New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
COURT FOR WOMEN
TO BE l6 STORIES
Sunny Cells Above the
Third Floor for
Offenders.
ARCHITECTS PLACE
COST AT 1865, 900
First Structure of Its Kind To
Be Erected in the Old
TenderlOin.

The proposed sixteen story building
to be used as a court, Jail and house
of detention for women will occupy
the former site of the Tenderloin pc.
lice station, on the north side of Both
ST., 250 feet east Of Seventh sv. Crit
fin & Wynkoop, architects, estimate
that this novel building will cost $780,
900. Diagonally opposite the premises
is the new Tenderloin police station.
The architectural drawings show that
this will be a most imposing structure
in the French Renaissance style. It's
facade will be of brick, limestone and
terra Gotta. The cells for prisoners
will all be above the ground floor, and
will be large, airy and attractive, thus
typifying the present penal spirit as
to how offenders should be incarcer-
ated.
The courts where only women law
breakers will be tried will be on the
second and third floors. A distinctive
feature of the building will be open air
loggias on each floor from the sixth to
the fourteenth floor. There will also
be two spacious dining rooms on each
floor from the sixth TO the fifteenth
Z
chapel and on the sixteenth floor will
be a kitchen and hospital.
The building will have frontage OF
l01 feet and a depth OF $50 feet.
Plans have been filed with the Man
haitian Bureau of Buildings for the
construction Of six story freproof
dwelling house for Edward c. Jameson,
at East 69th st. IL will have 'front.'
age of % feet and depth Of 99.2 feet,
with facade of brick and limestone.
II will contain an entrance hall and
lobby on the first floor, a circular din
ing room and hall on the second floor.
Guests rooms and library will be on
the third floor, bedrooms on the fourth
floor, play room and nursery on the
fifth floor and servants quarters on
the sixth floor Grosvenor Atterbury,
the architect, has placed the cost at
$50 900
The 511 Fifth Avenue Corporation
has been incorporated at Albany to
take over the R. T. Wilson property, at
AID st. and Fifth av. The company
was formed by Stoddard e. Mark, as at
torneys, acting for a client.
The Wilson property, which is one OF
the choicest sites in the new retail Sec
ton along Fifth av., fronts SO feet on
L
weeks ago Harry Fischel was reported
to have secured the property under
contract, and planned to improve it
with sixteen story building, the lower
part of which was to be occupied by
the Guaranty Trust Company for a
Fifth av. branch. That deal fell
through, however According to re-
ports the prospective buyer has some
what similar plans for the improve
ment Of the site, and also is said to
have arranged with the Guaranty Trust
Company for space in the new building.
The sales reported yesterday were:
SD sT-The Douglas Robinson Charles s Brown
denoe az l62 East SD st. II Is 4 three story and
midway between Lexington and Third avs. The
Tie four houses at 1874 10 40 adjoining. on
the east owned by the Beekman estate. Tho
next door dwelling at $50 was purchased BY
18th sT.-The old A1erbach candy factory,
az 33i and 1856 West 18Th st. has been sold TILE
Is held by A. Leopold Auerbsch. The building Is
five stories high. and occupies plot 5oxss feet
between Eighth and Ninth avs The Auerbachs 1re
nov located IN their big factory al Eleventh sS.
i76TTI ST-Iouis Schi0ss and A. F. Burger
have sold for the Beneuson Realty Company 70 the
Corell Building Company plot 15tl'O. on East
BRADHI RST AV.-Enn's Il S,nnott purchased
from C. Y. y Burreu. through Taylor, sherman \
Marks. % Bradhurst ay; a Eve story fat, on plot
UNIVERSITY AV-Joseph Keller purch ased ior
investment from J. p. Dauth and Kate Lea 1887
LYMAN PLACE.-The E. A Polsk Bfok-rage
Company sold the five story uew-law nat az 1911
Lyman Place 5O1l00 Tor the Rex Realty Company
10 Lowenfed & Fraser. who gave IN part payment
a plo, 4OxlO0. on the southwest corner OF Cropse'
and 22d avs. Brooklyn.