Transfers
InWeekAre
$283,885
$
Business Properties Notice
able by Their Absence in
List of Deals on File
in Register’s Office.
Threatened Slump Ends
Thirty-four transfers of real estate,
each one $4,000 or more, were filed
in the office of Register of Deeds
Pearce last week, totaling $28S,S85.
Approximately all 0f these deals
represented the purchase of homes.
Following is a list of these tran
sactions separated by districts:
_ . _ , West Furnam.
i'• Balr<* John Beshtlas. north
«r.«S,0m%sori,irty'*,*,h anrt Farnam
Otilia F. Baum to C. W. Hull. Dawrv
Jlx*Htrb.Vu.e|4.0DS.,rty-fl,th and Th,r,y
_ . „ Central.
nu’Dous.r.'^trsVl. t'A. rredmr"kv'
. N.jth“Tw,XnatVd0 .fe m-lT
comP"ny to Peter Klewlt's
eons, 1423 Davenport street, II BOO
„ .. Dundee.
Mattaon A Smalls to K. M. Barn *07
Fifteenth avenue. $13,360.
-I®11®" p- Sco*V° °*c®r Johnson, south
«re.tsOr»6.000Flfty',eCOnd *nd Jack'on
Cnfornti’^et10 RWoo* B‘ DaV"' «»
^V* ,SheblIakv to Gustav Heltmann.
47i)5 Cumin* street. $6,350.
bi.r«rtii7 to H*nn»h Black
hurn, 117 South Fifteenth avenue. $12,000
... _ South.
Alice Quade to J. L. Jonee. 1016
Vinton street. $5,500.
_ Northwest.
i x, AG,«an to C. E. Melsner. 1616
; North Forty-fifth avenue. $7,000.
H. J. Grove to R. H. Peterson. 4218
Fowler evenue. $4,600.
CauE« Jon®8 to Ann A. Gnrdela. 2130
North Forty-ninth street. 85.26U.
Mollle C. Clary to Alvenia C. Benk
6305 North Thirty-third avenue.
15. 650,
Frank Panel. to Marianna F, Circo,
4029 Ames avenue. $16,750.
Cathedral.
Minnie P. Epeneter to Annie E. Rush.
512 North Fortieth street. $10,500.
J. W. Hastings to Edmond Norgard. 915
South Thirty-eighth avenue, 15.600.
C. L. Hence to Helen P. Fitzsimmons,
Chicago street between Forty-fourth and
(Forty-fifth streets. $5,500.
__ Southwest.
N. A. Nebleen to Norma Morford.
4*24 Williams street. $7,000.
South Omaha.
Frank Hnendowskl to Thomas Bednarc,
4109 South Thirty-third street. $4,700.
West Leavenworth.
T. W. Metcalfe to W. L. Graves, jr.,
4619 Pacific street. $6,500.
Otto Schneiderwlnd to O. T* Llljegren,
Mayberry, between Fifty-fifth and Fifty
Sixth streets. $6,250.
C. B. Young to May H. Young, north
east corner Forty-third and Mayberry
streets. $7,000.
Southeast.
Anna Morrison to Minnie Lossch, 1113
Hickory street. It.000.
North Side.
W S. Holden to A. F. Durkee. $806
Florence boulevard. $11,100.
■ P. A. Cochran to D. E. Collins. $403
Boyd street. $4,000.
Philomena Dugdale to C. C. Harbaugh.
-j 2810-14-16 North Eighteenth atreet. $7,800.
Benson.
Michael Massara to Evelyn Evans,
Burdette, between Fifty-eighth and Six
tieth streets. $4,300.
1W R Zfnk to Fred Ruhe. IS44 Ersklns
street. $4 850.
Bern Is Park.
Hattie E. Baber to Jennie Wllken, 1104
North Thirtv-fourth street. $4,000.
Ellenore Read to D. W. Miller. 1220
North Thirty-fourth street. $4,875.
1 Florence.
Maria Anderson to Helen Bolker. Thir
tieth between Tucker and Willlt streets.
$6,250.
Hanscom Park.
C. J Casskly to Emily Swinghohn. 3029
Haskell atreet $4,160.
Roekbrook, New
Addition, Ready
for Inspection
Suburban Home District Ad
joins Happy Hollow Club
on South—Quarter Mile
West of Ninetieth.
"Roekbrook," the suburban homo
district near the new Happy Hollow
rlub, la now ready for Inspection,
Shuler & Cary announce.
Roekbrook adjoins the golf club on
the south and liea along the north
side of the Center street highway. It
is a quarter of a mile west of Nine
tieth street.
Arrangements have been made for
a road from Center to Pacific streeta,
parking along the west aide of Rock
brook and the new club grounds.
The new addition is comprised of
120 acres of rolling land, divided into
223 building sites, varying in size
from one-third to three quarters of an
acre.
Landscape artists have set out 1,300
trees, 2,500 shrubs and 500 evergreens
in the addition. A semi-formal sunk
en garden has been constructed on
the west side of the addition while
informal landscaping has been done
near Rock Glen, a wooded creek
which extends up into Roekbrook.
The addition boasts a bridle path,
a mile and a half long. Shady foot
paths sdd to the park effect of the
section.
APARTMENT SOLD
AS INVESTMENT
The St. Louis flat, located at 2703 03
Jackson street and consisting of 5
rooms up and 5 rooma down, was pur
chased by Boris Pred for a considera
tion of $10,000. S. B. Johnston, of
the Johnston Realty company, repre
sented the seller and Jake Murphy,
manager of the real estate depart
ment of the C. D. Hutchinson com
pany. the buyer.
These two firms In collaboration
during tha month of July sold $125,
000 of investments, the largest deal
being the FWrview apartments at
Fiftieth and Webster streets, the pur
chase price being $30,000. They re
port a steady demand for good invest
ment property.
STORE BUILT IN
18% PURCHASED
Fred J. Schollmnn purchased the
Benkhardt property, with 180 foot
frontage on North Thirtieth street,
Including the store building at 4!*04
North Thirtieth street, through n.
T Clary company this week.
The structure la one of the oldest
More buildings on Thirtieth street,
having been erected In 1*114 In anti
cipation of the Omaha exposition.
Arrangements for the opening of
Thirtieth street south from take
gtraet and the location of the new
North High school have crested a >1c.
tnand for property on Thirtieth street.
It !• said.
Pastor Joins Staff *
of Business Firm
M. Andreason, former pastor and
welfare worker, who insists that busi
ness and religion should go hahd in
hand, has joined the staff of Hamilton
& Co., real estate and insurance
agents, 207 Neville block.
Andreason has been engaged in
prison and near east relief work in
addition to occupying many of the
pulpits of Omaha and other cities.
He came to Omaha from Denmark
when 15 years of age. He has lived in
this city more than 40 years.
Crestwood to Be
One of Prettiest
Omaha Additions
New Addition East of Elm
wood Park Will Be Ready
for Building Early in
September.
“Crestwood'’ Is the name chosen for
Metcalfe company'* new addition, di
rectly east of Elmwood park. Crest
wood Is bounded by Pacific street on
the north, Woolworth avenue on the
south, Fifty-sixth street on the. cast
and Sixtieth street on the west.
Crestwood is not an outlying tract of
land. It is all within the city limit*
of Omaha.
Those who have Inspected the plans
and who have obtained a glimpse of
the addition itself agree that it will
be one of the prettiest additions to
the city of Omaha. It Is high and
lightly, fits on to the ,*3dgcwooJ ad
dition south of It in such a way as
to contribute to the beauty of that
entire section of Omaha.
Fifty-eighth street and fifty-sixth
street will both be extended south to
Center street. No lot in Crestwood
will,have less than 50 feet frontage.
Crestwood will be ready for building
early in September. Lots tnay be re
served now at the Metcalfe company
office*. 203 South Nineteenth street.
The engineering work far the addi
tion was done by Towle, Nelson ft
Schwartz.
15,000 ACRES OF
SWAMP RECLAIMED
One of the greatest reclamation
projects engineered by private capital
in this country has been completed
by an Omaha firm, the Albert Lea,
Minn., enterprise of the Payne In
vestment company, which has
changed 15,000 acres of swamp land
into the finest of farm property.
Already 8,000 acres have been sold
at 3200 to $500 an aer# without im
provements and about 10,000 acres
are under cultivation. One of the
record crops last year on this land
was 784 bushel* of onions from an
acre. These were aoid at $1.87 a
bushel.
Many immigrants from Holland
have taken up land in this great re
claimed section.
ALHAMBRA SOLD;
BRINGS $165,000
Fred L. Heyn, Omaha realtor, last
week purchased for a client the AI
harnbra apartment house at Forty
ninth and t'apltol avenue.
The property was purchaaed from
the Drake Realty and Construction
company. The price will not be made a
matter of official record until next
week but it Is known to have been
In the neighborhood of $186,000.
The Alhambra is about three years
old, consists of 39 apertmenls of
three, four and five rooms each, and
Is In the form of a malteae cross.
l irst Home to Be Started
in Ridgewood Addition
3. M. Shotip, commercial artist, let
a contract last week for building a
new 312,000 home at Seventy elghth
and Woolworth streets, in the West
Pacific street district.
Mr. Shoup's house will be the first
to be erected In this district since real
estate development was begun there
two years ago by Shuler ft Cary.
Delay In building was occasioned
by ths fact that water main ex
tension* were not marie in this dis
trict. until s few weeks sgn.
The developers, Shuler A Cary, ex
pect more homes to be started In this
district, known officially Ridge
wood and Loveland, before fall. Sev
eral owners of building sites in the
district have been holding up their
building plans until the water mains
were in.
The Shoup house leans toward the
Italian style of architecture. The
exterior walla will be of cream col
ored stucco; the roof will he orange
stained altlngies. There will be
wrought Iron exterior trimming for
the entrance of the sun porch. Plans
for the house were drawn by Archi
tect Ernest F. Hchrelber.
The house will be set back shout
60 fast from ths street front, and
the ground, almost an acr*, will he
landscaped.
misincM Properly I*
Sold for Investment
Th# tno story brick building «t 1*21
Douglas strest, occupied by th* Oma
ha Mat factory, was sold last week
by Hamusl Kaplan to I.ewl* Pred
msstky for IlS.nno, Mr. Predmeatky
formerly lived In Plalnvlew, Wb.,
and bought th# property as an In
vestment.
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