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IIKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, LA., SUNDAY, MAY 11. 1913.
7 B
TO BE REAL CITY
Four Thousand Acres on Ocean
and in Forest Go to Seekers
of Year-Round Homes.
Atlantans who are accustomed to
visiting Atlantic Beach have re
ceived with more than ordinary In
terest the news that this popular
Florida resort Is undergoing a re
markable land and building develop
ment. Four thousand acres of land
have recently been purchased for
homes and a fourth of thle has been
cleared for Immediate building. A
number of bungalows and other styles
of houses have been erected and a
great many more will be built this
summer, in fact, before the tourist
season has got well under way.
A complete new city will be built
at Atlantic Beach. The plan con
templates an area as large as the
present city limits of Jacksonville.
Ample capital is available and expe
rienced men are the promoters. Near
ly 200 laborers have been changing
the thick jungle into a park-like ex
panse for a mile north from the
county road to the beach and west
of the Florida Hast Coast Railway
tracks. A score of tasty bungalows
has been built. More are to be start
ed as fast as a supply'of building
materials can be turned Into a steady
stream of loaded cars bound beach-
ward and a force of carpenters and
masons’ can be .assembled to han
dle it. J ,
Double Advantage of Site.
The situation o; the Atlantic Beach
Corporation’s land is such that It
offers two distinct advantages.i There
are miles of picturesque ocean front
and tropical forests as well. Resi
dents can be either on the bluffs over,
looking the Atlantic Ocean, with its
dancing spume, or they cari ideate
In the tangled and sequestered nooks
of the inland.
The officers of the Atlantic Beach
Corporation arc: E. R. Brackett, of
New York and Jacksonville, presi
dent and organizer; J. C. Turner, of
New York, vice president; A. L. Tay
lor, of New York, secretary, and
William C. Byram. formerly of New
York but now of Jacksonville, general
manager. Thera is a Jacksonville of
fice in the St. James Building and
Mr. Byram is, in charge of it.
Among the improvements put in
by the company are an electric light
ing plant, an artesian well and miles
of splendid streets and.roads. Pros
pective residents have in many cases
already gone io Atlantic Beach, and
many of them will stay the year-
round, since the climate of the Flor
ida resort is particularly favorable.
L
John W, Grant Pays Record Price
of $1,100 for Ivy St.—Three
Cash Deals.
A. S, Hook, of Foster & Robson
-ency, has sold for the Houston-
y Realty Company to, John W.
ant the northeast corner of Houa-
i and Ivy Streets for approximate-
$98,000. The property fronts 90
*t on Ivy Street and 132.5 feet on
xuston Street. This is a high water
irk for Ivy Street frontage. bein&
nroximately $1,100 a front foot. If
ured by the Houston Street front-
e, the price paid is approximately
15 a front foot.
Phis is the old Evins property. It
is bought less than three years ago
the Houston-Ivy Realty Company
r $100,000, then 1C2 feet on Houh-
n Street and 202 feet on Ivy Street,
on after the purchase the Hous-
n-Ivy Realty Company sold a 10'i-
3t lot on Ivy street for $40,000 to a
ndicate of South Georgia capital-
s. and recently this syndicate sold
a syndicate of Atlanta capitalists
aded by E. C., Callaway for $60,000.
Mr. Hook has sold for Mr. Grant
the Hrrtiston-Ivy Realty Company
South Pryor Street for $52,000. or
the rate of $2,000 per front fooC
d residents of Atlanta will remem-
r this property as th<* old poli —
rrac-ks. The proper”- '« a three-
*rv brick civ 1 ) c - rent building, bn
lot 2 : j by “ :*• fee*/ with alley <5n
le and rear. Mr. Grant’s father
Is it safe to build on Peachtree
closer to town than the northern
junction of the Peachtrees? Owners
of lots seem to think it is. They are
building, anyway, with the belief that
if business ever comes as far north
as Fourteenth Street It will stop there
automatically. Well and good, but
will it? What is to keep little trading
centers like the one at Tenth Street’
from springing up at intervals along
the route, and gradually extending
until they connect in a more or less
broken chain with other trading cen
ters?
Residents are hoping that no such
calamity will befall the section men
tioned as has befallen the section to
the southward. Rigpht now’ they seem
secure In a hide-hound residential
neighborhood. Maybe it will take
years to force homes farther out,
hut tl\is Is not at all Impossible in the
ultimate. People Just south of Four
teenth Street are already uncom
fortable. Many would not have built
when and where they did had they
known what was coming in the busi
ness advance. A few blocks farther
north there Is less trepidation. Sev
eral new' and handsome homes are
now under construction or recently
completed.
The step is not a long one. What
has already happened is evidence
enough. Atlanta Is growing at the
rate of 15,000 people a year. In five
years the population should be close
s v o 250,000, and in ten years more the
population should be half a million.
What will the business district be?
More congested in the half-mile ra
dius with Five Points as the center,
it is* true, but. spread out northward
to an unbelievable extent as well.
Unless the retail district can become
nearly as broad as it is long, it may
go as far north as Brookwood. it
is in spots half ihat far now.
An analysis of Peachtree north of
the Georgian. Terrace shows some in
treating revelations-'. Signs are up
oh the old Ladson lot at: the southeast
corner of Peachtree and Third Streets.
This* has long since been subdivided.
Back of it is the business-like Geor
gian Terrace garage, and diagonally
across frd'm it is the Winship corner,
on which it is proposed to put a
modern apartment house of many
stories. The J. Carroll Payne place
at the southwest corner of Third
will soon be on the market.
The next “link” is the Peters prop
erty. on the west side of the street
between Fourth and Fifth Streets,
which has been suggested for eariy
subdivision or a city park. The next
is the McBurney home at the south
west corner of Peachtree and Fifth
Streets, and just north of it, the
M. L. Rates place. The McBurney
home is now occupied by Dr. Hugh
K. Walker, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, but he will move in
the early fall and the lot will be sub
divided into 25-foot parcels. Separate
bonds for title executed on the Bates
place will make it possible for this
to. be cut into six store lots at any
time, four of which will front on
Peachtree and two of which will front
on East Sixth Street.
A syndicate of business men has
bought the old Ryan home at the
.‘■'oiitheast corner of Seventh Street
and Peachtree and may’ turn it into
a business proposition at any time.
Going back a few doors, the Todd
residence has been in the spring trad
ing, and the Jacobs home is on fhe
market as a speculative proposition.
Across from the Ryan property at
the northwest corner of Peachtree
and Seventh the E. J. Powers home
has passed into the hands of Geo.
W. Parrott, who has indefinite plans
for a big department hotel. People
in the next two blocks are clinging
on. A deal was pending for the Cab-
aniss home at 762 Peachtree Street,
just north of John D Little’s place,
but it fell through. • Mr. Cabaniss is
still the owner.
The next “link” is in the neighbor
hood around Tenth Street, and here
it is better defined ^han anywhere
north of the Georgian Terrace. Two
drug stores, a meat market, a pressing
club, a postoffice sub-station, a
garage, four grocery stores, a Chi-,
nese laundry and a 'plumbing estab
lishment have made a small business
center. Two mitre stores are to go
up north of the Elysee Palace Apart
ments. and some disposition wiil
probably he made soon of a fine res
idence in this* neighborhood. Trav
eling farther northward, the W. T.
Ashford home at the southeast cor
ner of Peachtree and Eleventh Streets
has been in the speculative market
to the extent of $5,000 profit* in a
recent re-sals. Thence to Fourteenth
Street there has been no well-defined
business activity’, but the stores at
Tenth are sure to have a radiating
influence.
How long then, before shrewd trad
ers will be picking profit plums from
the choice corners at Fourteenth
Street and gaining a foothold in the
region beyond? It may be ten years
and it may be two! It may be that
the property owners will succeed in
holding back business Indefinitely:
but if they do, they will accomplish
more than their neighbors closer in!
When the First Methodist Church
moved from the Candler Building site
to the northwest corner of Peachtree
and Porter Place the congregation
thought they were safe from encroach
ments. The same with the First Bap
tist when it went across from the
Governor’s Mansion. Both churches
now find business pressing close. A
notable fact in this connection Is that
the First Methodist’s property has
enhanced much more rapidly at Por
ter I*]ace than it did at Houston
Street. Asa G. handler paid the
church about $1,000 a front foot for
its downtown location, and the “up
town” site is expected to attain $2,000
within a year!
The effect of Peachtree trading and
demolition has been to drive people
farther out Peachtree and into Ansley
Park and Druid Hills, where business
restrictions exist. A beautiful resi
dence street is passing, but out of
it will rise a classic and distinctive
thoroughfare.
* * *
Where will residents land when
they . “Jump” out Peachtree? The
good “settling places” are becoming
fewer and fewer. Ansley Park is
nearly full. So with Peachtree as
far as Brookwood. The Collier tra^fr
just north of Seventeenth Street has
not been opened up and there are no
definite plans for opening it. Even
should Peachtree be built up solid
to Buckhead there would still be a
great demand for home-sites. Owing
to the peculiar topography of tht
country surrounding Peachtree as far
north as Peachtree Creek there are
few residential sections. “Drop off
of Peachtree and drop out of sight.”
Several years ago E. Rivers skipped
over the lowlands and planted his
flag. On the left-hand side of Peach
tree 200 yards north of Peachtree
Creek lie pitched his tent and called
the place Peachtree Heights Park.
“When you hit ground out in this
direction.” Mr. Rivers said of the
home-seekers, “you’ve got to hit on
my land.”
People are hitting there to-day in
goodly numbers and Mr. Rivers is
taking splendid care of them. He has
provided all modern convenience?,
parks as well, and his building re
strictions are a comforting protection.
Now Mr. Rivers declares that good
roads have switched so many auto
mobiles through the section that Hab
ersham Drive does not look unlike
Peachtree Road on a clear summer
afternoon. Mr. Rivers has started a
development that is more than a pri
vate enterprise. It is a civic, necessi
ty. like Ansley Park and Druid Hills,
and any number of high-class resi
dence sections, and as such it is
spoken of here.
* ♦ *
“Would-be investors are not wise
they think the present financial un
steadiness is going to depress At
lanta real estate,” said a well-in
formed local dealer the other day.
“If they are looking for bargains they
might as well get them by purchas
ing now. Real estate is not going
down. On the other hand, it is going
up, as it has always done more or
less, I can remember only one forced
sale of importance, and that came
about because executors could not
agree on the way an estate should be
administered. People are very sel
dom so hard up that they can’t hold
their real estate over until the next
year, when times are better. Nearly
every man can put some kind of
‘prop’ under it, to tide it over. Skit
tish investors have been waiting 40
years for property to depreciate, and
they have never been able to buy any
good property. There are exceptions,
of course. Occasionally a man will
have to sell because he needs money,
but it Isn't often.”
Another real estate man said: “I
I had a client who wanted to find
somebody that was hard up and
' forced to sell. I told him there wasn’t
j a chance .in a hundred that if he
j found such a man he would find \\hat
he wanted in the house and lot. I
! advised him to buy at a fair price
and wait for the legitimate enhance-
j ment, and I am sufe he will be glad
1 he took my advice.”
bought this pronerty several yea.s
ago for about $1,100 a froht foot.
These sales make a vei?y interesting
story of the steady enhancement of
Atlanta property, both on the North
Fide and South Side of the city.
The A. S. Harris Real Estate Agen-
cy has sold for G. C. Rogers to a client
20S (’rew Street, a six-room house, on
a lot 54 by 120 feet, for $3,500 cash:
also 286 Crumley Street, a five-room
house, on a lot 58 by 54 feet, for
$2,000 cash, and for W. P. Shannon tj
to a client 204 Crew Street, a six-
room cottage, on a lot 50 1-2 by 173
feet, for $3,650 cash.
If you have anything to sell, adver
tise in The Sunday Am«rican. Larg
est circulation M any Sunday news
paper in the South.
ACCOUNTANTS TO TAKE
STATE TEST MAY 21-22
A half-yearly examination of pub
lic accountants will be held In Atlan
ta May 21 and 22, according to an an
nouncement issued by Joel Hunter,
chairman of the Georgia State Board.
The examination will be held in
accordance with the certified public
accountants’ law, passed in 1908.
Those passing the examination will
be awarded the degree of certified
public accountants. Candidates will
he examined in theoretical and prac
tical accounting and auditing and
commercial law as ulTecting account
ancy.
THE HOME BUILDERS’ PAGE
Combination
Gas and Electric
Lighting Fixtures
AT HALF PRICE
Special Sale of
High Grade
Fixtures
J. E. Hunoicutt & Co.,
53 & 55 N. Broad St
“Look for the Tile
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Not a rare combination if you
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35-37 Luckie St.
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Prompt
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Our big auto truck does the
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We give you just what we
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ANYTHING IN WOOD.
We are Atlanta agents for
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As Good as Any, and Bet
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Phoenix Planing Mill
Office and Factory,
321 Highland Ave.
Phones:
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Atlanta 65.
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DESCRIPTION
?he long’ ridge of roof parallel
with the street line, and the low,
broad eaves are the principal fea
tures of this bungalow. The treat
ment of the gables and the manner
in which the columns are grouped
are also worthy of mention.
The living room chimney serves
for this room and the two bed
rooms, while the stove Hue is loca
ted in the dining room chimney.
The living and dining rooms are
connected by sliding doors these
two rooms having attractive beam
ed ceilings.
On a level lot and without fur
nace heat this house could be built
for about $1,800.
&*■»£. Flam
Plans furnished by LEILA ROSS WILBURN, Architect,
305 Peters Bldg., Atlanta
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If ypu are building or planning
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We are offering at this time es
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Anderson Hardware Company
stock which we purchase^!. If you
would save money on your hard
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priced goods will soon bq exhaust-
KING HARDWARE CO.
53-55 Peachtree Street
No modern home
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out
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A well known phrase.
The man who coined it
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are absolutely right.
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71 S. Pryor St.
Slantwise Across From New Court
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Phones 48.
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Painting Contractor.
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Plumbing Contractors
53 East Hunter Street : Atlanta, Ga. /
Lighting
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56 W. Mitchell St.
Phone 681 Main
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445 Marietta St. Atlanta, Ga.
Phone Main 4335
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We are equally well pre
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