Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1929, Page 15

REAL ESTATE WASHINGTON, D. C, he nzning %iflf' SATt‘R‘DAY, MARCEH 16, 1929, WITR SUNDAY MORNINO EDITION HOME & GARDEN Home-Owning and Building Section for Washington and Suburbs ENGLISH GROUP HOUSE IN FOXALL| , IS THIRD IN STAR MODEL SERIES| Construction in Progress on Forty-Fourth Street——Demonst ration Scheduled to Start June 2. One of nine interesting English group houses, each of which will be somewhat different in outline and treatment from the adjoining dwellings, though all will | be of harmonious architectural design, will be the third of the series of 1929 Star model homes now in progress of construction in prapartion for their subsequent. demonstration during the Spring and early Summer. This model home will be erected by Waverly Taylor, Inc. on the east side of Forty-fourth street, just south of Q street, in Foxall, opposite Foxhall Vil- jage. It will be the fourth house from the north end of the group, numbered 1573 Porty-fourth street. and will be completed and opened for a month of exhibition under the auspices of The Star about June 2. Arrangements for this and others of the series of model | homes were made by the Operative Builders’ Association and are supervised bv The Star model homes committee. Features of Development. Features of the development will be the balance of the composition of the mass—pleasing broken roof lines and the harmonious blending of the struc- tural materials and colors used. The model home will be built on the ' historic tract which was known as Spring Hill Farm, originally owned by Henry Foxall, one-time close friend 011 Presidents and owner of the famous cannon factory once located on the property. where guns used in the War{ of 1812 were produced. As designed by Waverly Taylor the model home will be something of a “double-front™ house in | that special attention will be given to the attractiveness of th erear elevations, | which overlook the valley recently pur- | chased by the Government and which | iz to be developed into Foundry Branch Park. which will connect with the| Glover-Archbold Parkway and the e: tension of Potomac Pa A paved street, Park lane. will be | econstructed to the rear of the houses | instead of an alley, and the garages will be set, under two-story porches which | will be screened, the lower deck or first | floor level of which will be constructed as a living porch, connected with the | living room and providing an elevated | outlook upon the wooded Foundry Branch Valley. 2 Typical English brick will be used in full range of colors and including some | clinker brick for contrast. They will be laid in English garden bond, con- | sisting of alternating courses of stretch- | ers and headers, laid with close joint. At the eaves and over certain arches | stone of harmonious ecolors will be worked in with the brick to provide con- trast in colors. The model home will have a gabled facade. The roof, important in this design, will be covered with a variegated green and purple slate of random widths, thicknesses and lengths, laid in such a way 8s to be in character with the Tugged feeling of the group. Half timber work, beams. porch posts and other treatment used on the fronts will be either of oak or cvpress, added to simulate the heavy hand-hewn struc- | tural timbers characteristic of thi of construction and design. Th be stained a weathered gray-brown to | ‘maintain their character. A refined | creosote oil will be used for this pur- | pose and 'to safeguard the wood against. rot. and deterioration. Cream-colored cement stucco will be used between | timber work in various places, lending added contrast. Shutters of a soft| green shade also will add contrast. Covered Front Porch. Each house will have a covered front porch. Distinctive flower pot brackets will be placed on the sills of some sec- ond-story windows. Terra cotta chimney pots of variegated heights and colors | will add English touches to the brick | and stone chimneys. The lawn will | be planted with evergreens and flower- ing shrubs. A low retaining wall will | mark the front of the lawns. The en- | trance hall will have a floor of varie- | gated red clay tiles. To the right will® be an ample coat closet. with a small window. Then, passing through an arched opening, one will enter the liv- ing room and will be immediately im- pressed by the way in which the house, although of modest size and compact, “opens up,” giving a feeling of com- fort. A brick fireplace having a raised hearth and framed with a specially de- signed mantel, will lend interest to the living room. This room will be 19 feet 3 inches by 13 feet. .The dining room will have double glass casement doors leading to a screened living porch. The porch will extend only two-thirds of the width of the house, permitting direct sunlight to enter the kitchen and the second-floor bedroom. Kitchen Arrangements. ‘The kitchen will have inlaid _tile linoleum cemented over felt to the floor, while the walls and ceilings will have a snecial tvoe cloth covering. A one- piece enameled iron sink, with doubls drain boards, will extend across one end of the kitchen, over the center of which will be a large, double steel case- ment window extending from the sink to the ceiling. On either side of this window will be china cabinets, while under the drain boards will be built-in cupboards, one of which, with the out- side ventilation, will be a vegetable cold storage cupboard. A gas range, porcelain-top table and | mechanical refrigerator, with another china cabinet built over it, will be i stalled. There will be a large built-in kitchen closet for the storage. Going down the stens from the kitch- en one will find a light and airy cellar, with poured concrete foundation walls, cement floor and steel-beam floor sup- ports. A built-in garage extends a bit in the cellar from under the living | porch. A servant’s toilet, Jaundry trays, modern boiler and hot-water storage heater. ash receiver for the open fire- place and coal bin, complete the cellar equipment. A door. also controlled by an electric lock and switch in the kitch- en, will open out on the rear garden on the same level with the cellar floor. Master Bedroom. Passing up the main stairway to the second-floor hall, one will enter the master bedroom across the front with three large windows, two cedar-lined closets containing an abundance of shelves, shoe rack and a full-length mir- ror door. Two bedrooms will extend across the rear, each having cedar-lined closets and glass casement doors leading |to the-screened sleeping porch! The smaller room will have a window open: ing directly to the outside. ‘The bathroom will have a white and | buff tile floor of wicker weave pattern, with square white glazed tiles on the side walls, with a narrow buff border | at the top. There will be a built-in all enamel tub, with a shower over it and a | full-length curtain. The pedestal lav- atory will be of vitreous china and the | water closet will be of the salient and | most improved modern type. In addi-| tion to a medicine cabinet. there will | per built in. light and ventilation. i A stairway will lead to a finished | third floor, with seven windows, divided | into two rooms and a lavatory room. ‘The roof will be lined with insulation. | ‘The house will be completely screened. | All outside doors will be metal weather- | stripped, and baseboard electrical con- | nections will be in abundance. | Eal g | | Realty License Law Passed. The proposed real estate license law in Arkansas, which last week was passed by the State Senate, has now been passed by the House of Represent- atives of the Arkansas Legislature and awaits only the governor's signa- ture to make it final. If Gov. Parnell signs the bill Arkansas will become the twenty-third State to have enacted a real estate license law. Massachusetts Park The Triangle of Increasing Values —between Woodley Road. tion. Actual improvements $10,500,000. \Vooded villa sit Massachusetts and Connecticut Avenues and Over 250 homes built and under construc- and home values exceed es, lots, central and side hall 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. N.W. R L e e T e e e e Actual Photo A NEW HOME 4420 Que St. (Northwest) PUST SE SSY S SR S N L R R R e R o o SR i A Creators and Developers ] of Foxhall Villare [ P Drive West on Que St. fn Reservorr Road, West to Village. OSSTPHE|PS Wisconsin Ave. SMARTEST FOXHALL VILLAGE Nine Minutes From Dupont Cirele A PREDETERMINED NON-COMPETITIVE PEVELOPMENT 3 Bedrooms, 1 Bath to 6 Bedrooms, 3 Baths Frigidaire Plate-Glass Windows Open Fireplace Additional Lavatories Nokol Oil Burner Oak Floors Fireproof Throughout Garage PRICES RANGE $10,500 and Upward Slate Roof Open D Reasonable Terms 1T K st North Ome Sauare to Make Left-hand Turn at 44th St. TEAE NG NG I S I TN e e €N e e E eI e e e e | i THIRD 1929 STAR MODEL HOME IS OF ENGLISH GROUP PLAN ‘ Zoning Commission | CONCESSIONS IN APARTMENTS UP FOR D. C. HEARING MARCH 27 Secks Public Version of Granting Stores and Shops Residential Privileges. BY DON S. WARREN. l Does Washington want drug and cigar stands. cafes, pressing and tailor | shops located in its apartment hou: Or should apartment houses be | stricted merely to residential use, with- |out such concessions as are allowed in commercial zone areas or in hotels If stores are permitted in apartments | in’ residential zones, should they be re- { quired to have a certain percentage of | space devoted to transients, in keeping with their semi-hotel purposes? Would concessions nlln‘\zd in apart- ! ments result in abuses to residential areas? Th questions will be debated be- fore the Zoning Commission at 10 a.m March 27 at, the District Building, the commission will consider a pr amendment to the zoning code affect- ing apartment classifications. Decision JEWELRY FIRM TAKES | F STREET LEASE | First Floor and Basement at 1333 to Be Occupied Six Years by Rex- | ford's, Inc., of Philadelphia. | | ~| Another business organization, new | to Washington, will make its appear- | ance here shortly at a downtown loca- tion, through arrangements just con- summated. Rexford's, Inc.. Philadelphia jewelry | concern, has leased first floor and base- | ment space at 1333 F street for a term of six years and will occupy the space | about April 1, at completion of altera- tions, it is reported by the chain-store leasing department of Weaver Bros. ‘The total leasing consideration was said | to be close to $100,000. | | The property was subleased by H. W. | Roundtree Trunk & Bag Co. through | negotiations handled by the offices of | Weaver Bros. and Theodore M. Judd. The property is 20 by 113 feet. ‘Weaver Bros. today also reported the leasing of a four-story and basement building at 1722-24 Pennsylvania ave- nue for George and Emily Demonet to Elias Tragas, who plans to open a cafeteria there about April 1. The lease was for five years for a consid- eration reported to be about $20.000, with an option for an additional five- | year lease. Tax Amendment Passed. A constitutional amendment which provides for the classification of prop- erty for taxation and the taxation of so-called “intangibles” has passed both the House and the Senate of the North Carolina Legislature. Y o QEO 0‘0 & & °n. oio Qe | % | ! Kltenen; j Tax i f Divine Room |6 xy8t Livine Roon 1307 x71q’ -3% Architect’s rendition of nine English houses and floor plans of one selected sions. as a model home, being erected on Forty-fourth street in Foxall by Waverly Taylor, Inc. It will be opened for demonstration under auspices of The Star end The model home is the fourth from the left end of the group. AT TR R R T e T T R will { be a towel closet and a solid linen ham- | o3 A large skylight will give | about June 2. “The PROOF of the Pudding—" The real test of the worth and value of any propesition is the experience of purchasers and users. of it?” should be the question of every prospective purchaser. This letter from the officers of the corporation of occupant. owners of 3020 Tilden Street, one of the group of buildings constituting Tilden Gardens, the new- >4 est co-operative apartment home de- velopment of M. and R. B. Warren, speaks for itself: K * O "’ DX K3 Q K3 e \0:. o o% % IXIX S %0 % % o XIXIIXTXS “Whether You Rent, "o K3 %o’ afoefe st feefecle or Whether You Buy, You Pay for the Home You Occupy.” —Warren K3 " 2o % o0 % o Po® %6% %% %% % =X ® id 2o o o% EXIXIX D> e’ Qo ede K3 g0l > 3 Distinctive Development of M. and R. B. Warren Connecticut Avenue at Tilden Street— Just south of the Bureau of Standards— Phone Cleveland 6084. “What do they think ve! yours ™ b ontt? Tl e ,wn“fl o yourss . M e " / e on the matter was held over from the last zoning hearing. Maj. Donala A. D 3 Engineer Commissioner, having charge | of zoning work, regards the matter of | high importance to Washington, due to | the increasing number of apartments {here and the tendency of owners to COAL MERCHANTS T0 AiD HOME OWNERS _ " . | tion, Furnace Vacuum Cleaning Service,!of hotel facility nature, barred from artments at Cost, Is Inaugurated | i garding the above questions, Maj. Davi- son points to the importance of the question, and suggests serious consid- | eration of the matter prior to the forth- coming public hearing. Following is a_discussion by Mai Davison of the entire subject, on which he seeks public expression, holding that Without voicing public opinions re- Here. | A new service at cost for householders ' of Washington was inaugurated a few ydays ago by the coal division of the | Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa- | tion through the establishment of a ! furnace vacuum cleaning service, ‘The system is designed to cut loss of | ! heat from household heating plants re- }sunlng from the accumulation of soot | and dust, scientific studies of which | have shown greatly reduced efficiency of | coal furnaces. Vacuum cleaning equipment and a truck are provided by the coal division, | and an expert is employed to remove | | these soot accumulations in furnaces at | | cost to householders. .About seven calls |a day are being received by Edward D. | Shaw. secretary of the association. Jo- 13/-0" x 161" | seph Murphy is head of the service de- | | partment of the organization. * | | WOULD NARROW YARDS. | S | Special Dispatch to The St ! | BALTIMORE, March 16.—Members | of the real estate board committee on | zoning advocate the substitution of 10- foot side-yard provisions for semi-de- | tached houses, instead of the con- tinuance of the present 15-foot provi- Beo Roon | {o-araio! Room | i i | 10%-6"xn-0" They say the 15-foot provision would | the building of semi-detached houses. | picturesque restricted location. in quantity lots, built home en, appliances. Warren Co-operative Apartment Homes are time- tested. Since 1923 our or- ganization has built and sold a total of 18 Co-operative Apartment Buildings, con- sisting of 375 homes, housing some 1,500 peo- ple. representing sound values of more than $4,000,000—all 100% co- operatively owned. Each of these build- ings has continued in successful operation, proving the sound- ness of the plan. In our office are many letters - (open for your .inspection) similar to that shown at the left, from others of our group owners. To reach property drive ut 16th St. to Alaska Arve. to 13th 'St. turn left ni/ Iris St. 211 Investment Bldg. 90 4% ¢% o% 4% % o% o% o%0 % % % o o% o %0 o %o o*. o o3 00’00000'0':00.00.00.00.03,0:00.00:00.00.00’“.\0:. %o o% X o O o% o% o% IXTXTX LS 2 ' 30! gaore® STRAUB CINDER Arch., Glenn & Bedford Brown Plan now to visit Tilden Gardens while every style, size, and arrangement of apartment 3 home is available for inspecton. You will be pleasantly surprised at the many advantages and satisfying economies. TILDEN GARDENS tural style. % 6% 6% o% % o % o o050 o5ofo elo oo ofeefoatosfodeade o o2 <a g X RS %! oo ede * . An interesting booklet explaining Co- operative Apartment Home Ownership will be mailed on request. S. Washington, Va, Soodradodododoadoadeaioairairafeadradsadsdoddsdoadsdsadoatoasaioalradraiufradradoadoadoedocdoddodoadoairairairairaiafpalradrafradoadoadoadocdods the answer to the question seems to be | a matter of personal preference: “It has become an established fact that a modern hotel should include within its doors certain commercial en- terprises for the convenience of and service to its clienteie. So apparent is this that it became necessary about two vears ago to grant to hotels erected in a residential zone certain commercial concessions which would permit them to compete with a hotel erected in a first commercial zone, where commer- cial enterprises were authorized. This concession o hotels‘in a residential dis- trict took the form of a resolution on the part of the Zoning Commission, adopted in July, 1927, and which read follows: * ‘The commission holds that u which_d'stinctly pertain to or are appre te adjuncts to hotel uses, such as the following: Drug stand. including soda fountain, perfumery, ctc.: barber shop, beauty parlor, pressing or tailoring establishment, cigar or newsstand, souvenir stand or restaurant, may be allowed by cz- cupancy permit in hotels in the resi- dential disrtict, provided the en- trance is entircly inside of the hotel and no sign or display is visible from the outside of the building, and the commission further holds that those uses which do not distinctly pertain to or are not appropriate adjuncts to hatel uses will be denied in hot n 1he residential zone.’ “Having in mind the advantages ~hich accrue to a hotel as a result of above concessions, many apartment, applied for d (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) 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