Construction Maison

It is known that Sutton ran a clipper ship line to the California coast in the 1850's that served Gold Rush hopefuls , and that he lived on West 29th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues (a block that was also called Lamartine Place and was set apart from the rest of the city's street grid because of separate numbering). In 1875 a consortium of developers that included James Stokes , William Dodge and D. Willis James began to acquire property on Avenue A in the East 50's, on what is now called Sutton Place . Deed patterns suggest that they were working with a builder, Andrew Kerwin, who in 1879 put up the original Sutton Place enclave , 24 single-family brownstones on the block bounded by 58th and 59th Streets and Avenue A and the East River. Half of them faced the avenue and half faced a new street along the river briefly named Riverview Terrace . A few of those houses survive in recognizable form, three stories high with a stoop. Someone renamed the Avenue A side ...

Dave Coughenour describes himself as a “projects kind of guy.” His current project: Putting the finishing touches on a 106- unit apartment building , the latest addition to an upscale housing development perched on a hilltop overlooking U.S. Route 60 between Huntington and Barboursville. Beginning in 2008, in the midst of one of the nation's worst housing markets ever, Royal Oaks at Pea Ridge has taken shape in stages. First, Coughenour and his partners — Dave Tarter and Pat Hootch — built 16 apartment units. They followed that with 48 more units and then another 32. Now, a new three-story building will double the total available units to 202. Nearly all the apartments are leased, including those still being finished up, Coughenour said. And he and his partners are readying plans for more construction on the nearly 14-acre site. “This is an excellent market for apartments,” Coughenour said. Born in Tennessee, Coughenour and his family moved to Huntington when he was high-school a...