Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1926, Page 16

REAL ESTATE ANOTHER BIG BUILDING YEAR . ISPREDICTED it By in 1926 and BY WILLIAM J. MOORE, ! President American Bond & Mortgage Co The building industry has once| imere defled prediction and confounded the prophets of gloom. The end of 1926 finds the oft-heralded building and the indica- serfous busine: depression will pr t another great | vear of construction activity in the U'nited States in 1927. Building operations during 1926 svere unprecedented in volume, reach- ng ‘the record-breaking total of ap- vroximately $6.850,000,000. This rep- vesents an increase of about § per cent over 1925, the largest previous building year in history. The enor- mous investment of this sum has had 2 most beneficial effect on the busi- kL situation and, perhaps. has been the major factor in stimulating and sustalning the general prosperity of the country. Available data indicate that the total value ‘of comstruction in 1927 will closely approach the record- treaking proportions of the last year, and no serious major building reces- ~ion ie in sight. If there is a decline uring the approaching year—and 1 un not sure there will be—it should @ nmot more than 5 or 10 per cent s than the total of 1926. Any re- sion will be extremely moderate and gradual, and there need be no fear that the bottom will fall out of the building market. Steadily increasing popularity of first mortgage real estate bonds among investors, banks and institu- tlons was one of the outstanding de- velopments of the year. Increased sales of this type of security, which today ranks next to public utilities, was an important factor in furnish- ing needed building capital. Realty honds sold by the leading investment Thouses furnished approximately $900,- 000,000 for new construction, an in- crease of about 28 per cent over 1925. ‘The indications are that by the end of 1927 the real estate bond industry will be furnishing building capital at the rate of $1,000,000,000 a year. Building Industry Sound. Gratifying soundness underlies the building industry as the new year begins., There is still evidence of a strong national demand for well con- structed buildings—constructed in ac- cordance with the rise in American standards. Building costs are well stabilized. Rental conditions are gen- «rally satisfactory, and there is am- vle evidence that reports of overpro- luction have been unduly exaggerated. A\ strong, wholesome tone prevails throughout the industry. The helpful effect that the great volume of construction, breaking all precedents almost month by month during the year, has had on general business and upon practically every industry in the country cannot be overestimated. It has not only fur- nished excellent wages for millions of men in all the building trades, but it has also provided steady employment for the hundreds of thousands of men engaged in the manufacture and trans- portation of building materials. This creation of new wealth for the coun- try and the widespread enhancement of property’ values through improve- ment means real American progress and prosperity. In view of these bene- iiclal effects on the national business iachine it would indeed be unfortu- nate if there were to be any radical slowing up in construction activities. There is still some talk that build- ing costs are too high and that such costs must come down. While there will always be fluctuations when, due to temporary or local conditions, building costs ease up somewhat, it should be kept in mind that present price levels are directly affected by such economic factors as labor, taxa- tion, transportation and other im- portant items on which any marked reductions are improbable. Costs to Keep Stable. Building costs, in my opinion, will remain stabilized at near present lev- els, and those who are postponing con- templated construgtion projects ex- pecting pronounced cost decreases are doomed.to disappointment. Also | our constantly advancing standards of living constitute an influence equally as powerful as any pure economic factor. Analysis of index figures on con- struction costs, as compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, zives a reasonably accurate picture of actual present-day conditions. These figures show: (1) Building costs are 94% above the 1913 level and about 2% higher than one year ago. Since April, 1923, construction costs have heen showing a slight tendency to decline, with small seasonal fluctuations. At no time have they shown indication of riging to the peak level of April, 1920, when building costs stood at 1547% | bove the 1913 1 ~ | (2) Bullding wages are hove | the 1913 level—the high in | histor; and uabout 4% aboye the level of one i ago. Index figures how that wages have been steadily dvancing and now stand about 17% above the former peak reached in the Fall of 1920, 3) Bullding mate above the 1913 below the lev Since the yrices ha 1o decline it about in April, 1 . Statistics compiled by the Engineer- ing News-Record sh tional. level of wage building trades is upprox above tl i common, labor is 9. 4 This do not * 0 much, when @913 the skilled hove that of com- tion us a whole, Compared a year ago, killed men get 4% more, while com- reon laborers al prices are 72% level aud about 2% lhed a year ago. > year material are the skilled wtely 95% e or edmmon Far Away. 2 gradual tendency | consideration. rate for | an average wage | IN 1927 FORECAST Failed to Materialize Still Looks country, as compared with $0.54 at this time last year. There is no longer any shortage of buildings resulting from the war. There has been no such shortage from the beginning of the year 1925. Hectic building operations are over. We are now facing more stabilized \ditions, and henceforth our con- truction must be In keeping with our normal building requirements Speculators {n construction have had their day. Construction must be thought of only in strict terms of growth, requirement, population trend and industry. There is indisputable evidence that in some localities there is an unsatis- fled demand for housing and other types of bullding; but taking the country as a whole, the building prob- lem Is one of meeting the local re- quirements. Tt is estimated that the annual population growth of the Na- tion requires approximately 450,000 new buildings of various kinds; re- placing and remodeling structures ai- fected by decay, fire obsolescence and other causes. Estimates from private sources have placed the value of con- struction to meet normal needs at from $4,500,000,000 to $7,000,000,000. Some idea of the Nation's building requirements for 1927 can be gained from the results of a survey of the construction situation just completed by the American Builder. Replies to 8,000 questionnaires sent to: build- ers, contractors and _ architects throughout the country .ndicated that more than $7,000,000,000 worth of new building would be needed during the coming year. The forecast figures of needed con- struction follow: Housing required for new population annually. $1.500,000 000 Other “buildings required” for new population. : Annual ‘fire losa. Annual “tornado’ " and " fidod Depreciation " and ' ‘obsoies- cence on the 22,000,000 dwellings in the United fon 2 “giad " abacles: e applied to all other classes of buildings 1.030,304.400 Total . .$7.135.498,750 A very large share of this is residential, viz., $4,626,673,618, includ- ing hotels,” said the forecast, “and this s in strict keeping with the pro- portion shown as residential by build- ing permits in 274 cities of 25,000 and over.” More Public Structures. There will undoubtedly be changes in the activities in connection with the definite classes of projects during the next year. With the housing shortage problem practically solved, it is to be expected that residential and commercial bullding wll somewhat (?cllne. Industrial, public works and ‘public utility buildings, however, will undoubtedly increase in Volume. Because of an inadequate labor supply, and the constant tend- ency toward higher costs develop- ment of many Federal, State and municipal building projects were de- ferred until recently, and it will take a long time to ecatch up with the plans that have been made for this type of work. These buildings have become a part of the Nation's po- tential requirements and sooner or later must be added to the sum of actual activities. The Federal Gov- ernment has indicated that it will BO n'hend during the next 12 months with its, $165,000,000 public building program authorized by Congress, and this will undoubtedly give impetus to_the 1927 building program. ' sidential structures will continue to account for the largest single por- tion of new building. There is still a xlmu need for cheaper housing fa- cilities throughout the country, as well as a moderate demand for medium-priced apartments and homes. This need will.have to be met before any serious falling off in build- ing can be expected. In many of the larger cities there has been little or no building of the cheaper class of tenements during the last sev. eight years. Hence, conditio been brought about ‘that are so v morally and economically unsound. Adequate housing conditions must be provided for those of limited incomes. and during the coming year reai {.)x;(:il‘e is to be expected along these The rising standard of living i factor that will continue to lnf‘l’u;?mi' lfle building industry indefinitely, be- cause it is based on the spirit of progress, and is made possible by the abundance and variety of our natural resources, the efficiency of American laborers and the enterprise of the American business man. Recently there has been much talk of overproduction in building accom- modations, These statements have no basis in fact, unless they are nar- rowed down to certain, definite types of buildings in certain, definite locali- ties. They cannot be applied to the sxluntitun as a whole. Contrary to the reports that have been broadcast, rentals in the better grade and better located apartments and high-class office buildings in the larger cities, especially in New York are fairly stuble and have been show. ing little fluctuation. Rent Declines Temporary., In_connection with appraisals and the financing of buildings, it must be remembered thut the possibility of a decline in rents is always taken into Rents may show a 0 100.000,000 3.031,244,000 stabilized | slight downward tendency in the fu- c below the peak reached | ture, but no drastic decreases are ex- pected in the better types of bullding Any reduction in rentals that may occur as a direct result of overpro- duction would be only temporary. The reason is that at such a time suilding construction automati will cease, und the sury | taken up In a comparatively short | time, for our larger cities are multi- | plying their populati dously rapid rate. manent reduction in rentals c | about is through a material reduction in bullding costs. This will be pos- above the December, rate for common labor per hour for the entire sible only when five fundamental con | ditions develop—to-wit: | __First.— | " “(Continued on Seventeenth Puge.) Re-subdivision on Woodland and Rock Creek Drives, ad- joining Rock Creek Park, one block west of Conn. Ave. Bridge and near Mass. Ave., now available, Included in what remains of The Triangle of Increasing Values ——between Connecticut, Massachusetts and Cathedral avenucs. Over 256 homes bu ments and home values exceed lots, centr: t and under construction. Actual improve- $10,500,000. Wooded villa sites, al and side hall homes, with lots from 50 to 300 feet front, irom $25,000 1o, $200,000. : Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. ISTABLISHED 1899 717 14th St. N.W. D. C. BUILDING GOES 10 HIGHER LEVEL Industry Christmas Week ! Takes Big Jump, Compared With Recent Records. Christmas week in bullding Industry took a blg jump upward compared with the past few weeks and regis- tered a total of approximately $1,400,- 000 in new building authorized, This is somewhat unusual during the holiday season of the year and will help ~establish _another yearly building record by December 81. Two $5600,000 projects an apartment | house and a hotel help to the unusual volume, New Construction Figures. The mnew construction author by _the inspector of bulldings include: Rogers M. Fred, owner and builder: Harrls & Harrls, architects; to eréct two_2-story frame dwellings, 3715 and 3717 Windom place (lots 60 and 61, square 1891), to cost $14,000. Rogers M. Fred, owner and builder; Harris & Harris, architect; ‘to erect two 2-story frame dwellings, 3723 and 5 Windom street (lots 64 and 65, square 1891); to cost $12,000. Rogers M. Fred, owner and builder; Harrls & Harris, architects; to erect two 2-story frame dwellings, 3719 and 3721 Windom strect lots 62 and 63, square 1891), to cost $13,000. A. J. Howar, owner and builder; Stern & Tomlinson, architects; to erect one §story brick hotel and stores, 1833 New Hampshire avenue (lot 130, square 177); to cost $500,000. Homes to Cost $72,000. FI. C. Ball, owner and builder; Claughton West, architect; to erect twelve 2-story brick dwellings, 4423 to 4445 Harrison street (lots § to 19, square 1580); to cost $72,000. Jacob Trachtenberg, owner; W. H. Jackson, builder; to erect one brick private garage, 920 Fifth street (lot 818, square 484); to cost $1,000. Jacob Trachtenberg, owner; W. H. Jackson, builder; to change front of dwelling into store, 920 Fifth street (lot 818, square 484); to cost $400. H. A. Bramow, owner and builder; Doleman and McCaw, architects; to erect one 4-story brick and concrete apartment, 1020 Monroe street, and 3417 to 3427 Eleventh street )lots 804 to 807, square 2840); to cost $150,000. L. A. Pincus, owner and builder; L. W. Giles, architect; to erect one 2- story brick and tile apartment, 1534 B street southeast. Dwellings in Northeast. Clayton I. Higdon, owner and builder; W. S. Plager, architect; to erect one 1-stor- frame dwelling, 2613 Twenty-second street northeast (lot 40, square 4254); to cost $4,500. William Asa Cole, owner and builder; L. W. Giles, architect; to erect one l-story frame dwelling, 715 Fifty- fifth street northeast (lots 12 and 13, square 5213); to cost $1,600. David Kaplan, owner and builder; to make repairs, 1120 H street north- east (lot 79, sguare 981); to cost $1,100, Stockwood Investment Co., owners; Earl 8. Haislip, builder; to erect one cement rear porch, 2062 Rhode Island avenue northeast (lot, 801, square 4219); to cost $1,350. Peoples Drug Stores, Inc., owners and buflders; T. M. Medford, archi- tect; to make repairs, 5528 Connecti- cut avenue (lot 53, square 1859); to cost $1,500. Oscar G. Claxton, owner; -Lake Stone Co., builders; to erect one brick garage, 1010 Twentieth street (lot 34, square 76); to cost $450. Michigan Park Manor Co., owners; Louis Justement, architect; Federal Construction Co., builders; to erect four two-story cinder block dwellings, 4305-11 Thirteenth street northeast (lots 33 to 36, square 3974); to cost $20,000. $500,000 Project. Lincoln Hotels, Inc., owners; Pier- son & Wilson, architects; Wardman Construction Co., Inc., bullders; to erect one eight-story brick hotel and stores, 520 North Capitol street (lot 168, square 628); to cost $500,000. Dr. Hohberger, owner; M. T. Alpress, chitect; T. L. Lewis, builder; to ect one tw story rear additios Fourteenth street (lot 1, square to cost $4,000. 1. Murra; Archer, jr ell the total Christmas week ed owner and builder; R. C. architect; to erect brick addition, 9 Ninth street (lot 23, square 395); to cost $1,000. Llizabeth Brown, owner; M. T. Al press, architect; T. L. Lewis, builder; to erect brick addition, 1704 Q street (lot 262, square 156); to cost $500. E. C. Hutzler, owner and builder; to erect one brick private garage, 3410 Morrison_street (lot 7, square 1995); to cost $500. Investment of $25,000. S. J. Solomon, owner and builder; R. 0. Kluge and James E. architects; to erect two twe brick dwelli 1517 Van Buren street and 6606 Sixteenth street (lots and 70, square 2732); to cost $25,000. Harry I. Carroll, owner and bulide to remodel, 70911 Fourth street (lot $10, square 529); to cost $2,000. Washington ~Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, owners; V. N. Hughes, bullder; to erect brick ad tion, Sixteenth and Levis northeast (lot 146, square cost $1,000. M. B. Schnurr, owner; to mak pairs, 113 Massachusetts avenue 802, square 563); to cost $700. 1 407 L tremen- | The only possible way that a per- | n come | st be a substantial | Selling Fast NEW HOMES ‘ On Irving St. N.W., Between 17th and 18th The highest bllllc‘lllln{vln the world, to be known as the Larkin Tower Build- e will be erected !u{ it Forty-second street. 1,208 feet tall, and will cost $18,000,000 It will be an office structure, to build. Work will begin on it early next year. Photo shows the proposed Larkin Tower Building as it will look when completed, and the surrounding territory. College Man May Achieve Leadership In Buildil\g ngluistry ‘Ajchited Says There are many avenues to leader- ship in the building industry for the college man, Charles H. Higgins, treasurer of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, asserts in The Princeton Alumni Weekly. “Man has three primary wants— food, clothes and shelter,” says Mr. Higgins, who s a graduate of Prince- ton, class of 1903, and a member of the Architectural League of New York. “The third has come to be known as the buflding industry and occupies the lives of a very large. part of the men of this country. F “A man, when he is a student in college, may well wish to aim and shape his course with a view to his life work being in one of the main divisions of human endeavor. For the student whose aim it is to prepare himself to take the part of a leader in what has come to be known as the building industry there are several great highways aleng which he may approach his goal.” Various Approaches Cited. In the creation of the building, Mr. Higgins points out, the owner, the architect, the specialist, the contractor and the manufacturer each plays his part, and each offers to the student avenues of. approach to the industry. “The owner, first of all, wishes to do something. He has in mind a use. Ordinarily he does not wish primarily to build, but*building is the necessary and natural means to this end. “Whether the use he has in mind be a home, an office, manufacturing, merchandising, or even a tomb, pro- tection is the basic idea. Protection from the weather, from fire, from theft, from intrusion or any disturb- ing element, and at the same time the greatest possible freedom for the use in mind, and all these at an expendi- ture within the value resulting from the use. " “This is very broad, as broad as human needs. The desires, as always with human beings, are conflicting and must be harmonized with one an- other and with the materlals and methods available; and this brings us to the next avenue of approach, from which the architect has his point of view. Essentials Are Stated. “The owner's avenue of approach is use to man-utility. Foresight, an understanding of demand, of finance, of economics are all essential. But the complex and often conflicting pur- poses of the owner must be reconciled and harmonized with each other and with the legal requirements, and i terpreted into the forms, material and methods which experience and tradition may indicate. “Here is the avenue of approach of the itect. He surveys the plot and draws the model for the owner. By his knowledge he must reconcile nd choos By his art he may har- monize and even dramatize the serv- ice which has made the owner mean to build. He must have a knowledge of forms which both serve and please, an acquaintance with materials to make these forms staple and lasting, a broad sympathy with the owner purpose and a kndwledge of ‘what has been done and what can be done. He must also have an understand ing of the men who actually do the building, and their methods and a di- rection of these so that cost of con- struction and cost of operation may not_outrun value. e “nderlying this whole thing is an | ) % These houses meet with the approval of the public_because they are Shapiro built which mcans that they are of a per- manent construction, erected by the most skilled labor obtain- able, built with the very best material, and contain the numerous features that discriminating people demand. price ¥1 5,950 Includes 7 and 8 large rooms 3 and 4 bedrooms Open fireplace Beautiful dining room 1 and 2 tiled baths with shower FUELO oil burner Deep closets Breakfast room dar closet ‘omplete lubor-saving kitchen Instantaneous hot-water heater Beautifully landscaped. DuPont Tontine W ashable Shades Come Out Sunday Open for Inspectio from - 919 15th 9 4AM. lo 9 P.M. Main 8919 Office Open Sunday. 9 AM. to 2 P.M. emotional quality whith the architect seeks to express harmoniously, and to visualize through sketches, draw- ings, spoken and written word, and even models. It is apparent that the difference between the owner and the architect is a difference in the point of view, Work of Specialist. “They are looking toward the same thing, and again we shift to still an- other point of view, but still we are looking at the same thing.” Mr, Higgins goes on to outline the work of the specialist who fixes one or more of the elements of security, of stability, of resistance to weather, to fire, and the mechanical feature: the contractor and the manufacturer. “The contractor deals with labor, which means that he deals with men. To his point of view the erection of the building is the end, workmen are his means, plant, tools and methods are in his thought, the drawings and specifications are his orders. “The manufacturer of plant and tools for building might be likened to a highly specialized builder, who, hav- ing perfected certain methods, devotes himself thereafter to the production of plant and tools designed so that others may follow these methods. “Building material is very largely labor wrought into small parts in a manufacturing plant, ready to be in- corporated into a building. All these innumerable articles manufactured must be sold, and there is another avenue of approach, still another point of view—that of the supply house, the salesman, the merchant. Advertising Man's View. “Here is an adventurous, and to those fitted evidently profitable, ave- nue of approach, Selling leads to ad- vertising. The advertising agent ap- proaches this thing from still another avenue only a little removed in point from that of the salesman. “On the other hand, he approaches the point of view of the architect and owner, for he ‘studies the point of view of each. He studies what they are striving for in order to promise them fulfillment. “And so, swinging completely 1 around this thing called the building industry, we have gtopped to look at up some of the principal nvenues sproach, and have seen how di ferently it can appear from different points of view and how different men both in ability and training, ap- ch it best by these different ave- Yot 'it is the same thing all the while and there must be much in com- mon in the training of each of these men from whichever avenue he is to approach. Now, this understanding, held in common, may be reached through an engineering education. “All that sclence has to offer enters IT €COMPELS RESPECT Saves your money, ture of your family. HOME OWNERSHIP Fort Stevens Ridge Homes $350 Cash - PRICE, $6,750 to $7,250 Six rooms, tiled bath in a semi-detached brick built house. The Best Buy Exhibit House: St. N.W. Drive out 16th Street through Colorado Ave. to Ritten- house St., or Georgia Ave. cars or l4th Street cars marked “Takoma” will take you to Rittenhouse St. Open every day until 9 in the evening. ARDMAN 1430'K Street SPECIAL TO MIAW Convention Will Draw Many From Capital—Elaborate Plans Made. | Because of the large number of Washington realtors who will attend the annual Midwinter conference of the National Association at Miami, January 11 to 14, tha local real estate board has arranged to charter a special train to convey the local delegates to the meeting, according to James P. Schick, executive secretary of the Washington Real Estate Board. The . train will leave Washington Saturday, January ‘8, and will arrive in Florida in sufficlent time to allow sightseeing in several of the cities and also in Miami lpflul’ to the open- ing of the convention. incurdlng to Theodore M. Judd, chairman of the committee in charge of the local delegation to the con- ference, approximately 50 members of the Washington board and their wives and guests have thus far signified their intention to take the trip. One of the inducements which has been an incentive to the large attendance L.of the Midwinter conference is the fact that the National Association of Real Estate Boards has secured a rate of fare and one-half for all dele gates who are making the trip. This, it is expected, will insure a consider- able attendance at the meeting. ,\‘ special train, which will convey the Washington realtors to Miami, will be held intact in the vicinity of Miami and will bring the members back. The train will be an elaborate one, including parlor car, dining car, club car, observation car, with special bar- ber shop and bath facilities. A further increase in the number of persons going from Washington is expected by reason of the increasing interest on the part of the members {of the board in the trip. $82,700 LOANS MADE IN HOUSING PROJECTS Sixteen Families Could Be Accom- modated in Construction Pro- vided for in Financing. Loans totaling $82,700, sufficient to provide housing accommodations for 16 l‘amilles in Washington, were au- thorized' at the last meeting of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. real estate committee, The ‘loans were placed through the Potomac Savings Bank. Loans on bonds and mortgages au- thorized in the country at large at the same meeting amounted to $8,266,520. Of this amount, $6,857,420 were city loans and $1;399,100 were farm loans. In the former were included housing ! loans to accommodate 1,373 families. | ‘The principal housing loans were in New Jersey, $136,800; Pennsylvania, $642,300; District of Columbla, $82,700; Virginia, $204,000; North Carolina, $194,000; Tennessee, $279,600; Ohio, | $6065,160; Towa, - $92,400: Michigan, | $864,950; Illinois, $791,480; Misgouri, $125,900; Washington, $138,790, and California, $250,760. Loans on 17 busi- ness buildings amounted to $1,811,50 The farm loans were scattered in States, the principal amounts being in Illinois, $173,800; Indiana, $179,30 Towa, $329,300; Minnesota, $186,900, and South Dakota, $115,900. SALES MEETING DELAYED. Managers' Division to Hold Ses- sion January 4. The regular meeting of the sales managers’ division has been postponed untl January 4. The meetings will be resumed on that day at 12:30 o'clock at the Lee House, when, ac- cording to C. H. Hillegeist, chairman | of the division, the sales managers will be asked to discuss a number of important topics dealing with the present real estate situation. The meetings during the latter part | of the month are expected to be par- i interesting because of the | reports” of the Washington delegates | to"the Midwinter convention of the tional Assoclation of Real Estate is at_Miami r later into some building when it is complete and ready for use. The selection of the avenue of ap- proach will be determined by the tastes, abilities and the opportunities of the recent graduate. He has in his training the fundamentals of the methods by which he may advance.” and prolects‘ the fu- $55 Monthly in Washington 619 Rittenhouse Main 3830. REAL ESTATE. REALTORSTORAVE 1t TioR D EscneD N roL.L Picking Site, Selecting Architect and Builder and Progress of Work Analyzed By A.N. Toflay home building is one of the largest industries in this country. In the Natlon’s Capital alone the amount of money spent on residential con- struction this year exceeds $50,000,000, according to A. N. Miller, who lectured before the Y. M. C. A. real estate class last Monday. The providing of a home is just s essential to life as providing food and drink and clothing. One of the most important functions of a realtor is providing homes for the future growth of our cities. cities are all growing at a very rapid rate, and there is every reason to he Meve that they should continue to grow,” said Mr. Miller. “Arealtor to enter into a bullding program, however, should spend a great deal of time in planning his program, and should not go into it only for the purpose’ of making money. “We have, as realtors, u great re- sponsibility on our hands because we mould the future growth of our cities, and, should we go into building, we | must realize that we are moulding the city’s growth, and that what we are building today will stand for genera.{ tions, Should Build Well. “We should, therefore, build well, | planning our homes in good taste, | along lines of good architecture and | tha which will always be goad. There are styles In building as well as in clothes, but I think that we should | keep away from fadish architecture as much as possible, using only such styles as have stood the test of time. ““We, as realtors, should not under- take to build for mere profits, but should fender our clients and our community a service for which we will be paid, if that service is well performed. We should feel that w are able to give our clients more real value in homes by building them. “There are three right ways of pro- viding homes. First, the employment of a competent architect to prepare plans and specifications and to take bids from responsible contractors. This s a good way and should be encouraged, but too much care cannot Dbe taken in the selection of an archi- tect. A good architect is a man worthy of his hire, and will save his client mony in the long run by the selection of the proper design for the home, the proper arrangement of the plans and the selection of materials. Advice on Picking Site. “The second way is the selection of a realtor builder with architectural facilities or connections. This man should be able to do all that the | Rose Roofs Are Reliable I report that ever: Our American | i | see that Miller. architect cou'd do advise on the selection of your site and the financing of your home. We have helped a gres ¢ people to build pared and s, simply them as well as had had architects ta i because w v the select ferent location, disposing of the sit they then owned and putting them where ground values w but had more { iy is by pure cady built. This last is 1 far the best for most people, for th know then the financial structure ane an see the home before going ahea A great many agination, cannot not know enougk often are sorry when they try to buile but if they buy know what the d what they tion is of | A be in the lir A great deal on this point Neighbor a home od 1s Tmportant. d shou be selected with a £ looking into the neighborhood. a that | mean not only the type « houses constructed in the neighbo hood, but alse the type of people i1 the neighborhood. Are they your kine of people and will you be happ ong them? ‘Consideration should also he give: as to the outlook from the particula site. In planning, the orientation of the rooms is probably between different main ope; such as excavatin tric wiring, It would be impossible for me to & into each one of those items at ar length. The two most importa: parts of the house are the foundatio and the roof. “The greatest care should be e cised to see that the house is ted right. In the first place, a survey of the lot should be obtained from the surveyor's office of the’ District, and permit should be obtained from the inspector of buildings, who will pas upon the plans and specifications and the architect has provide: the proper structural strength for the building. Recently there has beer formed in Washington the Architects (Continued on Seventeenth Page.) ON'T go deeper into the winter without making sure the roof is in condition to weather the storms. Itll be ny‘ireat satisfaction to have us ing is all right—and if it isn’t, it won’t take us long to make it so. The advantage of our work is its permanency. You don’t have to keep, tinkering a Rose roof— for we do a complete job—that will be a credit to us, as well as satisfactory to you. Don't be concerned about the pay—we'll budget the bill to suit your convenience. 2120-22 Georgia Ave. A Ho me Design--Supreme in Location 3421 Massahusetts Avé. 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