Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1928, Page 15

REAL ESTATE WIDER SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES PLANNED BY REALTORS HERE Three Separate Divisions Are Formed Under By-Law Changes Made in Reorganization of Board. Broadening and intensifying of the activities of the Washington Real Es- tate Board are planned for the coming year, Ben T. Webster, president of the board, said toflay in announcing reor- ganization of the work of the body, made under authority of changes in the by-laws of the board adopted at the recent December meeting. Under the by-law. changes three sep- arate divisions of the board are formed, covering finance, rentals and sales ac- tivities, These divisions, composed of active members of the board, each will have a chairman and vice chairman to be elected at meetings scheduled for the near future. ¥ In explaining the organization changes just effected, Mr. Webster said these divisions cover the three major branches of the real estate business and offer greater opportunity for construc- tive activities of a specialized character. Study of the problems presented in modern real estate practice thus are to be classified and the experience and knowledge gained by members in the different branches will be made avail- able to the entire membership, it was announced. Becoming Specialized. “Real estate, like most professions and businesses,” he said, “is fast devel- oping into specialized fields in which individual realtors devote their entire energy along certain restricted lines. These individuals and the larger organ- izations covering the entire field will concentrate their efforts in the respec- tive divisions affecting their business and in this way there will be practically three organizations functioning within the board.” g The former sales managers’ division, Mr. Webster stated, will become a sec- tion of the brokers’ division. This sec- tion is composed of executives person- ally directing the sales forces affiliated with the board and it will co-operate in developing ideas and information in connection with the details of actual selling methods. The chairman of this section is J. G. Beitzell of the Cafriiz organization, Milton F. Schwab of Boss & Phelps 1s vice chairman and Ernest W. Farley, associated with J. E. Doug- lass, is secretary. Committees To Be Organized. As soon as the respective chairmen of the divisions are elected, Mr. Web- ster said, program and research com- mittees will be organized in each divi- sion to develop and carry through the purpose for which the divisions were created. Announcement of the appointment of two important committees was also made by Mr. Webster, B. H. Parker having been selected to serve as chair- man of the membership committee for the coming year together with Joseph D. Sullivan, H. H. Carter, Leo Walshe and J. A. McKeever. The public affairs committee will be headed again by W. Cameron Burton, who has been chair- man of this committee for the past six years. Serving with Mr. Burton during the coming year will be Fred A. Smith, L. H. Colbert, E. Stuart Poston and Loren F. Herbert. $1.100.000 APARTMENT HOUSE PLANNED ON HARVARD STREET William S. Phillips to Build Large Struc- ture West of Sixteenth Street. Other Permits Issued. Plans for a large apartment house, costing $1,100,000, to be erected by Williami 8. Phillips at 1660 Harvard street, were included in the new list of private projects in the District for which permits were issued this week by Col. John W. Oebmann, building 1n- spector. The total cost of all new operations, exclusive of Federal work, was estimated at $1,340,305. Plans also were approved for the oonstruction of 28 dwellings of varying sizes and costs and numbers of re- modeling and repair jobs. H. C. Ball is to erect five brick and tile dwellings in the 2100 block of Woodley road, and the Cafritz Construction Co. is to build five dwellings in the 400 block of Alli- son street. List of Permits Issued. Permits were issued as follows: William 8. Phillips, owner; Louis Justement, architect; William S. Phil- lips Construction Co., builder; to erect one 5-story brick apartment house, 1660 Harvard street (lots 805, 267, 266 and B30, square 2589); to cost $1.100,000. H. C. Ball, owner and builder; George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect five 2-story brick and tile dwellings, 2102 Woodiey road and 2144-50 Cathedral avenue (lots 49 to 53, square 2205); to rcost *$44,000. Carfitz Construction Co., owner and builder; -A. L. Aubinor, architect; to erect five 2-story brick and tile dwell- ings, 418 to 426 Allison street (lot 44, square 3247); to cost $38.000. H. R. Howenstein. owner and builder: E. C. Rowzee, designer; to erect four 2-story brick and tile dwellings, 4003, 4007, 4011 .and 4015 Twenty-first street dots 3, 5, 7 and 9, square 4228); to cost $28,000. Eudina B. Johnson, owner and builder; George T. Santmyers, archi- tect; to erect one 2-story brick dwell- ing, 3816 Garfield street (lot 72, square 1813); to cost $14,000. G. W. Chase, owner, designer and builder; to erect two 2-story brick dwellings, 7208 and 7212 Seventh street (lots 16 and 17, square 3176); to cost $12,000. Permit for Three Stores. Kass Realty Co., owner and builder; H. H. Warwick, architect; to erect three 1-story brick stores, 805, 807 and 809 Monroe street northeast (lot 802, square 3829); to cost $12,000. Rubin & Perry, pwners and builders; George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect one 2-story brick stores and apart- ments, 1631-41 Seventeenth street (lot 27, square 179); to cost $18,000. Jacob Dodd, owner, designer and builder; to erect .one 2-story brick dwelling, 4434 Hunt street northeast (lots 29 and 30, square 5127); to cost $4,000. W. C. & A. N. Miller, owners and builders; G. E. MacNeil, architect; to erect one 2-story brick and frame dwell- ing, 2913 Glover driveway (part lot 63, square 1620); to cost $12,625. Penn Realty Co., owner and builder; Julius Wenig, architect; to remodel, 243 K street northeast (lot 96, square 750); to cost $2,000. ‘W. W. Lightbown, owner and builder; J. A. Melby, architect; to erect one 2-story frame dwelling, 3923 Michigan avenue northeast (part of lot 6, square 3887): to_cost $4,500. Peter Prophet, owner; William B. Fowler, designer; G. Fitch Gardner, builder; to erect one 2-story brick store and dwelling, 912 Sixth street (lot 817, square W-484); to cost $3,000. C. H. Gaskins, owner, designer and builder; to erect two 2.story brick dwellings, 514 and 518 Nicholson stregt (lots 113 and 114, square 3204); to cost $16,000. C. H. Gaskins, owner and builder; to erect two brick garages, 514 and 518 Nicholson street (lots 113 and 114, square 3204); to cost $500. Flat to Be Built. John M. Carl, owner and builder; George N. Bell, designer; to erect one 1-story cinder block two-family flat, 1633 U street southeast (lots 877 and 878, square 5777); to cost $6,000. W. A. & O. T. Carr, owners and builders; William A. Carr, designer; to erect one 2-story frame dwelling, 4925 Butterworth place (lots 6 and 7, square 1486); to cost $6,000. E. Brown, owner and builder; R. C. Archer, jr, architect; to make altera- tions, 1427-29 Thirty-fourth street (lot 806, square 1245); to cost $2,000. Moses Herzog, owner; Julius Wenig, architect; Virgil E. Burner, builder; to (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) Massachusetts Park The Triangle of Increasing Values —between Massachusetts and Connecticut Avenues and Woodley Road. tion. Actual $10,500,000. Over 250 homes built and under construc- improvements Wooded villa sites, lots, central and side hall and home values exceed homes, with lots from 75 to 300 feet front. Call for Literature and List of Over 300 Purchasers Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. ESTABLISHED 1899 1435 K St. NW. Main 8685 3812 GARRISON STREET In the best section of Chevy Chase, D. C. This center-| a sunny din adjoining pantry: a compiete k,_closet hall 8-room home has a open fireplace, a fine concrete room, splendid modern Kitchen with -floor’ tiled lavatory and a first-floor There are four large bedrooms with splendid closets, two tied baths (one has a shower)—while on the third floor is another bedroom and ample storage space. GARAGE——LARGE LOT 2 1,500 Terms 3811 UPTON STREET A New Brick English Residence—Two Built, One Left of 8 rooms, 2 tiled baths (one has shower), a floored attic and special features—the kind you don’t expect to find in a residence §o reasonably priced especially fine hardwood The stan To % block to this fine home. Electric refrigeration, inviting large open fireplace floors, metal weather-stripping and slate roof. rage opens on a paved alley and the lot on which this house is_38x150 and is beautifully planted. Reach—Drive out Wisconsin Avenue to Upton Street.and east ONLY $14,250—TERMS Open Sunday From 10 AM. Until Dark Realtors WASHINGTON, D. 0, Design Won Second Place in 1927 Competi- tion With 300 Rivals. FLOOR PLANS MEET NEEDS OF FAMILY Seven Rooms, Downstairs Lavatory, Sleeping Porch and Garage BY L. PORTER MOORE, President, Home Owners’ Institute, Inc. If you have pictured in your mind's eye a home of true colonial pattern which avoids severe lines, here is your day dream come true. This design, by Verne H, Sidnam, architectural designer of Detroit, won second mention from among 300 entered in the 1927 archi- tectural competition conducted by Pencil Points. It is offered as plan No. 341-S, and contains 28,000 cubuc feet. ‘There is real individuality in the overhung second floor, providing a dec- orative variation in the exterior wall treatment. The smooth front of the lower story contrasts pleasingly with the clapboard above, while the recessed entry strikes a note of hospitality. With the lower front facade painted white, lap siding and roof stained a natural color and the sash painted blue green, this house would have a mel- lowed, lived-in appearance from the day you occupied it. As conditions or de- sire dictates this color scheme could be easily changed to, one more pleasing, & distinct advantage possessed by the all- wood house. This house has been designed for a family of father, mother and two chil- dren, a typical American family. To meet the needs of such a family it has seven rooms, a downstairs lavatory, two baths, sleeping porch and garage. The house is to occupy an inside lot meas- uring 50 by 150 feet, facing a street run- ning north and south. Cost will probably fall between $13,- 000 and $14,000, as estimated from a coast-to-coast study. Floor plans also anticipate the needs of the average family, each member being considered. Living room is large, with open fireplace; kitchen takes ad- vantage of modern equipments in a compact manner. Each bedroom has good light and cross ventilation, with abundant closet space. BLISS PROPERTIES BUYS APARTMENT Five-Story Building at 2800 On- tario Road Sold by ‘Wardman Co. The five-story apartment house lo- cated at 2800 Ontario road has been acquired by the Alonzo O. Bliss Prop- erties from the Wardman Construction | Co., it was announced today by the office of McKeever & Goss, which han- dled the transaction. ‘The structure contains 29 apartments | ranging from two to six rooms, kitchen and bath. Its facades are of brick and limestone. ‘The Wardman Co. obtained the build- ing in September from its builders, the Ell & Kay Building & Investment Co., in a deal involving other property. The consideration in the transaction with the Bliss Properties was not made public. Chain Stores to Be Discussed. In view of the rapid growth of the chain-store movement and the increas- ing importance of chain-store location as one large element in downtown real estate utilization, the brokers’ division of the National Association of Real Es- tate Boards will make chain-store loca- tion a topic on its program for the coming annual business meeting in Birmingham, Ala, January 23, 24 @l Ty uing .~ WITH SUKDAY MORNING EDITION %taf 2 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 99 1928. HOME & GARDEN 15 age for Washington and Its Suburbs Plan No. 341-S Colonial Home Shown Avoiding Severe Lines Dining Room TRCENIS ~SEc OND FLOOR PLAN< PLAN BLOCK HOUSES. ‘Wardman Co. to Build Section in Sheridan Park. Construction of the first block of houses in the projected new develop- ment to be known as Sheridan Perk will be started in the near future by the Wardman Construction Co., it was announced today by Harry Wardman, president. The new project is to consist of about 250 English style houses in groups of 5, 7 and 9 in a row. Permits for num- bers of the houses already have been issued by the building inspector in anti- cipation of the development. The first houses are to be erected on Rittenhouse street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. INVESTIGATE 6802 46th Street Chevy Chase, Md. New colonial home with floor plan that is interesting, pleasing and most livable. 6 real rooms, tiled bath with shower, open fireplace, screens, on beautifully landscaped lot. Garage. Imme- diate p 0 s s e s s i 0 n. Excellent terms. Opportunity of the year. $10,850 (Drive out Wisconsin Avenue to Leland Street (north of Bradley Lane); turn east on Le- land Street one block to 46th Street; or phone Wisconsin 2875. and 25. The Sun Oil Building, 1608 Architects, Tilden, Register & TH first floor. Philadelphia office building to be These units have been used for South Washington, Va. Pepper. Builders, The Wark Company E new Sun Oil Building has used Straub Cinder Units, exposed and without plaster, on the first five of its office floors, and part of its In the second and in twelve of its higher floors it has used these units with a coating of plaster. « « « constructed with STRAUB CINDER UNITS partitions, and for all outside wall backing. Mfg. & Distributed Locally by WASHINGTON CONCRETE PRODUCTS CORP. Walnut Street, Philadelphia The Sun Oil Building is the latest fireproofing, elevator shafts, in all Main 8528 fi%&w&‘:&&m&&&&m@@m&m&amwflma&&m&wmm&&w&mm DAILEY’S GARAGE SOLD. Dailey's Garage, & two-story structure located at 1828 L street, on a lot having a frontage of 42 feet and a depth of 147 feet, has been purchased by Mau- rice J. Sheehan from William J. Dante. The consideration in the transaction approximated $100,000, it was announc- ed today by the office of McKeever & Goss, which handled the negotiations. Improvements Add to Homes. Modern invention has played its part in making Americans a home-loving people. Better homes have been made possible by the development of better materials. . Conn and DEFINES ITS STATUS. Loan Association Leader Tells What “Building Society” Means. Sir Enoch Hill, manager of one of the world’s largest savings and loan so- cieties, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, when n.}l;ed to define a “building soci- ety,” said; “I should say that it is'a ‘building’ soclety only in one sense—that it is a society building character, a society building good citizens, a society build- ing up happy homes; building founda- tions for useful and prosperous careers, for building great avenues through which ever-increasing masses of men and women go toward a broader and better life.” A Charming Living Room in Tilden Gardens O most of us, Christmas means thoughts of home and our own fireside. Christmas would be this year if it were spent, not in a rented house Plans have been drawn for the de- velopment of an eight-story residential hotel, designed primarily as the home of employed Washington women, on a site at 11-19 E street, opposite theGrace Dodge Hotel and nearby Union Station Plaza, it was announced today by offi- cials of the District Investment Co., which is handling the project. The cost of the entire operation, it was said, has been estimated at $850,- | 000. Arrangements for financing the building of the hotel now are being | closed with the Fidelity Trust Co. of Philadelphia, and architectural plans, drawn by Pierson & Wilson of Wash- ington, are to be filed shortly with the building inspector. ‘The new development, to be known as the Bellevue Hotel, is planned on a co-operative arrangement, and business women who have contracted to take apartments in the hotel have purchased stock in the enterprise. The project is being sponsored by Bellevue, Inc., of which Mrs. Marrietta Hawkins is presi- dent; Mrs. Margaret Bowen, vice presi- dent, and Miss Laura Hughes, secretary- treasurer. Numbers of the women in- terested in the hotel are now residing at the Government Hotels for Women, BUSINESS WOMEN SPONSOR OWN RESIDENTIAL HOTEL Government Workers Plan Project Near . Union Station Having 280 Apartments. To Cost $850.000. which is to be razed in the future to make way for the new plans for the Union Station Plaza development. The site, to be acquired from Jesse L. Heiskell, has a frontage of 101 feet on E street and a depth of 115 feet. The building is to be of Northern Italian de- sign, with rough texture brick facades ornamented with stonework, and plans call for lavish treatment of the first floor and mezzanine. It would provide many service features of special design for women, including a beauty parlor, circulating library, ballroom and audi- torjum and cafeteria. The main entrance will be on E street and plans provide for a lobby extend- ing across the front of the building. On the first floor also will be reception rooms, a private office, information and hotel desk and a large ‘“fountain” court. The floor is to be of marble and the walls are to have Italian decora- tion. The ballroom and cafeteria are to be entered from the court and the hotel kitchen will be at the rear. The mezzanine floor is to provide smaller reception rooms and a balcony. ‘The second and upper floors will provide 280 private sleeping rooms, 224 having private baths. MARTINIQUE HOTEL SOLD AT AUCTION Fashionable Residential Apartment Bought by Group of Local Investors. The Martinique, fashionable residen- tial hotel located at 1211 Sixteenth | street, was sold at auction this week by Thomas J. Owen & Son, auctioneers, to Charles O. Kerr, representing a group of local investors. The sale was held at the direction of George J. Moss and F. P. Williams, trustees. Mr. Kerr obtained the property with a bid of $59.200 over and above the first trust of $240,000 and interest amounting to $7.230 and back taxes amounting to $7,793, it was announced. ‘The Martinique is an eight-story building of brick facades with stone trimming. The names of the new owners were not made public. - Land Problem Increases. ‘The problem of improving land for residential purposes has expanded to | the point where it has become neces- sary to improve whole sections of coun- tryside in order to achieve the best and: most profitadle results, says a writer in a recent issue of Building Developer. , That this is no wild dream is proven by the experience of Westchester Coun- ty in the State of New York. How Many More Years Before You Spend Christmasg IN' YOUR OWN HOME? How much brighter or apartment, but in your very own home! Why not play Santa Claus to yourself and your family this year by giving the gift of all gifts—a home of your own? In years to come the trivial, temporary gifts of today will have long since been discarded ‘and forgotten, but this gift will stand as a reminder of your biggest and best Christmas, and will contribute to the joy and happiness of every future Christmas. Nor is it difficult for you to provide this gift of all gifts—a In Tilden Gardens you may hav and conveniences of apartment residence, with the economies only possible through the time-tested Warren plan of Co-oprative Owner= Home. ship. Here you may purchase a six-room apartment home in one of Washington’s finest residential sections for an amount con= siderably lower than a private dwelling. After a modest first pay=- ment, your entire monthly outlay, including interest, taxes, insurance, all operating expenses and payments on your home, amounts to but $122—substantially Jess than the mere remtal for such a home. The interesting point to, thrifty people is that an average of $61 per month of this sum is an actual saving, an investment, that pays for the home before you realize the time has actually rolled around. Why not get the facts about this remarkabe opportunity to- day? An interesting booklet, “Questions and Answers About Co-operative Apartments,” explains the Warren plan; write for your copy. Or better, drive out today or Sunday, see these charming homes while every style and size is available, and judge for yourself. apartment home attractively furnished by W. B. Moses & Sons, is open for inspection every day ecticut Avenue Tilden Street ‘Telephone Cleveland 6084 Tilden Gardens Distinctive Development o} M. and R. B. Warren Construction Total High. At the beginning of the year it was predicted that construction would pass the $7,000,000,000 mark and this now seems certain, since the last quarter need show only $1,528,000,000 of new contracts to pass the estimated figure, and this is an easy lourtlu:n‘tzr Tec- ord for construction to attain. Facing Eastern High Restricted All-white Community 1700 B St. N.E. New seven. and eight room brick homes, numerous closets, beautifully tiled bath with shower, three in- closed and open porches, garages. Streets and Alley Paved Real Buy—Easy Terms ROBERT E. KLINE, Jr., Owner 718 Union Trust Building - Main 6799 Drive out East Capitol to 17 - e e T sl ¥ and happier your e all the comforts Model