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Fifth Avenue Show House Abandoned in Plans for 57th Street Structure

Fifth Avenue Show House A Abandoned In Plans for 57th Street Structure Fifth Avenue will not have the palatial theater promised by George Backer, because he will not be permitted to build it. The Building Department has refused to approve Mr. Backer's plans for a theater attached to the tall commercial structure he proposed for the old Whitney 1 home property, at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street. As there was no use appealing from the decision of the city's building experts, Mr. Backer decided to give up the plan of placing a theater at the doorstep of the finest dwelling section in the city. The theater was to have been built to fit the character of the location and the needs of folks who were expected to patronize the show house. It was to be entered through lobbies or arcades through the commercial building leading from Fifth Avenue and from Fifty-seventh Street. The theater was to have been erected on a site abutting teh southwest corner of the big business structure, and its seating capacity was been very limited. But Building Department objected, and the fire insurance companies quoted a rate for insuring the building that Mr. Backer said put out of the question his plan for giving Fifth Avenue some- new. New Plans Prepared The objections made to the project by the Building Department necessitated the destruction old plan and the building un of a new structure. When it is completed, some time next spring, the structure will look like that shown in the accompanying picture. Although it will be four stories less than the abandoned structure, it will stand as high in the clouds as first projected building. The new structure will be twenty-five stories. It will follow the architectural lines developed in the days of Francis I. In the opinion of Mr. Backer the style is well adapted to the location and the principal buildings in the section, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's chateau-like home on Fifth Avenue, from Fifty-seventh to Fifty-eighth streets, and the Plaza Hotel, at Fifty-ninth Street. The structure will be carried up straight ten floors, where there will be 8 set back. The second set back will third at the twenty-first floor. come at thirteenth floor and the Warren & Wetmore, who have designed the building have worked out with Mr. Backer 8 pleasing color scheme for the exterior, similar in a measure to that in the Hotel Chatham which was built by Mr. Backer from plans by the same architects. The first ten floors of the building, that is the main section of the building limestones Above that the putting # Elevation of building to be erected on old Whitney property at southwest corner of Fifth avenue and -seventh street. will be of red brick. Mr. Backer says that simplicity of design and red brick never fail to be attractive. The lower floors of the building will be devoted to business particular to Fifth Avenue, that is retail shops and showrooms. Above the tenth floor the doors structure may will be become chiefly officers. These the center of the in this building, 110 matter how limited it may be. On the site which was to hold the theater will be erected a sixstory building 100x100 to house the employees attached to the establishments naving showrooms in the main building. The diamond interests would have their workshops there if they come to Fifth •Avenue. An arcade will be run through the building from street to street connecting with a passageway from Fifth Avenue. There will be ten stores along street section of the arcade. On the Avenue arcade will be a bank of sixteen elevators, nine of which will be for the use of passengers. The buildings and the land they will cover represent an investment of $10,000,000. Many Want to l Live and Own A Flat in Brooklyn House from $5.85 to $7.30 a month. Carl A. Leasenfeld Joins National City Co. as Realtor Offers from several hundred persons have been received by the tenant-owners of the Dorchester Apartment at 1604 to 1610 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, since it was announced there was room for others in the tenant-owner syndicate. The cooperative idea has been popular in Brooklyn. The Dorchester is a sixteen-family house and under the plan a group of her tenants will operate the apartment. The tenant will pay from $40 to $50 for the first year. During the sixth year the charge will range 250, a ten-room dwelling thereon, to John C. Notte. White Plains Dwelling Sold Prince & Ripley have sold for Mrs. L. C. Renson, of Mount Kisco, her stucco residence at 16 Woodland Place, White Plains, N. Y. $25,000 Houses at Plandome L'Ecluse, Washburn & Co. sold at Carl A. Leasenfeld, secretary of the Trinity Buildings Corporation and manager of the Trinity and United States Realty buildings, has joined the staff of the real estate department of the National Citv Company. Mr. Lasenfeld has been with the United States Realty and Improvement Company for fourteen years, and will hereafter devote his time to the National City Company's realty interests. particularly the leasing of the remodeled Manhattan Hotel, which will be known as the National City Building. Finds Home at Madison, N. J. Joseph V. Keating sold for Patrick and Catherine Manning property at Madison, N. J., containing A lot 50x Plandome, on Manhasset Bay two separate plots Harry Jackson and Cuthbert F. Powell. Both buyers will build homes canting 000 each diamond trade in the city. Overtures have been made for moving this busines3 seventh from Maiden Lane to FiftyStreet. The great expanse of building on the south side of Fiftyseventh Street assures a large amount of uninterrupted northern light valued "' highly by diamond dealers. Manufacturing not be
Article from 15 Aug 1920New-York Tribune(New York, NY)
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