Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1929, Page 18

REAL BEIG ERECTED Structure Will Serve as Office and Distribution Point for Merchandise. A large fireproof warehouse and of- fice buuding for the Peoples Drug Stores, Inc., of Washington is being erected on a site on P and Decatur streets, between First and North Capi- tol streets, which will serve as a dis- tribution peint for merchandise sold in local Peoples Drug Stores. ‘The building is to be erected by the Rust Engincering Co. The cost is es- timated to run o approximately $125,000. The building has been designed to provide for adequate shipping and re- celving facilities. In addition to the ‘warchouse features of the plant there will be space provided for general of- fices for the chain store organization here. Floor space aggregating approxi- mately 8,600 square feet will be pro- vided on the four main floors of the | building, in addition to that on the ‘basement floor. The building will have a frontage of 145 fect and a depth of 135 feet. The building will front on both P and Decatur streets. ‘The two side wings of the building will be of brick construction, while the main portion will be of concrete cr stone facing. The building is to be Feady for occupancy in Novemb ON REALTY ROW News Briefs and Observa- tions Concerning the Local Business. Realtors’ Anniversary. Friends of Edgar D. Turner, & mem- ber of the Washington Real Estate Board, this week staged an informal celebration of the fifty-third anniversary of his activity in local business fields. Mr. Turner conducts a real estate busi- ness from 1407 New York avenue, under the name of Louis P. Shoemaker, with whom he formerly was associated until the death of Mr. Shoemaker in 1916. Mr. Turner has engaged in real estate work for about 20 years. Mr. Shoe- maker established his real estate busi- ness here in 1876 at 908 F street, where A. F. Fox also had his realty office. Rk Sansbury Reports Record. N. L. Sansbury Co. announces the recent closing of sales transactions having a total consideration of approx\-l mately $1,110,000. Included in the pro) erties listed is the large colonial dwell- | ing in Spring Valley, at 4833 Rockwood parkway, an exhibition house in the new subdivision of W. C. & A. N. Mil- ler, which was sold for that concern | to Thomas Good for a price reported to be $50,000. B i Other sales included are the new de- | tached stone residence at 2320 Tracy place, in Kalorama Heights, containing | 11 rooms and 5 baths, and having a | two-car garage, sold to Col. C. R. San- derson for the Sansbury Co., builders, through the office of Sandoz, Inc.; 29 other residences; apartments at 3519 ‘Thirteenth street, sold for Alice V. Lar- rimore to a local investor; the apart- ment building at 1321 Fairmont street, so0ld to a local investor for the Wardman Corporation, and a 30-acre tract of farm land and a 14-room mansion on the Marlboro Pike, Prince Georges County, Md,, sold for H. Addison Bowie to Nor- man C. Rogers. hoxie New Apartment Planned. Frank Tomlinson, local real estate operator, has filed plans with the Dis- trict building inspector- calling for the construction of a five-story brick apart- ment building to be erected at 1451 Park road. it Fort Stevens Streets. Work is proceeding rapidly on the paving of streets in the Fort Stevens section. Under contracts for this work in the last fiscal year, which was de- Jayed to some extent to await laying of wer and water connections for new and those let for the current Beautiful Marietta Park HOME 5523 Kansas Ave. | (East on Longftellow to Kans.) $7,950.00 Handsome Brick Home—(stone retaining wall for front yard) in PERFECT CONDITION: "6 large | rooms and tiled bath with built- advantage = of fronting an avenue 120 feet wide. of the VERY BEST BUYS One in this beautiful subdivision. Inspect It Tomorrow Wm. H. Saunders Co., Inc. Exclusive Agents | 1433 K St. N.W. District 1016 100000000060 00000 406 Delafield St. N.W. ALL-BRICK HOME 6 ROOMS—3 PORCHES BUILT-IN GARAGE This_attractive tapestry brick home with covered front porch and 2 covered screened rear porches and built-in garage is located in a splendid new home community in the North- west, convenient to schools, ESTATE. ESIGN FOR PEOPLES DRUG STORE NEW WAREHOUSE | DRUG WAREHOUSE | > Sketch of $125,000 structure which is being erected on P and Decatur streets between First and North Capltol streets northeast. In addition to warehouse facilities, it will contain general offices. fiscal year, approximately two and a quarter miles are being laid. The cost is roughly estimated at $125,000. * koK X New Style Realty Office. Something new in the style of a real estate office is seen in that of Phil D. Poston, recently completed on Georgia avenue above the newly paved section of Sixteenth street extended, in Silver Spring. Here is what appears to be a small cottage of New England type, with wide clapboard exterior walls painted white, green shutters, windows with small panes, a Colonial doorway, stone chimney rising from a large fire- place in the one main room, and roof of slate shingles of varied colors. ‘The floor is of wide oak boarding, se- cured by wooden pegs, and the walls are of paneled white pine, which reveals knots here and there. The celling is marked by oak beams. While the building is but 17 by 27 feet in size, it is set on a half-acre tract, having a frontage of 100 feet on Georgla averue. * K ok ¥ Home Sales Reported. ‘The Wardman Construction Co. an- nounces the recent sales of the follow- ing brick, semi-detached houses in Fort Stevens: Residence at 512 Tuckerman street to G. C. Blackmer, 527 Tucker- man street to Noel Lynn, jr.; 601 Tuckerman street to Anna Nutter, and 6418 Seventh street to Henry A. Cole. * ok ok X Buy New Residences. ‘The Joseph Shapiro Co." reports the sales of the following homes: The semi- detached house at 1913 Otis street northeast to John A. Denham, the new semi-detached house at 507 Oglethorpe street, Marietta Park, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Wolstenholme; a brick row house at 214 Cromwell terrace north- east to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Saxe, brick row house at 5201 Seventh place, Petworth, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Nussbaum; a brick row house at 5023 Eighth street, Petworth, to Mrs. Con- stance C. Fairfax; a semi-detached brick house at 511 Oglethorpe street, Marietta Park, {o_Alexander Selinger, OOL OMMODIOUS ONVENIENT Have YOU Seen 5803 Chevy Chase Parkway? A spacious new Colonial home, just one block from the Circle, near store schools, cars and churches; built on a good size lot in an attractive wooded setting, with fine bed- rooms, three baths, garage, fireplace, oak floors and mod- ern in every detail. Low Priced—Easy Terms Will consider clear land or smaller house as part pay- ment. R. E. Kline, Jr. Owner Union Tr. Bldg. Dist. 5246 OR ANY BROKER Under the Friendly and a corner row house at 726 Gallatin street, Petworth, to Mr. and Mrs. Ben- jamin Belmont. * K kX Roberts Goes to Maine. Eugene B. Roberts of Story & Co. left this week for Bar Harbor, Me. where he wlli be the guest of John Sweeney, Jjr., until the first week in September. U. S. ENGINEERS APPROVE GRADE MARKED LUMBER Home Owner’s Institute Says Sys- tem Is to Safegaurd Stand- ard Products. ‘The American Soclety of Civil En- gineers has placed its stamp of ap- proval on grade marked lumber. This action follows a similar step taken by architects and groups within the con- struction industry. The Home Owners’ Institute makes the following com- ment on the plan: “Grade marking of lumber is not an advertising device. It is a commercial practice to safeguard the integrity of standard products. “Grade marking is not & means of extracting higher prices. It is & means of keeping lumber in use. “Guaranteed grade marked standard lumber is not a device to “outlaw” un- marked lumber. But it should be an effective means of preventing sub- standard lumber being sold as standard. xpioting propi e an mofl:uan un to secure ad- dard grad- X’;Ic Tul * Manufacture and les. Manufact an . ox‘mdo marked lumber now-ft:rt:-h‘tz in the agencies of lumber. dis- Climbing & tree 70 feet high, & police- man at Bath, land, recently rescued a kitten which had been there three not & means of lucts. It is A SPECIALIZED SERVICE .Qu:iha:?mpy i Lzasing ‘ i\ o ol AREGROSINSKI I REALTOR. “\ 7/o/n}wad.guilfl' :‘u{l.l}ma/.fi?fl JAMESON-BUILT NEW HOMES Ready to Move in—®6, 7 and 8 Large Rooms ON EASY TERMS 6 Choice Locations 925 Quincy St. N.W. 415 to 445 Jefferson St. N.W. 1501 D St. NE. 1535 Tsher- wood St. 1 Square North of 15th & D Sts. N.E. 255 11th St. S.E. Sample Houses Open from 7 AM. until 9 PM. FOR SALE BY All houses have h.wh, electric lights, tile bath, built- in tub, servant’s toilet, wide rear and froent porches. Second floors have extra gas and plumbing out- lets, and can be easily converted into two-famliy houses. These houses are conveniently located. Garage with each honse. "¥] FRIGIDAIRE ‘WITH EACH , HOUSE THOS. A. JAMESON CO. 906 New York Ave. National 5526 “Ask the Man Who Owns One™ Shelter of Sturdy Elms and Fragrant Pines “Shady Rest” Is Ideal for Private School or Sanitarium ALMOST within the shadow of the Na- Appealing Features of Shady Rest Broad, screened verandas on three sides of building. All rooms have outside ex- posure, and many windows mean a’ undance of sunshine and fresh air. Numerous fruit trees and gar- den plot. Reached by stately elm-shaded Rest truly affords 22 baths. there is try estate. tional Capitol, in the blue hills of Maryland . . . Shady The staunch, modern hotel convenience, including 72 sunny rooms and Much of its five broad acres is beauti- fied with trees and shrubbery and about the whole that mellow, which one associates at once with a fine old coun- yet high and secluded many unique advantages for a private school, sanitarium or scientific research laboratory. structure offers every substantial atmosphete 16 REALTY FIRMS - WIN CASH AWARDS Gifts of Playground Sites Rewarded by Harmon Foundation.” ‘The Harmon Foundation has com- pleted a total of 16 awards to real es- tate companies which have set aside l1and for permanent public playgrounds, it is announced by &; playground and recreation dssociation of America, which administered the awards. Fourteen subdividers have received $2,000 awards and two have received $1,000 awards. The {)llymunda do- nated vary from 1 to 11 acres in area. ange from 1% to 14 per cent of the subdivisions of which are 8 part, ut‘ot them "being in excess of 4 per cen T Ccel Factors influencing the choice of real estate men to receive the awards were the type and promise of the subdivision, the rapidity of the city’s growth in pop- ulation, and the willingness of the city to_accept the play areas. The appraised value of the areas set apart is more than $121,000. In most cases the money given was devoted to developing and beautifying the play spaces. —_— Nearly 60,000 Orangemen took part in the West of Scotland celebrations in connection with the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne recently. ' -.M/fltym IVE completed homes in Washington's fore- most development of mod- Exhibit home 1335 KAIMIA ROAD erately priced homes are ready for your inspection. Prices $18,750 up . . . Fur- nished exhibit home open daily and Sunday until nine p.m.—To reach, drive out to end of 16th, turn right on Kalmia Rd., or out Alaska Ave. and turn left on Kalmia. + eC,AQansfiury COMPANY INC. Owners—Builders 1418 Eye St. NW. Nat'l 5904 DETACHED BRICK HOMES OF UNUSUAL CHARM Sample House NUMBER 5 CEDAR AVE., SILVER SPRING, MD. 311,95 $1.000 Cash payment Excellent location—paved strects—large, attractively land- scaped lots—six good rooms—full attic over entire house—break- fast alcov colored tile bath—ample closet space—open fire- place—artistically decorated, built-in garage. To reach property drive out 16th Street to Georgia Ave. and follow on through to Silver Spring, turn- ing east o Bonifant Street three blocks to houses. OPEN SUNDAY AND DAILY, 2-9 P.M. National Mortg. & Inv. Corp. 1004 Vt. Ave. National 5833 M Pesley THE GARDEN SPOT OF PHeights WASHINGTON o 3013 44th PLACE Open Daily and Sunday—from 10 AM. to 9 PM. REAL ESTATE. To Be Siamese Judge at 24. dentship of $500 for three years for the Mom Rajawongse Seni Pramoj, a best paper in the final examination. He member of a princely house in Smle, is|was born in Nakoi Savor, Northern on his way to his native country, where | Siam, in 1905, and at 16 went to Eng- he expects to soon become a judge. He |land, where he was graduated from was recently called to the bar in Eng- | Worchester College, Oxford, and Wwas Iand, where he had won the bar stu- | a student at Gray's Inn. Greatest Value ever offered in high-class Homes In One of the Finest Locations in Washington Looking Directly Into Rock Creek Park $13,950 All Brick Four Bedrooms Two Baths Garage Electric Refrigeration Breakfast Porch Sleeping Porch Brick Fireplace Until you inspect these new homes you cannot realize their extreme value at this low price! Big Rooms Large, Light Basement Handsomely Decorated . Plenty of Closets See Them Sunday! Ezhibit Home 2641 Woodley Pl Open 9 AM.to 9 P.M. Exclusive Agents 1416 Eye St.N.W. Nat’l 8949 OPEN SUNDAY In rBreautiful Marietta Park ‘ONLY $12.950.00 605 Nicholson St. N.W. (North on 5th to Nicholson; then one block West) Handsome New Detached Brick Home (built by C. H. Small Co.) Convenient to the new Junior High School: 6 large rooms and tiled bath with built-in tub and shower; also two large inclosed and heated porches: everything up- to-date including Frigidaire: garage harmonizing on paved alley: street paved and environment in all respects very desirable. Look It Over Tomorrow Wm. H. Saunders CO.. Inc. ExilusivesAgents 1433 K St. N.W. District 1017 ! V000000000 000000000000000000000000 i | On the Highest Point in Petworth! 3RD AND ALLISON ST. HOMES Between Webster and Allison Sts. on Third 20 Ft. Wide—6 Rooms 3 Porches—Garage _—— ATTRACTIVE FEATURES Colonial Buff Brick Home 20 Ft. Wide by 32 Ft. Deep Slate Mansard Roof Covered Concrete Front Porch 2 Screened Rear Porches Reception Hall, Coat Closet with *9,250 Terms stores, churches, bus and c 6 large rooms, built-in tub and shower, g chen, concrete cellar with laundry tr In excellent con- dition, newly papered and painted, hot - water heat, automatic hot-water heater, screens throughout, all modern conveniences. Terms arranged to suit. See this home today! $7,950 CAFRITZ 0000000000000000- \ WHEN YOU PURCHASE IN WESLEY HEIGHTS you not only buy a home—but you buy—Quality Produc- tion—Convenience—Beauty—Investment Assured Future ~—Character—Environment—Construction and Location— come out and see for yourself. drive from Bonifant Street, Sil- ver Spring. & More than 360,000 cubic feet in _modern, fireproof, concrete building. Immense sun parlor, has ideal exposure. Macsive open fireplace in lobby or_clubroom. Brand-new_ heating plant with generous radiation throughout. Plate Glass Mirror Door e 1g Room Daylight Kitchen Fully Equipped Large, Bright Dining Room To an accepted purchaser the price and terms will prove unusually attractive. 25 Minutes From F Street Follow This Beautiful Route DIRECTIONS: Take 16th and Kennedy Streets bus, transferring to Silver Spring bus. Georgia Avenue trolley stops within three blocks of Silver Spring and Shady Rest. Or drive your own car out 16th and Alaska Avenue or Georgia Avenue. ‘National Capit_al Mortgage Co. 1000 Fourteenth Street: National 9784 A FEW 5 i e 8-ROOM HOMES i £ 2 Othist Large Bodrecens A Black and White Tiled Bath Built-in Tub and Shower Concrete Cellar With Toilet And Laundry Trays Automatic Hot-Water Heater Gabled Roof Garage Artistic Decoration Paneled Wallpaper Hardwood Floors and Trim Wardrobe Closets With Lights Screens Throughout Ave., cross To reach Wesley Heights—Motor out Ma: ., again turn Wisconsin Ave., then tarn left into Cathedral A left at 44th Place to exhibit home. W. C. and A. N. MILLER Pounders and Bullders of Washington’s Exclusive Community 1119 17th St. N.W, Phone Decatur 0610 EXHIBIT HOME 4427 3rd St. N.W. OPEN AND LIGHTED UNTIL 9 P.M. - CAFRITZ