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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 22, 1922
DEALS IN DOWNTOWN AND INCOME PROPERTY AND DEMAND FOR RESIDENCES FEATURE ACTIVITY IN REAL ESTATE DURING LAST WEEK.
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is an experienced business woman
and has every confidence in the fu
ture of Portland. The Tait hotel is
white pressed brick building, all
outside rooms, situated on Twelfth
street between Stark and Burnsids
streets. The transaction was han
dled through the George T. Moore
company by Mrs. Burke.
INCOMEPRDPERTIES
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Three Important Deals Are
Closed During Week.
SALES TOTAL $175,000
Warehouse, Chetopa Apartments
and Stearn-Eddy Plant Pass
to New Owners.
The sale of the four-story ware
house of Blumauer & Hoch, in Flan
ders street, between Tenth and EJev
. enth; the Chetopa apartments, at
Eighteenth and Flanders streets,
and the plant of the Stearn-Eddy
company, at East Seventeenth street
and Sandy boulevard, at prices ag
gregating' about $175,000, featured
activity in downtown and income
property last week.
Warehouse Sella for $00,0041.
The- Blumauer & Hoch warehouse
was purchased by Frederick V. Hol
man. at a price said to have been in
tho neighborhood of $60,000. The
company selling the property in turn
took, a long lease on the warehouse
at & figure which was said to give
Mr. Holman, a satisfactory return on
his investment.
Both the sale and the lease were
handled by E. J. Daly and J. Fred
Staver.
Building Modern Structure.
Tha warehouse was erected in
198 foy .Ralph Williams for the
American Druggist syndicate. The
structure was put up under Mr. Will
iams" supervision and embodies all
the best features of modern ware
house construction. In 1919 the
warehouse aa sold to Blumauer &
Hoch and since has been occupied
by them.
It was announced that the latter
company decided to sell the property
and put the additional capital into
their business.
Mr. Holman Sells Property.
Mr. Holman recently sold some
valuable east side property to the
Southern Pacific railway. He al
ready was the owner of a large
warehouse In North Portland and it
was said that the returns received
on this investment was what induced
him to purchase other property of
the same character.
The Chetopa apartments was sold
Tuesday by the Chetopa Apartments?!
inc., to jaarius Hansen. The price
was said to have been In the neigh
borhood of J65.OO0.
The Chetopa is a five-story con
crete and wood building containing
23 apartments. "Mr. Hansen will as
sume active management of the
property.
This property was purchased in
1915 by D. C. Brownell of Umatilla,
who two years later sold his entire
interest after incorporating the
property to two of his sons, C. G.
and R. V. Brownell, and two daugh
ters, Mrs. Hofer and Mrs. Lee.
The deal was closed through the
offices of Brownell & Slocum, in the
Wilcox building.
Last week the Chetopa annex was
eold by the Chetopa Apartments,
lac, to J. M. Converse.
Stearn-Eddy Deal Cash.
The property and plant of the
Stearn-Eddy company was sold to
O, J. Freeman and associates for
$50,000 cash.
Mr. Freeman is general manager
of the Esdencott laboratories, manu
facturer of santiseptic lotions and
similar preparations. The labora
tories were moved immediately to
the- new quarters from the Stock
Exchange, building.
Mr. Freeman's company operates a
branch, at Windsor, Ontario, and dis
tributes its products In Canada as
well-as in. this country.
NEW APARTMENTS BCIIT
TJp-to-Date Living Quarters Are
Provided in Marshfleld.
MAESHFIELD, Or., Oct. 21. The
call in this city for comfortable
and up-to-date living quarters has
produced a number of apartment
houses, some of excellent design and
including buildings of from one to
four stories. The latest effort at
housing is shown by George E.
Cook, a resident of this city, who
has combined six one-story, four
room apartments, connected in
semi-mission style. The line of
apartments Is 140 feet east and
west, 36 feet in width.
Six families are quartered. The
apartments have kitchen cabinets,
bookcases, medicine chests, other
cabinets, coolers, ironing boards
and all inslda furnishings. The ex
terior la plastering and stucco.
Each, ' apartment has a basement
garage, bath and toilet. The ap
proximate cost of such an apart
ment building is $15,000. Mr. Cook
has a number of other tenant
houses built in other sections of
tha city,
GAS. RANGES ARE INSTAMjED
Apartment Houses Making Use of
Modern Improvements.
As a result of strides made by the
gas industry in improving ga3 ap
pliances, the modern, gas range has
been brought Into favor with build
ers of apartments.
The new Paramount apartments,
at the corner of East Broadway and
Wheeler streets, have installed 64
cabinet gas ranges. This building
was completed. October 1 and is now
occupied and in charge of Manager
stuuer.
The cnautoka apartments, 484
East Fourteenth street North, are
equipped with four gas ranges of
modern make. These apartments
will be ready for occupancy the first
of next month. They are owned by
-nrs. juarie xayior. Neuhausen &
Co. are the agents.
An apartment building is beinir
constructed by Oscar Hendrlcksen at
bou Lovejoy street. It contains 17
apartments, all of which will have
cabinet gas ranges. This building
win do completed Dy January 1.
NEW BUILDING IS PLANNED
Two-Story Structure at Tenth and
Yamhill Streets Proposed.
Plans have been prepared by the
Charles W. Ertz company for the
erection of a building for John H.
Haak at the northeast corner of
Tenth and Yamhill streets. The
structure, which will cost $13,000,
will be two stories and will cover a
ground floor space of 50x60 feet.
The building will be of concrete
and will have two stores on the
Tenth street side. The second floor
will be devoted to salesrooms and
shops. The leasing of the building
has been placed in charge of Metz-ger-Parker
company.
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George E- Cook. 3 Residence at 575 East Sixteenth street North, sold by N. F. Sutton to A. B. Ridsreway for $10,000 through agency of Neuhausen & Co- 4 Four-story brick ware
koine In Flanders street, between Tenth and Eleventh, sold by Blumauer & Hoch to Frederick V. Holman for approximately $00,000. Blumauer & Hoch hnve taken a' lease on the
building; for a term of years. Both lease and sale were handled by E. J. Daly and j Fred Staver. 5 Bungalow at southwest corner of Fast Fifteenth ind Klickitat streets, sold
by W. A. Shelley to W. H. Shller for $8750 through agency of Mrs. Mary McDonell. -6 Stern-Eddy building at East Seventeenth street and Sandy boulevard, sold to O. J. Freeman
and associates for $50,000.
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EAST SIDE RESIDENCES TO
AGGREGATE $40,000.'
Residences Expected to Ue Built
Before First of Year and Will
Be Sightly Improvements,
New homes to be (built at once in
the east side residential districts
approximate a total expenditure of
$40,000, according to plans just com
pleted. Immediate erection of the
structures will be made to have
them ready for- occupancy before
the first of the year, and the build
ing figures for the year will be in
creased proportionately. Residence
building activities continue brisk in
spite of the near approach of the
ratny season and the shortage of
cement.
Among the new structures to be
built at once is one for N. O. Eklund,
to be erected at 921 Shaver street
In Alameda Park at a cost of $10,000.
The home will be 34 ty 41 feet and
of two stories and will provide an
other attractive residence for this
district of fine homes. The other
new structures are practically all
for the Laurelhurst district, which
is enjoying an unprecedented build
ing campaign, with many beautiful
new homes erected there within the
last three months.
A. P. Smith has planned ths' im
mediate erection of three new rest
dences In Laurelhurst, each to cost
approximately 16000. with eraraee.
One of the homes will be built at
1177 Laddington. court and the oth
ers at 996 and 992 East Burnslde
street. Each .will be a story and a
half. 34 by 33 feet and all will be
along similar lines of design.
A $6500 home for G. P. Bissell at
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281 East Thirty-seventh street is
among the announced new struc
tures for the Laurelhurst district.
The home was planned hy O. M.
Akers, architect, and will be 38 by
24 feet, of two stories. A home for
J. C. Hertsche at 781 East Twenty
fourth street North, to cost approx
imately $6000, completes the list,
bringing the total cosf of the six
residences to $40&&0.
APARTMENT HOUSE PLANNED
Three-Story Structure of Brick
and Concrete to Cost $40,000.
Plans are being prepared by
Claussen & Claussen for a three-
story apartment house to be erected
at Sixth and Hall streets, for D,
Leibrich at a cost of $40,00.0.
The structure, which will be of
brick and concrete, will contain 12
apartments of two and three rooms
each. It also will have space for
three stores on the ground floor.
The same architects have prepared
plans for a one-story and basement
store building to be erected at the
northwest corner of Twenty-third
and Lovejoy streets, by E. E. Mc
Ginn. This building, which will cost.
$15,000, will have a brick exterior
with cast stone trimmings. Space
will be provided for three stores,
Work on this structure will start
early in the week, it was announoed.
Building Record Predicted.
That residential construction for
the present year throughout the
United States will attain a figure
half again as large as that for 1921
was the estimate made by John
Payne, local manager for the H. W.
Johns-Manville company. Mr. Payne
announeed that contracts for fully
150,000 dwelling houses will have
been let throughout the country by
the end of 1922, according to lhfor
mation based on data gathered in
63 important cities by branch of
fices of his company-
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41 LOTS ARE BOUGHT
PROPERTY IN PENINSULA
DISTRICT IS SOLD. '
Large Number of Deals in Last
Three Months Reported by
Frank L. McGuire.
Since the. Frank L. McGuire or
ganization took over four additions
in the peninsula district less than
three months ago, more than 400
lots have been sold. Many of the
purchasers already havs started the
erection of homes. ,
. These properties are all served by
streetcar lines and are near the
George grammar school and the
new Roosevelt high school, in the
East St. Johns district. Many of
the lots are on paved streets and
have water and gas connections.
One of the properties is a liquida
tion Bale and, according to Mr. Mc
Guire, the lots are being offered at
about one-half their actual value.
"On the peninsula are located
most of Portland's industrial plants.
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The 1
BRICK HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
Is being built to demonstrate "",'
the way that a brick home may ,
be built at average home cost, .
Using the
"IDEAL" BRICK HOLLOW WALL
REAL BURNED CLAY BRICK
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will be on display. Watch for
announcements later.
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83 FIFTH ST. BROADWAY 0018.
FREE IDEAP WAIL LITERATURE.
Apartment house just completed in
which are turning out at the pres
ent time products of a total value
of . about-$125,000,000 a year," said
Mr. McGuire.' "Because of splendid
rail and water shipping facilities
this, district is destined to become
one of the great industrial centers
of the Pacific coast. For this rea
son the peninsula district is bound
to attract thousands of persons who
will be employed permanently and
it will build up at a rapid rate. An
investment in real estate in this
district today, especially at the
low prices now obtaining! is bound
to be sound. During the past few
months scores of new homes have
been built in the district and many
more are being planned.'"
New Real Estate Firm Formed.
Tha H. Tupllng company, Inc., a
new real estate concern headed by
Harry Tupling, has opened an of
fice in the Pittock block. The new
company, which is compbsed of
veteran real estate men, is handling
not only a general real estate busi
r.fss but also loans and rentals. Mr.
Tupling reports a great deal of ac
tivity in real estate and declares"
that he has great confidence in
the future of Portland.
Lenine's Birthplace Preserved.
KAZAN A little hut in the vlU
Johnson avenue, Marshfleld, Or., for
lage of Simbirsk, on the Volga river,
where Premier Lenine was born 53
years ago, is to be restored and
preserved for visitors. A govern
ment commission is to have, charge
of the work.
OLD POPWINTElOl
OWNS DEFEAT -
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MEETS THE
PROPER HEA1
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lick winter. Slam him
with a bunch of heat. If your
heating equipment isn't all
that it should be let us give
it some attention. Perhaps
you want to install a new up- '
to-date heating plant of your
own. If so we're the plumb-,
ers to do it for you.
Steam, Vapor and Hot
Water Heating .
Alaska Plumbing &
Heating Co.
363 East Morrison Street
East 2954
FURNACE
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The Fuel Problem
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CREAMERY TO BE BUILT
Boom in Central District of Sec
tion Is Reported by Realty
Men.
Building activity in the central
east side district continues with the
announcement of two new struc
tures on East Main street and Grand
avenue to begin at once to provide
additional store space and quarters
for two automobile concerns. A de
cided trend on the part of the auto
mobile dealers to seek east side lo
cations recently has been noted, and
among the new structures to be
built for this use is the building
for the Roberts Motorcar company
on Pacifio and East Second streets
Remodeling of the old brick
structure formerly housing the Sul
livan stables on the corner of
Grand avenue and East Ash street
is nearing completion, and this
j structure will also be used by an
auiomooue xirm. Lite dumuui waa
substantially built and has been
completely renovated with display
frontage, and exterior and interior
have l.een remodeled. Herbert Gor
don has been in charge of the work.
$:!0,000 Structure Planned.
The new structure for the Roberts
(Motorcar company will cost approxi
mately ?.10.000 when, completed and
will be of concrete construction,
100 by 200 feet in size. The firm
will move from its present site at
1 Park and Everett streets on the west.
side to the new building about Janu
ary 1, when It Is expected to be en
tirely completed.
The new garage building at 241
Grand avenue, near East Main
street, for Earl Ransom of the Cen
tral Garage, East Sixth and Taylor
streets, was started this week and
will be rushed to early completion.
The structure is to be. of reinforced
concrete and will be of one story.
50 by 90 feet In size. It will prob
ably be utilized as a used car ex
change. Store Building I'nder Way.
The other new structure at Grand
avenue and East Main consists of
a., one-story store building 90 by 100
feet in size, being built for W. W.
Ferguson, Wilcox building. The
building will be used for stores and
as an automobile salesroom and
repair department. It will be of
reinforced concrete construction and
will cost approximately $30,000.
A new reinforced concrete one-
story structure to house a store and
creamery will be built at Union
avenue and Roselawn, according to
plans just announced by L. R. Bailey
& Co., architects. . The building
is to be 66 by 87 feet in size and
will cost approximately $12,000. An
attractive appearance will be pro-
vmea py tne proposed stucco tlnisn
land the interior of the creamery
will be finished in white enamel.
. Tait Hotel Lease Is Sold.
The lease and furnishings of the
(Tait hotel, a hostelry of 60 rooms,
I has beenold by J. C. Hill to May-
belle Olsen for $20,000. Miss Olsen
CHARACTER!
Like that of a city, an individual or a nation, the
character of a mill and lumber concern is the re
sult of the struggle it has made to attain its ideal.
For more than a generation these institutions have
'tried to honestly earn a reputation for the highest
standard of lumber and lumber products. To iden
tify them for your protection in buying we have
adopted the following mark as an emblem of Merit
in our products and' the Service rendered by our
staff:
East Side Mill & Lumber Company
Ft. Spokane Ave. Sellwood 597.
Oregon Door Company
Ft. Spokane Ave. Sellwood 62.
East Side Box .Company
Ft. Spokane Ave. Sellwood 597.
Hardwood Flooring
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NEW PROJECT IS LAUNCHED
Attractive Irvington Division Is
Placed Vpon Market.
One of the best residence district
development projects undertaken in
the city has Just been completed on
the 200x500-foot block bounded by
Bast Fifteenth. Sixteenth, Stanton
and Siskiyou streets, in Irvington,
by Ritter, Lowe.& Co. The property
is owned by the Hughes estate, and
$6000 was expended by Ritter, Lowe
Co. in grading and the construc
tion of a paved auto driveway
which traverses the tract.
Care was taken in improving the
property to protect treeB and shrub
bery which adorn the 20 home sites
into which the tract was platted.
Already two high-class houses are
under construction in the new dis
trict and many applications for
sites have been received, according
to the company. Six of the 20
tracts have been sold and negotia
tions are under way for the transfer
of a number of others.
WOMEN REALTORS GATHER
Large Attendance Is Attracted by
Card Party and Dance.
The first of a series of monthly
entertainments arranged by the
women's realty board was held
Thursday night at 212 North Twen
tieth street.- The guests were the
new members of the board, the
charter members acting as hosts.
An informal card party and dance
attracted a large attendance. In the
receiving line were the board's offi
cers, Mrs. T. P. Neuhausen, presi
dent, Mrs. Mary E. Lent, vice-president,
Mrs. Alvin Johnson, secretary
and Mrs. Emma B. Keller treasurer,
assisted by Miss Lillian B. Carter
and Miss ' Elizabeth Adams.
Five hundred was played, prizes
being awarded to Miss T. E. Fety
and Mrs. Caroline Child and C. V.
Johnson and Frank Johnson. Mrs.
C. S. Dunning and Mrs. I. H. Zemp
presided over the punch bowl.
NEW FACTORY IS OCCUPIED
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Slrnno Carbon Paper Company
Moved Into Model Building.
The Stenno Carbon Paper Manu
facturing company, formerly located
at 1422 Sandy boulevard, has moved
into its new factory building at 740
Sandy boulevard. The factory is a
large, roomy structure, built by the
Hurley-Mason company, and con
tains more than 8000 square feet of
floor space for manufacturing pur
poses. The Stenno Carbon Paper Manu
facturing company, which was re
organized last March, is an enlarge
ment of the old Stenno Paper com
pany. The new company is incor
porated for $100,000, the total of
which has been subscribed for by
local stockholders. It is the only
company west of Chicago in the
manufacture of carbon paper.
3-STORY ANNEX TO RISE
Cordova Apartments Improve
ments to Cost $85,000.
A three-story annex to the Cor
dova apartments is to be erected at
Twelfth and Jefferson streets by M.
Pallay, owper, it was announced last
week.
The annex will cover floor space
of approximately 80 by 100 feet and
will cost in the neighborhood of
$85,000.