Real estate record and builders' guide (electronic resource) (1888) (14577716710)

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Title: Real estate record and builders' guide (electronic resource)

Year: 1888 (1880s)

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Subjects: Real property Construction industry

Publisher: New York, F. W. Dodge Corp

Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries

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new invention in electric traction a show,for everybody believed that it was only a question of time now when thestorage battery wc u d be so perfected that it would supersede all othej.forms of tractior, s cam included. He only wished, in common with theuniversal public s otiment, that the inventor, who would one day makediscovery of the great secret and thus win undying fame and unlimitedfortune, would hurry up about it. The Amidon Apartment House, iCOMMUNICATED.l The newly-completed Amidon is one of the finest apartment houses inthe city. It has been erected on the northwest comer of the Boulevardand S3d street by James Rufus Amidon, and occupies one of the most com-manding sites on the West Side. It is near Riverside Drive and CentralPark, and from its upper windows a magnificent view is obtained of theHudson River and the Palisades on the one side and the Grand Boulevardand Central Park on the other. It is nearly ready for occupancy, andnearly half the suites are already rented.

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THB AMIDON. Northwest comer Boulevard and SSd street. The building occupies a frontage of 128 feet on &3d street and 70 feet onthe Boulevard, and contains twenty-eight suites of apartments, each com-prising seven rooms and bath. The architect, E. L. Angell, has followed the Italian Renaissance in thedesign of the exterior. The front is of marble up to the first story andlight brick and terra cotta above. The shades of the materials used har-momze admirably. There are numerous arched windows on bolh fronts,and the general effect is sufficiently imposing to cause those who pass by incarriage or on foot to arrest their progress for a moment and express theiradmiration. The building, which is seven storieii high, is entered from the street.The vestibule is approached through a fine arched doorway in marble, with supporting columns in the same material. The vestibule and hallfloors are in mosaic work and the wainscotings in Numidian marble andMexican onyx. A ladies reception-room leads

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