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Item:123427942090CIRCA 1900 - 1905 COLLECTION NEW YORK CITY REAL ESTATE WESTCHESTER YONKERS BRONX. [23212] (Americana - 20th Century - Real Estate Development - Bronx - New
York City). Circa 1900 – 1905 Collection
Manuscript Real Estate Development Documents, Maps, Letters Concerning Transactions
and Development in the Bronx, Westchester and Other New York City Properties,
Via The Business of R.I. Brown’s Sons The R.I. Brown’s Sons real estate firm was
established in 1867 in NY and was located at 3428 Third Avenue; approx. 100 items
of paper documenting the transactions of this real estate company; for example:
a blueprint Map of the Arden Property Westchester NY, approx. 9 1/4" x
14", with an inset route map to the property, indicating plots sold off ; this
development was located near Pelham Bay View Park, (with) a related 4-page document
typed, giving the New York Property Belonging to Allan G. MacDonnell, 63 Wall
Street NY, including the addresses and prices of extensive holdings in the
Bronx, lots and developed properties and which also included interest in 900
acres of land located on both sides of Central Avenue between Yonkers &
Mount Vernon with the Jerome Travis estate, John Bush, James Gordon Bennet and
others; MacDonnell also had properties in Brooklyn, a hotel and grounds located
at Coxsackie NY and acreage on Long Island in Holbrook and Riverhead - with the business card attached of Peter J.
Quinn Real Estate and Insurance Bloomfield, NJ having a pencil note at top which
states ‘Westchester – Arden’ - (with) a typed sheet from F.E. Pollard, Att'y
concerning some of the plots being developed, "...millions soon to be
expended on water front..." (the note was typed on Lenox bond paper,
evidently a re-use - the back with the small letterhead of The Cuban Exposition
and Trading Co. NY; this group also with a plot plan blueprint of the area of
184th St., indicating Aqueduct, Grand, Davidson, Jerome Avenues, trolley,
sewer, gas & water services and the locations and measurements of various
parcels, approx. 8 7/8" x 12 1/2" size; and a group of correspondence
concerning the properties of Sol Moses of NYC, including a typed descriptive
list, including building details and amenities, sizes, addresses, plot plans,
several handwritten notes from Moses, asking the Brown firm to sell the
holdings “…In view of the larger increases in the population of the Bronx and
the consequent improvement of rentals and the work now being done by the Dept.
of P.W….there ought to be a good demand for both improved and unimproved property…”;
a 5-piece group of notes, lists, descriptions, agreements to sell properties of
Julia E. Curran, “…I hope you will be able to get us a buyer…” for various
lots, “…anxious to sell and will sell cheap providing we can sell at once…”; also
three filled-in “Description of Property for Sale’ forms of R.I. Brown’s Sons
which are used to clearly describe various properties for sale of August E.
Kuntz, noting location, block, frame or brick, stories, families of occupancy,
heat, price, mortgage obligations outstanding, improvements, “all the best”; a
9-item group of correspondence conducted on plain postal cards and company
stationery of J.E. Butterworth Carpenter and Builder 1901 – 1904, “…you and your
client go and look at the houses and then make me an offer, I have 2 one family
houses on Wash. Ave. near 181 St...papered and in good condition…”; a 16-item
grouping concerning properties of Wm. Rosenzweig, mostly handwritten letters,
“…I want to sell for Cash only 660 – 663 East 148th St. and in order
to dispose of same at once I will sell at a very low figure. No reasonable
offer refused. Try and get me an offer within the next few days if you want to
make a good brokerage…” – with some interesting ephemera used as scrap for
notes from this customer – a small menu, perhaps for a Order of Red Men
fraternal society dinner, with the names of contributors of various dishes and
an illustrated ticket printed on cardstock for that group, for their “1900
Second Annual Midsummer Night’s Festival for the United Tribes of the Reservation
of the Bronx, Music by Professor Hager’s Full Orchestral Union Band to be held
at Brommer’s Union Park Willis Ave. and 133d St. (The Committee reserves the
right to Eject any Disorderly Persons)”; the R.I. Brown company ‘filed’ its
correspondence with these and other clients in small mailing envelopes, giving
name and address, disposition, other notations; other owners and business
associates include Victoria P. McVeany of Bensonhurst, C.V. Halley, Chas.
Peiser of Kingston, NY, R.R. Randall, Lyons & Chabot, Lorenz F.J. Weiher
Architect (with hand-drawn depiction of location of property on his letter),
Squire Brothers, Innes & Center brokers, Alexander Johnston, Lyon Brothers
and more; some wear and soiling, old fold lines, a couple of the items browned
and brittle; mostly in good to very good condition and an interesting glimpse
of this New York City real estate brokerage’s daily business over a several
year span, evidencing a very lively market for property sale and exchange at
the beginning of the 20th century.
Condition:PLEASE SEE DETAILS BELOW FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION
Binding:Manuscript, Unbound
Origin:American
Date of Publication:1900
Place of Publication:USA
Type:Handwritten Manuscript
Language:English
Region:North America
Material:Paper
Topic:NEW YORK CITY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Subject:Americana
Year Printed:1900
Original/Facsimile:Original
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