The Central New Jersey Home News from New Brunswick, New Jersey • 19

Real Estate "News Garden Information 1 -NEW BRUNS.WICK;yN.-J., SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1950. 19 Architect Visualizes Future Houses Seven to 10 Per Cent Jump New 124-Apartment Project; Is Under a Contract of Sale Red Estate Agency v. Has New Salesman By; Eyeing Home Demands of Today Auto, Dealer, JTi -wawMilM Tirmn MIJMi. i. I i If Z.

IMmt TA61E StttiVCS OVtK. (MUAKFAVT bAR DKOP SUtLF 4 SUtir C101S SOLID 1 JnnL I i oR F0L0IMC MRTIl ft SHtlViST YAMITf 1 1 d. Gi piUW i4 lh. rHyT i BFl 'LI irdi 1 ii nsTUPt en I Planned for the future this house Includes features the architect expects to be In demand for the house of tomorrow. This Is Plan 4851.

by Rudolph A. Matern, 90-04 161st street, Jamaica 2. The house covers 163 square feet and has a basement with stairs opening from rear kitchen vestibule. Third bedroom is convertible to a study or den when family grows up. er Buy Lot in Park Acreage Sold to Louis xuiguunni ana -HestonN." Potts LouIs'B.

Mlgliorlni "and "Heston N. Potts- have 'bought from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. the southwest, comer of Woodbridge avenue and Volkert street, High- and Park.

The property," used by, E. Mount Son Inc. as a used car ot, fronts 275 feet on Woodbridge avenue, and 100 feet on volkert street, with a greatest depth of 432 feet, and is approximately two and one-third Stamps on the deed indicated a purchase price of aoout The purchasers each took an in dividual one-half interest. The use to. which the property, will be put has not been disclosed.

Miguorini 1s proprietor of Rut gers Chevrolet Potts. a local, attorney, all parties to tne Duplex Dwellings Has Been Sold By Contractor METLTCHEN, 'May 20 -TJohn Makropoulos andMr. and unior, W. Whitney, have from. Mr.

and Philip Sor-gentd. the" duplex, "dwelling built by Sorgento "I at -f Hiljside avenue and-Bobbins place. i Tne transfer was by separate deeds to Makropoulos i and the Whitney each conveying one-half of the duplex house containing five' rooms and located on 50 by 100. feet. The buyers taken' possession.

-Fred W. Bates Son was the broker In the sale to the Whithevs. and the brokers- in- the sale to Makropoulos was Bohlen Syn den. Charles A. Jerome of MouQ tainside was attoriney for Pruden tial; Insurance.

Company, s-which provided. the. -purchase money mortgages. Terra No1i o. Sells Residence f.

(f In Stephenville RARITAN TOWNSHIP; May 20 Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Sutton have bought from Terra Nova Construction Company the five- room dwelling built by the seller at 3855 Park avenue its Steph- enviiie aeveiopment on a lot 100 by 200 feet. The buyers have taken possession. Sutton is a me chanic employed by Public Ser vice G.

E. Company, Plainfield. All parties to the transfer were represented by Baker, weatneid Broker in the sale was the Bohlen Synden Agency. Metuchen. The seller, whose president Is Frank Tuzaro, builder, plans a total of 300 similar dwelling in this development, The 50 dwellings already completed are sold or under -contract of sale, as are also 40 more of the dwellings now under construction.

7 Lawy 11. "Mor furniture will- be 1 12. "Houses will" be -more colorful, outside as well as 13. and baths will tend to be larger, with a greater number, of appointments. Eleven Lincoln Village Units Sold By Raritan Homes Inc.

Houses in Raritan Township Development Are Conveyed By Contractor; Seller Has Erected 304 Similar Dwellings Says Planning Will Be IMore Opening With Movable Partitions What will the house of the fu ture look like? Home buyers like 'vto No one wants. to buy a house set to go of style in a few "years. Bankers would like to know. Making "long-term mortgage loans, now ranging up to 30 years, they do not want their money tied up in houses people may not want. The men who have been trying to figure this out.

The task involves much more than crystal gazing. -A house that is merely 1 different from- anything ever seen before is; not the answer. A group of New York mortgage financiers the. Metropolitan League of Savings and Loan Associa tions recently asked architects for their ideas. One of the first warnings received was to beware of: designs claimed to be 20 to 30 years ahead of.

their time. "Examine such extreme designs of 20 or 30 years the mortgage men were advised. "Are those homes, once called modern istic, still -modern s. today? it Are their 'rooms What- about the windows, the heating, plumbing and other equipment?" J. v' Based on Rudolph A.

'Ma Long Island architect specializing in small houses, told a meeting of the league "you will find as much obsolescence in such homes as in any other: house of the period." "Tpdayts preferences could not be he: said, "because those designs were based on rather than living practice." Matern contends -the house of tomorrow can be anticipated to some extent by planning for livability. "On' changes of preferences among home buyers in all parts the country since war, some predictions can be made for the house of tomorrow," he observed. tt 1. "'The average will continue lo have a pitched roof. The pitch i.will tend to decrease.

is an increasing market for fiat 2. "Currently there Is a $1,000 $1,100 difference in' slab construction as compared with a full cellar. This differential will become less as utility rooms become 3. There will "be more (blending of living room and dining room to a point where the division will not be recognizable. 4.

VThere will be growing demand for a rear vestibule to serve kitchen, cellar and. outside. '5: "The trend "away from -story, two-bedroom expansion attic houses will continue. 6. front living room with picture window is giving way to a front-to-rear living room with big front and back.

Next will be the rear living room, but with some visual contact with the front -yard. The trend toward more and more equipment covered by the package mortgage' will continue. 8. f'Houses will be set low In contrast to the high out-of-the-ground, half exposedv basement type. 9, "Accessories will remain' on exteriors cup 1 a shutters, flower boxes, etc.

Their forms may- change, but people cling to them just as you, and I continue to wear neckties useless buttons on our coat sleeves. 10. "There will be more closet and storage 1 An addition was In Building CaliforniaFirm Has Purchased Vacant Factory Middlesex Barrel Sells Woodbridge Plant of 100 by 140 Feet WOODBRIDGE. May 20 Mid dlesex Barrel Company has con veyed to Samuel and Isidore Bey, who reconveyed to Russei-stan-ley Corporation, the one-story industrial building on Bitter avenue, in which the Middlesex company formerly manufactured wooden barrels. The building Is 100 by 140 feet in ground area and is located on a lot ioo oy zso feet The Russell-Stanley Corpora tion, a California firm, proposes to alter the kind of manufactur ing and make steel drums.

It has, not yet taken possession of the property, now Idle. David T. Wilentz, Perth Amboy attorney, represented all parties to the transfers. Housing Bond Issue's Defeat Called Helpful tlaim N. J.

Taxpayers Received 'Dividend' Of $1,300,000 New Jersey-taxpayers have re ceived a $1,300,000 dividend on the defeat of the $100,000,000 housing bond issue last Novem beraccording to a statement today by Henry N. Stam of Paterson, president of the New Jersey Council for Home Protection. Stam referred to the action of the state in transferring from the veterans' emergency housing account into the general treasury. "Under the act providing for last year's referendum, that mon ey was earmarked for use In ad' ministering the state housing pro gram," "Stam said. "Since the $100,000,000 was voted down, there is no need to hold the mon ey for.

such unnecessary purpose. "This saving of a needless expenditure represents a $1,300,000 dividend to the people of New Jersey, for their good judgement in defeating the bond Issue. will be additional funds accruing to the state from veterans housing and this money also will go for general purposes, instead of being wasted on political housing." Stam pointed out that the coun cil, an amalgamation of trade or ganizations in the housing and al lied fields, is continuing to func tion as "a permanent watchdog of the people on housing Eouis Vasvary Obtains Ellen Street Dwelling Mr. and Mrs. Louis Vasvary.

who have sold their dwelling at 423 Livingston avenue, havet bought from Mr. and Mrs. John Pagano the clx-room dwelling at 57 Ellen street, located on a lot 50 by 100 feet The buyers expect to take possession this -week, when- the sellers move to 118 French street, recently purchased by them. Vas vary Is employed by Mack Manufacturing Corporation. All parties to the transfer were represented by Joseph J.

Messina, attorney. N.J. Benefit Fund Purchases House On George9 Road United Sick Death Benefit Fund of New Jersey has bought from Mabel Ver Nooy the seven-room of the seller at 53 Georges road, looted on a lot approximately 50 by 100 feet. The property adjoins the present holding of buyer at 55 Georges road. The buyer, whose president is Philip Keller, is a mutual benefit arid nonprofit organization.

It plans to use the purchased property eventually to extend Its present building. It will take, possession June 1, when Mrs. Van Nooy moves to 8 Curtis place, Lincoln Gardens. Attorneys for sellers and respectively, were Charles M. Morris Jr.

and Samuel Gi Cohen. Are Bought which is accessible to all untlll-ties and near a bus line is close to Raritan Township Municipal Hall. The streets are being laid out by Raymond P. Wilson, New Brunswick engineer. The owner plans to build a tota of 200 dwellings on the tract.

The broker in the sale was J. K. Powell Company of New Brunswick, which will be exclusive sales agent for the development. Attorneys for seller and buyers, respectively were Aaron Kauf man of Elizabeth and M. J.

Ber- Iow of East Orange. Costs Estimated Further Increase Seen By Builders; Lumber Up One-Third By THOMAS McMORROW The great Increase In the vol ume of home-building this year at least 50 per cent above 1949, which was the record year to dale -has been accompanied by a rise costs of construction. The rep resentative builders In this area ast week estimated the overall increases at 7 to 10 per cent, with a further rise In prospect. They reported that union wage scales are unchanged as yet from ast year, and that the increase In construction cost has been due chiefly to the rising prices of-materials. Of total bunding cost, lumber and trim or millwork includ ing beams and framing, shingles and siding, represent about 20 per cent, or nearly as much as carpenter labor.

It is. naturally, the largest item of cost in frame dwellings. Caught In Between According to the lumber deal ers, prices have Jumped, about one-third in the last five months. They don't mind admitting it, be cause they are middlemen, ana are not getting a corresponding Increase in profit, when hey are getting any profit at all. "I ve been in lois business -J years," said Harry lugerman.

manager of New Brunswick Lumber Company, "and I never saw anything like it. We are caught in between the builders and the lumber mills or tneir wholesalers. Prices? WelL two weeks ago we could buy 2 by 4s at $80 a thousand board feet, and what is that same material today? It Is $106 a thousand, has been going up at a dollar a day or more. Sheathing and ship-lap roofers that were $78 a thousand only 10 days ago. are now $36.

That's what we pay for them to day, wholesale." Hagerman mentioned a competing yard which paid $120 a thousand board feet for the same umber as could be had for $S6 only two weeks ago. Credits Demand He sees the greatly increased demand as the basic reason for booming prices in all kinds of building woods. Joseph Conlan, general manager of Carteret Builders Supply Company, says, 'Lumber is up, and going higher by the day, including framing lumber and roof ing boards. Where we were paying $74 per 1,000 board feet last year, we're now paying $100 $105 $108. Fir lumber particu- larly is Jumping, gone up 30 per cent in price since last xau.

ana about 20 per cent in the last month. The lumber yards aren't profit ing. "We're losing de clared Conlan, "on Jobs we took only a month ago. We agreed to supply lumber at $ioo per inou-sand, and now we can't buy it at that price ourselves. We're not taking any more long-term con tracts.

All we care to sea is what we have here in our yards. We know what we paid for that, and don't have to guess what it will cost us to fill an order." Scarcity This Splrng The mills and the wholesalers are doing the price-raising, said Conlan. The cause of the steep rise this spring, as he sees it, is that "the woods were frozen up all winter, and this spring there's a scarcity, when demand was never greater. Irwin'Max, partner In Raritan Lumber Company, thinks some of the lumber mills and wholesalers are taking advantage of the condition, to charge all that the traffic will bear. "We had a hard winter, cer tainly." he conceded, "and the demand is up, but not all present prices are Justified.

He finds framing lumber up about one-third in price since since January 1, and millwork up nearly as much. "Doors are up about one-quarter In price in the same time. As to where prices are going from here. I dont know or pretend to say, but the prices I quote today mean today and-not next week or next month." Refuse Long Contracts The lumbermen are declining to make long-term contracts, but they were generally of the opin ion that the rise in lumber and millwork would not be long continued, because of the usual sum mer lull in building. Masonry, materials and wages, are usually estimated at about 10 per cent of construction cost, but would be less in this area where frame buildings are the rule.

In any event, neither materials nor wages have risen in cost. "We are selling our brick at the same price as last year," said John H. Junker, manager of Sayre Fisher Brick Company, largest manufacturer in this area. MT1li V4oV at $31 to $40 per thousand. Plumbing and heating, estimated at 17 per cent of total construction cost In the average home, has risen In price, but to no prohibitive degree.

"Our prices are up between and 10 per cent as compared with this time last year," said Maurice Aaron, manager of Aaron Company, which has provided plumbing supplies for several of the largest developments in Middlesex county, including Haven Homes and Washington Park. "While the recent rise has been greater, that must be balanced against the fact that our prices decreased during the lull in i building last summer.1 i i a use of wet materials plaster and masonry decrease. 15. "There will be mora open flexibility in the use of rooms muiu-use rooms and mov- able J. 22, Miko road Mr.

and Mrs. Emil A. Kuhlbars, 17 Miko road: Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J.

Eineker, 36 Idlewlld road; Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Sowder. 9 Piedmont Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert R. Hoskins, 19 Glenville road. Snyder is employed by Harris structural Steel company Inc New Market; Conway's employer is Mundt Lock Company, Hillside; Bertl and Dunn are draughtsmen with Western Electric Company, Newark; oss is in tne Army. Lehman is a tally-man with Pennsylvania Railroad, Jersey City; Howland Is a carpenter employed by John Swansen. Jersey City; Kuhlbars is a truck driver for John O'Shea, Harrison; Eineker is an operator's helper with Public Service Gas Se Electric Company, Irving ton; Sowder is an assemblyman for General Mo tors corporation: Hoskins is a driver-salesman with Perth Am- boy Plumbing Supply Company, Perth Amboy.

Attorneys for all parties to the transfers were Warksman, Saffron Cohen of Clifton. Mortgage financing was provided by Inves tors Diversified services. The seller built 304 'similar dwellings In Lincoln Village, of which nearly" all are now sold or under contract of sale. Madison Hill Project Of 100 Homes to Open RAHWAY, May 20. The sale of two and three-bedroom homes in Madison Hill, a new Bobbins community of 100 homes here, will open formally this weekend.

The homes, designed by Roche Roche, architects, feature full, unobstructed basements and expansion attics, ceramic tile bath rooms, steel casement windows with screens, mocernfold doors, bay windows and hot water heat on plots 55 by 100 or more. The new homes are located on Madison Hill road, off Westfield avenue between Milton Lake and the Rahway River Park. During the oast week, before the fur nished model home was ready for showing, .14 houses were sold to buyers who observed them during tne course oi construction. Fortvone Acres I Livingston Gardens Will Be Sold to Group of. Investors July 1 L.ivinston Gardens, the two-story garden-type apartment house on Livingston- avenue, is under contract of sale, The Sunday Times has "been The title is to close July 1, when the buyers, a syndicate of New York investors headed by Irving Handler, will take possession.

The seller is Livingston Gardens Ine, by Leo Wise, president. The apartment house, built by the seller and completed within' the last two months, contains 124 apartments, with 53 garages, and is located on a tract of five acres. There are 92 apartments of three and one-half rooms and 32 of lour and one-half. The broker in the sale was C. 3.

Snyder Organization, with Sices in Hoboken and Elizabeth, operating through Max Tiee president. Was Stock Sale There will be no transfer of deed. The deal was a stock sale," explained a representative of the broker. "The purchasers are buying the stock of the owning corporation." He added that the gross rents re $125,000. An approximation of the price may be had from the fact that the mortgage on the property is $961,000, The attorneys for seller and purchasers, respectively, were George P.

Moser and Bernard Eilverstein. The property has been under the management of the Shultise Agency, as renting agent, and it was sot stated that any change would be made. Lahiere Park Company Sells Tw Dwellings John A. Potts and John 31. Cassidy Purchase New Houses RARITAN TOWNSHIP, May 20 Lahiere Park Construction Company representing J.

P. Bad-olato, builder, has transferred title to two more of the dwellings, each of four rooms and each located on a lot approximately 7,500 square feet, erected by the seller In Lahiere Park, Its development. Purchasers were Mr. and Mrs. John A.

Potts, who bought a dwelling on Runyon avenue, and Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cassidy, buying on Dalton place. Both couples have taken possession.

Potts is an announcer for Radio Station New Brunswick. Cassidy is a welder employed by Harris Structural Steel Company Piscataway township. The broker in the Potts sale was EUsworth Day, and in the Cassidy ale was Mrs. Adelaide Berghof, both of the New Brunswick office of George W. Miller, exclusive sent.

The titles were closed by Bankers Title Abstract Com pany, Paterson. The seller has Completed 140 similar dwellings in this development and has 31 more under con struction. Of the total, all but 10 are sold or under contract of sale. D.T.C. Holding Company Sells Two Dwellings S.

T. C. Holding Company has transferred title to two more of the dwellings built by the seller on Woodbridge street on lots each SO br 100 feet. Mr. and Mrs.

James B. Rboinson bought the four-room ranch-type dwelling at 2 Woodbridge street, while Mr. and Mrs. William Z. Stephen bought the five-room dwelling with expansion attic at 4 Woodbridge street.

All purchasers have taken possession. Robinson is an employe of Jer? aey Tire Company. Stephen Is employed by Johnson Johnson. The attorney for all parties to the transfers was Richard Tarrant of Jersey City. The seller has built 32 similar dwellings In this development, of which all but five are sold or under contract of sale.

Building Contractor Buys Dimellen Home DTJNELLEN, May 20. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel V. Ippolito 'have bought from Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Le Preea five-room dwelling on anextension of South Madison avenue, not yet legally opened, and located on a lot approxim ately 50 by 100 feet. The buyers will take possession on or about June 15. Ippolito is a building contractor. Henry Handelman, local attor ney, represented the mortgagee Dunellen Dwelling Sold To Richard E.

Johnson DUNELLEN, May 20 Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Johnson have bought from Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Martoglia the five-room bungalow at 126 Third street, located on a lot 50 by 150 feet. The buyers cave taken possession. The broker In the sale was Jos ph L. CaUen of Elizabeth. All parties to the transfer were rep resented by Horowitz Cohen, dzabeth attorneys.

m. JAMES II. PRICE James H. Price of 203 Second avenue, 1 Raritan township. has joined the Shultise Agency as a licensed real estate and insurance salesman; to Walter S.

Shultise. -t l. Price has had several years' ex perience in real estate and gen eral' insurance as well' as having been active In the life insurance field as assistant brokerage or Connecticut Life Insurance Company, New York City. Price completed' "a' nre-law course at John's University in Brooklyn and also studied at Rut gers 'University. He was at one time credit manager the Scher-ing Corporation.

Bloomfield Dur ing the war, he served as an officer in the Coast Artillery" Corps. i i Two-Family Dwelling On Albany Street Sold Gasper has1 bought from Recz the two-family: dwelling at 174 Albany 6ireei, located on a lot 26 by 77.05 feet. The buyer will take possession of the first five-room apart ment next week, the seller, remaining as tenant of the six-room apartment on the second floor. The broker in the sale was John Roman. Attorney for seller and buyer, respectively, were Mezey St Adler and Edmund A.

Hayes. Survey of Housing Scheduled for City. By Federal Bureau Tomorrow the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United Department of Labor will start a housing survey in New Brunswick and 18 other northern New Jersey communities, South River and Perth Am-boy also will be included in the check. will be gathered on "the living conditions of many of the families in the survey area. It will be used to modernize the bureau's 4 consumer price index.

Questions will primarily with characteristics of the dwelling unit and facilities included in the renfor sales price. In the housing surveys, all of the infprmation obtained is held in strictest confidence so that no individual respondent can be identified. Basically, questions are limited to the characteristics of the dwelling unit, and to facilities included In the. rent or sales price. 1 ju.

I tit II 1 Hi! names they bear i and are. distributed in 15 Miller trucks to all dealers in Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Monmouth 3 counties and apportion of Ocean county. The new building "adds 7,500 square feet' of. floor space, to the Miller- plant. -Twenty-five employes are; required i to manufacture and, bottle the firm, 34-years-old, is owned and operated by Davis and.

Philip Miller, sons of the founder, Isaac Originally the company plant was in City: alley, but it 1 was 'moved to-the George street Beverage Plant 's Capacity Doubled i IT'TTyt RARITAN TOWNSHIP, May: 20 Raritan Homes line, has transferred title to 11- more of the dwellings, each of four rooms and each located on a lot of approximately 6,500 square feet, built by the seller in its Lincoln Village development. The purchasers, with street addresses of homes purchased, are as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Snyder, 26 Glen ville road; Mr.

and Mrs. Clyde J. Conway, 20 East Norwood road; Mr. and Mrs. Robert LBertl, 67 Glenville road; Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene B. Dunn, 5 Dill Court; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel N.

Foss, 4 Piedmont road. Also, Gerard J. Lehman, 9 Idle wild road; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hy-Grade Firm Conveys House In Development RARITAN TOWNSHIP, May 20 Mr.

end Mrs. James N. Gaylor have bought from Hy-Grade Construction Company Inc. a dwelling of four and one-half rooms built by; the seller on Chestnut street on a lot 60 by 150 feet The Duyers win iaKe possession next month. Gaylor is in the appliance repair business in.

New Samuel Scott of Scott Scott, exclusive agents for this develop-rrrent, was the broker in the sale. The title was closed by Clinton Title Mortgage Guaranty Company, Newark. The seller built 74 similar dwel lings in this of which all are sold or under contract of sale. Carragher Firm Sells Home Final One of 28 WOODBRIDGE, May 20 Mr. and Mrs.

Rupert Furlinger have bought from Carragher 'Brothers Corporation- the five-room rancn-type dwelling built by the seller at 93 Westhill road, Colonia, on a lot 64 by clOO feet The buyers have taken possession. Furlinger is employed by Singer Sewing Machine Company, Elizabeth. All parties to the transfer were represented Thomas F. Lally, New Brunswick attorney. The seller has built 27 similar dwellings in this development, all of which are eold, and is building 28 -more, also in Colonia.

These latest dwellings are under construction on South Hill road, Al-bee Fairview avenue and Chain-O-Hills road. Alexander. Reisfield Buys Large Dwelling Mr. and Mrs. (Alexander Reisfield have bought, from Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Vesvary the two-fami ly dwelling, at 423 Livingston avenue, located on a lot approx imately 40 by .100 feet. The sellers are moving to 57 Ellen street. Samuel D. Hoffman was attor ney.

for the buyers. 5 -V vW jZs-. For 300-Home Development J. R. Homes Inc.

Purchases Tract on Old Post Road, Raritan Township, From Raritan Defense Housing Corporation; Plan Model Home -This building at 256 George street, houses the Miller. Beverages Inc. plant, built to the plant used by. the firm 15 years and a new front was constructed. A new yellow7 brick building at 256 George has doubled the 'capacity-; of the Miller Beverages Inc.

plant: i The building, the plant used by the' flnri t- for -15 was occupied several days, ago by- the soft drinflrm. Miller is. distributor of two na-Uonally-known soft are made at the: local plant under franchise and distributed over1 a 50-mile by the New Brunswick The products' are made to the formula of -the whose RARITAN TOWNSHIP, May 20 J. R. Homes.

has bought from, Raritan Defense Housing Corporation a of more than 41 acres on Old Post road. The buyer, representing East Orange builders, has, begun- the development of the tract in four and five-room brick dwellings, each, located on a lot at least square feet The model home, now under construction, will be ready within three weeks. The dwellings will sell at to $10,000 with no down payment for veterans. The tract location ,1 5 years ago. The new building marks the' second-major expansion in.

the, company's "V- The new structure provides a space increase of about one-third the former plant area. The addition contains a second floor which fronts on, George street hjit does not cover the entire ground floor construction. Several more employes and a large amount of additional equipment, were required for operation of the addition. -i v..