The old Herald Building was erected
hy James Gordon Bennett on ground
leased from the Manice estate for a
period of thirty years. The famous
newspaper publisher decided upon the
Ttallan design for the structure, which
was completed in 1893. In that year
both the Evening Telegram and Tub
Xbw York Herald moved In. When
Frank A. Munsey purchased the Bennett
papers and consolidated The New York
Herald with The Si:n* the combined pa
per was published at 280 Broadway.
Then Mr. Munsey leased a new home
for the Evening Telegram at the south
east corner of Seventh avenue and Six
teenth street. On April 17 the old
Herald Building terminated its Journal
istic career, Just thirteen days before
the lease on the property was to have
expired.
The Herald Building occupies the tri
angular block bounded by Broadway,
Sixth avenue, Thlrt.v-flfth and Thirty
sixth streets. It fronts 211 feet on
Broadway, 60.9 feet on Thirty-fifth
street, 136 feet on Thirty-sixth street
and 197 feet on Sixth avenue. The plot
was purchased by the Manice family
about seventy years ago for $2,500. To
day the land and building are held by
the Manice estate at a value of about
18 ,000,000. The land alone is assessed
by the city at $2,342,000.
Mr. Partos lias been a principal in
several big realty deals closed of late.
Oie of the largest was that in which he
leased for his business the old depart
ment store occupying the block front on
the west side of Sixth avenue, between
Twentieth and Twenty-flrst streets.
In tho DwrlllnK Varkrl.
Wm. A. White & Son" sold the four
story, sixteen foot dwelling, at 67 East
Fifty-fifth street for the Thomas Ooadby
'?state, and the similar property at 73
East Fifty-fifth street for Dorothy W.
