Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-11
THIRD Church
PROPERTY TO
Be IMPROVED
Old Broad Street Edifice to Go.
Office Building for Will
lam Street.

Suggestions relative TO the erection
of office buildings and n commercial
hall or amusement enterprise on the
old church property on Broad street.
opposite the City Hall, and six or
eight-story office building on the
property at William street and
Chapel court are being considered by
the Third Presbyterian Church,
north The congregation took up
these matters at its annual meet
ing the chapel of the church. Abing
ton avenue and Ridge street. last
night.
1t developed that the chNch, While
having large real estate holdings al
most in the business center of the
city, is land poor, and il had become
necessary to do something looking
| toward the immediate development OF
| the properties.
The members of the Boards of
Elders, Trustees and Deacons were
empowered to act as a committee of
the whole and decide what was best
to be done. The consensus of opinion
among officers of the church ana
members of the congregation was
that temporary office buildings
should be erected on the Broad street
property which has a frontage of
more than 100 feet and is estimated
by real estate men to be worth i'm
the neighborhood of $1,000 a front
foot
1t is probable that one or two two
story buildings. capable of accom-
modating six or eight stores, with
storeroom space on the second floor,
will be built within the next few
months. The building. may follow
the ideas employed by the Prudential
Insurance Company in its new build
ings at Broad and Market streets.
Amusement Hall.
AS the Broad Street Church prop
erty has a depth of about 265 feet,
suggestions We're also made that a
commercial enterprise or amusement
hall be built in the rear of the pro-
posed office structures, with an en-
trance on Broad street Several New
York real estate men are said to be
after the property, but the general
belief seems to be that the amuse-
ment feature will not meet with
favor, as the church would not wish
to go into the amusement business,
For the williams street property.
a large Office building seems prob
able, judging from reports of the
meeting made by several of the ofii-
GERS who attended. This property
has a frontage on Williams street
OF 100 feet and "A depth of Is feet and
is at present unimproyed. The
church also owns property at Will
liams and Haisey street, but no
plans for its improvement are being
considered at this time.
Rev. DR. Robert Scott Jnglis. pas
tor of the Third Church. said today
that the plans for the Improvement
of the church oldings were entirely
problematical, but tat the joint COM
mittee was expected to devise some
plan at an early date for utilization
of the various church holdings
Money has to be borrowed by the
Third Church to build the new $780,,
900 edifice at Ridge street and Abing-
cured with which to put up the store
buildings on the site of the old
church on Broad street. The reason
small buildings are considered for
this property is that there is consid-
erable demand for small stores on
Broad street and revenue can be
raised quicker in this way, it is be-
lieved, than any other
At the meeting, the general finan-
cial condition of the church was eX-
planned and the various reports re-
celVed lnulcdLed tnaL SolHelhiIlE IhuSt
be done at once to raise additional
church revenues. The new church
edifice has cost probably third
more than the original estimate, the
original plans and the debt incurred
for the building has already become
burdensome.
George B. Murdoch, secretary of
the Board of Trustees; Matthias ].
Price and Herbert w. Hopper retired
as trustees last night. as the rules
of the church forbid immediate sue
cession to office. The new trustees
chosen to take their places were, F.
Burnet Price, ]. Willis Flickinger
and Herman Scharinghauser.