Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1921, Page 14

3925 13th St. N. W. = Brand New Seven large rooms and bath, hot-water heat, electric Light—thoroughly modern—old colonial t; rooms, plenty closets, very large front yard, which is un- usual in a new home (giving a reserved appearance), deep g €. rear yard—plenty room for garage. Small cash and easy monthly payment. Take y4th St. car to Shepherd street, walk 1 block east to house. STONE & FAIRFAX 1342 New York Ave. Main 2332 All large This Beautiful Semi-Detached Home Situated North of Park Road Close to Sixteenth Street Contains eight rooms and bath, hot-water heat, electric fight, hardwood floors throughout, colonial porchyand built-in double garage. In splendid condition. Early possession can be had. EXCLUSIVE AGENTS N. L. SANSBURY CO,, INC. ... . 1418 Eye Street NW. Phomes Matn 5004-5 OFFERINGS BOTH IN CITY AND SUBURBS THAT REFLECT NORMALCY’S : RETURN One’s knowledge of Washington’s realty values need not be comprehensive to determine the normalcy of the | prices asked for these houses— In the desirable Connecticut avenue section—just beyond the famous <Million - dollar Bridge. i In this section we present several remarkable buying op- portunities for those who are seeking houses of the better sort, while’ at the same time expect their purchases to be governed by sound business judgment. PRICE $23,500 Beautiful semi - detached drick residence on Connecti- cut avenue, containing 11 rooms and 4 baths. Ser- vants’ quarters in basement; rage for two cars. This {:\lu is as light and airy as & completely detached resi- dence. The ptrice is not only remarkably low, but far less than reproduction price. PRICE $31,000 This smart housa contains 11 rooms and 4 baths; open fireplaces porches, edge- throughout; servants’ quar- ters, garage for two cars. A feature of this house is the spacious closets, all of which are lined with cedar. The arrangement makes it an ideal house for entertaining. The price is much less than its actual value. RICE $35,000 ‘This three-story and base- ment light brick house is built on the center huulm with 13 rooms and 4 baths. Basement contains laundry and billiard room and garage. It is a well cof- structed, splendidly designed house that will appeal to the discriminating buyer. Such a house could not be pro- duced today at any such figure. RICE . $35,000 This charming Ce aventué house has 11 rooms, 3 baths, hot-water heat, electricity and gas, hardwood floors throughout, sleeping porches and sun _parlor. Built-in garage and large Jot. This house is very pleasingly designed both as to exterior and interior, and has been reduced from. $40,- 000 to $35,000. Possession can be had at once. Connecticut Allan E. Walker & Co., Inc: Main 426 } 813 Fifteenth St. N'W. PRICE -$9,650 In beautiful and exclusive Chevy Chase we are enabled to offer several houses at very R low figures. : We are sure that we make no- exaggerated statements when we say that seldom have houses in this section been offered at such extremely low prices. If you are thinking of a house in Chevy Chase, do not delay your investigation of these. This attractive Chevy Chase home contains shrubbery, flowers and fruit trees. The house is a cosy, well decorated §- room and bath dwellin Hot-water heat, large, fin- ished attic, firepiace. two-sar garage. Lot 60%150 feet. This is an opportunity to purchase a fine home in a choice location at an ex- tremely low price and very réeasonable térras PRICE $13,850 Splendidly built hollow tila and stucco houss of 9 rooms and 2 baths, ho’-wite: heat, fireplace. slecnizg pneh, on three flooea: i8 a deciflealy unusual offering. The lot is a large one with good drive- way to garage. The interin: is particularly well arrangad with large living room, din- ing room and kitchen on firs: floor. “We are sure that this house will not remain on the market long. 2 PRICE $12,500 This is a beautiful-honse of 9 rooms, 2 baths, electric lights, hot-water heat, fire- place,” built-in garage, and many other desirable fea- tures. and it is located in the nation’s best known sub- urban residential _section. This property is priced low for quick and we sug. zest inspect! Hest opportunit; PRICE $18,500 9-room and _bath house, near Chevy Chase Cluyb. This house has hot-water heat, oak floors, and is arranged in a very attractive manner. It is located in a very de- sirable section and has been placed on the market &t a Price much less than the cost of reproduction. It will pay you to inspect this offer. is beautifully N situated on a large lot, which B your ear- es of acr reuxun.?-n- Hope to Ereot 400 Resi- dences Under Novel Plan Probably the first extensive move- ment in this city to relieve the hous- ing shortage through a plan of co- operative building was initiated this week, when the Overlook Develop- ment Company, organized by employ- others, began the construction of || | Pennsylvania avenue southeas The Overlook organization is an- nounced as a “mobilization of Wash- ington people, working in & co-opera- tive way to secure homes for them- costs of lumber and building ma- terials and poor freight service, the company has established its own ma- terial plant. This plant, named the Silver Hill Sand and Cement Product on the Company, has reh: fo b onb of Fe ‘moat valuable and largest dej be found anywhere. The plant will manufacture this use in erecting the 400 hou Overlook property. The sand and cement tile manufa turing plant estabiish road at Silver Hi District line, in Maryland, is said to block” pointed out Thi; summer an terstices in air and preventing any change temperature. By using a sclentifically compounded the tilas can color desired: now used in building, it is tile is 80 made and set in the walls of the house as to produce & wall impervious to moisture, cool in d warm in winter, the in- the tiles storing up ll‘n n silica coloring deposit made into almost any ‘Will Baild at Onee. Fifty-three co-uperative home buy- ers already have signified their in- of Co-Operation. the navy yard and & few the Anacostia parkway, d what is said its of pure silica sand to ilica sand into tiles cement composition for planned An Up-to-Date Plaat. d on the state beyond the of the most modern cement be o tile manufacturing plants in the east. The Overlook company has interested business men States navy yard who are prominen of the United The permanent officers and direc- tors of the company as of June 1 are: R. H. Alcorn, chairman of the boar ‘Wililam W. Keeler, president; Jarvis, vice president; "|treasurer: tors: R. H. Alcorn, foreman foundry, mechanle, navy yard: Charles C. Sharah, tention to build their homes as rapid- ly a8 construction can be nearly a hundred purc sites a their homes in the near future through the agency of the Overlook Company. e company has a trained corps of bui'ders to undertake all of its con- struction under cfficient management to insure the production of a home at the lowest possible cost. It is the in- tention to cut out the “middle man" and the profiteer in the undertaking ond to save for every possible item of expense. From actus] est‘mates and bids the number of dwellings on the old Have- | superintendent of construction for the meyer tract of 188 acres lying just; arted, and rs of home preparing to start building the home builder company states that he can save from 30 per cent to 40 per cent in bullding ©f | these homes. The land upon which the houses are to be built has been pur- chased at a low price, le: to former owners, and disposed of to the stockholders on the co-oper: than cost ind present owners ive plan. These two features—the building of the home at the lowest possible cost and the buy- selves.” Not to be beaten by Increased|ing of the site at wholesale—elimi- nate every possible profit, and give the finished home to owner at a price unequaled in any other system of home buying, com- pany officials declare. the co-operative Oficers and Directors. M. O. W. E. Berry, auditor: Fred Hewitt, and the following direc- W. E. Berry; Frank E. manager Silver Hil Campbell, president Silver Hi. and Cement Products Company: Hewitt; E. H. Howard, master M. O. Jarvis; DAy Y ‘harle fai 1 dedication and occupanc: early part of the next school The architects are Willlam A. d Albert L at the school. Will Be “L” Shaped. fronts, one 110 feet long ivester, has purchased the oid Hamilton Flotel and annex and will tear down the structures to make way for a nine-story ofice building, to ocest §$1,500,000. NAVY YARD MEN BEGIN NEW HOMES during the ear. azel Cissel, both instructors The bullding is to be “L’ shaped. making it possible to develop two facing south and a principal facade 132 feet long facing east on the reservoir in MoMillan Park. The bullding will be three stories in height. All the en- trances will bé a which is slightly above grade. upper floors are to be the ground floor, The reached by 2 main stafrease. The main floor will contain mén's and women's cloak and'| coat rooms and toilets, dining room and reception room. Pro- vision also will be made for a re- plant, storage for board- gomestic science linen water’ storage and garbage incin- erator. The main wing on the first floor, 57 by 130 feet, will be entirely occupied by the students’ dining hall, having 2 seating capacity of 525, lighted on_the long side toward the reservolr by an arcade of five large casement windows, which will con- tain a visitors’ or musicians’ gallery, with deep paneled ceiling and high wainscoted wall. Fxtending from one end of the dining hall will be a service wing, containing a kitchen of the most frigeratjon! in laundry, modern il tories keepers’ suite: Balance Monthly 4 Cheerful Bedrooms and Bath Large Porches Ample Closets Sample House 1,000 CASH 5512 13th St. N.W. N One Block to 14th St. Cars Nr—Tes and classrooms and house- ‘There will b under the CORPORATION Is Com‘pletod for -CO-OPERATIVE OWNERSHIP of THE LAMBERT APARTMENTS 1791 Lanier Place —which marks the practical comple- tion of the sale of the tenth apart- ment building in Washington, sold large aafeteria for the accommodation of both faculty and students. Colonial Architecture. The building will be .freproof in construction throughout, of steel, brick and concrete. The exterior will be of red dbrick of broken tones and rough texture, with trimmings in limestone. The architecture is colo- nial, the style of the more important | existing buildings. The dining hall, | by reason of its large dimensions, will be the dominating feature of the in- terior, and finds its expression on the exterlor by the large arcade of semi- | circular windows The three floors have a combined area of 28,000 square feet and a cublc content of nearly 500,000 feet. It will be steam heated and electrically lighted throughout and will cost $201,000 when finished | and furnished. —_— Commission rates after July 1 in. Baltimore will be 4 per cent 03 .ef first $7,500 and 2% per cent on the balance for all improved property and 5 per cent on unimproved prop- erty. a private Accessible business m; service, 5 station. depart- to room, hot- Washington. It will be from center of city. acres; hous 9-room barn, trees; new fences. $8,500 WALKER PLAN OF CO-OPERATIVE OWNERSHIP Co-operative ownership is no longer an experiment in Washington. even more 30 than in other cities, because of the improvements and refinements effected in the drafting of the WALKER PLAN. Co-operative apartments have blazed a new trail to home satisfaction. Apartments in charge of co-operative owners become a better place to live They are better operated and residence therein is eminently more satisfactory. number of purchasers. in. YOU CAN BUY AN APARTMENT In This Splendid Building That Will Be Your Very Own for a SMALL CASH PAYMENT AND MONTHLY PAYMENTS LOWER THAN YOU ARE PAY- ING AS RENT. BE DONE WITH RENT RECEIPTS AND TAKE THIS SHORT CUT TO OWNERSHIP. Do not delay action as this is the last opportunity to buy at a figure 40 per cent less MOST LAMBERT APARTMENTS ARE ALREADY SOLD A Choice Few Remain than reproduction cost. Apartments in THE LAMBERT sell as follows. 3 Rooms, Bath and Porch— $4,300 and $4.500. Cash payments, $1.400 to $1.500. Total monthly payments, $41.04 to $42 4 Rooms, Bath $5,500 to $6.000. Cash payments, $1.800 to $2,000. Total monthly payments, $52.40 to $5 *The monthly payments above INCLUDE your water, light, janitor service ai on the principal. 5 Rooms, Bath and Porch— $7.400. Cash payments, $2,500. Total monthly payment. $69.72.¢ 8 Rooms, 2 Baths and Porch— $12,000. Cash payment, $4.000. Total monthly payment, $113.60.* propertionate share of taxes, heat, similar expenses, all interest and a substantial curtall Allan E. Walker & Co., Inc. 813 Fifteenth St., Southern Building Small Farm at Germantown Montgomery County ‘Washington 50-minute train inutes to railroad Best macadam road through Gaithersburg and Rockville to Twenty-six miles Convenjent to stores and churches. house: auto shed pens, etc. Three acres of about 50 apple trees, put in first-class condition by an expert; 12 fine cherry trees, besides plum, pear and peach Must sell. Thomas J. Ellh&&coa It is a conspicuous, proven Ask any of the great 1014 1 recently 1y identified with the constructive in- terests of Washington in the en- terprise to put into practical use the co-operative home plan for produeing homes at the lowest possible cost to the buyer. The exact location of this plant is on the old Campbell farm. The sup- ply of sand on this property is de- clared to be inexhaustible and an lyzes over 98 per cent of pure silici Thé color of the sand deposit ranges from light brown to pure white. ‘or a number of months the Overlook company has had Warren Roger president of the Boystom company, with a corps of engineers, engaged in perfectin, ment tile with hydraulic pressure un- hard plant. cial silica content of sand. fected tile hardens almost instantly and can be readily handled and used in constructing building walls in a very short time after it leaves the “The initial plant, now completed, will turn out about 3,600 tiles per da: machinery to make a ce- cret steam process by which a be made from _l‘yr:- e 3,500 Tiles Per Day. The standard size tiles are twel inches long, eight inches wide, the size of five inches thick rdi building bricks. The daily :.D;’g of the plant is about the 20,000 ordinary bricks per day. It is tf?e intention of the Over- look company to put in other units to finally increase the daily capacity of this plant up to about the a plant producthg 60,000 bricks per day. The supply of raw materials will bably last the company a hundred Dears on the maximum basis of out put, it is estimated. In addition to the tiles the plant now turns out door sills and window siils and steps. The mpany has under consideration in- Stailation of s tile roofing plant of the Iatest scientific desi, ntes! ol cial grad. erty of the company.. e tile made hollow, air chamber and is not to b founded with the ordinary 1351 Parkwood Place N.W.- to use the spe- sand found on the prop- the compaay is having l’ionbl. ciroulating e cof “cement ~ 14¢h St Cor Line NEW HOWARD HALL Preliminary plans dining halt building at Howard University have been approved by the Department of the Interior, it is announced by Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of the institution. be submitted shortly, pected that blds will be accepted and work started not Jul, nd | end In C Willlam W. Keeler, for and home the new economics Final plans are to and it is ex- later than univerwity officials hope that ew. structure Will be ready for Take an; house. Open and Lighted Until 9 O’Clock Main 1267 y 14th St. car D. J. DUNIGAN 1321 New York Ave. olumbia Heights Just Off 14th Street Description: Well house, large rooms and bath front porch; garage hot-water heat and elec tricity. built two-story brick containing 6 H The house has been kept in excellent condi- tion by the owner, who finds it necessary to have a larger house and will give possession im- i { i bath, H.W.H, electric lights, parquet floors throughout, mantels, gas logs, screened-in sleeping porch, Painted. Easy terms. THOS. A. JAMIESON 906 N. Y. Ave. NW. Main 5538 Afwer § PIL Lin. GLOSW extra-large rooms, newly papered and 713 14h St. N.W. 1t Is the Best Buy on Columbia Heights Open for Inspection Al Day Tomorrow SHANNON - & LUCHY " Exclusive Agents EXTRAORDINARY VALUES Close to 16th & Irving Sts. N.W. 8 Large Rooms 2 Complete Baths Floored Attic Built-in Refrigerator Cold Storage Room Beautiful Fireplace Expensive Lighting Fixtures Phone M 768 - Open Daily From 9:00 AM. to 9:00 P.M. Inspect No. 1725 Irving Street Heavy Oak Floors Heated Garages Screened Breakfast Porch Wide Lot to Paved Alley Steel Beam Construction EASY TERMS For Sale by Any Broker or B. H. GRUVER, Owner Union Trust Building 2 Screened Sleeping Porches Instantaneous Water Heater