Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1929, Page 13

SIXTH OF STAR MODEL HOMES WILL BE OLD ENGLISH TYPE Rock Gables, Last of 1929 Series, Shows Influences of Low, Rambling Outlines of Gentleman's Farmhouse. A 1 English stone house in the #o-called . Cotswold manner, having in its interesting long, low and somewhat Tambling outlines the influence of the English gentleman'’s farmhouse, style of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, will be the sixth and last of the series of Star model homes of this year. * This house, the largest of the series of demonstration homes being sponsored this year by The Star and the Operative Builders’ Association, now is being erected by the Edson W. Briggs Co. from plans by James E. Cooper, on a large site at the corner of Redwood ‘Terrace and East Beach Drive, in Rock Creek Park Estates. It will have a fitting rustic setting of a wooded section, with a_small stream running into Rock Creek Park, nearby. Known as Rock Gables. Known as Rock Gables, this house of cominodious proportions and lavish ap- pofutments will be ready for a month of public exhibition beginning June 23. Construction now is well under way. Rock Gables is being constructed of stone of a range of colors, locally quarried, this material comprising the total area of the facades, and will have & spacious roof covered with heavy stone slates of unusual weight and random widths and graded thicknesses. The slates at the eaves will have an aggregate thickness of 414 inches, over- hanging the facades slightly to form the cornice, Other features of the exterior design | will be heavy stone chimneys rising at | either end of the long, deeply set mul- | lioned windows in eroups of two and | toree: low ridge of the mam roof, a | wing at one end of the house providing for a heavily inclosed sitting porch and gnother at the opposite side housing a large garage, with entrances frankly placed at the front, and three gables or! dormers, one of dominating size, pro- | Jecting from the frontal side of the roof. | Qrpamental arched-top doorways mark _ Fme garage entrances, the doors of which will be paneled chestnut. Plans call for extensive landscape de- wvelopment, including low stone retain- ing walks along the right side of the | property and the front entrance, nicely | placed shrubs and flowers, a large for- | mal garden in the rear of the house, | with a fountain as 4 focal point, lawns, flagging and stepping-stone walks, gar- | den seats, borders of hedge and flower plots. H Hedge to Make Border. Hedge will be employed as a border for the entrance to the garage, and to the rear of the garage wing will be a service yard, which will be shielded from the formal garden by hedge. - Fruit trees will be planted in the service yard. The general lines of the house, 106 feet or more in width, gives the roof the | sweeping. “close-to-earth” lines of the | houses of this character of earlier periods. The stone dormers lend the ;anety so often found in the Cotswold | The entrance, near the center of the | frontal facade, is kept close to the| ground. and is of limestone with suf-| ficient carving and depth of door to| give shadow and color. Over the door- | way, set in a stone panel, will be & bronze sun dial, while an old ship| lantern will be to the left of the door. ‘The ddor will be of oak in raised panels and fitted with fifteenth century style ‘wrought iron hardware. By way of a curved walk, one will reach the entrance and step into the lobby having a flagging flooring. To the right will be 8 coat closet. Several steps here lead to the level of the main stair hall, which gives access to the main rooms on the first floor. Living Room Ceiling 11 Feet 6 Inches. ‘To the left of the stair hall and two steps below its level will be a 1i Toom, 28 feet wide and 17 feet deep and having a ceiling 11 feet 6 inches high. The ceiling will be slightly lifted at the center to add to the vaulted feel- ing and have a simple pattern in plaster with an ornamental vine motif of cornice running around the room. ‘There will be a heavy fireplace in the end wall, with a mantel of sandstone in Elizabethan style, of a broad, low char- acter. There will be an exit upon the covered porch and an outlook through the series of four mullioned windows at the rear, over the formal garden. This room will have walls of natural sand finish, chestnut trimming to windows | Second-Floor Finish to Be Chestnut. | similar to the main floor rooms, natural | the design of electric light fixtures, to | preserving the lines of antique fixtures \SURVEY PLANNED fitted with a stone fireplace, two large closets, a large private bath with special linen closet, and having space provided for two beds, to be set into an outset on the rear wall. Cross ventilation is provided and there will be ample lght from the wide windows at the front and rear. | Back of the stair hall will be a sec- | ond bedroom, 12 feet 6 inches by 15 | feet 6 inches, with access to either the | bath in the master bedroom or one in | an adjoining rear chamber, measuring 16 feet 6 inches by 12 feet 6 inches, an which will have access to the second- | story rear porch roof deck. The fourth | chamber, 18 feet by 14 feet'8 inches, will be at the front, to the right of the stair hall, and will have a private bath, At the extreme right end of the house will be the maid’s quarters, including a private bath, and between these rooms v:m t'n an extra closet and a huge cedar closet. The finish of the second floor will be chestnut varieties to be obtained by means of subdued stains and color ap- plied to wood and then rubbed down in wax. All service rooms will be in enamel finish, consisting of four coats and color. Special attention is to be given to suit the character of the various rooms, adapted to modern needs. The general construction of the house includes use of heavy fir joists and studding to form the framing timbers; all bearing partitions to rest on steel girders and columns or ma- sonry walls to reduce shrinking and settlement to a minimum. All exterior walls are backed up with 4-inch hol- low tile, tarred, waterproofed and then stripped for plaster. ——e. OF STREET WORK Committee of Real Estate Board Will Report on Needed Improvements. A survey of the most urgently needed street improvements in the District will be made by a special committee of the Washington Real Estate Board, headed by Charles D. Sager, it was announced today. In this project the board is co- operating with Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, Assistant Engineer Commissioner. Members of the board have been re- quested to submit to the board full in- formation and suggestions of all street improvements which in - their opinion deserve consideration. 2 With this information in hand, Mr. Sager stated. the committee will make a survey of the street situation and sub- mit to the executive committee a report of its findings. The p of this study, it was pointed out, is to make it. possible for the executive committee of the realtors to present to District offi- cials recommendations in respect to needed major street improvements. All of the data will be analyzed to deter- mine the relative urgency of the recom- mendations made. The co-operation of the real estate board was invited by Capt. Whitehurst, who,, on June 30, will become co-ordi- of the Dis- with the considera- tion of estimates for 1931, and the com- mittee expects to complete its work by May 1. ving | ¥ o A, Simon, vice president of the Eugene A. Smith Co., and A. A. King are serving with Mr. Sager on the com- mittee. ‘WASHINGTON, D. €, STAR MODEL HOME OF ENGLISH COTSWOLD INFLUENCE O rarand Architect’s conception and floor plans of The Star demonstration house being erected In Rock Creek Park Estates by the firm of Edson W. Briggs, Cooper. Landscaping will be under supervision of Rose G reely. which will be ready for public exhibition on June 23. Second floor plans on page 14. SURVEY SHOWS RAPID SPREAD OF CITY ZONING IDEA IN U. §S. ‘The extent to which the municipal, zoning idea has spread through the United States in recent years is revealed in a survey just ocompleted by the Division of Building and Housing of the Department of Commerce. In 1916, the survey shows, zoning regulations were in force in only eight cities. The num- ber increased slowly until 1920, after which the progress was rapid. At tne end of 9182, 754 cities, towns and vil- lages in all parts of the country, hav- ing a total population in excess of 37 millior had de to n':, construction and use of 80 as to conserve the interests o(homzovnmudothermppargy ub- | holders, in conformance with lic_welfare. . During 1928, 87 municipelities zoning ordinances, . while adopted more comprehensive zoning or- dinances or amended existing regula- tions to make them more effective. An passed 101 _either || analysis of the 87 new zoning ordi- nances which were passed shows that 44 were comprehensive; that is, the use, height and area of buildings were regulated; 27 merely controlled the use of buildings; seven regulated the use :m:dlm of lm!ldmg and 2 were merely temporary ordinances, pending the preparation of a zoning ordinance to_suit local requirements. activity is evident in prac- tically all States, the report shows: It was by James E. New York led in the number of mu- nicipalities zoned during 1928, with 23 cities, towns and villages, Youngstown, Ohio; Waterbury, Conn., and Altoona, Pa., were three of the largest cities which adopted zoning legislation last year. South Dakota and Idaho were add- ed to the States having zoned munici- palities when fourecities in the ‘former and three in the latter’ adopted zoning ordinances during the year. New York is the foremost State in the Union in the number of its muni- :Edma having zoning ces in ect, with a total of 131. sey is second with 84; Calif ; Illinois fourth with 71, and Massachusetts “fifth * with 62. Penn- and Kansas follow in the order named. |- FOXHALL VILLAGE - Nine mma:”r‘r_m Dupont by = 3 Bedrooms and Bath te 6 Bedrooms and 3 Baths. In the creation and develop- INEW DESIGN OF GARFINCKEL STORE SHOWS TWO SETBACKS | Comnstruction Work on Nine-Story Buil&-g ing Will Be Started Within a ' Few Days. Constriiction of the mew: department store building for Julius Garfinckel & Co., a large nine-story structure, to be erected on the northwest corner’ of | Fourteenth and F streets, will be started within a few days, it was announced | toddy by Julius Garfinckel. Excavation | work on the site now is nearing comple- | tion. | . A new design has been drawn for the | building, which is to be erected by the |Charles s Tompkins Co. As rede- {signed the building will have two set- backs in the facades, which will be of lacing instead of brick. A. W. LOFFLER BUYS BUSINESS PROPERTY, i, iz, g of department s have a frontage of 185 feet on F atrect and of 145 feet on Fourteenth stree! It will have entrances on both streets. in addition mr. Garfinckel is having bullding on the north, having a front- age of 104 feet on Fourteénth street 44 sumoasacar and of 61 feet on G streal, extending to the District National Bank Building. Two other two-story store buildings for rental purposes are to be erected on P street, one with g fromtage of 36 feet, to be between the Garfinckel store and the home of Ballantyne's, and the other to the west of the Ballantyne Build~ ing, having a frontage of 38 feet. These three smaller buildings, it 15 announced, will be so constructed that additional stories may be added later, PR K VACANCIES SURVEYED. b, 'Kansas City Real Estate Board Completes Work. The Kansas City. Mo. Real Estate Board is the latest member board of s |the National Association of Real Estate Boards to report a completed compre- hensive vacancy survey of city property. In Kansas City 26 divisions of the city t. | were made and enumerators gathered and tabulated data on residential and business units in each area. This is the first survey to be under- taken by the Kansas City board, which now plans to make such a survey an- Meat Packer Pays $6C,000 for Par- | cel at 735 Thirteenth Street. Held as Investment. Andrew W. Loffler, local meat packer, reported to be nearly $60,000. property has a frontage of about 18 feet and a depth of 60 feet. . VIRGINIA PERMITS LISTED. | Norfolk and Richmond Show In- creases in Valuation. RICHMOND, Va., April 5 (#.—In- ition in its In Model Home at 1312 Iris St. N.W. Built by L. E. Breuninger & Son CHAS. G. GRAVES, MGR. Lobby 15—Investment Bldg. Metropolitan 4269 SEEsEREEREBED Massachusetts Park The Triangle of Increasing Values —between Massachusetts and Connecticut Avenues and Woodley Road. Over 250 homes built and under construc- tion. Actual improvements and home values exceed $10,500,000. Wooded villa sites, 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 4 '1435 K St. NW. 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