New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17
Vast Sums Being Spent
for Dwellings, on Lenox Hill
r M;iken A. G. Paine, ia, and Edmund Coffin Latest
Purchasers of Sites for Improvement with Houses
FOR Their Own Occupancy-Great Transfer
nation in the Section in Recent Years.

make amends for one strikingly bad
line Such an imperfection viii al
ways remain glazing.
Reflect Age of Bright Hues.
II you have any doubts about this
being building age Of light hues look
at the Woolworth Building, the City
Investing Building. the Adams Building
and many other skyscraper creations of
recent years. However dark and de-
pressed may be the life Of the land
lord of to-day he cannot afford 70 erect
buildings with facades that remind one
Of an iil-spent evening or blue Mon
day"
The top of Lenox Hill is at s9th st.
and Park av. This point is 1855 feet
above sea level The corner properties
command an unObstructed view of the
slopes to the south and north. 1t is on
the southwest corner Of 69th 50. and
Park av. that house of brick, with
limestone trimmings, is TO be built for
Henry p DAWSON, OF J. p Morgan e.
Co. The house will be five stories and
front 63 feet on the street and extend
So feet along the avenue. Opposite is
Hunter College, which occupies the en-
tire block bounded by 6Sth and 69th
SITS. and Park and Lexington avs. on
the block TO the north of the site on
which will be the Dawson house stood
for many years the old home of the
Union Theological Seminary. The pa
latial private homes of ex-Commodore
Arthur Curtiss James and George Blu
menthal have replaced the old semi
nary. The latest additions 10 the Lenox
Hill private dwelling house colony will
be on the premises l01 10 107 East
10th st. and on part Of the premises
104 10 10 East list st. On the site
1O1 and 1913 East 10th St, forming the
northwest corner property, Gerrish
Milliken, Of Deering, Milliken e. Co.,
will build a home for himself, and on
the adjoining site, 105 and i07 East
10th ST., a big modern dwelling for
Augustus p. Paine, Jr., president OF
the New York and Pennsylvania Paper
Company, is TO be erected. Both Mr..
MIlliken and Mr.. Paine. jr., bought
their sites last week. Mr.. Paine now
lives in the Sos near 9Th az. At the
southwest corner Of 10th ST. and Park
av. Robert 5. Brewster has built fine
house for his own occupancy. CARL
Tucker and Hiram ". Sibley bought
last week the hathouse property 104 TO
40 East list So. through Douglas Rob-
inson, Charles 5. Brown Company, a
site with 12-fOot frontage on the east
ern part Of the property they resold 20
Edmund Coffin. who will erect house
for himself Mr. Tucker is the owner
and occupant Of the dwelling at 1873
Park av., adjoining, which he bought
IN 1914 from Elihu Root.
Among the buyers in the LenoX Hill
district earlier in the year was Regl-
maid c. Vanderbilt. He bought the
dwelling i East 18th ST. through
Pease & Gilman. He likes private
house life much better than being IN
der the roof OF an apartment house.
Extensive alterations are 10 be made 70
his 18th 81. house. Quite large series
OF sales of East 73d st. houses have &C.
casionally made very conspicuous the
buying movement this year on Lenox
Hill The Frsnkenberg estate sold 56
East I'D ST.; L. NJ. Dickinson bought Is
East 73d St. and Dr. Walter Anderton
purchased IS East I'D ST. As a we'd
ding present for her daughter, Mrs.
Barbara R. Hatch. Mrs. ". X. Wander
bilt is having built a three story and
basement dwelling AZ 153 and 155 East
cd 81. The house is being erected
from plans by Frederick Steiner. At
I 8 East saith ST., Mrs. Helen c. Thorpe
IS having a FIVE story house built for
herself from plans by John c. Green
leaf. Many other dwelling houses are
! 20 be erected in the section.