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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1909)
7 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 31, 1009. , BUILD STEEL FLATS will be removed and replaced with ce ment. This is in line with the develop ment which has been going on in the Nob Hill and Irvmgton districts with such marked results In the Increase in values of property. This district tek especially desirable as a location for apartment-houses on account of Its easy accessibility to the down town. It is all within comparatively easy walking distance and is so lo cated that to those missing connection with the last cars there is no hardship attached to a. walk home at night. Among the fine apartments which are now under construction xare the Dammeior apartments, the Keeler apartments, the Morgan apartments and the Hanthorne apartments. Many have been recently finished and the demand for locations In those already finished has been o great that others, have been induced to build. On the other edges of this district a number of fine residences are being constructed, especially on the edge of the hill along what is known as Heights Terrace and Hall street. The same Is true of Fourteenth street, be tween Hall and Montgomery streets. REALTY MARKET BELOW AVERAGE Types of New Residences Erected in Portlarid There is a peculiar restftilness in a room where the lighting fixtures are made to harmonize, and an uplifting influence in an environment that bespeaks taste E. R. Pittelkau Will Erect xf Eight-Story Edifice. Few Transfers Made in Down town Business Properties During Past Week. WILL MOVE OLD HOUSES v - -. 4t -at?: Great Fireproof Apartment Struc MOTEL DEAL IS FEATURE ture Will Be Built at Sixth and ' Jefferson Streets First of Kind In. City. ! f3U irany Small Sales Help Keep Vp Tone of Trading, hut Falling Off Is Marked In High-Class Inside I-ooations. Last week w.is decidedly inactive In the transfers of' business real estate. 'The pini-ipa! tnpio or discussion among; realty dealers was the reported tak.'.iK of an option on a majority of stock of the Portland Hotel Company by the iNorman Urothers. of Spokane. and Ta icoma. and there was considerable fpec ;u!a;lon as to the effect this would have 'on the renl estate market in the city. )A number of deal which had been ; pending for some time were closed fi i na'.ly. hut no particularly larcre new deals In ci:y realty came to llRht. tme transfer at $!.",.'ftrt of a residence was m.ide in the purcliase by W. C. ' Flattery of tho K. A. Baldwin home at '. Nineteenth and Marshall streets. This Us one of the largest prices ever paid (outrlzht for a Portland residence, nut the principal amount of the purchase prh-e was paid for the property rather 'tlinn the residence, there beinsr lOVs lots iln the property on which the house stnnls. Lots in this neighborhood have Isold as hich as Jx.ion. The house Is 'valued at approximately JO.OOO. Announcement was made that nego tiations were under way for a lease J by the Oregon Theater Company for lMxl5'l feet at the northeast corner of j Third and Main streets. The leaae la ifipured for a term of 30 years, and on the property will be hui:t a modern theater, if the deal for the lease la finally closed, as a home for the RAker sto k company. It Is believed the lease Hi! be definitely closed before Ion. Another deal of semi-business prop erty was the purchase of a three-story brh k bulldins and lot with 50-foot frontape and depth of from 50 to 75 feet, on the north side of East Mor rison street, between Union and Grand avenues. This prope.rty was purchased !by C S. Harris and S. J. Freeman from A. G. Rushl!rht for 131.000. The prop erty in question is a warehouse and is rJocated in the rapidly arrowing East tSlrle business district. ' Many deals are still pending on down ftown realty, and there are some of these jwblch bid fair to be closed within the next few weeks. The lull of the last J"week has been confined, according to real estate dealers, to the big business -properties, as even more than the usual tamotint of small transactions have been made. The sales of acreage 'tracts around Portland, of residences iln the city, and of sites for homes have fbeen active all week, and It Is only JIn the business and seral-buslness sec tions that the market has been notlce yzLbljr quiet. i L. P. Beno and William Ballis have pas-chased an Irregularly shaped tract xm Market street, from the Western .Assurance Company of Toronto. Can- led a, for (5000. The sate was made hrough the agency of Wakefield. Fries t o. ins property, locaiea on me leoiith side of Market street, has a frontage of 40 feet on that street. It Is improved with a double two-story l frame house, renting for about 150 i month, and was bought as an invest Cnent. ; M. J. Ryan Is erectlns; a two-itory fTrame store and office building at ,' w'eldler street and Williams avenue. h cost of $7000. The first floor of the -talUl:ng will be devoted to stores, and (the second story to offices. It will be p0x50 fet in size. There will be a con- f Crete deadening layed on the second pfloor. A. J. Urahs Is the contractor k.nd architect. The Swedish Society Llnnea has ar- TOinted a committee for the purpose f erecting a three-story brick build fins; for lodge purposes at the south east corner of. Twenty-first and Irving treets. It will consist of a basement, two larse halls, and o concert hall on the third floor. The approximate cost 'of the building will be $13,000. A deal was closed last week for the ale, of a half-block on'the north side cf Kearney street, and extending be tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth Hreets. The property was purchased by John Kiernan from M. M. Spauldlng tor $o.00O. The sale was made through the office of the Wakef ield-Frles Com pany.. The half-block Is at present Ira proved with a number of small cot tages, which will be removed and Im proved later with some substantial Im provement, the extent of which has not yet fully been determined. Plans have been prepared by Archi tects Knighton & Root for a two-story fcrlck business block to be ' erected on Flanders street, between Second and Third streets, at a cost of about $30.- HXiO. The plans for the building have fiieen filed with the Building Inspector nd the contracts have been awarded. ("Work on the structure will be started Within a few days. Through the agency of the Wake-eld-Fries Company. L. "P. Beno and iillaro Ballis have purchased 100x100 fcfeet located at the southwest corner of teavler and Twenty-sixth streets, from JO E. & Wood, for $5000. The prop erty Is vacant and was bought as an Investment, but may be Improved later lfty the purchasers. 4 Architect A. J. Grans Is preparing Tlar.s for a bungalow for F. von Goen Wnwald, local manager of the Plnkerton jDeteetlve Agency. The home will be fcerected next Spring on the rtroDertv owned by Mr. Von Goenenwald on' rCouncil Crest. It will be a seven-room Wdwelllng of the bungalow type, and isvlll cost about $4000. William Polg has bought, as a home, m house anir lot located at 420 East iTorty-fifth street, from Mrs. Jessie A. (Cannon. The price was $2400. The xJweliir.s; Is a modern six-room resi dence. The sale was made through lie office of J. J. McCarthy. Mall A Von Borstel report the following sales: For J. M. Wood worth to Dr. M. IA. Flinn. a 50x100 lot and lx-room cot tage, situated at 7 Williams avenue, between Going and Maegly streets, con sideration $". I3r. Flinn bought the property for an Investment. Two lots. '300x'f situated on the north side of Broadway street, between Thirty-second fced East Thirty-third .streets, for the I WW . x " 1 .'a',W' v hi LJ "r x S Ijj I ' Xt v wf x Mercantile Truat & Investment Co. to Georgo J. Quinland: consideration $1500. Mr. vjuinland bought for an investment. PRICE IS NEAR RECORD SLATTERT BXTTS UESIDEXCK . FOR $85,000. Handsome Home of E. A. Baldwin Brines Big Figure Dwelling Is Beautifully Finished. What Is near the record price for a residence in Pbrtland was paid last week by W. C. Slattery. of the Consolidated Timber Company, who purchased the fine home of E. A. Baldwin, located on the west side of Nineteenth street In the block between Lovejoy and Marshall streets. The residence was sold for $x5.009, through the agenoy of E. P. Mall. The properly on which the house standi has a frontage of 200 feet on Nineteenth street and of 210 feet on both Lovejoy .and Marshall streets and occupys ten and one-half lots. As'lots In the neighborhood have sold at near the $8,000 mark and as the building alone is worth not less than $30,000, the purchase Is regarded as not over the market value. The residence Is an elghteen-room mod ern house, well-appointed and surrounded by beautiful gardens. The grounds, which occupy the greater part of the block, are beautifully arranged and the beauty Is enhanced by giant fir trees as well as exqulslte shrubbery and architectural ef-' fee ts. On the first floor Is a reception hall, a large drawing-room, a billiard-room, li brary, dining-room, kitchen, pantry, but lery. etc. All are finished throughout with hard wood, polished floors, etc. The wood work Is mahogany, the ceilings are beamed and every room of the main floors Is equipped with a large tile fireplace, the first floor .containing five. On the second RESIDENCE I .... is, , , r. i . ,. ?Xx,. h' i v 4f je'"x . , fx4,V' x x w- VV"W-C , - 3? V t '.:-X. 'S- 5 Si 58 V . -x, x fei y n:. '' X Xl y -.X. 14 .xxvj:V3i' floor are six bedrooms, each equipped with a private bath, and on the third floor are servants' rooms and a large room flnlnshed as a ballroom with a pol ished floor. In the basement Is a hot water heating plant, the gardener's rooms, a well-equipped laundry and store rooms. The property was purchased by Mr. Baldwin four years ago. He sold last week at a considerable advance over the price paid then. The remarkable feature of the transaction is the fact that so great a sum was expended in the pur chase of a residence. Ordinarily in- the purchase of homes the money expend ed is small, for if a greater amount is Involved the homeseeker usually prefers to build according to his own plans. In this instance, however, Mr. Slattery saw the Baldwin home, was pleased with rhe ON NINETEENT H STREET SOLD a,. iipiiim ! ll i i T IUI W L. I ' ' 'T v-x '."rv i . . X , x - Vp i h x Hr - ? i. ; , - , x.' v '.V-- x I Ii. A. BALUWI. HOME, BOUGHT BY W. C. SLATTEHY, m ? -x A. v Jr -x. w,-S f - -(fx t t . xkJ siirrarF : j . . ... - 4.,.'v,-.vx'',4u'.u.. . . . - " i grounds, location and architecture of the house, and bought it as it was. Garage Site 18 Purchased. James R. Whitney has pnrchased. through the office of E. J. Daly, the property, 50x100 .feet, located at the southwest corner of Twelfth and Stark streets, for $42,500. Thhj property was owned by a syndicate, and was held in trust by the Hlbernla Savings Bank. It ts at present Improved with a two story frame dwelling, which was the home of Fred T. Merrill for many years. Mr. Whitney will improve the property with a brick building to bring an Income from his investment. He is now preparing to build a garage on the property for a tenant already in view. FOR $85,000. " -."J".' i 1 4 (x..; X - 3 E. R. Pittelkau, proprietor of the Port land Restaurant, has made available i eile for an apartment house which will be a. massive eight-story steel fireproof structure costing $105,000. and which will be not only the first apartment building of the steel frame, type to be built In Portland, but which will also' be the larg est In the city. The site made available Is 100x100 feet located at the northeast corner of Sixth and Jefferson streets, and was secured through the purchase of an other site for the removal of tho buildings already on the property. Emil Schacht & Son, architects, have been commissioned to prepare plans for an eight -story apartment building for the property, to be a steel frame structure flreproofed with concrete and with fire proof partitions. It will cover the entire lot. and will be a class A building and an apartment structure of the highest type known. A rough estimate places the cost at $165,000, although It is stated this figure may-be increased to 1200,000. Mr. 'Pittelkau has Just completed pur chase of the necessary proierty, and as yet nothing other than the, roughest pre llmlnary work has been done by the ar chltects and none of the details has as yet been worked out. It hn only been decided to make the appointment of the finest throughout to put in only the best materials and to build the apartments for the better clrtss of tenants. To make available the site at Sixth and Jefferson streets, which was already owned by Mr. Pittelkau, ho purchased 100x100 feet on the northeast corner of Sixtb and Montgomery streets from Al Thomas for $20,000. This deal has just been negotiated. On this property were three old cottages which will be demol ished and then two large rooming houses. at present on the Sixth and Jefferson site, will be removed to the newly-bought loca tion and the property formerly owned by Mr. Pittelkau will be that which is to be Improved. Mr. Pittelkau has just completed a fine five-story apartment structure at Park and Taylor streejs. 50x100 feet ln'size and costing $60,000. This has now been leased. This site was made available in a like manner by the purchase of additional property and moving substantial build ings already located thereon to another location. Work on preparing the plans for the new eight-story steel building will start at once and the plan is to have, building under way before the close of 'the Winter. HOUSES ALL ONE CLASS APART5IEXTS SPRING UP IN SOUTHWEST PORTLAND. District Ideal for This Kind of Build ing and Demand for Homes Here Is Great. Recently growing in prominence as an apartment-house locality is the district located In the southwestern part of the city, in that 'part of Portland lying just to the east of South -Portland Heights. In this district, bounded by Jackson street on the south, Jefferson street on the north. Park street on the east and Fourteenth street on the west, with a smaller section between Fourteenth and Sixteenth and Yamhill and Jefferson cor nering on the district, a number of fine apartment-houses have already been built, while many others are now pro jected and are under construction. values in ims locnjiLy iiuxe ueeu in creasing rapidly and - in the last two years there is hardly a lot fn the district which has not at least doubled In value. The demand for properties has been ex ceptionally heavy for apartment-house locations. This is one of the oldos sec tions of Portland, which as first built up as a residence locality, but the prop erties are now becoming so Valuable the older residences are being moved away and torn down and replaced, with fine brick apartments. Councilman Watkins says the entire cMstrict will be 'paved with hardTSitrface streets In the Spring and the wooden sidewalks, of which some still remain, THE OlftiT" PAINT MANVFACTUHED OJT THE PACIFIC COAST COMPLYING WITH THE EASTERN PUKE) PAINT STATE LAWS. FORMULA OUT EVERT PACKAGE. Honeyman Hardware Co. HEADQUARTERS FOR EVERYTHING IN PAINT I PACIFIC IRON WORKS O. E. Heintz, Portland, CASTINGS and STRUCTURAL WORK Carry complete stock of Steel Beams, Angles and Channels. MOCXT SCOTT DISTRICT BOOMS Building Is Active as RcsulfT of Coming Improvements. There is renewed activity throughout the Mount Scott district. Business men and real estate dealers are much elated over the announcement that extensive Improvements are to be made by the new owners of the large tract on Mount Scott. The proposed site Of the improvement Is 800 feet above the level of the sea. , Another thing that has helped matters In the district is the fact that Bull Run water Is now being furnished and there will not be further shortage. The single cartrack through that section will'prpa ablv be made double next year, and at the same time the Madison bridge will be completed and opened fori traffic. It is also expected soon to secure free mall delivery and better fire protection. In the Mount Scott district. Dr. T. At- wood is having erected a $2500 residence, which will "contain eight rooms. It will bo 21x30 foet. All contracts have been let. N". R. Lanis is having a $2000 home erected. 24x40 feet. Edward Miles is erecting a 10-room hoomlng-house for McNIcl & Feber on the f oster roaa, at Lents, near the Lents sawmill. Henry O'Rourke. a retired sailor. Is having a $1500 cottage built at Archer Place. He will erect several more cottages in that vicinity on completion, of the, first one. D. Moore, a contractor and builder, is nuttinc ud a $2500 home at Archer Place. tl X. Relter is erecting a $2500 residence in Creston. Dunford Bros, are erecting a cottage In Windsor Heights near Vie Foster road. In this addition several at tractive homes are being erecteu. Motor Runs Down Stranger. rriirv-YA T-h Oct. .10. An unknown man about 35 years of age, apparently a laborer, was run down by an electric freight motor on the trestle at Twenty fourth and R streets at midnight, and died shortly afterward at tne nospuai. Reading Lamps Are Selected for Their Utility and Beauty. The above Illustrates one of our Imported models. "From the simplest that Is food to the best that Is made," escribes the latitude of our display of portables and andirons. J. C. English Company TIFFAXY'S AGENT,. 128 Park Street. Manager. Or. m Jtlik mm P .-i.x-r-x--ir- I I'M i ! 1 I ' I lit Our master artists do the designiinp; and skilled work men do the making and in stalling. 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