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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11
Historic Hampstead Plains Section Scene of Active Home Bull
Race With Builders Just One Step Ahead of Oppressed Hon
Garden City, Hemp
stead and Mineola,
i'm Heart of Charm
ing Suburban Long
Island, Have 40
HomesThat Can Be
Got ON Easy Terms

There is possibility that there will
be more houses available next fall in
Garden City and it's neighboring towns,
Hampstead to the south and Mineoia
to the north, than there are to-day.
Builders do not seem to have been as
active in these ideal home towns, in
the heart of Long Island, during the
pa-t months as brother builders in
other towns. Fears based on economic
problems and failure to secure suffi-
cient building capital have been ln-
surmountabie barriers to number of
builders. A conservative construction
program is being pursued, which
means a steady flow, if not q great
flow, of homes into the market which
will sell for from $500 to $4,000 and
more.
In the three towns-Garden City,
Hampstead and Mineola-three were on
sale yesterday $40 homes. Of this
humber eighty represented brand new
construction. 1t must not be inferred
that these figures represent the activ-
tiles of home builders in the section.
This would be contrary to the fact.
1t is possible that 800 new homes have
been erected in these towns since last
summer, but the demand has been so
great there that the supply disap-
peared largely before it had come on
the market. The handiwork of builders
is to be seen everywhere, especially in
the new sections of Garden City and In
Mineola and Hampstead.
Modern architectural designs and
the implanted clappoard shingles
stand out prominently in these old
towns of refined home life. In the towns
of Mineola and Hampstead, where
construction has not been pushed as
in Garden City, the new and I'M
adorned homes are especially notable
because the contrast in design and con-
struction details is so strong. Hemp
stead is q mellow town of many years.
st. Georges Church, in Front Street,
was established in 1902. All the homes
in Hampstead seem to be painted white
except the new group, which has be IN
left to the elements for its external
adornment.
Every New Home Is Not Available
The ncwness of the newly built homes
IS also a sight in the building fields of
Mineola. Coming across from the
Cathedral City, so called because the
episcopal see of Long Island is located
there, the bright yellow sides Of COM
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left Of several erected for sale. They
will be ready in May, and one will sell
for $18,500 and the other at $4,000.
Doubleday, Page & Co. have erected
three dwellings on property near their
plant, which will be offered to en-
ployees at $1,000 to $4,000 If they
are not taken by members of the
DoubledayP organization the
houses will be placed on the market.
These houses are being erected by
the Country Life Homes Company, or
ganized recently by George L. Hub
bell and members Of the big publishing
house for the purpose of carrying
through a home development on the
forty acres near the Country Life
Station, owned by the Doubleday Page
Company.
This is home development for the
members of the organization of the
company, and thirty houses are to be
built there, in one section at an aver
age cost of $4,000 and in another at
upward Of this price. This develop
ment, which just now means nothing
to the homesecker, is likely to grow
into one where the man outside of
the Doubleday Page plant will be &C.
commodated.
There are more than twenty old
houses-that is, homes which are &C.
cupied, but may be purchased-in the
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Portable little homes in Mineola are to
be seen. To the homeseeker whose
hopes rise at this sight comes some dis
appointment because everything that
looms yellow in the distance must not
be taken as available homes.
What Builders Are Demanding
Practically any one of the new
houses may be bought on the pay
ment Of rs per cent in cash and the
remainder on an installment payment
plan. There are some new homes
which cannot be acquired for less than
30 or 40 per cent of the price in in cash
and there are homes in Hampstead
on which the builders have demanded
SO per cent payments and have got
them without much trouble. But the
man who has from $4,000 to $4,000 in
money which he can put into a home
and who has occupied an apartment in
the city renting from SITS to $500 a
month can get home at Garden City,
Hampstead or Mineola.
In Garden City there are perhaps
thirty homes of new construction ready
or within a few weeks of completion
Most of these will be found in the
western end of the city to the north of
Nassau Boulevard, where the Garden
City Estates has twenty-four homes
for sale. They are Of six, seven and
nine rooms, with baths, and cost S1S.-
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purpose. The houses which are under
way he will sell for $4,000 and $4,000.
They are of six and seven rooms. 1t
is possible that these homes will be
ready for tenantry early in June.
The Schwencke Company has five
houses ready for occupancy. Others
are under way, and as the construction
of these advances more will be started
In Hampstead Manor there is only one
house for sale. That is q seven-room
home for which the Schwencke Com
pany wants $4,000, 80 per cent cash.
In South Hampstead the Schwencke
Company has four houses of six rooms
and bath, which may be purchased at
ST 300 on terms much easier than those
demanded for the Hampstead Manor
house. These houses are the last Of
several which the company erected in
it's south development, some Of which
were sold for $500. The last of the
$500 homes was sold last week and
there will not be any more homes sold
at this price. Those under way or
about to be started in South Hemp
stead must bring much more, at least
1900 or $4,000, it was explained, be-
cause of the increase in material and
labor costs since the completion of the
cheaper homes.
Fred Ingraham has one house of
twelve erected in Washington Avenue
at the east end of the town. 1t can
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11
No Profteering Landlords or Exorbitant
Prices to Disturb This Astoria Colony

The employees Of the silk concern Of
H. r. Mallnson & Co., which is erect
ing large plant in Astoria, Queens,
will not be burdened with the housing
problem. Neither will they be troubled
with profteering landlords to disturb
their bliss. The firm has purchased
four apartment houses within four
blocks of the factory for the housing
of its employees where rents will be
we'll in keeping with their wages. These
rents, it is announced, will be no
higher than to cover the actual running
expenses, with small interest charges
on the property, and will be less than
pre-war rentals.
The plan as mapped out will repre-
sent an interesting home community.
The cost of living will be lessened by
the establishment Of large co0pera-
tive store, where tenants can purchase
all merchandise at cost. The houses
bought are on Barclay Street, two
blocks from Hellgate and opposite the
proposed Astoria Park, with a clear
view Of the river.
The houses contain eighty-five four
and five room apartments, equipped
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be bought at $3.50. Mr.. lngranam has
asked and obtained as much AS so
per cent cash for some Of the houses
which he has sold. He has expressed
desire to build ten additional houses
in the same section to sell at $4,000.
Carrot Bush, coal merchant of Hemp
stead, has three houses of eight rooms
and bath for sale at $4,000 and s10,5O0.
Twenty New Homes in Mineola
Directly north on the other side Of
Garden City and in the direction of
the attractive Wheatley Hills, where
are to be found many of the great
estates of Long Island, is Mineola. 1t
is smaller town than Hampstead, but
it is one of the most important in
Nassau County, being the county seat.
There were about twenty homes there
yesterday practically ready for folks
to move into. There are five others
that may be regarded as completed. In
addition to these new buildings, there
are perhaps, thirty occupied homes
whose owners would sell at prices from
So, 800 to $4,000. The purchase terms
for the older structures are not, how
ever, as easy as those for the newer
homes, because all cash above the first
mortgage is demanded generally. AS
these mortgages were based on values
of several years ago, it means that the
difference between the first mortgage
and the prices asked to-day, which are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11
Homeseekers Find Places
Aplenty in Westchester
Owen Davis, Playwright, Among
New Workers Who Will
Locate There

The residence of Owen Davis, play
wright, at 1922 Park Hill Avenue, Park
Hill, Yonkers, has been sold to Fred
erick Hottenroth, of this city. George
Howe, the broker, also sold for John F..
Kane, builder, new house on Lands
downe Drive, Larchmont Gardens, to
Roger Batchelder, also Of this city.
Prince & Ripley, Inc, sold for the
Berth Realty Corporation a hollow tile
and stucco house in the River View
Manor section of Dobbs Ferry.
The John T. Brook Company sold d
brick and stucco house on Edgewood
Avenue, Pelham Heights, to Walter
Flannery, of Pittsburgh. Prince & Rip
ley, Inc, and Bryan L. Kennedy were
the brokers.
Fish & Marvin sold for Cornelius B.
Fish plot Of 21A acres on Garden
Road, in the Grange property at Scars
dale, to a New York client, who plans
to build house for permanent home.
J. S. Barron has added a half-acre
plot belonging to Mrs. Mildred Jarvis
to his holdings in Edgemont. Scarsdalc
Misses Nash & Kennedy negotiated the
sale.
The Robert E. Farley Organization
sold for l.. S. Williams his residence at
IA Howard Avenue. White Plains, to
Gertrude and Harriet Clarke.
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Artist Tenants
Buy Studio
Structure

Artist tenants Of the famous Old
studio building have bought the build
ing at 81 West Tenth Street from it's
owner j. Herbert Johnston. w. D.
Littlefield OF the Brown, Wheelock
Company, Inc, negotiated the transac-
tons.
The property was bought in 1857 by
James boorman Johnston, who shortly
afterward erected the present substan-
tlal three-story studio structure which,
from the day Of its completion, ha>
been the workshop of MANY Of the
country's leading artists In 1872 the
property at IS West Tenth Street was
purchased and the two properties con-
solldated. Seven years later the prop
erty was conveyed by the original
owner to his brother, John TAYLOR
Johnston, and on the lutter's death. in
1873, it passed to his son, J. Herbert
Johnston, who has remained its owner
for the last twenty-seven years.
The property will be retained in it's
present form and used for artists
studios. Brown, Wheelock Company.
Inc, Will act as agents for the new
owners, who viii be known as The
Tenth Street Studios, Inc.
The tive-story flats, 5Ox1O2. at 3 and
East Eightyfourth Street have been
resold BY Harry Aronson to a client of
William B. May e. Co.
The Lobertan Corporation purchased
from the heirs Of Christopher f. Bode
the flve-story apartment, 564 West
l49th Street, 34X100, all cash over
mortgage of $34,50o. John +. Fink was
the broker for the seller
The Houghton Company and Theo
Ortmann sold 267 West 18th Street.
iive-story apartment, 35xl00, for Lillian
H. Rattey and Marie G. Darmstadr, as
executors of the estate OF John Gitz.
Butler Baldwin, Inc, sold for Ollie
Scheuer the five-story apartment house.
50N10o, at 1915 Sherman Avenue; for
Mrs. Lillian f. Ely two tiva-story
apartments, 37.6xl0c each, at 375 and
377 Edgecombe Avenue, and for Mrs.
Grace X. ,Duryee two fve-story apart
ments, 37.6X132S Irregular each, at 4e
and so Convent Avenue.
Joseph Manheimer purchased the five
story fiat 3l7 West Thirty fifth Street.
The Plainticld Trust Company sold
the four story dwelling, 245xs7.6, 3O3
Lexington Avenue
Joseph p Day sold for j. ". Whit
ten BIT East Seventy-iifth Street, six.
story store tenement, lot 25xl022, to
S. Diamond.
Nehring Brothers sold for Anna R.
Maurer BAT East Eighty-fifth Street, u
tive-story apartment with stores, 25x
100
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11
WOOlwOrth Auction
S ale Arouses
Great Interest
Investors and Operators
Will Compete for the
Estates Well-Located
Holdings on the Heights

Interest In the Forthcoming sale of
the Washington Heights properties
owned by the estate of the late F. W..
Wooiworth is about evenly divided, ac-
cordlng to the auctioneer, between the
professional clement in the real estate
market and local merchants, tenants
and investors
The sale is to be held on Thursday.
April ", at Id Vesey Street, by order
OF the administrators, Hubert T. Par
son, Helena Woolworth Mccain and
Jesse Woolworth Donahue. Joseph p.
Day will conduct the sale, which will
be absolute. Each and every property
IS TO be sold for whatever it may bring.
The Woolworth real estate occupies
practically each of the corners and
two blocks front facing INST. Nicholas
and Amsterdam avenues, at the inter
section of these two thoroughfarcs, be-
tween l60th and 163d Street. The
Jumel store and Office building at the
southwest corner Of 162d Street and
the intersection of st. Nicholas and
Amsterdam avenue, together with the
balance OF the block front to 161st
Street, and additional property abut-
ting, is one of the most important
properties to be sold. There is also
the block front in the west side of St.
Street, including additional properties
adjoining in the side streets; also the
two large plots and lots at the north
east and southeast corners of 162d
Street and st. Nicholas Avenue, at its
intersection with Amsterdam Avenue:
also the plot, improved in part with a
five story tenement, in the west side
of Amsterdam Avenue, so feet north
Of 160th Street
one that doubtless will arouse large
amount of competitive bidding-is the
"hatiron" block fronting in Tooth and
l61st street, st. Nicholas and Amster-
dam avenues and facing the square
formed by the intersection Of these
two thoroughfares.
The Woolworth properties include an
Office building, flats, private dwellings,
the "iatiron" block already referred to,
important corner properties and vacant
lots and several buildings altered for
business use.
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Another Active
Day in Buying
OF Dwellings
Sales Show Increasing De-
nland for City Residences
of Every Description III
All Sections

John F. McKeon, Of Wood, Dolson
Company, Inc, sold for Mrs. Isabella
3. Satterthwaite the two old dwellings,
10x100, 129 and 131 East Seventy ninth
Street. The new owner will raze the
present houses and erect a dwelling
for his own occupancy.
Mrs. George H. Butler has sold the
dwelling, 18.9x100.5, 161 East Fifty
sixth Street.
Guy Il. McLane sold The story
dwelling, 25x989, LOT East Thirty
eighth Street.
N. Rosenthal sold to Dorothy Levy
1865 West Seventy seventh Street, a
four story dwelling, 20x100, for Will A.
Rays.
The Central Union Trust Company
sold the ive-story dwelling, 17x100.5,
l04 East Sixty-hfth Street.
Vogler, sold for Laura M. Rankin the
fourstory dwelling 1853 West Seventy
ninth Street, 18x102.2, to Frederick w
Wilson.
Upper Park Avenue Sale
John j. & Theodore H. Kavanagh sold
for Julius Henes 1905 Park Avenue, 8
four story dwelling. 20x1O0.
The Houghton Company sold fol
Olive A. Choate the four-story dwelling
255 West Seventy third Street, 18x102.2
Goodwin & Goodwin sold for the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company te
Sabctz Monachem the four-story dwell
ing 1875 Lenox Avenue, 185x85.
Thomas J. O'Reilly sold for the Emf
grant Industrial Savings Bank the four.
story dwelling 81 East Forty-fir RS,
Street, 16.Sx9S.9. to John Campbell.
Everett NJ. Seixas Co. sold for Con
rad Sporrer the dwelling 403 East FIT.
tyseventh Street, 17.9x57,3, to o. p
Heggie. who plans extensive saltera-
lions. The same company sold 70,
Charles Richter 413 East EifIY-sexenth
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of $1,000 to $4,000
Will Buy Practic.
ally Any One of
Ninety New Dwell.
ings in These AT.
tractive Localities

based on the law Of supply and =.
mand, means a liberal payment -
money. ~
The Mineola Homes Company. wh;c,
is controlled by Richard T. Childs he
seven homes ready for occupancy anS
IS building ten more which will H.
ready at various times during the
spring and early summer. Four Of tns
houses are in what is called the M;S.
lynnton section. One will be sold ~
S11 500, the second az $4,000 and -.
other two at $4,000.
In the north end Of the town sns
not far from the links Of the Wheatls~
Hills Golf Club are the other houses a.
the Mineola Homes Company. TIM
three houses nearest completion will
sell for $4,000 and upward. The ton
prices for the houses under way thers
will be $4,000. Twenty to 20 per cent
Of the purchase price in cash will buv
any Of these houses. A second mort
gage can be paid off in four years. Tho
terms on which the company will sell
its homes are not fixed, but rather ara
fitted 10 the circumstances of q p.e-
spective purchaser.
There are some other pretty homes
available at Mineola. On and nea,
IsOSiyH Rcdu CclOIle Avenue sve
six houses which may be had now. On
Jerome Avenue, to the esss Of Roslvn
Road, are FIVE six-room buildings which
are offered at $500, $1,000 and So. 600
The houses on the road, two OF which
are partly brick, will be sold at $1,000
to $4,000. Then there are five houses
in the northwest section of the town
Transit and Sport Are Good
Train service to and from these threa
towns is good, as many as fifty trains
being in service each way every cav.
The Communication is less than sll a
month to Manhattan, and the minimum
is much less to Flstbusn Avenue
Brooklyn. The tax rate in Nassau
County is low as compared 10 other
sections, and the difference, residents
say, goes far to pay the travelling cost
to New York.
The towns have been popular with
active young men because Of the many
opportunities they afford to engage in
sport. Within radius of three miles
of Garden City station are five golf
clubs. Four of these are in Garden
City, and close by the Mineola line IS
the Wheatley Hills Club One OF tha
great aviation centers of the country il
on the east border Of the three towns,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11
New Building to Go Up
In Old Mercantile District
Six Stories Planned for Fifty.
Foot Broadway Plot Near
Worth Street

sixstory Office building is to be
erected by Crystal & Crystal on sos
frontage at 32I and 323 Broadway
near Worth Street
The first two floors are Is and 13 feet
high respectively and are divided into
two large stores. The third fourth
ard hfth stories arc 11.6 feet high. an
portloned into Offices, showrooms and
lofts. The sixth floor has the excep-
tlonal head room of II feet and re-
celves daylight from three sides
The facade is OF the p!ainest design.
the nam object being to receive all
rossible light. The window area. there-
lore. extends from tloor to ceiling an !
gives the effect of an all-glass front.
George and Edward Blum are the
architects.
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Estate Holdings To Be
Offered at Auction

Holdings Of estates will be offered
on Tuesday at the special sale to be
conducted by Joseph P Day in the
Vesey Street room.
The properties to be sold are the
southeast corner Of Third Avenue and
Twenty-sixth Street; plot 5Ox99.1 II
at the northeast corner of Bradhurst
Avenue and West 149th Street; fran @
dwelling and barn on the east side of
Dyckman Street, $50 feet north of
Prescott Avenue; A West Fifty-fifth
Street, 303 West 111th Street, loft
buildings at 1872 and 1874 Warren Street
221 East Seventy-eighth Street, 5 Cor
nelia Street, Ill West Forty ninth
Street and 602 West Forty eighth
Street. In Brooklyn SO Scholes Street;
plot, 40x100, at the southwest corner OF
Fifty-second Street and Fourth Avenue,
and plot, 242.9x100, at Brooklyn Ave
nue.. Hawthorne and Fenimore street,
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Van Brunt Homestead ON
Shore Road To Be Sold
Well known Property at Both St.
Will Be Disposed OF at Auc-
ton Tomorrow NIGHT

The Van Brunt homestead site In
the Shore Road at Eighty-sixth Street
and next to the Crescent Athletic Club
IS to be sold by the Jcre Johnson Com
pany at auction tomorrow night in the
Brooklyn exchange.
The property consists of twenty
eight lots fronting in Eighty-sixth
Street, the Shore Road and Narrows
Avenue, also the one-time Van Brunt
homestead, on plot, 142x328, fronting
in the Shore Road and comprising
more than twenty-five city lots. The
Van Brunt homestead is in good con-
dltlon. structurally. The lots range
in depth from 100 to 172 feet.
The property is restricted against
business. This assurance has led to
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$50 and more. They are very attrac-
tive homes, Colonial in design and built
by the Hegeman-H Harris Company for
the Garden City Estates. They were
built to provide business men with
comfortable homes Of low maintenance
cost in great estate, which is truly
what Garden City is
Attractive Garden City Houses
In the seven-room houses selling for
S18,75O are broad Colonial sidings
painted old Virginia white. There is
another design in this price, Dutch
Colonial in construction, with stucco on
the first floor and broad sidings above,
Then there is plastered Colonial type
with stucco walls and shingled roof,
The shingles in all houses are stained
tint that is pleasing to the eye
and harmonizes with the atmos-
phere and color scheme of the entire
section.
Aymar Embury I'd, one Of Americas
foremost designers of country homes
planned the houses in the Boulevard
section being offered for sale at 800
ESQ and $21,5OO. Several of these
houses have soft browns stained shingle
roofs and walls Of white.
In the eastern section of Gardan1
City there are only five houses under
way. j. Fl. Roberts has two houses
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estate OF Charles A. Peabody. and has
view of Cold Spring Harbor
In addition to the large brick house,
shown in the picture, there are out
buildings, also of brick, consisting of
stable, garage, gardeners cottage,
chautfeur's cottage, chicken house, dog
kennel. etc. The property was held at
1926 OOO
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Irving Bachelor, Novelist,
Sells Connecticut Home

Pease & Gilman have sold the for
mer home of Irving Bachelor, novelist,
at Riverside, Conn. 1t is waterfront
property of about six acres with a
stucco house, greenhouses and other
buildings. The seller, c. l.. Wagner is
the business manager for John McCor-
mack, Mary Garden and Gall-Curci.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11
1926, 900 Laurence Estate
at Cold Spring Is Sold

The estate Of Effingham Lawrence. at
Cold Spring Harbor. L. l., has been
sold by Pease & Gilman.
The property, which comprises
scventy-tive acres, is one of the finest
On the north shore. 1t adjoins The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11
Felix I. Hughes Gels
RoOmy Pelham Manor House

Tucker Speyers g. Co. sold TO Felix
i. Hughes an estate in Pelham Manor.
consisting of four acres and a fourtee n
room Colonial house and garage.
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House at Arleich Sold

The Rickert Brown Realty Company
sold to c. j. Cronin & twenty foot, two
story Colonial dwelling on Ditmars
Avenue. Arleigh.
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the construction recently of large
number of new houses in this delight
full section Of Bay Ridge, which is the
Riverside Drive of Brooklyn
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Street, a three-story and basement
dwelling, to Justice Philip G. McCook
Hnusoo for Artists

0UuStS TOT ArLIStS
Robert M. Bush g. Co. sold for
Joseph L. Buttenweiser the two three
story dwellings, 16 and 10 Bank Street,
southwest corner of Waverly Place, to
q buyer, who will alter the premises
for artists.
Mrs. John schmieg sold to S. l..
Pakas 313 West Eighty-eighth Street,
a four story dwelling, with two-story
land Ord Realty Company.