Identifier: historyofrealest00durs (find matches)
Title: A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Record Association Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), former owner. NNC
Subjects: Real estate business Building Architecture
Publisher: New York : Record and guide
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ge C. Clausen, Aice-President: Chas. J. ( )l)ermayer. Secretaryand Treasurer; Charles Unangst, Counsel; Hon. Xoah Davis, Ad-visory Counsel. The chief ofifices of the companv are at 175 Broad-way, New York City. Knickerbocker Realty Improvement Company. The Knickerbocker Realty Improvement Company was organ-ized and incorporated in July, 1897, under the laws of Xew YorkState, with a cash capital of $100,000. The object of the formationof this company is the erection of business buildings which are to beconstructed and operated by the company. The officers are HomerJ. Beaudet. general manager; J. Louis Hay, secretary and treasurer;Robert Riggs. president. )\Ir. Beaudet is a well-known builder,having erected and sold in the neighborhood of 300 private housesand apartments in the northern part of the city previous to his entryin the company. Since its inception the company have begun theerection of an eight-story loft building at X^os. 35-37 East 20th street; 254 A HISTORY OF REAL ESTATE,
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BUILDIXG AXD ARCHITECTCRE IX XEW YORK. a similar one at Xos. 30 and 32 East 21st street; also a twelve-storyHotel, at Xos. 116, 118 and 120 West 34th street, near Broadway.On Ma)- 1st, the office of the company was removed to the Wash-ington Life )!uilding-. Lawyers Title Insurance Company of New York. The Lawyers Title Insurance Companv of Xew York completedits tenth year in 1897. Its history has fully justified all that was claimed by its foundersas the advantages of a strictl\ ))rofessional title companv; that is,a company whose work is entirely professional, managed exclu-sively hy professional men. IpDU the management of a corporation must depend its success;withelUt ))r(iper management no fixed capital, howewr large, canprotect against CMn^tanth- increasing risks, which, with a i-uccf^sfulbusiness, must m x m reach an aggregate many milliDUs m excels othe largest ))ractical cajiital. The character of the maiiaginient of an insurance company, andparticularly of a title insin-ance

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