Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-22
PLANS MADE FOR
NEW 500 FOOT STREET
Will Connect BrOOkes Avenue
and Pearl Street about Mid
way between Prospect and
Willard Streets, and Provide
Nine Building Lots

An important real estate deal. re-
Gently completed, whereby Clarence
II. White and Wesley A. Sturges of the
law firm Of White & Sturges have ta-
ken over from the Kappa Sigma fra
ternty large part of the land north
and west of the fraternity house on
Pearl street, formerly the w. J. Van
PatteD estate will mean the putting
through this spring of a new street
running north and south between Pearl
street and Brookes avenue. 1t will also
mean the development of building lots
on this new street
This street will he As feet wide and
nearly 500 feet long, entering Pearl
street about IL feet west of the YER
anda of the Kappa Sigma house, and
extending almost directly north AMI,
south connecting with Brookes avenue,
between the houses of w. p. Craven
and Mrs. Mary Murrin. In order to get
the connection with Brookes avenue,
Messrs. White and Sturges have pur-
chased from Mr. Craven a small strip
of land bordering on Brookes avenus
almost directly north of the western
end of the Kappa Sigma House.
Work on the new street will COM
mence as soon as the snow is off the
ground this spring, and it is expected
! that it will be completed early in july.
| This street, which will connect with
Pearl street about half way between
Prospect and willard streets, will be
almost a continuation of Williams
street, the connection with Pearl be-
| ing short distance west of the point
where Pearl connects with williams.
! In order to put through the new
street. it will be necessary to tear down
the barn which is located at the north
Of tIA fro +n,-
as the proposed street will be laid oue'
to cover some of the land now occu-
pied by the west side of the barn.
Work is already In progress on ths
tearing down of this barn, and is
everything goes well, this job will be
completed this week.
Along this new street will be located
nine building lots five on the vest
side and four on the east side The larg-
est of these lots, which will be that in
the southwest corner, will have y
frontage of about 50 feet on Pearl
street and about 152 feet on the new
street The other four lots on the west
side of the new street will measure
about SO by sac feet each.
On the east side of the street, tn .
lot just north of the Kappa Sigma
house will he the largest. being prac-
itically 100 by 6S feet. This is the lot
on which the carriage house stands
and work is now in progress to re-
construct this brick carriage house in
to an p-to-date modern dwellir Z
house. It is expected that II will ho
ready for occupancy by April I.
When finished. this will be an eight
room, brick house with furnace heat.
cellar slate roof, southern veranda,
fireplace. and a garage. On the lower
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n fireplace. a library. dining room,
kitchen and toilet. On the second floor
viii be four bedrooms and a bath
room.
| Messrs. white and SturEes announce
that the nine lots have been surveyed,
and that the proposed developments on
the land will start as early as possible
this spring. Within day or Two, A
plan of the new development, with blue
prints showing size and location ct
lots, will be placed on the property
which is to be developed Already, sew
eral offers have been received for tn a
large lot which borders on Pearl street,
just west of the fraternity house.
The Kappa Sigma fraternity purchas-
ed this property from w. J. Van Pat
ten in 1914, and the house which was
formerly the Van Patten residence ha s
since been used as a chapter house by
the fraternity. The fraternity has never
used all of the land which went with
the Van Patton estate. and this new de-
velopment opens up for building in a
good section of the city, near the car
line, and not fer from the business sec-
ton, several lots which, it is expected
will be popular with those connected
with the college and others on the hill
After disposing of the land with
which this new development will be
carried out the Kappa Sigma fraternity
still has a lot 100 by 971s feet, where
the fraternity house stands