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4 12 REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE. addition, 5803 Eighth street (lot 3 to cost $2,000. ;;’oflo‘: (ot 104, square 15.7). to eof Prederick M. Brantley, make irs, 3048 P street square 1257); to cost $1,000. o g wts, (ot 81/ iy - i s'. WIN PRIZE AWARDS rH Roy Kelley and Harrison ' I i { i { ! | i i { 1 t ] Clarke Triumph in Better. Homes Test. (Continued From Thirteenth Page.) the English Georgian manner of about 1800. It contains seven rooms and two baths, compactly arranged. It is the only prize-winning plan with a central hall that is rectangular in shape. Recessed entrance doorway with architectural frame of wood pilasters and lintels ana a bay window with ieaded lights are among the particular- :ly attractive exterior details of this de- gl‘;n Leone of Detroit, winner of the third grand prize of $1,500, was one of six prize winners in the Detroit Free Press Better Homes Competition in 1928. His design in this competition is for an English Georgian type residence of L shape, containing six rooms and two baths. This design in plan is well suited to a lot of restricted frontage. Living room opens to street and garden, and a blank wall on the lot line in- sures privacy if house on the next lot 1is but a few feet away. ‘The national jury gave honorable mention to designs by Carlos D. Barragan and Earl Purdy, associated, of New York . City; J. R. Howe and E. J. Hergenroeder, associated, of Pittsburgh; D. E. Stevens, Cincinnati; Fred E. Sloan and Elmer A. Johnson, associated, of Chicago, as ‘vell s to the grand prize winner, Mr. Kelley. Competition Lauded. In discussing the competition as a laudible effort toward the improvement of home design in all sections of the country, Raymond Hood, chairman of the national jury of award, speaking for the jury, said: “Community service and improvement has long been the ideal of American journalism. Architecture, more than any other art or science, puts its stamp upon the community, a seal which he who runs or rides may read. A town's ag- gregate taste, as well as the comfort and contentment of its citizens, is to be measured by the way in which its homes are built and equipped. “As members of the national jury of award of the 1929 National Better Homes Architectural Competition, we feel that Home Owners’ Institute and the 13 co- operating newspapers which have fur- red this competition for better home designs are to be congratulated on their work. In stimulating architects to de- sign homes which are at once of a high caliber irrexterior design and efficient in space utilization within, they have taken a step forward in the entire field of architecture.” L. Porter Moore, president Home Owners' Institute, expressed himself as " well pleased with results of the compe- tition. “It has drawn the attention of the architectural profession to the need of better home designs and room ar- rangement; more than 3,000 stuffents, draftsmen and architects from practi- " cally every State and several foreign 4 countries participated,” he said. “It resulted in the creation -of finely executed designs which possess high architectural merit and which are suited to the needs of the small family with a modest income. # “It has shown that houses of dis- tinctly formal design, such as pure Co- lonial or Spanish, are not as pm)uhr as composite designs in which architectural styles are intermingled. It has shown that many modern accessories to living comfort may be economically incorpo- rated in a house containing 27,000 cubic feet of space at no sacrifice of archi- tectural perfection or convenience of room layout.” REAL ESTATE STUDIES WILL BE CONTINUED Baltimore Board Again Sponsors Courses to Be Given at Johns Hopkins, Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, August 3.—Arrange- ments have been completed by officials of Johns Hopkins University and_ the committee on education of the Real Estate Board of Baltimore to continue two real estate courses at the university for several years. The board, in addi- tion to underwriting these courses, will offer 10 free scholarships. In addition to the 10 free scholar- ships, the board will give half-pald scholarships to all scholarship men who finish the elementary course this year with a rating of 80 or more. The courses are open to both men and women. No special academic training is required. Plan 22-Story Building. The Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will have a $2,500,000 building at Seven- teenth, Samson and Tonic streets in the Quaker City. Plans are under way for a 22-story structure. iy e Located em the northwest corner of Fourteenth and K stre ets, which is the first outstanding example of the employmént of the set-back principle for the uppermost stories of 2 build ing of maximum height allowed under the zoning regula It is owned by a syndicate represented by Maj. W. L. Brown ing and was built by the Charles H. Tompkins Co. from by Robert F. Beresford. HOME BUILDING STYLES CHANGE: BUILT-IN GARAGE INTRODUCED Kitchens are more nearly alike in all houses than any other room. The built- in garage has worked its way down from the more expensive homes into the mod- erate-priced list. The front porch is rapidly going out of style. A sun par- lor on the rear of a house has become fairly common, and the rear living room is no longer a curiosity. The majority of living rooms are about two-thirds as wide as they are long. Dining rooms are usually more nearly square and bedrooms are larger in two-story houses than in one-story dwellings. ‘These are present trends in small- home construction as discovered by a study undertaken by the Division of Building and Housing of the Depart- ment of Commerce, the results of which were made public by James A. Taylor, acting chief of the division. The survey contained records from 38 cities, with information on about 300 details of more than 200 typical houses in as many subdivisions. Sees Designs Improving. “Most people agree that present home design is improving steadily,” Mr. Tay- lor said. “One reason for this is that a designer is now more often able to start with a good setting for the house than formerly. The efforts of the Na- tional Association of Real Estate Boards to promote good subdivision layout and city planning and the general move- ment for better planning are bearing fine fruit. Zoning and deed restrictions are a to maintain the character of residential neighborhoods. This all gives an incentive to better architec- ture, and designers assume a long life for houses and emphasize durability at many points ‘The lowest-priced houses now being built in quantity in the larger cities to- day are of five and six rooms with one- story construction apparently predomi- nating for the five-room and two-story for the six-room size, according to the resuits of the Government check as de- tailed to the realtor home builders by the division head. The six-room, two- story house is favored more in Eastern cities, whereas in cities of the Middle and Far West the five-room bungalow is in the lead in the lowest-priced group. . Fireplace Becoming Popular. ‘Moreover, the survey held forth some reassurance to those decrying the fact that"the home has been surrendered as a place for social life. It evidently hasn't. A fireplace. that traditional of Connecticut Ave. home is offered. 1412 Eye St. N.W. & 3929 Leg " CHEVY CHASE, D. C. In approach and immediate environment as well as architectural design, you will find it difficult to equal this new home, located just one and one-half squares west Unusuaslly spacious and practical in plan, having beautiful living and dining rooms, exceptionally large bedrooms, two tile baths, completely finished attic, lot 150 feet deep, two-car garage and many special features. Those who know residential values in Chevy Chase will marvel at the unusual price at which this distinctive 'OPEN SUNDAY ALL DAY HEDGES & MIDDLETON, INC. Realtors ation St. Franklin 9503 nucleus for home sentiment, is being built in by far the majority of homes today, and a sun porch, which furnish- es additional room for hospitality, is likewise demanded by the majority of home builders and purchasers. Radios, too, Mr. Taylor declared, are serving to retain the home as the center of the family’s social life pattern. “Notwithstanding the fact that Amer- ican people have become better in- formed during the past few years as to the points of a good home, most Amer- icans are still much keener judges of motor cars than they are of houses,” Mr. Taylor said in conclusion. “A man does not buy his car on the basis of its upholstery; with a limited amount to spend, he should not buy a house prin- cipally because it has an electric but- ton to open the cellar door, when what a family really needs with a home is a fiom!omble, cleanly, attractive place to e Realty Advertising Surveyed. Real estate advertising—how, when and where to do it so that it is success- ful—has undergone a scrutiny during the past year and a half, when the Na- tional Association of Real Estate Boards has been making a survey and study of outstanding real estate advertising throughout the country. The results of this year.and a half of study have formed the material for a course in real estate advertising. which the associa- tion has prepared for distribution to realtos Who Wants Beautiful “Shady Rest” With Tits 72 Rooms and 22 Baths? Nearly 5 Acres in This Tree-Sheltered Estate—25 Minutes from F Street HADY REST is a modern, three-story, fireproof struc. ture, with many windows, broad verandas and. the most approved hotel conveniences. makes it ideal as a school for boys or girls, a scientific laboratory or private sanitarium. Its superb elevation— 300 feet above the Potomac—insures an abundance of nd sunshine at all seasons, and affords in- spiring views of Maryland’s blue hills. Nearly 5 acres « . . much of it framed with stately trees and shrubbery, make this one of the most beautiful and desirable prop- APPEALING FEATURES Broad, screened verandas on three sides of building. All rooms have outside ex- posure, and many windows mean abundance of sunshine and fresh air. Numerous fruit trees and gar- den plot. Reached by stately elm-shaded drive from Bonifant Street, Sil- ver Spring. More than 360,000 cubic feet fireproof, concrete in _modern, building. A. D. Casey Buys Store. Business property at 3313 Connecticut avenue, under lease for flve years to the Piggly Wiggly Co. has been purchased through the office of McKeever & Goss by A. D. Casey. It has a frontage of 20 feet and.a depth of 90 feet, B Nearly 5,000,000 tons of raw sugar were inported into the Unitdl States in the last 12 months. ms ANGEL[S MEN WASHINGTON'S TALLEST OFFICE BUILDING NOW COMPLETED PERM" IS |SSUED ‘ ' T0 ALMAS TEMPLE New Shrine Home to Cost Approximately $160,000 to Complete. ,__(Continued from Thirteenth Page.) story brick dwelling, 1261 Kearney street ::x;t&euq (lot, 24, square 3931); to cost owner and 23, “square A & A. N. Miller, owners and builders; G. E. MacNell, architect; to Foxall Toad (ot 86, square 1989); 14 3 e H cost $13,500. b L Thirty-eighth Street Residence. Christina_S. Fletcher, owner; Fred- erick A. Fletcher, designer; Fletcher Pire) Co., bullders; to erect one ot 2000 , square 1889); to Poretsky & Silver, owners and build- en;tfleofi; T. Sanf b erect one 2-story brick and tile dwell- ing, 1419 Hemlock street (lot 29, square 2738); to cost $8,500. o George G. Richards, owner; L. W. Gles, architect; J. C. Richards, bullder; to erect one 2- brick dwelling, 22 Nicholson street (lots 144 and 145, smé:u Afflrlfi ; u':o cost $8,000. 3 etz, owner; G. N. Baer, bullder; George W. Repp and 8. W. Phelps, d ers; to erect one 2-story brick and tile residence, 3135 Chestnut street northeast (lots 801 and 807, square 4322); to sost $8,000. Girolamo Deslo, owner; W. L. Belt, builder; Julius Wenig, ‘architect; to ‘elx;:ctue;:_,e (l:;?wr{’ l\lmr.k m-ni! stone dwell- 3 lumbia road (lot 817, 2549); to cost $8,000. Gt Stimson Builds Addition. Secretary Stimson, Secretary of State, owner; Wolcott Clarke W: - chitect; R. W. der: to e 3000 Cathedral avenue (parcel 54-64); to cost. $7,000, i & rge Oertel, owner, designer and builder; to erect one ll,fi-lui)‘r; frame dwelling, 4973 Eskridge terrace (lot 26, square 1421); to cost $4,000. Louis P. Gatti, owner; Warren Spen- cer, designer and builder; to erect one 1-story brick addition, 3007 Fourteenth :z‘moeo% (ot 88, square 2849); to cost ‘Taylor-Korman Oil Co., owner and builder; J. H. Abel, designer; to erect one 1-story brick and stucco gasoline filling station, 1131 North Capitol | street (lot 12, square 673); to cost ,000. William Miller, owner; W. L. Eaton, designer; A. Jeffery, bullder; to erect one 1-story frame dwelling, 4204 Twen- ty-second street northeast (lots 20 and 21, square 4231); to cost $3,000. C. P. Hargis, owner and builder; L. ‘W. Giles, architect; to erect one 2-story Chain Leases National or local business enterprises de- siring to establish one or more links to their chain of retail stores in Washington will find it advantageous and profitable to consult us. For many years we have specialized in this particular class of property leasing. WEM.B_BEO REALTORS 809 15th St. N.W. fresh air erties near Washington. fered a quick purchaser. Immense sun parlor, has ideal exposure. lassive open fireplace in lobly or clubroom. Brand-new heating plant with hout. generous radiation througl Silver Spring bus. Georgia Avenue. A most attractive price and exceptional terms are of. Directions Take 16th and Kennedy Streets bus, transferring to Or Georgia Avenue trolley stops within three blocks of Silver Spring and Shady Rest. Or drive your own car out 16th and Alaska Avenue or Store Main 9486 Its planning ~ National Cai)ital Mortgage Company 1000 Fourteenth Street National 9784 SPACIOUSNESS INTHIS N NEW DETACHED BRICK HOME y IN , MT. PLEASANT Very Reasonable Terms Located in a wooded sec- tion adjacent to Rock Creek Park, on a shaded lot, with high elevation, where it is cool even in the warmest weather. The house is all brick, contain- ing 8 real rooms, reception hall, 2 full tile baths, con- crete front porch, break- fast alcove; fully equipped. Has oil burner, electric re= frigeration, garage, etc. 3422 17th St. N.W. (Just North of Newton St.) OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY FOR YOUR INSPECTION [SHANNON; & LUCHS] EXCLUSIVE AGENTS TWO MODEL HOME DEVELOPMENTS Detached Brick Homes *11,950 $1,000 Cash Payment Excellent location—paved streets—large attractively land- scaped lots—six good rooms— full attic over entire house— breakfast alcove—-colored tile bath—ample closet space—open fireplace—artistically decorated, built-in garage. No. 5 CEDAR AVE. ach property drive out 16th Street to a Ave. and follow on through to Silver Spring, turning east on Bonifant Street three blocks to houses. All-Brick Row Homes *6,250 v- $250 Cash—$55 Month COMPLETELY FURNISHED Substantial construction, covered front porch, double rear porches, tiled bath with built-in tub, artisti- cally decorated rooms with paneled walls, oak floors, hot-water heat, built-in garage, attractive shrubbery, wide paved street, two squares from school, stores and car line, Near new Government park. 1522 RIDGE S.E. Across Navy Yard bridge to 14tK and S—then one block north. OPEN SUNDAY AND DAILY, 2-9 PM. National Mortg. & Inv. Corp. 1004 Vt. Ave. - Nat. 5833 Old Chevy Chase No. 22 West Irving Street This splendid property, one block northwest of Chevy Chase Circle and four doors from Magnolia Parkway, is offered at a price which, in our opinion, places it well within the bargain class. It is a center-hall plan, with 7 spacious rooms (4 bedrooms), large screened sleeping porch, floored attic, 2-car garage. The many fine shade trees provide a beautiful setting for this comfortable home. e owner is away for the day and your inspection may be as com- plete as you wish. OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY Edw. H. J ones & Co. Inc. Chevy Chase Properties . _ 5520 Conn. Ave. . " Cleveland 2300