Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1929, Page 15

pemers 0 o Ohe Foen WITR SUNDAY NORNING ENITION ng %faf‘ SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1929. A Home-Owning and Building Page for Washington and Its Suburbs 13 ZONING CLASSIFICATION fi WHOLESALE MARKET CENTER CONSTRUCTION STARTS SOON Commission Merchants Say Work Will Be Under Way Within 90 Days and i BY DON S. WARREN. Definite announcement of plans to proceed within 90 days with the con- struction of a new wholesale market center for commission merchants on proverty in the T tterson tract, Florida avenue and Fifth street northeast, re- cently ucquired for the project, was made today by Fred A. Spicer, president of the Joseph Phillips Co.. one of the group of commission concerns co-opera- tively promoting the operation. The new commission market center, when completed, it was estimated, would have a total cost of about $1,000,000, and includes provision, in addition, for the development on the site of a farmers’ market, and plans also provide space for the devzlopment there of a retail market center. Out of the maze of discussion, predic- tion and dcBate that has arison since the fate of Center Market. at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue, was sealed with decision - by th2 Federal Government to include ils site in ihe Federal building program, this week came another development—the “issu- ance of permits to the Potomac Freight Terminal Co. and the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad Co. providing for the erection of 34 two and three story huildings for the pro- posed farmers' market development on ‘Water street between Twelfth and Four- teenth streets southwest. The cost of these: buildings was estimated at $380.- 000. Announcement concerning this proposed development was made in re- In Use by 1930. quired portions of the Patterson tract, Mr. Spicer said, were recorded Decem- ber 9. The Joseph Phillips Co. has pur- chased 10 of these lots, comprising a site 200 feet along Fifth street and 125 feet deep. Thomas A. Cannon has | taken two lots; William H. Harrison, | three lots; Henry-J. Klein, two_lots; Nathaniel J. Ward, two lots; James Kalonturos and Gus Tompros, one lot; George D. Deoudes, two lots; “Charles | Heitmuller, five lots; James L. Sher- wood, jr., and E. H. Heitmuller, three lots; Edward Widmayer, two lots: F. enwood Parrish, two lots; W. H. Har- rison Co., two lots, and George Clagett, one lot. The buildings to be erected on these sites are to be uniform in exterior de- sign, two stories high, and, according {to plans drawn by Henschien & Mc- | Leven of Chicago, the devclopmeat will | b2 one of the bost of its type in the country, Mr. Spicer said. Ask for Sewers. Mr. Spicer declared that commission merchants who have contracted to en- ter into the new development now handle about 75 per cent of the produce coming into Washington for consump- tion here. Only this week the Joscph Phillips Co., through its president, wrote to the District Commissioners, informing them of plans for the early starting of the commission market development and re- questing the city heads to have laid P weeks by s spokesman for the | under the assessment plan sewer and company interested in its development. | Water connections to serve the pro- Complete in Year. jected plants there. Reoucsts were made also that steps be taken to pro- In making public details of the plan | vide for the laying of gas and electric for the Patterson tract development Mr. conduits needed for the new: develop- Spicer pointed out that commission | ment and provision of fire hydrants for house merchants who have purchased lots for their new business homes there have contracted to complete the con- struction of such buildings by December, 1929, thus insuring completion of the mew project by the first of next year. ‘The Patterson tract market develop- ment, according to Mr. Spicer, is to incluie 40 acres of land available for actual use in this industrial project, including plans for a farmers’ market there and the possible development of retail business as well. ‘Transfer of deeds to the commission protection of the property. Architectural plans and specifications have been drawn for a plant costing approximately $250,000 for the building that is to house the Joseph Phillips Co., Mr. Spicer announced. Representatives of the group of com- mission merchants have men in con- sultation vith engineers and other agents of the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroads concerning the provision of double railroad sidings ranning from the nearby main line tracks to the site of the commisison men and organizations which have ac- market center. PRIVATE BUILDING PLANS FOR WEEK RATHER MODEST Private building operations in the District made a rather modest start for the new vear in the amount of the cost of new projects for which permits were issued during the past week, when construction plans calling for a total| expenditure of $395,080 were approved by Col. John W. Oehmann, building inspector. Included in the new list of operations ‘were permits for the construction of 34 two and three story stores for the pro- posed nmew farmers' market center on Water street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets southwest and having a total estimated.cost of $380,000, were 1issued to the Potomac Freight Terminal Co. and the Philadelphia, Baltimore & ‘Washington Railroad Co. as owners. its were issued also for the con- struction of 30 private dwellings of various types and for other purposes. Permits were issued as follows: The, Potomac Freight Terminal Co. and the Philadelphia, Baltimore & ‘Wash! Railroad Co., owners; A. P. Clark, jr. architect and builder; to erect 12 3-story and 22 2-story brick lings for stores, 1201 to 1239 and 1301 to 1327 Water street southwest (in squares 270 and 300); te cost $380,000. g Six New Dwellings. Charles W. and Charles R. Wenger, owners and builders; George T. Sant- myers, architect; to erect six 2-story brick dwellings, 3628 to 3638 Windom place (lots 25, 24, 15, 14, 13 and 12, square E-1892 ,000. Wardman Corporation, owners and builders; M. Mesrobian, architect; to erect four 2-story brick dwellings. 6418 to 6424 Seventh street (lots 42, 72, T1 and 70, square 3163); to cost $20,000. Dorothy L. Myers, owner and builder; F. G. Wilcox, designer; to erect three 1-story frame dwellings, 612, 616 and 620 Forty-fourth street northeast (lots 52 to 54, square 5092); to cost $6,000. Max Zitmore, owner and builder; L. W. Giles, architect; to erect six 2-story brick dwellings, 3626 to 3638 Everett street (lots 13, 12, 11 and 10, square 1983); to cost $48.000. W. C. and A. N. Miller, owners and builders; Gordon E. MacNeil, architect; to erect one 2-story brick and frame dwelling, 2925 Glover driveway (part lot 63, square 1620); to cost $10,700. W. C. & A. N. Miller, owners and builders: to erect one frame garage, 2925 Glover veway (lot 63, square 1620): to cost $300. 922 Tenth street southeast (lots 22 to| 26, square 975): to cost $20,000. Georgetown Hospital, owner; to make repairs, etc, Thirty-fifth and Prospect streets (lot 800, square 1222); to cost $1.000. W. C. Kremkau, owner and builder; H. A. Brandt, architect; to erect one 2-story brick and frame dwelling, 7511 Thirteenth street (lot 43, square 2955); to cost $11,000. Jacob Weber, owner and builder; W. B. Honey, architect; to erect one 2-story frame dwelling, 3021 Ninth street south- cast (lots 35 and 36, square 5948); to cost $6,000. New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. owner: to make repairs to roof, ete., 1309-11 New York avenue (lot 800, square 251); to cost $3,000. McLachlen Banking Corporation, owner; C. Wohlgemuth, jr, builder; to erect concrete bank vault, Tenth and G streets (lot 36, square 345); to cost $2,500. .J. J. Deody, owner; Acme Construc- tion Co., builder; to erect one metal ga- ge, 3707 Military road (lot 3, square 807): to cost $430. Walter L. Van Sise, owner; to make revairs, 3501 Nichols avenue southeast (lots 1 and 2, square 6070); to cost $300. Repairs to Be Made. |~ Joseph Ottenstein, owner; R. W. Boll- |ing, architect and builder: to make re- | pairs, 435 Ninth street (lot 9, square 407); to cost $450. | Mrs. Natalie S. R. Yates, owner; to | make repairs, 2448 Massachusetts ave- |nue .ot 1 and 2, square 2500); to cost 00. Equitable Building Corporation, own- er and builder; to make repairs, 1410 New York avenue (lot 1, square 223); to cost $300. S. D. Hecht, owner; to make repairs, alley rear 1110 Eighteenth street (lot 64. souare 14 to_cost $50! INVESTIGATE ‘ 4502 Il Stanford St. ; Chevy Chase, Maryland New, all-brick, detached Everett S. Beall, § designer and builder; to erect two tory brick dwellings, 3815 and 3817 Upton street (lots 59 and 60, squaie 1829); to cost $20,000. D. T. Tippett, owner and .uilder; M. Chaney, architect; i. erect one story frame dwelling. 3215 Chestnut street northeast (lot 11, square 4322); to _cost $5.000. D. T. Tipvoett, owner and builder; to erect one frame private garage, 3215 Chestnut street northeast (lot 11, square 4322): to cost $300. Alien C. Minnix, owner, designer and builder: to erect one 1-sto», orick store, 1101 Bladensburg road north-ast (lot 19, square 4472); to cost $5,000. Plan Five Houses. D. Gordon and Ella Washburn, owners: John D. Cobb. designer; Clar- ence W. Gosnell, builder: to erect five story brick and tile dwell own: c. " The Triangle of —between Woodiey Road. tion. Actual $10,500,000. \Vooded villa s homes, with lots from 75 to Massachusetts a improvement home with floor plan pleas- || ing and most livable. Six {){ real rooms and bath, open Nl fireplace, screens. Lot, 50x ‘I 125. Garage. Location, 2 I blocks north of Chevy Chase || Club grounds. Convenient {J| to schools, street cars and | bus. I $12,950 Drive out Connecticut Avenue | 1o Bradiey Lane, west on Brad- ley Lane'to East Avenue, north 2 blocks to Stanford Street, or Phone Wisconsin 1034. gs. 916 to Massachusetts Park Increasing Values nd Connecticut Avenues and Over 250 homes built and under construc- exceed ites, lots, central and side hall 300 feet front. s and home values Call for Literature and List of Over 300 Purchasers Middaugh & ESTABLL 1435 K St. N.W. Shannon, Inc. SHED 1899 Main 8685 | erected in the city. One of the newer Modern Ide i New Pickens Residence Given Dignity by Use of Rubblestone. BACK FROM STREET, PERSPECTIVE GOOD | | Broaa Double Chimneys Are' at Either Side of House. As Washington’s physical develop- ment continues from year to year, many interesting new private dwellings, some | large and some of modest size and many of them of real architectural merit, are Washington homes of the larger class is that of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Pick- ens, completed about a year ago at 3005 Forty-fifth strect, Wesley Heights. This home is definitely of colonial architectural inspiration which is given a dignity by the use of rubble stone of an admixture of natural gray and rust tones, against which stand out the brighter color of the colonial entrance doorway and shutters. Set well back from the strect, the house has good perspective and its ap- pearance is enhanced by two great trees in the front lawn which were preserved | in its building. Broad Double Chimneys. The colonial feeling of the house is seen in the broad double chimneys at either side of the house and also at the front and rear of the garage wing at the left of the main section of the building. . A winding flagstone walk leads to the front entrance from the left front of the lawn. From this point also runs the driveway to the entrance to the garage, leaving the most of the front lawn unbroken. One of the modern ideas incorporated l in this house is the placement of the kitchen at the front of the house, to the left of the center hall plan. The pur- pose of this was to leave the rear or garden side of the house available for the three main rooms of the first floor, giving them an outlook on the garden at the rear. The front windows are small and the position of the kitchen is not indicated from the front exposure of the house. ‘The kitchen also is shielded from the main rooms of the first floor by the stairway to the second floor, being reached by a hall running from the center hall. ‘The kitchen opens onto a covered porch which connects the gar- age to the house proper. Library In Rear Center. The right side of the main floor is devoted ‘to a living room running the full depth of the house, 29 feet, and which is 17 feet wide. A great fire- as 12 by 14 fect, is located at the rear center. It has a bay on the exterior facade, giving a vista of the porch and garden at the rear of the building. The dining room, 15 feet by 17 feet 6 inches, is at the left rear of the first floor. The garage at the left of the build- ing has space for three ca ‘There is a basement under the garage, reached by a stairway from the porch connecting with the main wing of the house, bath on the second floor of the garage building. Two other features of the first floor entrance, : lavatory ‘which opens off the' library. Cross-Ventilation. On the second floor are to be found a master bedroom with a large private bath and four other bedrooms, ar- ranged with a bath between each of the two sets of rooms. All of the bed- rooms have the desired feature of cross- ventilation. In addition to these provisions, there floor, where there are two guest rooms | and a bath. Here also is a large storage | room. The principal rooms of the house are | embellished with colonial details, such | as cornices and dados. The woodwork | is painted in ivory enamel and the walls are papered in designs in keeping with the architectural mode of the house The library is paneled in walnut and has built-in bookcases. The, house was built by W. C. & A. N. Milller from plans by Gordon Mac- | Blended In Wesle and there are two servants’ rooms and | are a coat closet just inside the front | in the center hall, and the | is an open stairway leading to the third | Neil. I Modernism Needed in Buildings. } Modernism that is neither bizarre | barren should characterize today’s place is located on the exterior wall, visible from the center hall. A library, d VA< Above: Sunken Garden, as vil ings in Washin; apartment for seventeen we pointed out to her, rental nearly astonished. similar ¢ There are es throughou Most people prefer iences and comforts, th petty care and worry, restdence, as contrasted for granted that apartn veniences and comforts I'he idea has met with rity in N cago, and other large ¢ In Washington, M. ar ren have blazed the tra and sclling over three Cleveland 608+ newest building, just completed. South entrance (from Sedgwick Street) of the new co-operative apartment home. de- velopment of M. & R. B. Warren, Connecti- cut Avenue at Tilden and Sedgwick Streets. ‘The newest building (D-E), just completed, is at the left of the stair promenade. OT long ago a resident in one of the older apartment build- that she had been living in the same ized that during that she had paid in $25,000.00, 1t has always been more or less taken rented, until some years plan was evolved to combine the con- residence with the economic advan- tages of individual home ownership. fifty co-operative apartment homes building, it is declared by Henry B.| Herts, New York architect. ! Heights Home PORGH LIBRARY 12x14 Real Estate Activity Noted. The index figure for real estate ac- tivity for the month of November, 1928, was 899, according to the stat compiled by the National Assodanon‘ of Real Estate Boards from the number | its data ries using 1926 as a base s the third index figure to | for this new This be computed by the association in the new series. The figure for October was 95, and for September, 83.8. Realtors on Radio Tonight. The State inaugural banquet of th and meaningless nor starkly plain and | of decds recorded in 63 cities from | California Real Estate Association, to| | which the association draw bz held today in San Jose. Call will broadcast over Station KQW, g at 8 p.m., Pacific Coast time. lewed from the Right: valued at mor their newest gton told us Gardens, one years. When and she real- ordinarily ren she was thousands of t the city. the conven- e absence of of apartment with a house. average of $6 ingly short ti ment home ar rents must be but go, when a of apartment - surroundi startlin ew York, Chi- ities. 1d R. B. War- il by building hundred and are obvious. for home charmii 9 p.m. Distinctive Development of M. & R. B. WARREN Connecticut Avenue at Tilden Street per other expenses. e than $4,000,000.00. Tn development, ‘Tilden may own a co-operative apartment of six rooms and two baths, ting for $130 to $175, by a very reasonable initial payment, and monthly payments of $122, including taxes, insurance, operating charges and all other expenses. Of this $122 monthly payment, an 1 is a saving, an invest- ment, and applies on the purchase of the apartment. So that, in a surpris- me one owns the apart- 1d thereaiter should pay month operating and In location, environment, beauty of s, an apartment home in Tilden Gardens leaves nothing to be desired. And its economic advantages May we welcome you soon while cach size, style and ar- rangement of apartment j inspection? available Model apartment 18 furnished by W. 1. Moses & Sons is open every day until TILDEN GARDENS ARE YOU PAYING FOR A HOME WITHOUT EVER OWNING IT? West entrance to the gardens at Tilden Gardens. Center and left are the second and third buildings of the group. and to the right, the newest building (D-E), just com- pleted. Thirteen changes in the zoning classi- fications of property in the District, | three of them affecting the maximum height of buildings which would be per- mitted on sites in the downtown section of the city, are scheduled to be heard at a public hearing of the Zoning Com- mission in the boardroom of the Dis- trict Building next Wednesday. Owners of property at 805-17 Eigh- teenth street have petitioned the com- mission to change the zoning of the property from first commercial 90- foot D area to first commercial 110- foot D area, which would permit the | construction of a building 130 feet {mgh, with setbacks above the 110-foot level. ‘The zoning office of the District itself is presenting for consideration at the hearing a proposed change of the zon- ing of property at 1518-26 K street, west of the large new Washington headquarters building of the Southern Railway, from first commercial 90-foot D area to first commercial 110-foot D area. At the same time the commission will consider a proposal to change the zoning of property at 1527 K street from first commercial 90-foot D area to | first commercial 110-foot D area. Other Changes Proposed. be considered at the hearing follow: Change from residential 90-foot C area to first commercial 90-foot C area property to the west of Columbia road between Biltmore street and Mint- wood place. Change from residential. 60-foot B area to first commercial 60-foot C area property at 344-60 L street south- west. Change from residential 60-foot C area to first commercial 60-foot C area property at 809 Maryland avenue northeast. Change from residential 60-foot B | area to first commercial 60-foot C area | property on the north side of B street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, known as 1508-10, and part of 1512 B street southeast. Change from residential 40-foot B restricted area to first commercial 60- foot C area property in the rear of the 5020 5th Nar'l 1267 H. N. Keane, Jr., Arch. Kensington, Md. This adaptable maso South Washington, Va. CHANGES GET OPEN HEARING Other proposal changes in zoning to | Park Theater, west of Fourteenth street | had Commission Will Sit Next Wednesday to Consider Alterations to Code in District. between Buchanan and Crittenden streets. Change from residential 40-foot B area to residential 60-foot B area prop= erty on the west side of Thirteenth street between Longfellow and Madison streets and on the north side of Long- fellow street between Georgia avenuq and Thirteenth street. Change from residential 40-foot A restricted area to residential 60-foot € area rear parts of property at 2700 . Wisconsin avenue. Change from residential 40-foot A area to residential 40-foot A restricted area property which would be bounded by Massachusetts and University aves nues, Indian lane, Rockwood parkw: reservoir grounds and Western avenu This proposal was continued from ti last hearing of the Zoning Commissiol Change from residential 40-foot restricted area to residential 40-foot area preperty on the south side of New: ton streot batween Seventeenth ang Eighteenth streets northeast. street and east of Twenty-sixth streef northeast. g i New Partnership Is Formed. A partnership has been formed fo the conduct of general real estate busi: ness by Hugh E. Phillips and Edwar E. Caldwell, formerly associated wit] the real estate firm of Boss & Phelp under the name of Phillips & Caldwe! Temporary offices have been opened af 927 B street. Associated with the ne company as sales director is Henry Klein, formerly with the commissiod concern of W. Charles Heitmuller Co.! Mexico Building Roads. 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