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St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 65

St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 65

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Houses a.tid Fists ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Farms Financial 4 1 5 11 111 ftfT SEVEN. PAOES 1140 ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1926. tB7 I fHTT JR.

DA DD GET NEW SITE New Downtown Edifices, Artistic Home 1 it it 'With plans for a modern buildings the Elliot Barry Engineering Co. has purchased a site on the south side of West Pine boulevard, 3 61 feet east of Sarah street. Negotiation for the lot, 54x223 feet, were handled by: the Mercantile Trust Co. In conjunction with the Albert G. Blank Real Estate represented by Lee FarrelL The Elliot Barry of which James Barry is president, has made plans for a modern structure.

The company is now at 1426 Olive street. SLSTON TO HAVE STORE 6 ST Ji Pdligreen Acquires Part of Site for Building at Hodiamont and Easton Avenues. MOVING OF R. LOOP Project Held Up by Con troversy Over Securing Lease on Restaurant Property. By Berry Moore.

Coiatrurtioa in Wellston of a six- gtorr department store building uritlt an arcade, will be bfgun as soon as the entire site bought for I at the northwest corner of Eas- toB and HodiamonT vciiues The new building will be erected DRIES HIGH AGGRESSIVE BUYING IN DELMAR HEIGHTS REPORTED Aggressive buying Is reported at Delmar Heights by William Jj. Abbott, who is marketing the property. The tract is at Delmar boulevard apd the North and South road, and is available under the restrictions far liungalows and duplexes. Concrete streets are being constructed with other improvements, which are included in the prices at which the lots 'are offered. The tract is adjacent to University City on the west with an ex IStX.

PeiliRreen, president of the i A notable feature in the build SjssvCSs Fashion Square Building under construction at the northwest corner of Thirteenth street and Wathinirtnn 3Vnn Pinanr. IPelliereen Construction Company, i in field is the California bunga- ed by Waldheim, Piatt Co. New Central Y. M. C.

A- Building at the southeast r-TRUCTW PROGRESSING rnmr nf -nVi anil Tjiit ST. LOUIS PHARMACY COLLEGE AND CASS AVENUE BANK BUY NEW BUILDING SITES tensive frontage on Delmar boule-i vard. The location is regarded, as ideal for development for duplexes and bungalows. califorWbWalows feature in building field lows being erected in and adjacent Louis by the Vance Con- Each buUdinn is deIcn. Two have Just ieirr disposed of, while two thers completea.

xxNvxNxvxNxvxxxcw L-TVslt School Plans $500,000 Structure at Euclid and Parkview, While Bank Is to Build at Cass and thirteenth. Noteworthy features of the week In the construction field were purchases by the St. Louis College of Pharmacy of the southeast corner of Euclid and Parkview avenues, and the Cass Avenue Bank of the southeast corner of Cass and Thirteenth streets, as eites for new buildings. T1HK VI lilt: S.iC i Vara. The cost of the buildinp, j-X acluding the site, is estimated at laM.OOQ.

The building will have i frontaee of approximately 210 set on Hodiamont avenue with an mtraace on Easton avenue. The project has been held up ppndteg negotiations with Duros Bros for possession of a store 'sons at the northwest corner of jston and Hodiamont avenues, risich the entrance of the pro- new building will occupy. auros oros. conauct a restaurant In the premises which they hold fcnder a lease which has 14 months to roa. Petlirreen has offered a anus of JSC's for immediate pos- mmm, but ihey are askinsr fclC.

Anraeys are trying to ad- 35t the difference. r. II. Loop to Be Moved. Tfee loop of the United Railways block, with the station a St.

Charles and lines, oceu ovine- narf I i i-aFton avenue front p-c r-sd acquired from Pelli- the trad'-, the tr.it. 3 wil install a new loop in a Mock with the Wellston earn "res the southwest cornr of Jawa-ia jr.d Hodiamont aven-j'-. Dorri-ie in the location of rFfc rs to be mad-, ncmy! Vf's loop is made wir.ir to traffic cong'-srlon avenue, it was stated. B. 8.

Kresge fc Corr, jvany sr.d Ten Cent Store Tsti a 9 9-year lease of a lArai. sr. the southwest r)mr avenue and th IF.idu monf ksf for a store. Th f'lAr Fuel Co. Kup-r Kiasast corner wi-h, a at, A store of th Ur.isi Co.

occupies the north -re? rif Easton avenue and S-'ub- frbffi Railway tracks. -ifle Walgreen Drue Corrr iar PMio acouired a 'ration In thin of Easton avenue. Index To Real Estate Advertisements Pag Apartments (For lUt AMrtnnta. rare! Fr Apartments ror Hle ApartmeoU Waste to BulMer' Oolama tunjrmlnw. lattasea Bunflws, CvtLagr 4 Bosloeaa OpRortoaUUs Boston Kroperty Wastes Bmimtmm Propertr tFor BwImm Pr.ertr tTor Hrnt lywiUas antes OwaUlBM fer Kea a i .13 ft .11 UwUts for (tale esehaas Kal lirait.

Tmrm Lans iinu for 13 rarats autc4 rlaaaclal 13 tall for Umim riata Waates flats. Far tlr4 llala for Kant (raraiabaa) Flats for Rcat Oarag-ra, Mafctra Ilouaca for Kate 11 Boaara fur Ken Ha a art aa ted UiMues. Ete. (Colore1) ImartMes Pros-itr tot Lota for aala Money Wanted rrraoaal rropt Loans Beat Katata Waa tea to Bay HmI Eatato Country Kcal Ktat Loans I itral l.tat Colored ...1 Krai Katata Hhv Cttlaa) RcaMraccs for Beat i KaalaVnrea for Mala ..11 a-alaeare Wanted to A ktorka. Bond Pubarbaa Proportr Fo Saharfcan Proprftr (For 4 Pabsraan FrooortF WALTER C.

CRAIN BUYS 50-ACRE FARM Secretary of Stbt, Baer Fuller Co. to Cultivate "Crain Acres." Walter C. Crain, financial secretary of the Ktlx. Baer A Fuller ha purchased the John Blake farm. 60 acres, on Natural Bridge road, overlooking the fling field at Brldgeton.

The Bdward Oock Real Estate Co. handled the transaction. The tract Is Improved with a large Colonial residence) situated In a grove of hug birch and maple trees, several farm buildings and a large bearing orchard. The tract will be known as 'Crain Acres." Crain expect to raise a variety of crops there. SALES BTlTMEYTPSTEW REACH $180,000 HA WEEK Stanley Epstein reports the sala of 11 places of real tta las.

wk for a total of 9110,000. Th Hit follows: Flats. 215. 21. J25.

22 and 26 Jl California for CoMhtri to VlratU B. Black; two flats. 4716-lt and 4720-21 Ashland avenue, to U. Klearman; six adjoining lots opposite Lacleds Tark on Kast lorn- avenue, on which six bungalows are being" erseted, to Simon J. Kulltvsn: It4 North Market street, bungalow, for Virgil B.

Black to Fred Shapiro: 1406 Oood-fellow. flat, for Mary Btslnbaeh to Kegenl Ttlf- ap of Iot Reported. The Mercantile Trust Co. reports th sale of a lot on ths west sldo of -hetr street to J. H.

Hallo, who is building bungalow en It. This property was formerly owned by Clara A. Chiles. Both partlo were represented by the Mercantile FOR BUI EVERY I NG That church, business building, mansion or bungalow built of Brick is usually more architecturally beautiful than if built of any other material, and always lower in cost of upkeep. Brick buildings are permanent.

ct. Bricn At rfcsffcii BRICK ft K. Nf" 1 v. xO 'X 4 it is hi it SI 8 Ff5idence being built at 7131 Westmoreland Drive. Maryland Terrace, for Chester A.

Dougherty, president of the Dougherty Real Estate" Co. 7 FASHION SQUARE BUILDING Construction is progressing on the new Fashion S'luare Building at the northwest corner of Wash ington avenue and Thirteenth street, with contracts calling for completion by Dec. 1. It will be fireproof and protected by an effl clent sprinkler system. There will be ornate lobbies with display cases on each side to ac commodate tenants' display of mer chandlse, made of marble, bronze and pre-cast ceilings beautifully 11 luminattd.

The building also will provide manufacturing power and up-to-the-minute illumination, including telephone, telegraph and other im portant outlets throughout. Several leases have been closed on the plans by Isaac T. Cook Corporation and the Rose Realty Co. The building has been designed by David R. Harrison, architect, for the Rose Realty Co.

of St. Louis, whose members are. Sam and Rose Pollock of the Pollock Clothing and is under the management and supervision' of construction by the Harrlson-Kop man Construction client of Heros Weisels. Inc. The building will he ready by Dec.

1. The bond have been un derwrltten by Waldhelm-Platt Co Inc and Stern Brothers bankers, of Kansas City. Mo. HUNDREDmPECfSAUM HOTEL AND APARTMENTS of persons have visited the new Hotel now nearing completion and which a opened for Inspection last week. The building, nine stories Jn height, occupies the northwest corner of Grand boulevard and Castleman avenue, dominating the city from a high, elevation.

It 4s of fireproof construction, and is equipped on a most modern scale. Saum architects are erecting th building, which Is a combination hotel ar.d apartment structure. The project was financed by the Albert G. Blanke Real Estate Co. FOR ADDITIONAL REAL ESTATE NEWS, SEE PAGE 14.

Clofc Boa-din. St. 1. V. Burnett Arciuuw-t 1 'f': Ilk -Jhi' rAxmr Loui fitiicai iik r-a--- in Vaia.

Conveniences etrts. with xterior KARBEX-RAND TAKES PAULBROWN SPACE Isaac J. Cook Co. Handles Deal, With Several Other Important Leases. Through Isaac T.

Cook Co. the Kardex-Rand Sales Co. of Tona-wanda, has leased the store at 202 North Klnth street. In the' Paul Brown Building, together with a large jpoor space directly above the store for display room and sales office. The concern is composed of the following companies recently- merged: The Kar-dex Sales the Rand company, the Library Bureau.

Index Visible Co. and the Safe Cabinet Co. The offices of the Library Bureau are now located in the Arcade Building, and the Kardex company has a stori at 404 North Ninth street. All the St. JJouis offices of the companies in the merger will be moved to the new quarters in the Paul Brown Build- ing in about 60 days.

The Elliott Addressing Machine 1005 Pine street, has leased space in the Pineate Building at 804 Pine street, through Cook i The Goormam Carron Gar ment Co. has leased the store at 120S Washington avenue, owned by the Burdeau Real Estate Co. A new store front will be installed before the company takes possession. Cook Co. also arranged this lease.

E. A. Campbell has leased a store at 14 33 Locust street, and the M. Bond Tailoring Co. has taken 410 North Fifteenth street.

Both of these stores are in the new one-story building recently erected by the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Cornet Zeibtg Trust represented the owners in the negotiations of the two leases. A space In the Rosenthai-Sloan Building at 1700-1S Washington avenue, containing 12,000 square feet. as leased to a wholesale dry goods concern, now being organised by S. G.

Wilson who il! take possession of the prem- i October. practically completed. MANY GET BUILDING IDEAS AT THE DARSTDALE EXHIBITS In the Homebuilding Exposition Building In Daretdale. 8500 Olive Street road, the exhibits of manufacturers are unusual in that they are actually built in. Kaah manu facturer offers for inspection thJ complete installation as wen as tne materials used.

It is the first exposition of its kind in St. Louis. While it has been open to the public only a short time, it has been of considerable help to many con templating the bulldig of homes. It also. has aided builders, many of whom have made a tour of the exposition.

T'ntil the show is closed, which will be some time In the near future, it will be open to the public each day ar.d night. Including Sun- and Saturday's, with attend- ants to act as guides. There is no charge for admission. Following is listed the names of exhibitors: Murphy Door Bed. Et-erhot Heater Maas Plumbing Co- St.

Louis Material and Supply Co, Empire Electric Alton Brick Karris Lumber J. E. builder; H. C. Kennedy, Irwin Tile Nelson 'Roofing Mechanics Flaning Mill, H.

Blake, hardwood flooriner: Ameri- -I T. Wlnatnr rt Boeckeler Lumber Morrell Oil St. Louis Flexotile Floor and the General F.eed J. P. McXamee.

JOHN W. GIBSON REALTY CO. SELLS FLAT AND TWO LOTS The John W. Gibson Kealty Co. reports having sold 7310-12 For-pvthe toule ard, a new five and five room flat with sun parlors.

double brick garage and occupying a lot 40 by 100 feet- Tiis flat was sold for a client of the Kempiand Darst Realty Co. The Gibson company also reports the sale of the southeast corner of Cambridge and Midland avenues, 2 by 160 feet, to a client of th Kempiand Darst Realty lot fronting 30 feet on Pewey street Holly Hills) by a depth westwarly of 156 feet, for Philip Keller. The purchaser Intends to erect a modern MAX OtDEi rOlTCHAR 6 OF RENTAL DEPARTMENT Max Goldstein has assumed the management of th rental and in-surnce departments of the Gold -tejn Realty Co, with offices in the Internationa! Life Butldin Alex SeKelbohm Is associated with i rit. tf.tf-kf nf th sales and loan division of tn company, eier of the State Bank cf Well- the growth of We'lston is an 'sstanding feature l-n th- historv I the local real estate market- i Thirty-five rears an the City wellston was hardly thought said Ghio. "Then th closest sp store was omewhr near the Eent corner at Var.dvecter and fton.

The a. 5 htm work is being- pushed to i ciiton nc i was a nat Is now the corrv-r of Easton Ifa namlltnn C.r IkJ Tt ning avenue, the section to be widened, are held up by the plan for a parkway for streetcar tracks on this thoroughfare. The value of the property, according to W. W. Butts, president of the Real Estata Exchange, will be adversely affected for business use with a parkway in center.

The Real Estate Exchange and the Greater Olive Street Improvement Association, along with the Chamber of Commerce, represent the opposition to this plan, which has been adopted by the Board of Public Service. $200,000 IN SALES HANDLED BY FEDERER IN TWO WEEKS dete Uirfg sales totalizfg $200,000 in the past two weeks, including the following deals: Flat, 3700-02 Bates street for Louis Clundt to Agnes Weick; flat. 4014-16 McRee avenue, for M. Ada Evans to Agnes Weick; flat. 5004 Sutherland avenue, sold by George Fury to Fannie B.

Fleck; two bungalows at 3331 and 3349 Norma Court for the Safe Realty and Development Co. to John Myer and Edward B. Lynch; bungalow, SC60 Blow street, for August Btein Louis H. Schulte; bungalow, 5416 Lisette avenue, for Bertha Bulla to William J. Greneebach bungalow, 6420 Lisette.

for Bertha Bulla to George Fury; flat. 2845 Victor street, for George Iohle to Henry Kchwring; bungalow, E409 I.ewey avenue, for Edwin R. Cd to Harry Gblfinopouios bungalow, 5014 Fendler place, for Frank J. Fendler to Edwin R. Cde; bungalow for John P.

Fendler to J. Ilt-rick Ohlemeyer. at 5036 Fendler jTTace: bungalow, 4620 South Thirty-ninth street, for a client to George J. Pollard: 115 feet -on th north side cf Fillmore street in Holly Hills for Frances B. Fleck to Viola Connor: 60-foot lot on Kingshighway Hills, opposite Carondeiet for Joeph C.

Ralble to Harriet Lani; 25-foot lot on the west side of Grand avenue for Sam Gallop to Walter Lutz: 35-foot lot an Kingrhighway Park from George Zeisicg to Alphonse Naert. The company also handled more than $2000 in loans in the past two weeks. RENGEL WEBER REPORTS SEVERAL RESIDENCE SALES Recgel Weber of 31 2T South Grand boulevard report the following- recent sales: Fix-room residence. 210 Michigan avenue, for Effie M. Pinkhara to Steve Grlaek; cottage, 2612 Nebraska avenue.

for Steve Grlack to Kate Leydecker: bungalow. 4251 Wyoming street, for Rosa Meissner to Gustave Rau: bungalow, 655 Wanda avenue, for George Hampel to Ben Ulppen; fiat. 4141 Connecticut street, for Charles Reiner to Alphonse J. Oldeg; bungalow. 47 Sehoilmeyer avenue, for William A.

Waltber to William A. Hoppmann; bungalow. 05 Wanda aveuue, for George Hampel to Albert Bothro; lot on Kansas street, west of Macklind avenue, Xor E. L. I Winter to a client- The St.

Louis College of Pharmacy is having plans made for a building to cost $500,000. The lot has 100 feet on Parkview and 175 on Euclid, and is adjacent to Harris HospitaL Negotiations for the fcite were handled by Hwnmelman-Spackler Real Estate through which the announcement was made. Present plans call for a building three or four stories in height, with modern facilities for instruction and research. The ground floor will be occupied by the of-1 flees and the lecture rooma ana laboratories, for botany and pharmacognosy. The department of pharmacy will occupy th second floor.nd that of chemistry the third.

A large auditorium for general lectures is contem- i plated, as well as a museum oi pharmacy, and rooms lor nousing the college Library. Machinery for use In Instruction In the various pharmaceutical manufacturing processes will be installed in the basement Activity in Xeichborhooa. The site acquired by the Cass Avenue Bank has a frontage of 130 feet on the east side of the proposed boulevard by a depth of 1V0 feet along Cass avenue. It also formerly was owned by Berl Lleberstein of the Edmond Davis Real Estate Co. Officers of the bank plan a modern structure to cover the entire lot.

i A factor in the purchase of the site waa the increased activity throughout the district, with he resurfacing of Cass avenue with smooth pavement from Broadway to Grand boulevard, connecting with Easton avenue, making it the only roadway in St. Louis and St. Louis" County, reaching from the Mississippi River to the Missouri River, bank officers said. The Commissioners considering the -widening of Twelfth boulevard from Washington avenue nonn, as well as Thirteenth and I- Ifteentn fttreeta. from a wiatn or ie iw 120 feet, are completing their work and a report from them will be ready soon.

The widening will give shorter and easier access to all parts of northwest St. Louis and will be an added incentive to real estate development in the Cass avenue district. This is the second time that the Cass Avenue Bank has found it oecessary to enlarge its quarters during the lastsll years. It was located originally the southeast corner of Fifteenth street and Cass avenue 20 years ago. from which It removed to Its present location at the northwest corner of fifteenth and Cass in 1915 on account of its rapid growth, Tha new building- will be triple the size of the present structure.

The negotiations for the site wer handled by the Protxman Realty Co. Olive Strert Parkway AppenL According to real estate circles, several deals carrying building plans for Olive street site, between Twelfth boulevard and Chan- fVrprislTiP- 7. Smith Rlnkel pasture -Street, develop of the property istore, will dist urb the g-neral contour of frS Tn thi- location, which is of great nat-hese tw- ura! beauty, the improvements rxrs r-nincluTo trfcisf tors. N-o onA Wnturesome of the 0sase Covntr? to start a huisn-s in such transformed the entire unA 'locality. valn Hv, ri-en nor- i Work on the saee un ClTib lousiy Rince tven The sie of tn house is being pushed, and Is ei-Polar Wave plant, a hole in the Parted to be finished by the second una originallv.

bought for 1 30 week in August, lot. -as for 89.vears on The demand for Osage Hills home fT oasis of approximately 30f0 a locations, according to Eixby-Smlth, JCSpt, an influx to th values in this! remains strong. IMPROVEMENT IN OSAGE HILLS TRACT to Be Ready for Use of Prospective Purchasers. The laying of sewers and water mains and the grading of winding streets and driveways in Osage Hills, on the Big Bend Doulevard and the JIerair.ec River, is rapidly developing the 700-acre tract into a residential district. The provide purchasers with improved com munity needs, according to Bixby- Inc, SIS Xorth tiigntn 45-ACRE LUNGSTRAS FARM ON THE GRAVOIS ROAD SOLD The Cornet Keibig Trust an--r, i.r.- th- of the 45-acre Lungstras farm owned by Taul on the (Jravois r'oad at Afton.

Mo. The tract is wooded. The land slopes to the south and east, overlooking- the Grant Farm country estate of August A. Busch. Hichtrd Mederacke, a builder on the South Side, is the buyer.

He plan a country home for himself on parr of the property. The rest will laid out in tracts of twa acres or more for home sites. These Fites "Will be offered for sale within a short time by the Cornet ZeSbig Trust, with ruaratvtee of improvements such as landscaping, concrete driveways, county water. the present State Bank of Wells-ton, of which he is president. "The retail business in the Wellston district now amounts to at leant a RUSHED Before building ask your architect of the many desirable qualities Brick Alton Brick because of its uniformity and diversity of textures and -coloring.

IllustrttJ Litertture ofl R0qu9t Tbe Rie of Wellston. nty-five years ago Fred artd a drtic ore in Panain territnrv. The next "rcha-t in Wf-llston was A. Kr.Vn. Vo St" Louis- TV'n followed fJZua of its seventy-fifth an- Pt- Charles Railroad Cr.

a now terminating at r-' I Mid o. Mjri'jrnsn iracKs. Julius Kf-ssier, now presi- -at hip Mate mnK, and r.Kie with others, organ- irnr nank, then known as "Ptlstr, n. iim. now Known as Thin seemed; mark the Li-rintiinr -VVIic.

'B Prospfrjiy. A later t. after having retired from irt Kational Bank, organized Altton DiriicEx Ccapony Four PianU in Qreater St. Louis Industrial District orrtce and uckzut Moaafcav 4ntiwi.

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