Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 17

REAL ESTATE WASHINGTON, D. 0y WITR SUNDAY MORNING EDITION hefiinfining‘%taf‘ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1923 |HOME & GARDEN | 17 LA Home-Owning and Building Page for Washington and Its Suburbs | ZONING CHANGES SEEN TENDING TO FAVOR DETACHED HOUSES Too Much First Commercial Property Is Interpretation Placed on Decisions Made by Commission. BY DON S. WARREN., In analyzing all changes in zoning classifications of District property in the past four years, just completed by the Operative Builders’ Association, the trend in zoning development here indicates two definite policies are guid- ing the zoning commission. . According to an interpretation of the study of the zoning changes by Rufus S. Lusk, executive secretary of the association. these apparent poli- cles are: ‘That there is already too much first ecommercial property in the District and that the commission will not make additional changes to this classification unless there is pronounced necessity for an individual change. Detached Houses Favored. ‘That the commission looks with sympathy on changes making more property available for detached house developments. The association’s study shows that there have been 781 requests for zoning changes in the past four vears, of which 355 or 45 per cent have been granted. The report of the survey continues: “The zoning changes may be roughly grouped in two classifications: Those which restrict the use of property such as decreasing the height limit, pro- hibiting the erection of apartments or rows of houses and those which have a relaxing effect, such as permitting the introduction of stores, increasing the height limit or allowing more in- tensive use of the land. “During this period there have been 137 requests made to tighten the zoning regulations or restrict the use of the land, and of this number 79 or 57 per cent have been granted. There have been 606 requests made of a relaxing nature, that is. to permit a more in- tensive use of the land. Of this num- ber. 267 or 42 per cent of the requests made have been granted. Commercial Changes Asked. “The largest number of requests were efforts to have property changed from residential to first commercial. ‘There were 231 requests made and only 64 granted or less than 30 per cent. Tt is in to note that while in 1924 37 per cent of the re- Quests to classify property as first com- mercial were granted, for the first 10 months of 1928 only 20 per cent of the requesis to make first commercial property were granted. The commis- zion is apparently going on the theory too much first com- and will not make except where there is pronounced necessity for the change. “During these years there were 82 requests to make property either ‘A’ or ‘A" restricted. This is a change which means that only detached or com- munity houses may be built, and in some cases apartment houses. Of this number of requests, 53 of them or 64 per cent were granted. This would seem to indicate that the commission has had a steady policy of making more and more of the District. of Co- lumbia. ailable for detached house The Triangle of lm;.reuing Values —between Massachusetts and ~Connetticut Avenues -and Woodley Road. Over 250 homes built and under construc: improvements $10,500,000. Wooded villa sites, lots, central and side hall homes, with lots from 75 to 300 feet front. 3 Call for Literature and List of Over 300 Purchasers Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. ESTABLISHED 1899 tion. Actual 1435 K St. N.W. Chevy Chase Homes | By DOUGLASS development. The total “number of changes approved, however, does not mean that there were that number of different, pieces of property affected, since several of these applications have been: before the commission two or more times.” Types of Changes Listed. ‘The analysis made by the association lists 14 different types of changes in zoning during the four-year period, the number of applications and those ap- proved, as follows: Change to A area, 44 requests and 32 approved: change to A restricted, 38 requests, 21 approved: change to A semi-restricted, 2 requests and 2 ap- proved: change to B area, 23 requests fand 13 approved: change to B re- | stricted. 14 requests and.12 approved; | change to C area, 167 requests, 62 ap- proved: change from A restricted to B restricted, 6 requests and 3 approved; change from A restricted to A semi- restricted, 15 requests and 7 approved; change to D area, 52 requests, 32 ap- proved: change to increased height, 106. requests, 63 approved; change to lower height, 16 requests and 11 ap- proved: change to first commercial area, 231 requests, 64 approved: change to second commercial. 62 requests, 32 approved. and change to industrial area, 7 requests and 1 approved. JAMES TO ADDRESS BUILDERS’ SESSION Association Counsel Will Speak at Baltimore Meeting Next Wednesday. BALTIMORE, November 17.—State supervision. of building associations will be discussed by C. Clinton James of Washington at the annual meeting o the Maryland League of Building Asso- ciations here next Wednesday. Mr. James, who has served for years as counsel to the United States League of Building Associations in matters of legislation, will discuss State control in relation to Federal taxation. Robert Biggs. counsel for the Mary- ilon" ot “Bulatee Asencatiansmon for Building ions, . Dubel, chairman of t) league, will preside. l.n — REALTY FIRM LOCATES. R. M. Hooker and Harvey A. Jacob have opened general real estate offices at 1275 National Press Building under the name of Hooker & Jacob. Mr. Hooker was formerly associated with the firm of Shannon & Luchs for eight years and Mr. Jacobs was with the firm for the past three years. The new company plans to specialize in resi- dential properties. Mauachuwtts and home . values ‘exceed Basement Recreation Room Features House English Style Home in Rochester Was Built to Sell for $12,500. CROSS VENTILATION TO THREE BEDROOMS Two Chimneys, Fruit Cellar and Double Garage Points of Note. BY L. PORTER MOORE, President Home Owners' Institute, Inc. A basement recreation room, meas- uring 12 by 30 feet, is one of the prac- tical features of the mc<cl home com- pleted early this Fall in Rochester, sponsored by the Home Owners' Insti- tute. We are featuring this house as plan No. 336-S today. Ground Wwas broken for the foundations on June 7. and the house was opened. fully equipped and furnished, September 9. the careful construction work taking about 11 weeks. This six room and bath house. with cement block foundation, white stained shingle and stucco walls, shingle roof in three colors and casement windows glazed with plate glass, is in the Eng- lish style. Gables are so arranged as to elimi- nite any unpleasant impression as to excessive height; two chimneys, one for fireplace and one, inside, for boiler and incinerator; brick entrance, decorative shutters, laundrv chute, fruit cellar and double garage are amonog the points in this design worth noting. Containi=~ 23,500 cubic feet of space, the house was priced to sell for $12500. Con- struction cost totaled $9,214. One enters the home through a tiled vestibule with a mirror-door coat closet. Living room is large, with built- in bookcases at each side of the fire- place. French doors giv: to a concrete terrace. Kitchen is well planned and equipped to lighten housework. Each of the three sleeping rooms enjoys cross ventilation. Master’s room is large, and has a seat under an arch at one end between two closets. This has a lift cover, and is used for quilt storage. Bath is tiled in orchid and black; tub is recessed under an arch: brass pipe and fittings are used; fixtures are styled to harmonize in line one with another. There is ;pme for a maid’s room on the third loor, Metal lath was used throughout as plaster base for the two coats of sanded plaster and the finish coat of hydrated lime. Graceful one-panel doors of in- ner frame flush molded construction t.lg:fl make rooms seem higher were also used. Dealers Rerated. Farm Land Looking farm lands, farm lands dealers were given the status of a separate division within the membership of the National Association of Real Estate Boards by action of the board of directors, meet- mgku. the Drake Hotel, Chicago, last week. 801 ELM to Elm Street. Open Sunday and to a revival of activities in | in, This house adjoins the famous Star Model Home. Drive ouf, Connecticut Avenue to Leland Street and turn west Telephone Wisconsin 4034 M. & R. B. WARREN, Redltors Dunig'an-Built Homes Six Rooms - Garage " |- piine mogm @ o Plans from Home Owners Institute, Inc., - FIRST _F100R FIAY. - 22y w Tisicl ~XauDves Wy - DIRECTORS ARE NAMED. Co-operative Apartment Have Annual Meeting. Directors of 3016 Tilden Street, Inc., a unit of Tilden Gardens co-opera- tive apartment development, were elect- ed for the ensuing year at a meeting of the stockholders this week, The di- rectors elected are Paul Wooton, Wash- ton correspondent; Judge John B. Milliken, United States Board of Tax Appeals; Col. Harry A. Knox, chief au- tomotive engineer, Ordnance Depart- ment; Robert F. Beresford, architect, and J. F. Callbreath, secretary Ameri- can Mining Congress. Mr. Wooton was elected president of the board. Owners STREET Chevy Chase, Md. $10,850 Undoubtedly one of the prettiest settings in all Chevy Chase, large wooded lot, fully sodded and landscaped; large concrete front {ouh. six delightful ‘rooms, open fireplace, tiled bath with shower, ronze screens and a garage to match, Daily Until 9 P.M, ® 1928. KP:.i.t)kside Apartment Is Purchased By Local Investors The Parkside Apartment Hotel, 1336 I street, overlooking Franklin Square, has been purchased from F. C. Heigle, former owner and man- ager, by a group of local investors, represented by H. < Dver, it was announced this week by Vernon B. HOTEL TO CELEBRATE. Wardman Park Hostelry to Ob- serve Anniversary Tonight. Celebration of the tenth anniversary of the opening of Wardman Park Hotel will be staged tonight in the ballroom of the hostelry. Pageantrv and special entertainment features will go to make up a program of gayety that will recall the gathering attending the formal | | | Architects’ Council Passes Favor- Foxhall Village Not the least interested of the hun- dreds of persons who weekly are visit- ing The Star Model Home at Foxha'l Village during its current four-week demonstration period are the men folk of Washington. ‘While many wives have lingered fond- ly over the array of furnishings placed in the model dwelling for their Inspec- tion, and while they have spent a great deal of their time examining the living quarters on the first and second floors, equally -as many husbands have ene joyed their minute inspection of tke cellar, the clubby third floor lounge SOUTHERN RAILWAY BUILDING APPROVED ably on Plans for Fifteenth and K Streets Structure. Plans for the new Washington head- quarters building of the Southern Rail- way, now under construction at teenth and K streets, which was de- signed by Waddy B. Wood, have been approved and commended by Archi- tects’ Advisory Council, sponsored by the local chapter of the American In- stitute of Architects. The juries of the council at sessions this month in the office of Maj. Donald A. Davison, assistant engineer commis- sioner, also approved plans for 20 dwellings and other projects, as fol- lows: Dwellings, 1313 Iris street, H. L. Breuninger, architect: dwelling, 3818 Livingston street. H. J. Connor, archi- tect; dwelling, 1325 Iris street, H. L. Breuninger, architect; six dwellings, 6419-29 Eighth street, M. Mesrobian, architect, 12 dwellings, 707-29 Tewkes- bury place, M. Mesrobian, architect; dwelling, 4801 Indian lane, G. E. Mac- Neil, architect: dwelling, 4900 Indian lane, G. E. MacNeil, architect. Sunday school, Calvary Baptist Church, Arthur B. Heaton, architect; four dwellings, 3612-18 Van Ness street, George T. Santmyers, architect; gas station, 1400 Maryland avenue north- east, G. D. Ellsworth, architect; dwell- ing, 2372 Massachusetts avenue, Smith & Edwards, architects; dwelling, 5109 Thirty-ninth street, C. N. Norton, archi- tect; apartment, 120 C street, George T. Santmyers, architect. A Serving on_ the juries were: Albert Speiden, W. H. I. Fleming, R. F. Beres- ford, I. S. Porter, Delos Smith and Frank G. Pierson. : opening of the hotel in 1918, it is an- nounced. ‘The anniversary of the hotel finds it increased in size. Wardman Park An- nex was added several years ago and 'mented by & swimming pool for the buyers. TaYiraxiiavi he new annex now in course of (i7aXi7a\i 7@\ i aY I TaYi /8y tion on the Connecticut avenue side will provide 300 additional rcoms. The MEN FIND STAR MODEL HOME IS TO THEIR WAY OF THINKING From Cellar to Roof, and Including Garage, House Attracts . Both S_exes. and study and the garage equipment at, &hz rear of the miniature formal gar- lens. The cellar, perhaps, drew most of the masculine comment by virtue of its ample dimensions and striking good order. The stairway, leading in a straight line without sharp turns to the floor below, is broad and easy of tread, establishing at once, it seems, a fitting approach to the big, airy chamber that extends the full width and depth of the 31-foot-wide house. In the corner op- posite the stairs, the visitors saw a large furnace, cozily hot on the cold days of the week, but, for all of that, spotlessly clean and devoid of dust and grime, Cellar Is Gymnasiom. Because of its cleanliness, the cellar has been fitted with a gymnasium set, including striking bag, rowing machine and pulley lifts. Unwilling to establish the cellar too firmly as a man’s room, however, Boss & Phelps, builders of the house, equipped it with a mechanical washing machine, an ironing machine and three stationary wash tubs, all ar- ranged beneath banks of windows which open over the rear garden. Even in meeting the women’s de- mands, however, the men of the house- hold were considered, for the builders erected all necessary utility shelves which a woman might have asked her husband to erect. One corner of the cellar, in fact, has been inclosed as a cold closet equipped with ample shelv- ing which derives its chill from a case- ment window opening to the north over the front lawn. ‘The garage, buit to house two cars, also was designed with the intent to make it, as far as general requirements demand, a model structure. Utility shelves are placed convenient to the space allotted for each automobile. The ne appreciation wia Shower Baths Provided. As the visiting men walked upstairs through the house to the attractive quarters they noticed that each of the three baths in the house were equipped with showers, and every man knows his enjoyment of that sort of bathing. On the third floor, many of tne vis- itors to the house rested in the heavy, comfortable chairs and upon the deep upholstered lounges as they contem- Ell’:f:fl m:nder cozy t:tglmy of suchtu flocr. up ll?lu house, sufficiently isolated 11 Taburatly. thought of the naf Pl for reflection with a pipe, for reading, or, if they were so inclined, for a game “Hb d‘flor mtdbs‘ planned with omes frequently are e woman’s wants in mind, but certainly The Star Model Home at 4422 Q street, Foxhall Vi , is one where “mere of a mt usual hotel conveniences are supple- and theate: 7a\i/aYiraY)7a\i7e America’s Smartest Colony of English Group Homes ) N 4 Jt;“.-‘\g ) Uty g OUR MANY INTERVIEWS WITH THESE VISITORS HAVE BEEN A SOURCE OF UNTOLD SATISFACTION TO THE OWNERS AND DEVELOPERS A Predetermined Noncompetitive Development Star 4422 Que St. SOUTH OF RESERVOIR RD. WILL 9 AM. to 9 PM. PRICES RANGE $10,500 to $21,500 man” has been given his innings by the architect—in this case, James E. Coope! Thousands ‘of People Have Visited the Coening Star Hodel Home Since It Was Formally Opened for Inspection Nov. 4th The Model Home BE OPEN DAILY Furniture, Draperies and Rugs from THE HOUSE OF W. and J. SLOANE Pictures from the DUNTHORNE GALLERIES The Home Gymnasium from the GYM JR. CO. Chas. G. Graves—Representative Pe’cworthqs Finest Section 621 Delafield N.W. A ND 5014 Fifth St. N.W. Exhibit Home; 125 Grafton Jelightfully Different OUGLASS HOMES are the acme of construction and are most_excellently located just south of and over- looking the Chevy Chase Golf Club: offering the greatest variety of choice. in architecture and size—there being Moorish, Old English, American Colo; and Dnglish Cottage types. with six rooms and two baths to nine rooms and three haths, each with two-car garage. Open Until 9 P.M. Drive west on Grafton St Chase Circle two blocks The remaining Foxhall homes range in sizes as follows: Three bed- rooms and bath; one with unfinished third story: center hall, three bed- rooms and bath, 30 feet wide: five bedrooms and two baths and two lavatories; seven hedrooms and three baths. L Drive out Que St. to Wisconsin Ave., turn right one block to Reservoir Road and left on Reservoir Road to Village. Make left-hand turn at 44th St. Or take Burleith-Foxhall Bus at Dupont Circle to Village. Wonderfully built and equipped. All brick with exterior woodwork of cypress; Genuine Bangor Certificate Slate roofs; No-Kol Oil Burners; Noiseless Rotary Frigidaire; Arkansas glazed clear white oak flooring; tongue and groove dry kilned sub flooring; steel beam construction under each floor from cellar to roof; white pine, chestnut and ash trim in inte- rior; plate glass windows; birch, oak and ash doors; Pembroke ttibs and pedestal lavatories; sanitas on kitchen and bathroom walls; wood and stone mantels, 15th century design. All brass knobs and lighting fixtures; unusual arrangement of kitchen dressers, running from floor to ceiling ; cold storage room ; cedar-lined closets; bronze copper screens throughout ; enameled laundry trays; double and single fireproof garages; imported English.papers, Many-other-unusual features-of refinement and* beauty. ‘ () A small cash payment and monthly payments like rent, hardly more, and maybe less, than you now pay to the landlord, will buy your own home. Here is your opportunity. D. J. DUNIGAN, Inec. 1319 N. Y. Ave. Main 1267 FOXHALL VILLAGE Owned and Developed by BQSSMPHELPS FOUNDED 1907 from Chevy to home. 3. €. Bouglass € Realtors-Builders 1417 K 8T, MAIN 9300 Frank. 5678