Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1928, Page 15

REAL ESTATE WASHINGTON, D. C, he Foening S o e - HOME & GARDEN | 15 * LANDSCAPING WORK STARTED 'AT SECOND STAR MODEL HOME Demonstration Dwelling in Shepherd Park, Now Nearing Completion, Will Be Opened August 19. The work of landscaping the grounds| dow seat has been built to inclose the about The Star model home being| radiator in the dining room, which L~| just under the front windows of this erected by L. E. Breuninger & §ons at | 1001, UNGEL e OBt CUMONE O 11 the corner of Morningside drive and!a view to the west over Rock Creek | Juniper _street, Shepherd Park, was Park Hilis. started this week from an elaborate de-| The living room of this residence is| sign laid out by J. H. Small & Sons. | one of its most attractive features. In| This demonstration house, the sec-| addition to the usual stone open fire- ond of the series of four sponsored by | place, this room boasts of a very large The Star and the Home Owners' In-| sun room. semi-circular in shape. stitute, now is rapidly nearing comple- | practically doubles the size of the li tion, and all will be in readiness for|ing room, and is really a part of the the formal opening on August 19. It living room. This sun room has 14/ will be on public exhibition for one | windows. | month. Visitors now, however, are in-| The walls of the entire first floor | vited to inspect the place while the have been finished. They are rough| last finishing work is being completed. | texture finish and are painted a buff The sodding of the g)rounds of mg color in two tones. | house was completed this week and| e | work is proccedl:ng on the landscape | Den Is Feature. | plan. This plan calls for the laying| The den, which is one of the features | of a flagstone walk from the rear liv-| of this house, with its large open sione ing room door up through the yard to|fireplace and mantel and its beamed | & garden seat. A garden fence of lat-| ceiling. has been completed. The walls tice is being built to inclose a rear vard | have been finished in rough texture, which can be used for drying of and in a brown tone. This den is to clothes and other similar purposes.|be furnished with an unusual type of The grounds are sufficiently large | furniture, which is now being secured however, to permit the inclosing of | by D. S. Pool, Inc. Three bedrooms on this back yard without restricting the | the second floor are now being papered front yard. | by the interior decorator. gms wm;}: Floors Afe Finished. ‘:’s being done by George E. Cornell, The floors were finished this week | The lighting fixtures and lamps have and the new type of inlaid red linoleum | been received and will be put in piace has been put on the kitchen, pantry| during the coming week. The George and breakfast alcove floors. The me-| C. Brooks Go. of Connecticut avenue chanical ‘dishwasher has been placed in | has charge of this work. The placing the kitchen and is of a green color to| of pictures is to be by the Veerhoff Gal- match the woodwork of the kimhen.i leries. ‘The gas range wil also be in green. | This house, with its many new and The kitchen cabinets, storage com- | unusual features, will be well worth partment snd broom closet have ar-|studying. This home can be inspected rived and are now being put in place. | at any time by the public and can be They are finished in green enamel to | reached by going out Sixteenth street match the rest of the kitchen. A re-|to Alaska avenue, thence out Alaska frigerator has been placed In the pantry | avenue to Morningside drive, turning and the breakfast alcove has been|left into Morningside drive, to Juniper fitted with LAST 1928 STAR MODEL HOME IS BEING BUILT RAPIDLY of Q street in front of th= group of nine houses under construction there will be laid. There will be an unusually wide dis® tance between the building lines on | this street, due to the elliptical park- way which is being developed in the center of the street, and this feature will assure more light and air for the ‘The lathing and plas- model home wili Marked visible progress in the con- struction of the fourth and last of the A feature of the progress in the house during the past week was the placing of the two great stone balls on either side of the great gable, which is the center motif of the facade of the dwell- . The stone balls connected framework of the 5 The facade of the building, while yet in the finished stage, shows the outlines of the facade. The great m in the center, which will be fin- with stucco and exposed timoer- | work, reminiscent of the old-time Eng- lish homes, has some of the charac- teristics of an oriel, jutting from the main wall and overhanging the series ollmmmmeenmneeou‘ nwood Star Model Home flect Southern Colonial Style It is to be en- irnished for the The Star. reached by driving out either Connec- ticut or Wisconsin avenues to Bradley lane, turni) left into the lane and thence into Bradley boulevard-to Ken- SYNDICATE PURCHASES BIG OFFICE BUILDING Five-Story Block at 1420 K Street Changes Hands for $200,000, tering was compl house. Oak floors also have been laid throughout the house and the upper two stories have been trimmed out. Next week painters will be set to work be | mestic - science department; are ¥ ToOms. Me sturdy house. and carpenters will construct the fin- ish_stairs The entire project now is in the fin- ishing stage and the spacious grounds about the house have been graded in preparation for the landscaping. The Kenwood model home will be thrown open to the public for inspec- tion, beginning September 16, but the The five-story office building at 1420 K street has been sold by M. F. Mangsn to a syndicate headed by Jo- sep J. Crowley of the real estate firm of Stamp & Crowley, which handled the transaction. it is announced by the new owners. The property has a |Largest Single School Struc- ture in D. C. Opens Next Month. TOTAL BUILDING COST $3.175.000| Only Few Minor Details Re- main for Completion of Big Plant. When the new McKinley High School | s opened next month at Second and | T streets northeast Washington will| have one of the largest single struc-| tures to be built in the District and an | educational plant second to none in| the eastern section of the United States. Erected on a high rise of ground with | downtown Washington lying in a bluc haze at its feet, the new structure, now nearing completion, is visible as a towering mass of tapestry brick and | white stone on the northeastern horizon | of the city. | Cost $3,175,000. | The plant, including the building, stadium, equipment and landscaping, | when completed will represent an ex-| penditure of $3,175,000. Of this amount, | $2,225,000 represents the cost of the building alone and $450,000 covers the expenditures for its furniture and equipment. The stadium, to be let into the side of the terrain sloping south and_ west of the school, will be con-| structed and the surrounding land graded at a later date at a cost of | $275,000, while the remaining $225,000 of the total fund represents the cost of the ground. As it stands today, the McKinley High School 'building - is practically completed, structurally. Only a few minor details, including the laying of several basement and sub-basement foors, yet remain to be accomplished. A corps of workmen, however, is has- tening the installation of fixed equip- ment such as showers, laboratory plumbing, electrical fitments, built-in lockers, classroom desks and chairs, and machinery in the various shops, in order to permit the scheduled opening of school with nearly complete facili- ties in operation. Some of this work probably will be completed during the approaching school term, however. Conceded to have no.superior among buildings of its purpose in this part of | the country, McKinley High School has within its walls a complete theater with a seating capacity of 1800 five large lecture halls :gthwsefil;xgtupl:‘m:; ranging from ; two rooms; a handsome library: a 50-foot rifle range; a complete five-room apart- ment for practical study in the do- a large cafeteria with adjoining open-air courts, and a spacious, modernly equip- ped gymnasium. Contains Hospital Room. In addition to these major cham- bers, the building contains innumer- able small rooms which are to houss “Le-shaped,” the two wings, each 400 feet long, meeting at right angles at the corner of Second and T streets. The auditorium or theater is si in the arca between the spreading wings while the main entrance is lo- cated within the grounds in the face of the auditorium wing. in , finished in marble on the T street wing, and they are flanked on both sides with classrooms and smaller special rooms. The hos- tal, 23 by 35 feet in dimensions: the k, the large lecture hall, stage dressing rooms, art metal shops, forge shops, mold shops and janitor’s quar- ters all are found on the first floor. Theater Well Equipped. The gymnasium, housed actually in a separate building, south of the Sec- ond street wtnf, is 180 feet long and 95 feet wide. It is paved with a wood block floor from which no splinters can be scraped by the athletes by virtue of the “on-edge” and nail- less method of laying the blocks, The gymnasium building also houses the rifie range. cadet rifie armory and boys’ ‘and girls' showers. The auditorium, a complete theater, is equipped with 30 sets of curtain drops and a 26-foot-deep stage. The proscenfum arch is 45 feet wide, flanked on both sides with an artistic open grill, behind whic hthe pipe organ will be concealed. Hardwood paneling has been used across the entire front of the stage, frontage =7 23 feet and a depth of 95 feer. beneath which lockers for the orches- ‘Top—General view of new McKinley High School, at Second and T streets N.E, taken from the roof of the Langley Junior High School, adjoining it on T street. Mids lt-—'l_'l);e , showing ! new scientific chairs and McKinley High School War Dead Memorial Room, which is i class) esks.” to be furnished as a lounge. tra’s instruments have been built. The orchestra pit itself is seven feet wide and designed to accommodate a full symphony orchestra. The motion pic- ture booth Is designed to accommodate both motion picture and stereopticon machines, ‘The second-floor features include an exposed glassed hothouse for the use of the biology department and the clectrical laboratories, Here is located also the wood-turning shops and the two music rooms, each of which will be furnished with a baby grand piano. War Memorial. On this floor also is located a special room which is to be dedicated Massachusetts Park LG memorial to the McKinley students | and graduates who lost their lives in | The room is in the | auditorium wing at the entrance to the the World War. (Continu ctoer ‘oday—Have Your éollars Tolmanized THE TOLMAN LAUNDRY. 2469 18th S —Star Staff Photos on Sixteenth Page.) | FOR HIGHER Zoning Commission’s to Have Regulation e Srrtsstane 13 |SETBACK STYLE WILL PREVAIL BUILDINGS HERE Ruling Blocks Move Amended to Permit ' Unbroken Walls to 130 Feet. BY DON S. WARREN. The setback, or pyramid, style for | the higher buildings erected in Wash- | ington is to prevail as the recognized mode for new developments here, at ‘lcast for the present. The Zoning | Commission by very definite action this | week voted against a proposal to cast into discard the setback provision for buildings ranning to the maximum height of 130 feet, which was made a ! part of the zoning code in the District | about a year ago. | The commission rejected the pro- posed amendment to the zoning regu- | lations which would have permitted buildings 130 feet high without set- | backs above the 110-foot level, as now | required. The proposed change was | urged by a group of local builders, and | was strenuously objected to by the | National Capital Park and Planning | Commission, the American Institute of | Architects and its local chapter, the American Civic Association and indi- viduals. : At the same time the Zoning Com- mission disapproved the petition of Julius Garfinckel for permission to (erect his proposed . new department | store, on the northwest corner of Four- teenth and F streets, 130 feet high | without setbacks above the 110-foot (level. This would have constituted an | exception from the existing regulations in the absence of approval of the pre- | posed amendment. | Maj. Donald A. Davison, executive | officer of the Zoning Commission, in | commenting on the matter, stated to- | day that the decision by the commis- |sion indicates a determination on the| |part of that body to stabilize zoning | regulations in the District; to look with | disapproval upon requested changes and amendments of a drastic nature ‘| until there has developed a very defi- Architect ALFRED HOPKINS N. Y. City |nite and positive need here for a gen< | eral study of th> need for new regula< tions not hinging on individual cases. - City planners and others who have studied zoning and its effects have been, of the opinion for some time that the jreal benefit of zoning is its stability. Frequent changes in the zoning of property and in the ge?eral zoninj regulations, it has been sald, only ten | to creat fluctuations in values of props' | erty. | Some developers and builders main= ,tain that there already is a need foi higher buildings in Washington. The; point to the high rentals and high as« sessments on office building sites i support of their arguments. The petition for the Garfincked change was based primarily on the fact that the Willard Hotel, the National Press Building and the Westory Builde | ing. on opposite corners of the inters | section, are more than 100 feet hight without setbacks. It was brough* oufs | however, that the Willard Hotel and | the Westory Building were erected pris | to"the-adoption of zoning jaws for the | District, and that the Press Buflflm' | was approved by a special act of Con= | gress. Fears were expressed at thg | hearing that should an exception bé made in the Garfinckel Building ca: adjoining property owners might fil | similar petitions, citing the Garfinckel case as a precedent. “ | The decision of the commission, on the other hand, creates a real problema to be solved by Mr. Garfinckel, his | architects and engineer. Charles H. Tompkins, the contractor, pointed ouf | to the commission that a department store must have higher ceiling heights {than an office building; that for thig reason refusal of pe; ion to de | away with ihe setback requireme: might mean the elimination of an tire story in order to get the desired ceiling height for the various storids in the projected building. 2 Orwner HENDERSON GILBERT Harrisburg, Pa. 8-Inch Straub Cinder Block Walls painted inside and out THE ARCHITECT OF THIS DISTINCTIVE RESIDENCE Built With | STRAUB CINDER UNITS | | dollars yet constructed.” _ Let us send you the archite this residence, “We built the biggest house for fifty thousand 1 The Straub Block Walls of this residence are painted inside and out. ct’s deseription of the building of ADDRESS 'Washington Coner South Washington, Va. ete Products Corp. 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