Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1922, Page 18

‘REAL ESTATE. e Ve 'THE .EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1922.. "REAT ESTATE 7w’ Washington’s Growth Reflected in Real Estate and Building News BUYS HOME RECENTLY COMPLETED IN CHEVY CHASE. $700000 BUILDING PERMITS FOR WEEK Temple for Colored Masons' on U Street Among Projects Provided. Plans for construction work to cost more than $700,000 were filed with the municipal building inspector this week, a considerable gain over recent weekly totals Included among permits issued was one to the New Masonic Hall Corpora- tion for the érection of a temple for colored Masons at 1000 U street north- Excavation work for this build- s been completed. The permits follow: W. A. Volkman, to build, 4345 Wis- eonsin avenue: cost, $12.750. E. R. Duehring. to build, 4616 Fes- senden Street; $3.000. M. and R. B. Warren, to build, 3709 Brandywine street: cost. $1.000. ¥, Biron, to build six stores, 8539-4 / Geormzia avenue: ¢ $12,000. W. Franklin, to build house, Kads street near 44th street northeast; cost, $2.600. L. Fowler. to build, 14 rence street northeast: cost, §: R. A. Carter, to build, 143 atreet C. A ( place north: 2 J. E. Dou uild, 5408-5412 41st stree s i C. A. Offutt. nild garage, 2516 Q street; cost, §25 Henry Herbert, to b 503 Mon- roe street northeast; ¢ 000. J. F. Murrell, to rey 1210-1212 ©Ohfo avenue L $1.000, 0. Mo to build, 3715-3717 14th Etreet: cost, $40.000. J. ¢, Hobhs, to build. Bladens- burg road northeast $4.000. W, P. Irwin 4 Dix street northeast; cost, § i W. P. irwh, 224 Brooks street northeast; cost, w.of Irwin, to build, 05 Kads treet northeast: cost. Takoma Th er ‘orporation, to butld, 0 Butternut street; €ost, 360,000, to build three homes, m avenue: o 0.000. Kan- street; New M dte 006 <onic ple, to 1000 . -Aity Company, to National Capital build, Pine neh road: cost, 58,000, W. A, Dunigan. to build, 717-719 Jefferson sireet Lo§H000] W. A. Dul i 716-718 Jefferson stre $9.000. " A, Duni v build. 3401-5403 406 9th . to huild, 3307-9-11-13 su t $18.00 street, ¢ URGES LICENSE REFORM. d fo coverning hat under ment Al 1 Iy cost, Effective December 1, Takoma Park, Md., will enforce a new set of build- ing Tegulation adopted by the town | council after an exhaustive study by a special committee composed of ! Councilmen H. E. Rogers, John R. Adams, Col.- William A. Kroll and Maj. W. H. Fischer. Permits hereafter for buildings de- signed for business purposes, apart- ment houses, hospitals, etc.. will be granted only after thorough exam- ination of place and specifications and approved hy the building inspector and by the mayor and council. | No building may be erected, altered jor repaired, or any addition made thereto or any work started thereon, or any excavation made 1 tion therewith, prior to the issue of a building permit by the town clerk, except that for minor repairs, altera- exceed $300, no permit shall be re- quired. Two Sets of Plans. An application for a building permit must be accompanied by two sets of 1 plete plan: | i i Hamilton & Colbert have sold the Century building, 5th street between {D and E streets, 10 a local investor, ! whose name was not divuiged. The structure is seven stories high and contains_fifty-three offices. The re- ! corder of decds han occupled the first four floors ince 1917. Tke Morris Cafritz. Company nego- | tinted the sale. The consideration not made known. Saul’'s Addi Homes—Decatur Street between 8th and 9th and 8th Street bet. Buchanan and Decatur Including All Interest ' ' e 913 15th STREET N.W.. TAKOMA PARK.MD., ADOPTS NEW SET OF BUILDING REGULATIONS| onnec- | tions or outbuildings, costing nct to! tracings or blue prints of the com-|¥ the plumbing and electric wiring plans and two sketches drawn to scale showing the ldcation of the building with respect to the lot lines upon which it is to be located. At least one week should be allowed for ex- amination of plans and specifications by the fnsp of building, plumb- ing and electric wiring, between the {application for and the issue of the {buildinz permit. Permils in force for a period of six months Erom date of issue. | A building inspector is ‘to be ap- | pointed by the mayor and council, who will serve at their pleasure and {be compensated as the council directs, jHe will be allowed such number of jassistants and at such compensation as the council directs. The following schedule | fees have been prescribed: i Feen Are Set. For a private garage of one machine capacity, $1. For a private garage of two or three machines capacity, §2. For alterations and repairg not to excoed $1,000, $2, and 50 cents for jeach additional $1,000 or fraction thereof in excess of $1,000. For bulldins not excéeding $10,000, of permit For “buildings exceeding $10.000, nd $1 for each $1.000 or fraction garages or s in his jutlgme all outbuildings when . there is no p i ity of damage to str r waiks wenty-F eet. | No aweling or pro- | jecton the d or lo- | cated near n twenty-five feet to the line of the street on which the dwelling will face, nor ap- proach nearcr than fi her of the side lines of the lot on which it Is located, nor be located nearer than ten feet to any other dwelli discretion, establish a uniform build- < line upon street and require | t buildings hereafter erected con-| form thereto. celinr or ement of a hed of cemert | n four inche nerete not less | spreaa over its| be paved with | ment | entire bottom | hard brick laid in ¢ Foundation Specifications. | thereof, in addition thercto. A cush deposit of §10 will be re- quired for each building erected, or {n case of alterations or repuirs eovered by permit, to cover possible damage to sireets or walks. Such deposit, or | any unexpended balance thereof will be returne upon proper in wr , of the building Dep in excess of S10 v required when. in the judgment of the building inspector, the interests of |lhv- town reauire. The building in- { spector shall have authority to walve {the $10° deposit in construction of 1 1 co dwelling, 3yZ2Z Jenifer stree contains seven rooms, with four bedrooms on the second floor. ixty by ninety feet. Chevy Chawxe, nold hy Hows & Phelps to Floors are of oak. Albert P. Myers. lald in cement mortar in the cellar | over last year for the same period as and above the roof portions, and J Siindg All foundation walls footings of stone, concrete or brick masonry at least six inches in depth, | {and in thickness must extend at least six inches outward from each side of the bottom of foundation walls. | Where the nature of the ground is not satisfactory the building spector may require that heavie footings be used. The footings of all foundation walls must be not less| ! than two feet six inchs below the | finish grade of the vard when the { building is completed. Foundation walls of frame dwell- ings must be built of hard brick, con- | crete, stone or other hard and incom- bustible material. and must not be lless than eight inches thick Hollow Blocks Allowed. i Hollow blocks may be used for| foundation walls provided they con- i form to the above dimentjons.” If of | terra cotta they must be dense anc | hard-burned or vitre laid with 812 Decatur Street—Display House The most inviting homes, overlooking the Town and Country Club and ion, have 6 beautifully arranged rooms, tile bath with built-in fixtures, oak floors, deep closets, panel doors, especially selected high-grade hardware fixturgs:; double French doors leading to extra large breakfast porches, wide entrance hall, colonial stairway. The interior finish is in ivory and mahogany, latest design finished electric fixtures. An important feature in these dwellings is the colonial front porch, which extends the full width of the prop porch across entire house. Take 9th st. car to Georgig ave. and Decatur—walk one block east to houses. $7,950—$1,000 Cash $75.00 Per Month oP erty—also the ten-foot sleeping must rest upon | a | _A private garage m EVERY EVENING ' The dimensions of the lot are As in October, building material prices were maintained In November largely {RENT INSURANCE | IN FAYOR NOW | IN THREE CITIES | Rent insurance, a new nevelop- | ment in the real estate field, has J been written on business dnd | apartment building in this city, New York and Chicago, according | to an announcement received at local offices of the Washington | Reai Estate Board from Herbert | Nelxon, executive secretary of the | | ' { tional Association of Real Es- tate Boards, Chicago. nder this form of polie: guaranteed against any rents loss dre except lossex by fire, and the terms of leases are guaranteed for the | length of the rental contract. Lioyds, in London, have been wr | ing such policies for some time. In New York such large struc- tures as the Equityble and the | Lawyers' Title and Trust build- ings are rent-insured, it is stated. BUY FARM, COST-PLUS BASIS. | A departure from the usual real estate development is being started at Berkeley Heights, N. J., by which people of ordinary means may obtain | plus basis, paying in monthly install- ments the deferred payments, the same furnis meet _the payments and eventually Je|Ppay for itself. It is being watched with interest by those concerned in real e il as by economists lished by the National Lumb ection of not less than 9x12 m"ll'n.; With 0 h M h Novembe i and must rest upon_concrete foot- Whiie Dl cost acturers' Association today, ings not lews than 18 inches sauare | ith Other Months Over whil: builting couts are nish. in A appioasi tete IBnEenialatus 10 {and ¢ inches in thickness. ere the L Y \orthy of special note that thése con: | the lumber industrr. While produc- fize of e bUIlMINE fenulies pie ast Year. dition e neither retarded present | om +UIl declines in response to the and footings proportionately 'larier i e epremates horsta | pressure of many weeks of restricted must bevuned, » Blerw must (be i¢lns any sericus extant, influenced build- | PMeIE resulting from, transporta structed of material similar to that " S perigue XIWIL nuenodd pulld-]von) defibiencies: hipments are allowed for Toundation walls; but if | In spite of firm prices on bullding | Cofctrvative forecasts reveal an enor. | NOW falling off onaily. order {of terra cotta blgek, the cells thereof | matertal and labor, With an upward mous prospectie volume of constrin- | thoy b SERL increase The result 1y must be filed With cement concrete. trena apparent in many localfties, the ton in nearly every section of the e o Dovenbey ‘himney Re ons. c . s are er_o duc- Chinocy st (o] na bABE o1, bitex,| TEmE oL bullAing operations for the | The ‘building material situation is|Uon «nd shipments 81 per cent. As stoifeé7 almiiar Breproot MAterlal] Lo SicoLntty duclngNovember main- Nolding A, (with tenaéncles In ¢ [psimuathe fSomih Sndthe o 3 2 ! tatned substantially the same lead tain sections toward slight advan e southern_shippers were in straits for cars u Although desperate | preceding months, according to §. o el Tovember gl must he built from the ground up.| gt CUIEC P rasom of continued transportation | gy, southern pine shipments are now oundaions must be at least six . . 4§ per oent and new business 105 per N o ™ Mi* avound thhn ihe The figures Indicate the increase for Lumber Market Active. SSnE UL Droduttion cwheteas the s tea of the chimney. The founda- November over last year to be about The lumber market continues very|reporting to the West Coast Lumber- tion for an exterior chimney must 5 sire country, | active. This is some unusual, as | men's Association shipped only 66 per be at least 2 feet 6 inches belu\\";“'ow'mm h"" the entire COUNtY: buying ordinarily tapers off at this | cent of production last week. although grade. ased on the most accurate informa- geicon. However, the car shortage | ordsrs were 94 per cent of production. Chimnevs must be lined with hard- | tion obtainable time, total has so restricted shipments that many | For the five associations with an burned terra cotta or fireclay flue 1in- | building operations for the month buvers have been unable to secure | established normal production for the ing et in cement mortar with joints | were approximately 66.000, mak- | badly needed material, so the demand | week. it being 225793,623 feet, pro- Struck smooth on the Inside and | ing a total far the 2 monthie: | is being spread over the entire wear.|duetion was 94 per cent, shipments Spaces hetween lining and brickwork | period, January 1 to December 1. of Demand continues 1o be greater thani 73 per cent and orders 89 per cent of filled with mortar, They must be about $3.578,000,000. the ability of the mills to ship in the | the normal cut. face of the continued car shortag: says the American Lumberman. Rai road officials have promised to reliev built to & point at least three feet| , above flat roofs and two feet above - the ridge of peak roofs and be pro- ‘With a continuation building op: vided with a proper coping of stone, | erations at the rate wh now see. terra cotta or concrete. probable, the year 1922 will stand as jjer h No wooden beams or jolsts must be the greatest geriod in the annals of ‘south Banuer Year Expected. been noted, shippers though in th of the back face of the wall of any |than twice as much as theyear 1916, fireplace. Wooden forms for hearth generaliy accepted as the pre-war nor- construction must be removed. jmal period. 0 i A = | Practically every state and city o GarageiRales)Eald Do | importance in the country has, during t be located|the elaven months of the present Tneteenth P: year, surpassed its total of building h: need traveled observers among th i3 all ¢ broken & (Continued on 431-33-35 Kenyon Street Buy one of these most attractive and economical two-family dwellings, which will serve as an investment. Let the property pay for itself. Brick construction—covered front porch—4 complete rooms and bath on first floor, also thoroughly equipped kitchen opening to inclosed breakfast porch. hSemml floor—4 complete rooms and bath, kitchen and enclosed breakfast porch. - Excellent hot-water heating system, electric lights, laundry trays and bone- dry concrete cellar. Take 9th st. car to Georgia ave. and Kenyon—walk one block east to property. $10,5000—*1,500 Cash - .BALANCE MONTHLY EN ALL DAY SUNDAY of the value of TILL 9 P.M. ‘DAY the car shortage, but so far little re- are getting a slightly tions of the country report that they | ge can hardly recall the time when stoeks| is principally for building and factory ] in The North Carolina Pine Assocla- tion reports that labor is scarce, that the car supply is considerably better than it was, that stocks are very e | much broken and are not being ac- cumulated by the mills. ve placed within two inches of the out- | the buflding industry, having to its Jarger percentage of their car re- The California White and Sugay Side face of a chimney or flus, No|credit a total of about three and quirements than they were Several|Pine Association reports the labor Woodwork may be within four inches | three-quarter billion dollars or more weecks ago. hipments of both | supply adeguate, but the car shortage acute; heavy snow in the moun- tains has stopped 10gging in several camps and 2 number of mills are closed in consequence. Stocks are erally short there and the demand {lumbe: 9 SOL 1 Homes—Longfellow Street bet. 5th and 7th 521 Longfellow Street—Sample House The fact that twenty of these dwellings in the adjacent row were sold in record time to substantial home-loving people is a strong argument in favor Red English brick front, Colonial porches, extending the full width of property: . i this twin row. $75.00 Per Month ‘MAIN 617 |cially defined and a_small farm and home on the cost- [ards of practice in- their dai REAL ESTATEBOARD HTORY RELATED Its Development as Civic Or- ganization Described by John A. Petty. Past achievements and fulure pos- sibilities in the development of the | Washington Real Estate Board as a civic organization were outlined to members of the board by John Petty, executive secretary, in his a nual report just made public. In referring to the national move- ment to elevate the standards of prac- tice in real estate work fostered by local real estate boards in nearly 500 lcities, it was shown that the Wash- had offi- had Estate Board its members individually accepted definft Ington Real as one of the basic factors In bring- ing the practice of real estate to a rent, thus making the land {professional basis. the increment with which to | 1 Progressing in Definite Way. “This work is progressing in a definite way and its succe: has in a large measure been due to the activi- ties of the local hoard,” the report !stated. “The sodial functions, board meetings and committec activities Pave increased acquaintanceship jamong members almost 100 per with the result that of -operation has 10 j cent, a spirit good fellowship and ¢ | developed mutual respect and con- d-finite action of brokers is in the local “The influence of thi {of such a large body {being reflected generally ate field. Frequently the board to advise the vroper {course to pursue in handling real lestate transactions and invariably ft | outlines the definite principles it has formally adopted. “Through w free service bureau, | which is in charge of the executive { secretary, the board is constantly coming in contact with the public in Tendering advice and assistance in matters pertaining to real estate. A considerable portion of this =ervios concerns matters pertaining to real tions located in various rough its atilint’on with organizatior the board is in @ position to extend its service to the public by co-operating with ;lflhex' boards located in all sections of the country. Wrongtul Acts Exposed. “Instances have been called to the attention of the board where irre- | sponsible and unlicensed real estate Lrokers were wrongfully withhold- ling funds fromy,innocent parties in connection with' real estate transac- tions. In practically every such case, | through the efforts of the board, these | matters have been investigated, with the result that the funds were re- turned to the proper parties. Thia phase of the board's work offers a direct opportunity of informing the public of the serious nature of real state transactions, and they are in- variably advised to ttrust their deal- brokers as cells vertical and the cells filled withy for 1B entite yes concrete to the grade line; if of con- | Somal e, e o2 aihe Sea- | assorted as at present. No excess of | crete they must be of Portland ce- | nounced in November, has this vear |lumber is being carried anywhere, and ment and suitable clean aggrega been exceptionally light throughout | th ber fnd v aching | mixed in standurd proportions. Foun- | the country 4 & o lamber Srdustry 18 appiosching dation walls must be parged on the | el e winter, which restricts output in a o alons, “"Iu;“i £ '“ ar "";d‘““*_“‘“ in Othery giher factor which will tend to curtail Walls of cement hlock or ‘hollow | 5 = ards approaching | production is the annual overhauling ; fidence among members. tile must be laid in' cement mortar shortage of labor, with a possible iu-| of machinery and stoppages of opera- consisting of at least one part et crease of wages, reports on the labor | tion to install new equipment. cement to three parts sand and 10 situation the building industry 5 A summary of telegraphic reports per cent lime putty, H H dicate that condiious peneval % rom eight regional associations of O Hime PULLY. et nave a cross- | NOVEMbeEr Maintains Lead {iate, that condilons wenerally be-{ itwood” Inmber manufacturers’ phui- | real es is called upon the national |ings to only such are worthy and qualified by experience to render intelligent, efficient and hon- est_service.” The prediction was made by Mr Petty that the work of the board i would ultimately result in establish- g definite requirements for those in the real estate business. + engaged Completion Before f l | breakfast and sleeping porches which also extend all the way across entire house and are 10 feet deep. Large entrance hall—spacious living room—dining room with con- , venient entrance to kitchen—double French doors opening to porch. Tile bath is com- plete (built-irr fixtures), oak floors, panel doors, large closet space, high- , fixtures, latest design electric fixtures. Hot-water heating system with perfect radiation; A laundry trays; dry concrete cellars. (Houses with concrete front and rear porclies, built-in garages—$8,250). Take 14th st. car marked Takoma, get off at 5th and Kennedy, walk one block north to dwellings; or get 9th st. car to Georgia ave. and Longfellow, walk three blocks east. $7,950—1,000 Cash de hardware Including All Interest i