Hanlon, the old
baseball magnate, of Baltimore and
Brooklyn.
Mrs. VI. Barker Fariera is to build
three story commercial structure at 36
to 40 West Goth St, opposite Weber's
Theatre, at the northwest corner of
Broadway. The plot is 65x9S.9 feet.
The entire project will cost $40 900, ac-
cording to the estimate of Architect
Randolph H. Almiroty.
A representative of the owner said
yesterday that should the renting de-
mand later warrant the erection of
skyscraper, the proposed building may
be RACED within a year or two.
Plans were fled yesterday for the
six story model tenement to be erected
by the Chelsea Homes Corporation at
AL and 443 West 2Sth st. 1t will be
six stories high and is estimated to cost
$4,000 by the architects, H. N. Baer
and E. II. Klaber. The building will
occupy a site 50x9S9 feet Features of
the structure will be club and ex-
tensive dining quarters for the settle
ment workers of the Chelsea district.
The site is just across Chelsea Park
from the Hudson Guild and was bought
in June. Alexander VI. Bing, treasurer
of the Hudson Guild, will also act in
that capacity for the Chelsea Homes
Corporation.
Other sales reported yesterday were
as follows:
DIVISION sT-Jacob Finkes,ein & Son haze
sold TO Waoginsky & Fialkon the premises II and
II = Division ST.. three story building. on lot
25l6S These premises will be occupied by the buy
ers for a retail cloak and suit business. The
seller was represented by ;. A. Israel
PRESCOTT ANE.-Frank Noz has sold Tor Sarah
NJ Schotts the plot 2j1l3G. Prescott ave. located
40 feet north ~ Bolton road 10 Mrs. J. C. Curtiss.
She will erect bungalow on the site
COURTLANDT AYE. A Polak has sold FOR
WHY Ehrenhaus the ne-family house az 939 Court
lsudf ave 2bxg6 feet. 10 James Monalan.
WASHINGTON AYE.-Lazarls Levy bought from
the Marvin Realty Company the southeast corner
al Washington ave and ld6th St, j2x93 feet Mr..
Levy will erect three story building. with stores,
the upper part Of which he Will occupy Tor his