Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1922, Page 13

REAL ESTATE. ° ' THE REVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1922. REAL ESTATE. ' 13 Washington’s Growth Reflected in Real Estate and Building News TONNG PLANAIDS S23500 REALTY | cppmeripres— — o=~ TT 27 ey 0N st or rousk: sovmve NIVSING PROBLEN GROWTH OF CITIES, SALES REPORTED ' THEME OF REPORT American Municipalities Have | ,fm....m.. o Vacation Than to Home Purchasing. iSecretary Hoover Tells of in value about § People Give More Time to Preparing for| ties aggregating 900 were sold dur- | ing the past week through the oftice of | | H | 3 Adopted Modern Idea for 515, & mars torymsh e e of i e Says. Systematic Steps Taken to Expansion. e e ! - Meet Conditions. by Taylor & Hedges 5 BY JOHN W RIES, (hlhm its appeara . whether sireet northwest, wh i Chief, Division of Building and Honw- | foundation walls are firm and tk Ak 1 cities within the last few | ETounds of the Cathedral, | inx, Department of Commerce, | 120 dry. and whether it has settled | Systematic steps taken by the De- was purchased by Gen. 121i A. Helmick, | badl ting is often shown by 10n& | partment of Commerce r- ently for have begt S n to pay considerable | ST A. This home is modbrn in ttention to z Their rapid | its appointment It has ten rooms, | srowih has made this subject ex- ‘X‘I s tile r.” ; ping y]u-nh. 5 ood fluars throughout an tremicly important with garage. R The § wrticularly n | Mrs brene B Ly interest in tuse the resi- ! modern l;!uln-r(mm & = o 5.00 s “tmbridge place der st from $5.000 o O 15,000 £ of its value when @ picd by the pur store is even While most people buying a house | diagonal cracks in the plaster and for themsclves would Mke to know as | cracks in the corners of ‘the rooms. |solving the housing and building & e roof Is mot tight or if the | problems were summarized in the an- | much about it as a real estate man, |, ;ping and heating equipment are ,’:um report of Secretiary Hoover just {an architect and a builder combined, |50t in good shape you may be faced N gl ' # the fact is that they only buy a house | almost at once with large repair bills, | made public. once or twice in a lifetime and there- | The best way to be sure of noting| “The shortage of =ome 1000060 ; | such points in buyin ouse St It fore are not experts on all PoIts. | exumine carcrully the Rouse you are | CVellings as @ result of suspendid Home~ buyers should school them- living in now, and the houses of your |construction during the war led to selves {n advancs o/ make up as far to find out what has|widespread demand for federal Jegi as possible for their lack of experi- ve o Without |ation and assistance.” it was s ence. The more they learn the surer le to remember to 1 | “Under an appropriation fr {they will be of making right deci- |all-important details when you arflin-(zrf- n investigation of the s specting a house tion and possik cwner ine purchased a | q bath house, Lorthwest, from 1t witl u- | zoni W next door; and loses neof th Hew Tel=Rbor by Wallingsford acturing 1 sarage Surchiedin vetatl store. oo, is concerned, house has six rooms, s trade w neighboring prop- | ently com- | Connor at | et northwest, was Hoskins. This » bath, front rar porches and a built-in - remedies was made sions and the more likely they will | “IFEUINE & BOUSE b s or in - ys bear in mind| % xblo ur-distachn gr:T'.l:: s asemi- be to obtain sound advice from banks, | that the house vou buy will be the PV this departinent. During the proc- 5 % |home in which you and your family 55 of the inquiry numerous confer- he building and loan associations, real home in n g o S P 3 ilders and archite ve, and if you have childre s were held with the B estate men, builders and architeets. | o thy'y will he hrought up in the nches of the Yet many people buy a house with ' surroundings von choose. From the | With represent far less preparation than they gi F:.’.m‘i(lyni;xl of children you should civi ih”dib B e e s ;! think of them woing through their Tetardation wa # to their summer vacation, which 1asts | ga1v ang weekly routine, at all sea | credit situation, (b hopric thenst corner of Normanstone drive and 30th ouly a few days. Nearly every fam-'sons of the r. Is there a good material and labor. () unsavory e of Joseph Davies and that of Count amd | ily going on a vacation knows about | School nearby? Is there particularly busi vies in eertain localities dangerous automobile traffie? Is there (d) wasteful p s in their con hbors is apped in oper: building industry and ins tw sms and ¢ nother one of th vgnized as by Wallingsford & Con tics. The Ingraham street northwe New home fa d b ement AL Giebell wtreet, in usetts Park. It is located just north of the ho X rooms and bath, | Countess Lauszlo-Svzechenyi. v g an afford a v H Miss Mary E. King sold her home. "T'he building In approximately 130 feet in width. Mr. Laughner recently purchased an additional how much it can afford and how much | ., /070515 "0n?” s the neighlore |tribution 1o Cots y i o a1 square feet of ground to the south of hix home, through Middaugh & Shannon, Ine, and John W. Thon it is going to spend: its ouifit and hood well kept and are the neighbors Department's Conclusions. i will use it Inndxcaping purposes. schedule are likewi ade up With 3 good class of citizen {#reat care. There are few who wait e =5 concluded that the first 1wo get to the station window | Questions for Housewife. Ehie ¥ s them & where or how far | The housewife will want to know o Sl ¥ the genera 1 os then in progress. The third could only tion Well Known Fac These facts have been re s men have lived in st towns had their different quar- ©r bazars: the butchers tended to | S mate in’ the same districts. i the jewele i the cloth ants, b tiis W Peter 0. Laughner nearing until they Lefore they de they are going, « hotel rates or causes would sel pure south, and. to some dwel 2 are looking bett who do not cons ount their It | whether the kitchen is well lighted in k Finance and Trade Conditions Amons the "“"",l o “L“"}\“' Lin A daion and conveniently laid out, and if it s { America. O. H. Haywood. 1t eight - su advane B e R L vigorous on of the Jumbling diffe nd bath and is heated by hot Viewed By R W. Bal to car shor reticeting and meas- Take Big Chances. willlbe comfortable in Mot weather, larse her and by iewed By hoger absor urins the revival of the transporta- | poe o o5 T uying a | ATe there good arrangements for el to each F. Willoughby Every Saturday this well known student of business is writing for readers of tien group. 3 < T 5 washing and ironing? Wil! the house d that emer business Tamont str The Star an article interpretizg industrial and investment problems. “But_the final stage i1l hefore house many people sign on the dotted | WASHNE Snd PORIBEE L 1T Bouse Sation us. We b Yot to w nd afterward congratulate them- sumption wmong the g nd glves on their wise purchase—or r< who constitute the Jt the big four, the trad. Perhaps bewail their “bad Tuck.” or rtrude des insurance vie { there were vtween buildings and it = were not mixed with | wall space for the bedroom furniture? Are there enough closet Are the lighting fixtures well placed? Are December cd first among shoe fac. SLEY HILL 1 sion, it app Roger W. Babson today led atten- | tories, textile mills and other fac- | | tion to a very important fact in dis- | tories. In a broad way thes Support of 1 indicated should Kkeep re con- = ang cussing the general industrial re- | centrated in the northeast scction of e that Tmprase | o omething to be | tN€Fe €nough electrical convenienve | i business. premises vival. | v, and it was exactly in this | ment is not vet generad, and hat the ) M" for systematically Fires| 0Utlets? WIill the living room be an R oxas b ed ihi Iso reduces that other tax | northea “Depressions ‘hit the country very | that trouble a best is yet to come, when all (he big | PTeF 2 Aty 5% atira e place, where she and her a gen the department 1o --tie tax pand into the public treas- | southwest from Miss 2 chidike storms.” s Mr. Babson, | was entirely characteris s | four groups shall participate injof all if you want to own a house ¥ou |,y 09 will want to spend their | the cre d assistance 1o, u P taxes for public im- th story brick dwe ling. L S oo KLY ¥F. Babson, 1t happened als a r ri prosperity T1 who apprebend should put every penny you can lay | - = Ly 2 2 ready existing voluntary be . provements @ real item to eve Columbia A northwest, sold for| "and just as they affect different ‘nf busin b L - ! that the bull movement the 510CK | vour hands on into your savings ac. €venings, and where the children vill ently e evelopin Yo © oand to every owner of Mrs. Abbie K. Walter to Mrs. O. I | localities of the country in regular ' executiv ¢ long in ‘e | market iy at an cnd might well ques- ount. . The more cas lay like to see their friends as they grow Swnerehin division the renter, wood. It has n rooms, two | sequence they also affect the differ- ] that this would be the first par tion whether 3 'n toward a first pavment the ' = cated in 3 rtment of wh 2 such local act clearing house nd hot-w house. was purchas ter ent divisions of our busin world | the country o w X use it is | sense be comp in different desreey and at different | the home of the m curing group. | distributing Kroup sti times. “Then comes the nex t in the from, - them. | baths, electricit cities | A colonial 13 of Hampshire avenue, will find it to buy and the ¥ it is that vou will have to bonus or commission for ob- Can the shopping be done econom- cally without spending teo much time ¥ acting as -as and inform edu- A. Ric « e fact that a depres ordi- | drama of depression the logic It is true, of course, th n for the remainder of in going to and from markets and tion. One resw n the cre = potice con rooms, narily starts i northeast, works | result of curtailed manufacturing, we of th trading ¢ price. tion of v 56 in 31.33 < ing porches | south 8 inishing its course |get a slump in the ials | sho . dva Xt you should decide how much The head of the family will want to sipai cancement of ted by zoning. | and has room for - __lin California, iv clearly evi group. When a shoe ¢ shuts | is 1 he stoek tiarket can afford to pay for a home. 1f know how conveniently he can set to - ownership and where advice « of the country’s _ The Ingleside apart 1657 tatisical stud {tuation. 1f|down. orders for hrink. | diseo the Stens urseif 1o pay oo much his work, and if other firms in his line ahala S Torniching: buildings are of Lamont street northwe pur look at the bus < world we | When a textile mill closes, demand Lusiness revival wced with a uraging would Lé too far away if he shauld 5600 spemntatsone e £ the environ- b local investor from Miss | find it dividing itself into four big|for cotton and wool dies down. tant hat the id find that nt to change his position. here i o it 14 be obtained at a nom - There are twelve Aled, with their ped about them. d we find that the busi- | the initial w ness in the nort ble garden, wn n maint space for a veget of two to four rooms cach. ness depression traces its ar [ spreads to the west and the south. mense national ram ons, tend W or perhaps he can put his spare moments to n S 2 . ——————————— | Course throuxh this industrial fabric S eob #ntithe seuthare ithe homa rt company With! the i St S AL i R put D L stematic measures of l.’)-‘;-ru: : v B aterials group. nd move - in har- You should plan to retire promis 1 will have to bal B €OSHIE | just what volume these s y group, v 8 A 3 finished goods and oth. by regular the g against the bad when e ¥ is built | have to carry when striet is copper: 3 2 k| ra i Subs . there is les- LFg 2t re of misfortune hoice in va: direetion nd thus ¥ in the prope en new hous and you will be a srnate firepls un poreac of saving in any or other features that may secm ver: worth while at first appearance. While such appointments are attractive voa or With- hyilt up. Then the r size producers, S 7 . | senea iy for the iransportation | cours acter Of ujd in the first place. In an unzoned Portation group, the ra 5 group, The railre into line Lehind o st more fo thing is to ere on the Steamships. Third, there is the man- | on the downward march, merely the worki and to lay pipes ufacturing group, with its automobile | n- tragedy closes with the last jaw Your turn stly than are likely | T mills xnd the other | " the downfall of the dis- | who laughs last Home Ownership Expens o this was 5 s of finished products. | £ B he o best—su far as the 1o : should always remember that they ulute a s much les > wi : Fourth, and finally e is the dis- | mavs of retailers cerned—will not 1 ong the expenses of home oWn- <eill cost You £00d mones which mighy as it W n‘ =ene d- | pipe - W I tribution group, he v the whole- [gut the entire count v e until improvement ership there be mentioned: In- better have been invested in sounder n that the vary hundreds o founded tific study ion, or which you would-in force end as you wish, nicipalitic . a_piano for the Without s children. or toward life insurance. an unnecess: w for thinly populat- | © The work of the police and fire de- | sale hous rder firms, chain « provement cannot constru tricts off the main lines of p.xrlm(nt\ is simplified in a zoned r 4 hing with the mulu- g sung in SUshared by the mill ity rz ] tablishments: | al de ; little retailers in what happens to these ‘big | “We have just se is enacted roads throughout the térest on the loan, payments on the rather have free 1o s principal of the loan, taxes, Insurance, herhaps for screen improvements, repairs and deprecia infinite possibilit for trouble. T groups when a business de before our ey tion. Never forget that what you want is from 10 wers and Water mains | kind of conglomeration also adds to sion hits the country? The first to! of events il fresh in m 2 General business is holding o Guving an il oF even & new|®Bome. BEsure ne foce is right “Be nsequence. In a prop- | the work of the h .nt sufier is the manufacturing group. | ines is blind. indee cannot ¢ Tmprovdment, The fndex n) buying, ai 2 A NEW yng that the exterior sui men mall houses . ible t6 HEure W on its preventive 5 This is partly the result of financ - § nt returning O o e house the quality aud state of repairs cons n should he amount Saabat it Sl pital side sri i A sturing aciivity | Babson ¢ SURTS will 1 zood deai to do with the the interior should be satis car: ie bureau of standards “resumed. The north ut pereent below cost of maintaining it. The value of and. above all, be sure ) and sugeestions « ned fro: ve. nced on recovery ame as last week [ house is affected by its general con- for th 100 different i Wonderful Values in New Homes—Only Two Left . Sample House 3117 12th Street Northeast (Brookland) [ All modern brick. Six rooms and bath. Many b new ideas. PARK HOMES Best Buy This Week 0 fur T-room house, With porch. gas nd_electric light d furnace. Deep wrms. Speclal Price for Cash room _bungalow. in tion, | with ull modern Tprovemente: Firepls twater heat. Has shades and scres Several Fine Bungalows New bupgalows, ready for panes — th thin sear. F OR SALE KALORAMA ROAD NEAR MILLION-DOLLAR BRIDGE (West of Connecticut Avenue) Detached Colonial Brick Home uated on large corner lot having frontage of 57 ft. by depth of 162 ft. First Floor: Drawing room, dining room, pantry and kitchen. . . Second Floor: Large living room, four masters’ rooms, and two baths. 0 Third Floor: Four servants’ rooms and two baths GARAGE of Colonial Britk for two cars. Trees, flowers and shrubbery surrounding house. This is an exceptional opportunity to purchase a beautiful home of prewar construction at a right figure. Real Estate Investment Company (Exclusive Brokers) 804 Seventeenth Street Main 2860 Two Splendid New Chevy Chase Houses Priced for Quick Sale These houses. on Jocelyn Street. one at the corner of Reno Road and the other between 39th Street and Reno Road, are in one of the most desirable sec- tions of Chevy Chase, and include in their appointments all that is new and modern in fine residential design and construction. = r lwat, nd. SO0 oSS Fenty ot Ters. 2 Houses, $500 Down Ne and 6 | room! Easy Terms Inspect at Once Salesman on presmises. = Arlington Realty Co. Real Values in Real Homes 1627 K N.W. M. 3174 modernbungalows, on easy pasments. May Be Seen Sunday Lillie & Hendrick 23 Carroll Ave., Tnkoma Park col. ! L4 P24 - ““Homes of Quality See These New Feature Homes Tomorrow BEST VALUE IN WASHINGTON PRICE LOW TERMS LOW R Convenient to Grant Circle Bus Or Any 9th St. Car ew Petworth Homes Marked Best Location Soldiers’ Home EXHIBIT HOME. 3rd and Varnum Sts. N.W. Six Good Size Rooms and Bath Hot-Water Heat Very Large Porches, Front and Rear Deep Lots to Wide Alley These homes are specially priced; it will pay you to inspect them at once. Open Today and Sunday Until 9 P.M. D. J. Dunigan 1321 New York Ave. Phone Main 1267 3911 Jocelyn St. N.W. 3905 Jocelyn St. N.W. The house pictured as the leit is unusuall and attractive. 1t is built of famous Bethesda blue granite, with 7§-inch hardwood floors throughout; concrete living porch. very large living room with granite fireplace, center hall plan. Kelvinator automatic refrigeration. a great cellar, hot-water heat, Pittsburg instantaneous water heater, laundry, servant’s toilet, coal bin and other features: two complete tiled baths (one with additional shower); immense floored attic with cedar closet. Beautiful corner lot, with front- age 94 feet and depth of 205 feet, with unobstructed view of great distance. - large ~ The house pictured at the right is of particularly attractive frame Colonial design. center hall plan, large living room with fireplace. immense living porch, enclosed and heated sleeping porch, hardwood floors throughout, parquetry on first floor, Kelvinator automatic refrigeration. In fact, replete with every fine, modern appointment. Of five built, only two remain. They will move quickly. See them tomorrow. $1,000 Cash—$75 Per Month Our sample house, 928 Longfellow St. N.W., heated, making it comfortable for a thorough inspec- tion. Open and lighted until 9 P.M. Take Georgia Avenue car to Longfellow St.; walk half block east. WALTER A. DUNIGAN Maryland Building 1410 H Street N.W. Main 1023 ’ Main 1023 0