Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1928, Page 16

16 REAL ESTATE., THE FEVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, INEW APARTMENT PLANNED BY STERN Five-Stcry Structure on Con- necticut Avenue to Have Many Features. Plans for the construction of a mod- e, fireproof apartment building of five ®tories to be erected on the site at the est corner of Connecticut avenue Appleton street were announced is woek by David L. Stern, architect, 'dor and owner of the projected de- t cifications by Mr. Stern call tor & re of Spanish design, irregular in shape. The building will contain 49 rtment suites of three, four, five and rooms, large porch and one and two baths, some with bullt-in showers. : a garage in the basement ng with a capacity for 50 s The apartment building will be served B a high speed elevator, have 24-hour service and apartments type refrigeration and re: rarce will be on Connecticut There will be an entrance 24 by 35 feet in size, which w! frontage of 145 feet avenue and 210 feet on CHICAGO MERCHANTS ATTACK PARKING BAN c0n Business Men File Protest, I NEW'APARTMENT FOR CONNECTICUT AVENUE - Spanish-type apartment house of five stories to be constructed at the corner of Connecticut avenue and Appleton street, at a cost of §600,000, by David L. Stern, architect, builder and owner. \Great Boom for Ca;;ital Is Predicted ' As Government Starts New Buildings HOME HEATING ADVICE BY ARA MARCUS DAN Consultine and Advisorv ) | % BY RUFUS S. LUSK, are of little value, so that probably the | Home nmin%?hynnfn;;-tltr and President Operative Builders' Association. | Cost of new warehouges, factories and ons arc essential for economy. They ‘Alked of. the Federal Government de- | means a large business in the next few serve as a means for checking the cided to buy the ground south of Penn- | years not only in building, but also in monthly consumption and thereby en-'sylvania avenue. So long has Wash- | the sale and leasing of various types of able leaks to be detected and correction o é “ino | Droperties. These new transactions will methods applied before accumulated [1S'On waited for the shacks occupying this triangle to be torn down, now that losses become excessive Such charts are equally these buildings are about to be razed the home heating piant and an eyesore to ba turned into parks » on which will shortly be built the finest sroup of monumental buildings ever |crected in America, now that this lon; | felt wish is about to be fulfilled. how Imany realize what it means to Wash- useful for * We are so close to the Nation's plans represent & turnover of almost 5 per cent of the total assessed value of all real estate in Washington. As soon as these buildings are torn down the new Government offices wili | begin to rise. And with them will be- |gin a new era for Washington. Since the war Washington has become not | merely a world Capital, but the Capital | of the world. This is not generally | known by its own citizens: one has to | dent, and Mrs. Ruby Lee Minar, secre- D. C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 1, 1928. REAL ESTATE. U. . BUILDING PLAN TOHELP VIRGINIA Bureau Director Says Mall Projects Will Stimulate Home Construction. ‘The great Federal building program now under way in the triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue will prove an important factor in the future develop- ment of Virginia sections in the Greater Washington area, C. A. Keefer, director of the Northern Virginia Bu- reau, sald in addressing the January meeting this week of the Alexandria- Arlington-Falrfax Real Estate Board at the George Mason Hotel, Alexandria. Completion of the bulldings planned | for the Mall will greatly accelerate growth of northern Virginia as a resi- dential area, he said. By the time the District of Columbla reaches the million mark in population. he pre- dicted, nearby Virginia will have a population of 250,000 if the present iate of growth continues. In reviewing the work of the North- ern Virginia Bureau in 1927 and the bureau plans for 1928, Mr. Keefer stated that advertising in Washington nows- papers last year brought many inquiries from residents of States some distance away, among others Californis, Alabama and Illinois. { The newly elected officers of the board were installed at the business meeting which followed the dinner. Addresses were given by Ashton C. Jones, retiring | president; Robert L. Kane, the new | president: K. A. Brumback, vice presi- tary-treasurer. F. C. Goodnow, vice president of the Alexandria Chamber of | Commerce, also spoke. | It was voted to hold the next regular | 12,600 IN CAMPAIGN | OF BETTER HOMES Huge Increase Shown in Nymber | of Communities to Participate in 1928 Drive. HOME PURCHASED BY PHYSICIAN | The latest returns in the 1928 cam- |paign of Better Homes in America, | Inc., indicate an extraordinary increase since last year in the number of com- munities taking part. Chalrmen of local committees are appointed anew each Fall by Better Homes in America. | A few weeks ago the appointments for the 1928 campaign were sent out. At this stage in last year's campaign the central office of this educational |organization at Wi n had re- ceived acceptances from local and county Better Homes chairmen in about 1700 communities. So far in the 1928 campaign the number has reached the neighborhood of 2,600. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, as president of Better Homes in America made the appointments of chairmen for various participating communities. The central office, at 1653 Pennsylvania avenue, is engaged in active supervision of the work of these committees, which already have begun to organize their cities for the Better Hom-s campaign. | In some parts of the country local ‘;:;)lmm)llleesw;ey’alfl ‘;Jm! 'he‘y l:;m.‘el‘.t; : | have selected the designs for houses o Wholesale Prices Unchanged. | from three to sfx rooms. at costs, in- Practically no change in the general | cluding lot, ranging from $3,000 to level of wholesale prices from Novem- | $10.000, and that they themselves will . | d the houses and furnish them as ber to December is shoun by informa- | ;p " gpject lesson to their communities tion collected in representative mar-|in achieving beauty and comfort with Residence of English design, located at 4525 Cathedral avenue, containing nine rooms and three baths, with garage, which recently was bought from the firm of W. C. & A. N. Miller by Dr. Arthur C. Christie. Realty Securities Increase. | Tremendous growth in the amount of real estate securities held by na- tional banks is indicated in statistics which have been compiled by the Claiming Order Has !to make Washington even more mag- | talk with a visitor to discover how great Chase National Bank. In the 10 years since 1918 the national banks of the country have increased such holdings from $185,117,000 to $725,452,000. This is almost a quadrupling of the 1918 total. Member banks of the Federal Reserve system have in the same pe- riod increased their holdings of real e: tate securities from $460,586,000 to § 930,000.000. In other words, they are holding more than six times the amount that they held 10 years ago. kets by the Bureau of Labor Statistics | of the United States Department of Labor. The bureau's revised index number, computed on prices in the year 1926 as the base and including 550, commodities or price series, stands at 96.8 for December as compared with 96.7 for the month before, an increase of only one-tenth of 1 per cent. Com- pared with December, 1926, with an index number of 97.9, a decrease of 1 small expenditure. Other communities report plans to borrow attractive houses recently co! pleted, furnish them on a carefully pre- pared budget and demonstrate them to their communities during Better Homes week next April. Still other commit- tees plan to remodel and refurnish oid houses. e e ST Snakes with two heads are ocea- ionally found. Injured Trade. ¢ Press, “n> parking” ordinance, effective in the & own business section, has brought nanimeus condem merchants. ndred and fifty of them yes- ased 200 daily since into* effect, he sal 1 & Co. still are investizat- R. F. Starr told the committee. foreed to express an opin- added. “I would say the ford, secretary of the Chi- s Association, said the 1ing people away from The e st $200 daily since went into effect. Out-of- s are staving away.” onle of Henriei's Resta: thst unless there came !mmedial 1ef. there would be & general exodus 1p © tenants 1o outlying districts eld. operating eight loop the worst business since Reetaration of the ordinance provic half-hour TALKS CN INUNDATION. R. T. Harris Addresses Enginecer Class of Princeton University. A lecture was given before the civil engincering class of Princeton Univer- by Robert T. Harris, associated the local firm of the Henrr H. Meyer Co.. op the subject of inunda- tion Thursdsy morning. The lecture w=s given on invitation by the univer- ¥y authorities and dealt with the lat- approved methods of measuring sand, gravel and water prior to it being made g:n concrete. subject deals h a revolutionary method of meas- uring these aggregates. and the system includes the geiting of the proper vol- it under wa- | of concrete by several Should Paint Wooden Shutters Q.Pa:r.'fd or stained wooden shutters nificent than it is that few realize the | is the Capital of the United States. immediate effect of the triangie pur-| With the development of the Mall chasing bill. About 20 blocks south of | and the further beautification of the the Avenue must be vacated. This city that will go along with that devel- ground now is closely buflt up. Every | opment, Washington will become more business house, every resident must | and more a center for art, education leave this area within a comparatively | and music.Today it is an ideal place short time. The Government esti- | to live; tomorrow it will attract increas- {mates that $25000000 will buy the|ing thousands whose ambition will be |ground and the improvements. | to reside in the world's most beautiful Most of the existing improvements | city. A Spring Offering This is the first offering of a group of individually desidnzd Warren-built homes in Leland, Chevy Chase, Maryland. They all contain beautiful hardwood floors throughout, tile bath, open fire-. d upon outside tempera- le a properiv designed plant may be capable of maintaining an inside temperature of 70 degrees for zero ouiside, yet it is seldom re- quired to do so for more than shori periods. The {following tabulation gives an idea of average monthly tes for a given locality fro; apparent that during month, January, the average heat de- mand is 3 large porch. All lots are 60 by 150. Frame Colonial Price $11.650 Cash Payment $1,200 Corner Brick Price $12.950 Cash Payment $1,500 s shown for each month of the heating season. and the amount of fuel required for each month is given as a per cent of the season’s requirements. From such a chart, knowing the total amount of fuel required for the heating season, a check on the fuel consumption can readily be kept. i _The approximate temperature from | October 1 to Mey 1 on a line drawn (through Nashua, N. H.. Albany and | Buffalo, N. Y.; Milwaukee, Wis.: Des| Moines, Jowa, and Cheyenne, Wyo, is | about 30 degrees F. The average rises | slightly as one goes south and drops | correspondingly to the north. In Bos- jton, the average is about 37 degrees; | .m New York, 40 degrees; in Phi 1- | phia, 42 degrees; Drtroit, 35 degrees; | Minneapolis,, 28 degrees; Washington, | D. C.. 43 degrees. Pitisburgh, 41 de- | grees. Chicago, 36 degrees; Memphis, | degrees; New Orleans, 60 degrees, and Denver, 38 degrees. Rural sections outside the cities will have a slightly lower average as they are exposed to winds and’not affected by heat’radiated from ciosely built bulldings of a city. Elevation, proxim- ity to bodies of water, shelter from hills and exposure of open spaces all have an influence on local temperature averages and consequently on the amount of fuel required for heating (Copyriznt 1927 Ara Marcus Danicls,) p— - FACING CATHEDRAL 3508 Garfield St. N.W. the Chevy Chase Club. house, 4531 Walsh Street. day place, cedar-lined closets, built-in radio aerial and many other de- sirable features. They all contain six rooms, bath and garage and Some are brick, some frame and some stucco. 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