Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1926, Page 17

REAL ESTATE WASHIN INDIVIDUAL DESIGN FOR ROW HOUSES Broken Building Lines and Garages on Side Give Air of Distinction. One of the most interesting models In the ideal homes demonstration spensored by The Star is the house group to be erected by Marris Cafritz' on Decatur between Fourth and Fifth streets. These houses were designed by Louis Justement. There has heen considerable discus sion of late in regard to this type of dwelling and the various views in re gard to them have been extensively nired at practically every meeting of the Zoning Commission during the past few vears As it is generally accepted that by far the majority of houses being con structed in Washington at this time are row houses, The Star undertook te make this tvpe of residence one of the nine models it desired to demon. ®irate. An effort will he made to show' that houses need not bhe un sightly, @5 claimed by some. but that | with proper planning and co-operation | hetween the architect they may be come a decided factor of heauty those parts the city where houses are in demand and best serve | the requirements of the public | is row row Monotony Is Eliminated In the accompanying plans it been attempted to demons! proper arrangements of the houses. The most striki feature «f this propect is the placement of all gar ages on one side of the alley simplify- inz the block interior and making the | vear vards more attractive for and enjoyment. Design has nated any monotony from the house group and every effort has been made (0 give each house an in dividuality here will be 14 houses fn this demonstration. The grouping of houses studied with relation to row and will eventually present a symmetrical composition. Two de. has been | the entire partures have heen made from the usual method of building houses in TrOWS. In the first place the houses | have heen arranged in groups of twos, | threes and fours and the monotony of a continuous facade avoided by set ting alternate groups back about 2 | fest from the eatablished building line. In addition. instead of changing the floor level for each individual house to conform with the grade changes in floor levels have been made to correspond with the group- | ing. The proper grouping of houses and the adaptation of the design to existing grades is one of the most im portant, if nct the most important | factor in row-house design Back Yards Larger. A modification of the usual ar rangements for garages has been in troduced in this plan. Instead of having garages on both sides of the alley. and having miscellaneous assortment of tin sarages. destroving the use of back vards on both sides the alley has been shifted so that it i€ not quite in the center of the square and a continuous brick wall has been, desizned T9 feet back of the alley. leaving the opposite back yards of equa! depth. Between the brick wall and the alley line, Individual sheet metal garages will be built, two | garages to each house-width, one gar age belonging to a house on Decatur street and the other to a house on Delafield place. Not only has this ar rangement added 10 feet to the effec tive depth of the hack vards on each | side of the alley, but will result in an | attractive brick wall at the end of the rear garden of the Decatur street houses in place of the unsightly tin garages ordinarily provided. Access 10 the alley can be had through the | garage. | The accompanying drawings illus- | trate three types of plan: No. 1, the oorner house: No. 2, the usual type of row house which is used in 9 of the 14 houses. and No. 3. a slightly dif ferent tvpe, used in 4 of the houses in this row. In type No. 3 more space is secured in the dining room and a much larger ltving room Is provided. This is ac complished by a change in the en- trance hall which will give privacy | in reaching the second floor but will make it necessary to go through the living room to reach the front door from the kitchen. This objection. however, is not belleved to be as seri ous as that of the smaller living room of plan No. 2. FEliminates Projecting Closet. A further advantage of plan No. 3 is that it makes it possible to remove the projecting closet in bedroom No. 2, which main objection to the sacond-floor plan of that design. The closet to bedroom No. 2 and the bath room in plan No. 3 are both slightly | Jarger. so that the second-floor pla of this tvpe of house is decidediy be ter than that of plan No. 2. The use of winding stairs been avoided in all_houses. The accompanying sketch-drawing of these houses shows only 11 houses | of the total number, as houses 12, 13 and 14 are repetitions of 7, & and 9 respectively. The design for these houses is adapted from English prece dents, which allow a considerable de- cree of freedom to the designer. The materials will be as follows: Sand finish colonial red brick, laid in ce ment mortar, with tooled joints; green or mottled slate; belt courses, quoins and sills of limestone; half-timber and porch posts of cypress. stained; rail ings to be of wrought iron. Seme of the houses have no covered front porches. As has been pointed out In previous articles, the use of the front porch Is not so much in demand, since the mdvent of the automobile has made possible more satisfactorv ways of escaping from the heat of Summer, Many modern homes are being buil: without front porches, because of the Jack of privacy of the front porch, and use is being made of the rear garden or rear porch as the most satisfactory place for outdoor living. providing, as they do, much greater rivacy. The only objection to this as been the unsightliness of our hack varde. With the elimination of the tin garage or the concrete drive- waye to a built-in basement garage. which this plan provides, the rear rd can and should be transformed to a garden and made a livable extension to the house rather than ®0 many square feet of taxable real | ontate wasted. | The elimination of covered front porches on some of the houses helps the design in two ways: It avoids monotony which inevitably resuits from having porches on all houses, and the saving in the cost of the poroch makes possible the use of somewhat better materials or work- manship or the provision of an occa- sional hay window. Cheap and showy effacts have been avolded in this de aign, and the houses will have that substantial effect, which the years will only enhance, in place of the | where | sented for the drive to he conducted | | | the GTON, D. C, - arp 'y foouvz. | Housg N 2 IrcoNpD TfFLOOR PLANS. - | .‘ gnening— %Iaf SATURDA;, APRIL 3, 1926. ONE OF THE STAR’S MODEL ROW HOUSE GROUPS Areavrasr vorcw HOME & GARDEN EiviacRoen h and Fifth streets. Louls Ju IF1eAT rroor. PLANKS tement is the architect LEE HEIGHTS HOME HASIDEAL SETTING Represents Modern Comfort With True Colonial Background. For those who desire a home the architecture tradition: ing with the early of the courntry, The Star's model hor Lee Heights, Va., will he {ularly attractive This house, which is heing | by Ruby Lee Minar by Ward Brown. elements of a typical home. Much effort was made this house to fit the surrounding scape and to represent the hisic traditions of early Virginia resid This model residence is frame detached house desi simple lines that are att old-fashioned porch. alm v the ground; its fenced-in garde general design all hark vears of American histo with colonial b | at and embodies Atmosphere of Quiet. The lot is of comparative size, heing more than 70 feet on front line and with an average depth « 154 feet. The design of the dwelling and the landscape plan con to provide an_atmosphere of qu The demonstration paved highway, the bus Inside the house modern equipme will be used. The hot-water heat ing plant has a self-regulator is planned a b ironins in the Kitchen. el closets and laundry ment. The with electric heating plant oil burner. is near a ev and the house will i refrigeration and will be fueled from an Two Fireplaces. Features that still rer old Virginta da | brick-floored er | covered porch | old-fashioned pillars are placed the sides of the large that one can stand on and look through to 1 terrace in the re large fireplaces ) room and one in the mast The fireplace in the master Is recessed. with closets on The other closets are lar roomy. The floors upstairs. as down, are to he of red oak bathroom is tiled In studying this problem question for the architect was the relative maln avenue of | pared to the best | house and grounds, | proach. As developed. the en not from the main street hut secondary street. Thi | best light and ventilation considered more importa the first to decide ce of the approach as com position of the gardless of ap Plans for Drive to Be Told at Dinner Of “Better Homes” Workers April 24 A dinner for in Better in Arherica” | movement will he held at the Village | Tnn, 33 715 o'clock 24 pre the District workers | the Homes 2 Connecticut avenue, April be Saturday evening the final plans will here April May 1. District organizations will here be joined by Housekeepers' Al ce of the| Maryland State Home Economics As- sociation Better with the increased contributory in- improved buildings | additional and more extensively equipped libraries and a | wider interest in music and art in | general, is the goal the Better | | homes efficiency of all fluences, such as and furnishings Homes in America, Inc.. of the Dis- triet_of Columbia. To stimulate in- terest in the movement, the hetter homes committee of the District of Columbia Home FEconomics Associa- tion is sponsoring a drive to be held | April 25 to May 1, similar to the one conducted in the Capital last vear. A committee headed by Miss Clyde | B. Schuman of the association seeking the co-operation of the schools, churches, clubs, stores and | other organizations of the District - of the total cost. vance. RRtRtRtRER AR thtR R R th R thtRtRRRLALRLRER R | with | the active is Learning $3 a week as a printer's devil This group of 11 houses is to be built by Morris Cafritx Construction Co., on Decatur street between Fourt| interested in hetter homes. The vari- ous committees and their chairmen are: Finances, Miss Emeline Whit comb: publicity, Mrs. RBelle S Ketcham; universities, Dr. Mina C. | Denton secondary schools, Miss Catherine Bell: elementary schools, | Miss Emma S. Jacobs: women's clubs, | Mrs. Sarah Sumner: churches, Mrs. Belle S. Ketcham, and co-operation | other agencies, Miss Rowena Schmidt. An attempt js being made to enlist interest of every person, and the co-operation of special groups of people in preparing ex- hibits or other features is especially welcomed. ONCE PRINTER'S DEVIL. Millionaire Hotel Man Earned $3 Weekly 15 Years Ago. Louis Saitzman, who bought Hotel Nassau, at Long Beach, last week for $1,000,000 from the J. Hill- man Corporation of New York, was the 16 years ago. He entered the restau- rant business and now is the owner of 17 hotels and eating places. PLAN CITY CLEAN UP. Kansas City Officials Seek to Re- move Unsightly Conditions. A Spring cleaning of the city's busi ness district to keep up with the standard of attractiveness of its parks and residential districts has just been started by the Kansas City Real Estate Board, which has appointed five committees to take charge of the improvement campaign, each commit tee to be appointed to a definite sec- tion of the downtown retail district. it is planned to eliminate unsightly conditions on vacant property, to clean up vacant storerooms, to ban- ish overhead signs, and to remove the sidewalk display of merchandise. The campaign follows an appeal for greater orderliness and beauty in the business sections of American cities made at the annual conVention of the National Association of Real FEstate Boards in Detroit in June of Jast year by H. R. Ennis of Kansas City, former president of the association. - . Finish Important. “The finish of your floors and interior trim is a matter of great Importance, for a beautiful plece of hardwood may be absolutely ruined with an improper finish, whereas an ordinary plece of wood is a pleasure to the eve if well CHEVY CHASE ’ A New Subdivision Now Being Platted for Record 209 Discount to Early Buyers Pending Completion of Street ImprovemeiltE Under our special arrangement for financing you can build a house according to your own plans at a location which you select— and if in Chevy Chase, the best location possible to select in the District of Columbia—pay for it monthly like rent, and save 20% Only a small amount of cash is required in ad- Let us explain the proposition to you. Chevy Chase is located due northwest from Washington—the very best direction from an important city. For the past thirty years properties sold by The Chevy Chase Land Company, for which we are exclusive agents, have steadily advanced in value. From now on values will likely advance much faster than before owing to greatly reduced available properties to offer. If You Desire a Home in CHEVY CHASE Let Us Know of It Thomas J. Fisher and Company, Inc. 738 15th St. N flimsy and rapidly deteriorating con- struction ofte seen in row houses. Main 6830 STARMODEL HOME | GONG UPRAPIDLY Foundation and Cellar In and Walls Put Up to Second Story. The Star’s model home being con- structed by L. E. Breuninger & Sons on Alaska avenue at the corner of Thirteenth street nas been progress- ing rapidly during the last few day The foundation ‘and cellar work ar ail in and completed and the brick walls have been carried up to the second floor. The fdeal location of this home ix becoming more apparent every day It 18 on a corner lot with over 100 feet frontage. The location is one of | the highest in the city of Washington. | There are many unique features in this home which will become ap parent to the visitor as the building progresses. The builders are main taining their own engineers at the job to explain the details of this con struction. The plan of this house, which ap peared in The Star last Saturday, has elicited wide and favorable comment according to those in charge. The builders have received many sug gestions and comments. all of which are interesting and many of which can be profitably made use of. It is expected that this home will be com- pleted by June 1 is house is open for the inspec tion of the public during its construc- tion. SIXTH IN PERMITS. Gain for Miami Over 1924 Was 253.8 Per Cent. The metropolitan area of Miami, in- cluding Coral Gables, Miami Beach and Hialeah, had permits last vear in excess of $100,000,000, which would rank it sixth among the cities of the country. Miami proper reported $60,- 024,260, or a monthly average of £5.000,000. No single pe were included. over 1924 was wood-by-the-Sea, its of unusual size The gain for Miami per cent. Holly Fla., being a new Woodhnd' Drive Sites m Massachusetts Park —are‘bemming st_eadily more limited. Washingtonians of long standing are continually amazed at the splendid growth in this fine residential community, which includes all that remains of The Triangle of Increasing Values —between Connecticut, Massachusetts and Cathedral avenues. Wooded and rolling sites for individually designed homes are now available. As the firm under whose management this restricted area has been successfully developed into one of the city's fine sections, we are singu- farly prepared to furnish accurate information. Park Office: 32d street and Cathedral avenue, Mid ugh & Shannon, Inc. ESTABLISHED 1899 Riggs-Semmes Bldg., Dupont Circle, Potomac 2200 In Time hooves you to see in will surprise—and It costs so very Service. - of Calm Frepare for Storm HE Spring rains and the hot summer sun are elements of roof destruction—so that it be- what condition the win- ter has left your roof—and its ability to resist the oncoming assault. Don’t take anything for granted—know —and then the roof can’t spring a leak that probably damage. little to have US take charge of your roof—and puts you on the safe side — that you should adopt Rose Our budget plan of payment makes the expense easy on the purse led all per Boynton, ot had over ] ¢ age of gain Florida towns, gain cities of the Nation this being 9,243.2 | per cent. Winter Haven, Sehring and | S desirable. e than how the entrance was a It is common knowledge t in fast in a room with m: nin It was alse ch | the seuth g i Have Just Completed This Row of Six-Room Homes Adjacent to permanent park spaces. Each home contains the very latest ideas of finish and conveniences. I have built them to last, and will be ‘proud to show them to you. Price, $7,500.00 Terms to Suit Your Pocketbook SAMPLE HOUSE No. 2739 4th St. FIVE SOLD Located on 4th Street Northeast Three Squares Above Rhode Island Avenue A neighborhood of all new homes. High ground overlooking the city. A P A A A A A A A A A A A A A R A A A A A A A A A A A A AR AN Ready for Occupancy HENRY W. FEBREY BUILDER On the Premises Until 6 P.M.