Source:Northside-property
"Northside property has changed owners: Sheppard residence, on Fifth avenue, bought for $22,000 cash: A Washington tract sold: $28,000 exchange has just been closed in Elliott: Contract let for erection of fifty houses, to cost $25,000—building record for week shows increase." Pittsburgh Post, Sept. 24, 1899, p. 5. Newspapers.com 86431719.
Exchanges of properties have been one of the features of the real estate market the past week. The latest transaction of this kind was closed yesterday by Samuel W. Black & Co. The firm transferred for C. C. Weisser to D. B. Craft the property at No. 226 North avenue, near Federal street, Allegheny, consisting of a lot 20 × 110 feet, improved with a large brick dwelling, valued at $10,000. Mr. Weisser took in exchange from Mr. Craft the Hotel Oliver at Duquesne, Pa. The hotel contains 26 rooms and stands on a lot 50 × [ . . . ] feet. It is improved with all modern conveniences and is valued at $8,000. The difference was paid in cash. The new owner contemplates operating the hotel.
East End and Oakland residence properties are in great demand, and many sales of this kind have been closed recently. W. A. Herron & Sons, Wood street, brokers, yesterday completed the sale of the George Sheppard property on Fifth avenue, Fourteenth ward, for $22,000 cash. The title of the property is now vested in Jane W. Magee, who contemplates improving the dwelling at an expense of about $10,000, making it one of the most attractive in that section. The Sheppard property is directly opposite the upper entrance to Schenley park and is surrounded on all sies by costly and handsome residences. The house stands on a lot 80 × 208 feet, contains 11 rooms and is built of brick.
W. A. Herron & Sons also leased to the Pittsburg Valve and Machine Company a manufacturing site in the Lawrenceville district for [⸺ng] term of years. The firm has also [leased?] four other sites in that section of the city to manufacturing companies. The leased property belongs to the Schenley estate and there promises to be some interesting developments in the Lawrenceville district. Particulars of some large manufacturing enterprises will be forthcoming in a day or two.
John H. Murdock and Alvan Donnan, attorneys, of Pittsburg, have purchased from the Le Moyne heirs a tract containing 42 acres in the vicinity of Washington, Pa., for $20,000. The property involved in the deal is known as the "Gallows" tract, and erected thereon is the Le Moyne crematory, one of the first to be built in the United States. The new owners will improve the site and subdivide it, having it ready for the market either late this fall or early in the spring.
An exchange involving property valued at about $28,000 has just been made. W. H. Neely, owner of four houses, with lots measuring 52 × 100 feet each, on Winchester street, Elliott borough, trades them to L. G. Woods for 40 building lots at West Homestead. The properties were traded on the basis of $14,000 each, and the new owner of the Homestead lots will place them on the market. The new owner of the Elliott houses will do likewise.
The Eureka Fuel Company has let the contract to D. M. Fair & Son, of Blairsville, for the erection of a block of 50 double frame houses at Masontown, Pa., to cost about $25,000. The houses will be four and five rooms each and will be occupied by the employes of the new fuel company, which will commence operations in the near future. The company contemplates erecting several hundred more houses in the vicinity of its different works, plans of which are now being prepared.
Last week's record of building permits issued compares favorably with any like period for the past two months, the total values being $330,075. This is a marked advance over the previous week, which showed $166,044, while for the week ending September 9 permits amounted to only $97,197. Building operations do not seem to be much curtailed by the advance in the cost of materials, and many dwellings and other buildings are slated to be under roof before the arrival of the cold weather.
Two big deals slated for early closing are being engineered by L. A. Clark & Co. and John K. Ewing & Co. The former's deal involves property valued at $47,000 in the Twentieth and Twenty-second ward. That of Ewing & Co. consists of an exchange of a block of dwelling houses in the Southside district for a large residence property in Swissvale. The deal involves about $45,000.
Harvey & Burns sold for Mrs. Emma V. Kerr to Thomas Moren a lot 50 × 120 feet on Cohasset street, Thirty-fifth ward, improved with a seven-room frame house, for $4,000 cash. The same firm is engineering a $60,000 deal that will be closed up in a day or two.
The Beechwood Improvement Company, limited, sold the following lots in its Arlington place plan of lots, Twenty-first ward: Lots Nos. 179–180, to H. Graver for $600; lot No. 62, to E. R. Shepherd for $385; lot No. 115, to A. Kennedy for $200; lot No. 116, to Fred Carver for $225; lot No. 223, to Frank Alters for $90.
George C. Norris & Co. sold a two-story dwelling house on Wylie avenue for $2,200.
The deal for the 10-acre portion of the Neel farm, near Homestead, is not yet closed, but the deed is expected to be delivered soon. The prospective buyers are Kuhn & Boyd, real estate speculators of Homestead, who propose subdividing the property for sale.
W. E. Hamnett sold to Caroline Toudy an eight-room brick house, lot 25 × 80 feet, on Kelly street, Twenty-first ward, for $4,800.
M. J. Ehrenfeld sold for the Eureka Building and Loan Association to Carl Cappel a brickyard, lot fronting 40 feet on Soho street, Thirteenth ward, for $5,000 cash. The new owner will improve and operate the plant.
Margaret P. Given sold to James M. Carboy a lot 35 × 133 feet on Walnut avenue, Edgewood, for $1,200.
Henry E. Lineaweaver sold to F. T. Rowland an improved property 50 × 150 feet on Fifth avenue, Coraopolis, for $4,595.
John S. Shaffer sold to Edmund Benson a lot 36 × 75 feet on an unopened street near Bedford avenue, Thirteenth ward, for $1,000.
Smith W. Hill sold to Samuel Morenz a lot 40 × 110 feet on Twelfth avenue, Homestead, for $1,400.
The Pittsburg Trust Company sold to Martha F. Baird a frame house, lot 25 × 93 feet on Race street, Twenty-first ward, for $1,700.
John W. Cook sold to Henry Reefer five lots on Davis street, Lower St. Clair township, for $6,800.
Joseph S. Stevenson sold to Anna M. Harmeter a lot 25 × 85 feet on Filbert street, Twentieth ward, for $1,475.
George Finley sold to Annie E. Beam a lot 32 × 110 feet on West Linden avenue, Twenty-first ward, for $1,600.
M. McCormick sold to John W. Kirker a residence property 30 × 90 feet on Shakespeare street, Twentieth ward, for $4,000.
E. T. Schaffner sold for Joseph Taylor of Sharon, Pa., three lots 75 × 102 feet on Seventh street, Thirty-eighth ward, for $2,000.
Black & Gloningeer sold for the receiver of the Order of Solon to Isaac C. Thompson a property at Boston, Pa., consisting of about one acre of ground, with frame house and buildings, for $1,100; they also sold to Mrs. Mary Leary, of McKeesport, two lots in Glassport, being Nos. 630 and 631, fronting 50 × 100 feet on Ohio avenue, near Seventh street, for $800.
J. H. Jahn & Co. sold for J. H. Jahn to Elmer L. Kidney a lot 50 × 130 feet on Hemlock street, Bellevue, for $1,000.
J. B. Crooks & Co. closed a deal for Captain Anderson, of Stanton avenue, disposing of a fine building lot, 50 × 130 feet, to John B. Barbour, Jr., for $6,375. This lot is located on Stanton, near Euclid avenue.
Pittsburg building permits were issued yesterday to W. A. Minteer, for four 11-room brick houses on Black street Nineteenth ward, to cost $18,000; to Martin Deja, for a three-story 12-room brick house on Phelan street, Thirteenth ward, to cost $2,700; also six other permits, totaling $463.
Annie M. Buchanan sold to Ella M. McCaslin a brick house, lot 64 × 189 feet on Princeton place, Nineteenth ward, for $6,750.
