Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1922, Page 13

REAL ESTATE. ' THE EVENING “STAR, WASHIfi'GTON, D. ¢, SAleRDAY, JANUARY 21, 1922, REAL ESTATE. 13 " NEW APARTMENTS [F STREET BUILDING 10 COST 33,000, BRINGS $700000 Pe'fmits Issued for Three Op- | Bartlett, Civil Service Head, ;. erations—One on46th Purchases Property at i Street 1319-21, Northwest. TWO DOWNTOWN te Saie of the International building, 1319-21 F street northwest, to John H. Bartlett, president of the United States Civil Service Commission, and his busi- ness associate, Albert Hislop, member of the governor’s council, state of New Hampshire, for a consideration reported to have been around $700,000, was an- nounced this week by the firm of Mc- Keever & Go _The new owners have taken posses- ] sion of the building, which will be con- ducted along the same policies as here. tofore. The deal was arranged by F. T. Nesbit of the business properties de- partment of McKeever & Goss. Mr. Bartlett was formerly Governor of New Hampshire. Mr. Hislop was for- merly mayor of Portsmouth, N. Y. Fine Ofice Bullding. The International building, formerly | known as the Interstate building, is con- { sidered one of Washington's finest store {and office buildings. It is a ten-story structure of fireproof fabricated steel construction. The building has a front- age on+F street of 58.85 feet, extends back 113 feet to the alley and contains approximately 750,000 cubic feet. . The first floor is used as a store. The home of the Washington Real Estate Board is on the second floor. The upper stories are used for® offices. p The closing of this deal, according Tth Street ngrthwest; cost, $4.000. to R. L. McKeever, head of the firm of R. O. Scholz and others, to build | McKeever & Goss, tends to show the | apartment house of brick and frame:altitude of out-of-town investors to- e 540,000, ward real estate in this city. 90 HOMES TO BE BUILT Unusual Activity in Building Cir- cles Shown by Inspector's Of- | fice This Week. Pernits for the erection of three apartment houses costing a total of $335,000 and of more than ninety dwellings to cost more than half a milion dollars were issued this week by the District building inspector. The week was one of unusual act- tivity in building circles. Frank P. Milburn was glven per- mission to build an eight-story apart- ment house at 1016 16th street north- west. The building will be of con- crete and stone construction and will cost approximately $230,000. List of Permit The list of permits follows. H. M. Bralove, to build apartment house of brick and frame construc- tion; cost, $45.000. M. Phili Lo repair premises. 1128 ot stel L 3t Howenstei Company, to buila Outside Investors Attracted. irce “dwellings, 307-9-11 T street| More and more the eyes of i northeast: cost, $13,500. fro i s (i lyentors r Elenie i 00 uild three | from the outside .are being turned to- ward Washington, the *heart of the nation,” because- of the growing im- portance of this city, not only in this country, but to the entire world, h stated. ' Values are now and alway: have been, according to Mr. McKeever lower here than in similar cities in this j country, and this fact alone is attracting much outside capital. dwellings, 3919-. northwest; cost, $13,500. Washington Lodge No. 15, B. P. O. E., to repair building at 919 H street northwest; cost, $1,000. M. O. Eldridge, to build dwelling, 5828 30th street northwest; cost, $12.000. Charles Hawkins, to repair prem- ises at 321 Virginia avenue south- cost, $2,500. Three New Stores. nti, to build three stores, eorgia avenue nerthwest; 13th street ;axe,onlsna M street northwest; cost, C. E .Wire, Inc., to build two dwell. ings, 1404-6 Crittenden street north- west; cost, $16,000, and also seven stores at 45, west; cost, 5 J. L. Zepper, to build dwelling, Foote street —northeast, near 53d street; cost, $3,500. Sixteenth Street Apartment. F. P. Milburn, to build apartment| house, eight stories high, stone and | concréte construction, 1016 16th streeg Washington Accessories_Company, | horthwest; cost, 000. to build garage, 1705 L stréet north | Washington Post, to repair build- west; cost, $3,000. ine. 1339-41 E street northwest; cost, T, to build five dwell- $1.400. il Sth street! Fries, Beall & Sharpe Co., to build $30.000. tw rehouse, 1919 Sth street fortheast; to build seven dwell-, €ost, $15.000. th strpet northwest: | J._ Williams, to build dwelling, }4060 Kearney street northeast; cost, 5,000, R. E. Dove, to build dwelling, 2008 treet northeast; cost, $4,000. . Dunigan, to build 'twelve ngs, 5303-25 13th street north- gost, $9,000. H. A. Veith, to build five dwellings, 14-»10-“01{earney street northeast; cost, e Fred Sonneman, to build dwelling, 200" ‘awrence street northeast; cost, $5,000. Itzman, to build dwelling, on street northeast; cost, ings h $18.000 Operatio an, to build two dwell- ' street | Monroe s : cost, $18,000. B :d:.elli 10 i 19Ur 1 West: cost, $120,000, $10,000, . McIntyre, to build dwelling. Corporation. to ' 1233 Lawrence street northeast; cost, S reet . $6.800. o SSKEOR BEeeLy to build three Howenstein, 21-23, street north- street southe ard Building dwelling, 2014 northeast; cost, $2.5 V. T. dwellings, northwe. build 13,500. of Brookland, to build to build seven ! 14th street road; 43 70,000. Lot cos Bank, H. A ory. brick bank building, 3521 Shar 12th street northeast; cost, $10,000. street noEthisaLts . San, to remodei premises, 1813 A et Sty Adams Mill road; cost, $6.200. PRl . : " | Joseph Ornstein, to repair building cost, $2,500. to repair northwes | at 409 1ith’street northwest; cost, $3.483. 1010 F street R._Howenstein, to build dwell- tuildin A Pone S ings, northeast; cost, $3,000; also at 1813-19 Monroe street northeast; cost, $12,000. 500., i W. 5. Phillips, to build five dwell- | ings, 3417-27 Oakwood Terrace.north- cost, $20,000: and also three| dwellings, 18! 99 Ingleside Terrac cost, $12.00 0. to build four dwell-! street northwes and also four dwell 4-20 Sth street northwes: . $20,000. 5 Heurich. 2222 to_build public_g: W Z 22 Northwest Ga Practically New $1,000 Less Than Cost No. 1370 Taylor St., N.W. An_especially well built seven- room, reception hall and bath home, with _inclosed _sleeping porch: hot-water heat; electricity; hardwood floors; lot 22x140 ft. Owner has just left town and is offering house at a price for a quick sale. Representative on Premises Sunday 2 to 5 P.M. B. F. SAUL CO. 1412 Eye St. NW. Main 2100. A TR TS 000 A Lot 146x140 GARDINER & DENT, Exclusive Agents [T 1801 and 1807 Monroe street | poration, 1410 G street, which will act | reported this week. For Quick Sale Near Union Station Phone, Main 2345 Business Location Department Correr of Connecticut Ave. and Oliver St. OPEN FOR INSPECTION SUNDAY . - From 10 A.M. until 4:30-P.M. PRICE $33,000 International -bullding, formerly the Interstate building, 1319-1321 F street northwest, which was purchased this week by President Bartlett of the Civil Service Commission and his business assoeiate, Albert Hislop, state officia It APARTMENT HOUSES SOLD |REAL ESTATE BOARD ON CO-OPERATIVE PLAN DANCE TUESDAY NIGHT Copley Courts and Willard Courts |will Be Held at Wardman Park on 17th Street Under Hold- Hotel—Special Program ing Companies. Announced. Copley Courts and Willard Courts.| Plans for the first dance to be given two large apartment houses on 17th | by the Washington Real Estate Board, strect, north of Massachusetts ave-|scheduled for Tuesday night, at nue, have been sold to co-operative [wardman Park Hotel, have been com.-. holding companles recently Incor-|peted, it was announced today. There vorated, which will sell individual|wi}) pe a special musical program and apartments on the co-operative own- | refreshments. ership plan, it was announced todayi jt¢ jg expected that at least 200 will by the Union Realty Corporation. The |attend, according to Frank A. Gibbon, companics, to be known as Copley |chairman of the committee in charge. Courts, Inc.,, and Willard Courts, Inc., | Lhe dance was devised as a means o u bringing the large number of new received title to the buildings this|{members in closer social touch with week. DHQ_ another. Copley Courts, located at the cm-ner)l WithiMrs Gibbongionithe,dance com- of 17th and Church streets, is a six mittee are Lee D. Latimer, Jr.. nad | Taylor Exksr.M_'fhe flr-eog (}:lomvgulee‘ls story, fireproof building, constructed | composed of Milton F. Schwab, chair- apartments of two, three and four |j.y "H' G." Kennedy is in' charge of willard Courts, at streets, of the same general type of tickets. construction, contains fifty-eight week to an in REAL ESTATE DEAL INVOLVES MILLION Apartment and business properties totaling in value more than $1,100,000 changed hands in a large realty transaction consummated this week, involving the exc¢hange of Fontanet Courts by Felix Lake to James L. Karrick through the office of Ralph D._Benton. Fontanet Courts, a five-story apart- ment house at the southwest corner of 14th and Fairmont streets north- west, of fireproof construction and containing sixty-four apartments of one to four rooms and bath each, oc- cuples a lot having a frontage on Fairmont street of 220 feet and a depth of 145 feet. _ ; : Among the properties given in trade as part payment for Fontanet Courts were the Berkshire apartment nd_the Stockbridge apartment adjoining_each other at 1412 street northwest; property lo- cated at the southeast corner of John Marshall place and C strect north- west, occupied as stores and apart- business property at the northeast corner of 6th and G streets to tional early annou execut nation nation: report, for ho tels w. mittee While it is given tomob! Harry h and Willard Home Life bullding, northwest corner of 15th and G streets northwest, sold hose mame was wit! [REALTORS TO BE HOSTS 250 to 300 Visitors Expected When National Committee Holds ‘Washington realtors will be hosts to the executive committee of the Na- cipal topic for a discu: membership of 15,000 boards will be Arrangements for the mertin= ond OFFICE BUILDINGS SCLD THIS WEEK. i held. TO EXECUTIVE BODY Convention. Association of Real Estate Boards during its midwinter meeting in March in this city, it was nced today by John Petty, ive secretary of the Washington Real Estate Board. About 250 or 300 members of the al _executive committee will come to Washington for the meeting, st three days. ctivities of the al association wilk be the prin- ion. A total is expected to ed. using the delegates in local ho~ ill be made vy w speci . .- of the Washington board. no definite plans for enter- taining the guests have been drawn, kely that a banquet will be in their honor, as well as au- ile tours of the city. President K. Boss of the local board will shortly appoint the committee to han- | dle_these details. northwest: business property at 817- | 19 I street northwest; property at| 1523-27 Wisconsin avenue northwest; apartment house at S19 26th street northwest, and business property at 1408 9th street northwest. The same office reports the sale 6 the Saratoga apartment house, at the southwest corner of 7th and East Capitol streets, a three-story building, having twenty-one ‘apartments of one apartments of trom one to six rooms| PAYS ABOUT $42,500. each. It was built six years ago. The two buildings contaln 424 rooms| Purchase of the property at 521 11th street northwest by the Merchants' to fou: on and 155 baths. The transaction was handled through | Lunch Company of this city, from the office of the Union Realty Cor-|Karl F. Brodt, for about $42,500, was depth name as agent for the co- panies. perative com-| . The company expects to make ex- tensive improvements to the building for busifiess purposes. 1% First Trust Notes Meet Every Test of || the Careful Investor Safety Plus Certain High Interest Ony soline Station Sts. St. ca 6 an h. space; * cemen Notes Now on Hand Allan E. Walker & Co.,Inc. 813 15th St. N.W. Main 2430 S 906 N. Y. Ave. N.W. . After 5 P. From 1 to $75 Monthly. Payments SAMPLES—OPEN 543 Kentucky Ave. S.E. 957 14th St. S.E. ~ 1352 K St. S.E. Large Sleeping Porches; Open: for Inspection L The Homes with the Big Lots—20-foot front—plenty of room for garages, flowers -and garden. : (I Co R ‘The only new city houses offered on the market for $500 cash and price $1,000 less than regular price. Take Pas ave. cars to 14th st. 8.B. and walk % aquare south. OPEN DAILY H. R. Howenstein Co. 1314 F Street NW.. Be Sure to Inc. : 717 14th St. N.W. 1400 H St NW. T tion was approximately $60,000. sale was handled in_connection with the office of Weaver Brothers. IKnnns Avenue Homes Only 3 Left ~Kansas Ave. N:W. —between Quincy and Randolph Only 133 squares from 14th electric light; rage with each house. exclusive location. THOS. A. JAMESON 'WNER AND BUILDER ., Lincoln 6146-W OPEN SUNDAY 1825 Lamont St. N.W. Inspect This Perfect Home Sunday Best Buy in Washington WALTER ‘A. BROWN r rooms and bath each, situated lot having a frontage of seventy- five feet on East Capitol street and a of seventy-five feet. This property was sold for William G. Miller to a local investor, whose was withheld. The considera- The If You Want e of Those Beautiful Inspect at Once 3801 to 3831 r line. d 8 large rooms; attic; h.-w. lots of closet double rear porches; wide t front porch; built-in ga- In a most For Sale by 5 10 Rooms 3 Baths Hardwood Floors and Trim Hot-Water Heat and Electric Lights Porches Deep Lot Fine Condition " Immediate’ Possession SALE OF HOME LIFE BUILOING EFFECTED Price Paid Said to Be $350,- 000—0ther Sales Reported by Firm. Negotiations for the sale of the Home Life building, northeast corner of 15th and G streets northwest, re- garded as one of the most valuable corners in the financial and business section of the city, were completed this week through the office of the N. L. Sansbury Company. The name of the purchaser, said to be well known here as a business man and in- vestor, was withheld. The property has a frontage of twenty-eight feet on 15th street and a depth of seventy-two feet on G street. Improvements consist of a nine-story steel, brick and stone building. The first floor is occupied by a drug store. Upper floors are of- fices. Long Houscd Railway Offices. The property was occupied for many ! years by the uptown ticket office of the Pennsylvania railroad. When the railroad offices were consolidated dur- ing the period of the war, a drug fornpany secured a lease on the prem=- ses. ‘The Sansbury Company represented the owners, and William L. Beale, real estate officer of the American Security and Trust Company, represented the purchaser. The price paid for the property was not stated, but was un- derstood to be in the neighborhood of $350,000. The same firm also sold for Henry L. Morris his country estate, known as Cedar Crest, in Prince Georges county, Md., near Leland, on the Penn- sylvania railroad. Property contains about 270 acres of land. Improve- ments consist of a home containing ten rooms and bath, with hot-water heat and gas, and also many valuable outbuildings. The farm is located in one of the finest agricultural sections of southern Maryland. The price paid was_$40,000. Purchasers were Mr. and Mrs. B, G. Torreyson, formerly of New York, who will reside on. the property. Residences Sold. The firm also arranged the follow- ing residential deals: Joseph M. Michaelson and wife pur- chased the two-family apartment building, 1644 Irving street north- west, from Mrs. Ethel M. Rutty, ana will occupy the lower apartment, hav ing rented the upper onc. Mrs. Goldie Brown sold her home at 1223 Irving street northwest to Antonid Briscuso, who has taken p session. It is a modern three: brick house of nine rooms and Premises 1916 1 street north ing, was purchased by Mr: Ballden from Mrs. Minnfe M. it contains nine rooms and bath. Ballden is now occupying the erty. One of the mew houses, 1704 Ken- yon street northwest, recently com- pleted by thg Thrift Building Com- pany, was sold to Mrs. Goldie Brown contains eight rooms and two baths th all modern improvements and is a two-story house and contains six rooms and bath. An unimproved tract located at 9th and Kennedy streets northwest was sold to a local investor. A number of other vacant lots were also sold to local investors. EXCLUSIVE AGENT Main 3899 your own home. ments present many s locations. COPLEY Apply to: Price $11,500—Terms WM. H. SPIGNUL REAL ESTATE COMPANY Our latest additions to co-operative apart- “tions should be made early to secure desirable INSPECT Seventeenth and Church Streets N.W, WILLARD COURTS Seventeenth and Willard Streets N.W. OR Union Realty Corporation BUILD NOW, ADVICE T0 HOME PLANNERS Prices Are Reported Down to Pre - War ! Levels. WARNING IS SOUNDED éosts to Increase by Next Sea- Son, Is Latest Announce- ment. Opening of the new year brings a nation-wide renewal of home-build- ing discussion, it is observed by local builders and real estate men, With the spring building season near, this s the time for fireside planning and visuaiizing the new home with all its innate appeal t> the best instincts of men and women, it is pointed out. Many thousands of persons have dreamed of a beautiful home that some day they intend to build, but year has followed vear and the joys of the new home ha never been realized. See Big Year. In answer to the prevalent quest'on, good year to build a ction materizl inter- It is explained that ally true of lum- which is being produced at al- t pre-war cost and is being sold retailers generally at figures as the present high cost of han- dling\and transportation will permit. Lumber ren declare that in the very rature of things, lumber is expected to advance because of the decreasing sugply of forest timber. man who builds ¢f wood now may be reason- 2 that in the lonz run he is ed in his in ment, it though items of con- cheaper, the < own home can a single year temporary re- it is stated. reasonably cannot .be n it cost him. Now, Is Advice. is the adv of those 1ding conditions, it is said. there are indications of such a renewal of building that probably by the middle of the next building season an advance in the general cost of materials will set in that will represent substantial profit to those who take advantage of the conditions of early ring, material interests aver. It is pointed out that Secretary of Commerce Hoover is the “home builder's friend,” consistently urging and encouraging the e n of mor komes for the people of the United duction After that certain that his duplicated for less th Build Build now who know b a ed as being home-loving a man as All official Wash keenly intere: v t domicile of men and women, but because that nation is most self-reliant whose lines of strength lead straight to the hearthstones of a contented and home-loving people. Official Opinions. The sense of official opinion was ex- (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) T il L A beautiful home,% 6 rooms, reception% hall, bath and showeé bath. Concrete front porch (10 ft. wide). & 2-story rear .porches.= 2nd floor sleeping porch. Beam CeilingEs dining room, hardwo throughout. Lot, 150 feet deep to 20-foot] alley. Double garage. “Everything as Represented” Suite 310 Bond Bldg. of co-operative ownership of apart- ments as a solution of rental problems has been established in Washington. ' A small cash payment and monthly pay- ments no larger than average rent purchases pecial features. Selec- COURTS 1410 G Street