File:Real estate record and builders' guide (electronic resource) (1888) (14741555216).jpg

Identifier: realestaterecord50newy (find matches)
Title: Real estate record and builders' guide (electronic resource)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors:
Subjects: Real property Construction industry
Publisher: New York, F. W. Dodge Corp
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
astly improved in the near future by theconstruction of the underground electric road through the Boulevard andBroadway, with an express station at 86th street, from which Wall streetwill be within ten minutes ride in the most comfortable manner in whichpeople have ever traveled. Last of these rows of fine houses to be completed and put upon the mar-ket is the imposing row of four-story brownstones which we illustrate inthis connection. There are six of them, digLifiedjspacious, maisive dwell-ings, all with box stoops that add so much to the home feeling about a cityhouse, and all of the very bast materials and workmanship. Mr. JamesLivingston, the builder and owner, is one of the best known master build-ers in the city. For many years he has practised his art in West Sideresidence construction, as masonry and bulk-contractor for merchantbuilders. The large variety of his work is manifested in th#many littleconveniences as well as the floor plans of his first essay at construction for
Text Appearing After Image:
Houses in West ith Street, north side, between Central Park and Columbus Avenue. James Livingston, Builder and Owner, trict east of the Columbus avenue line of semi-public improvementsbetween 83d and 90th streets. Accordingly the builders had a pretty treeswing. They did not long leave the district undisturbed. The lay of the land was favorable to a high class of improvements, andthe great majority of those who made it a field of architectural endeavorlabored to impart to it a character free from blemish. This was notalways easy to do, and in some of the streets the cupidity and greed of atew have planted flat houses between rows of fine residences, to the injuryof all other property and of the street. The owners in the block underconsideration have united in restricting covenants, limiting the use ofthis street entirely to first-class residences. How well this has paid is evident in the manner in which the street hasimproved. Both sides are built up solidly, with the exception of fou

Note About Images