Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1930, Page 15

REAL ESTATE STAR AGAIN WILL SPONSOR EXHIBIT OF MODEL HOMES, Five New Dwellings to Be Erected and Kept Open for Public Inspection for Period of Month. | The public of Greater Washington once again will be given the ngportunuy to make personal and thorough inspection of a series of model homes, sponsored by The Star, approved by a committee of experts and built especially for the demonstration from plans ap- proved by the model homes committee after close examination of the details of each house. The 1930 Star model-home program, organized on a large and more exacting scale even than in former years, providing for the erection and public demonstration of fige dwellings of widely varied style, size and cost, has been approvea by the committee and The Star and was placed in effect this week. Many thousand visitors in past years have been attracted to | Star model homes. All interested in modern home developments will | be invited to inspect each of the houses. The various demonstration | dwellings will be open for a month of inspection at different periods, | so that the public may have the best opportunity to see and study | Prawing by Parks & Baxter, each one. The program has been organized for The Star by the Operative Builders' Association, which will supervise the program throughout, including the con- struction, furnishing and demonstra- tion of the homes. The association co- operated with The Star in the 1929 program. Members of Committee. Leagders in the several flelds related to home development are included in the membership of The Star model homes committee which was appointed to direct all phases of the program. This committee consists of Monroe ‘Warren, president of the Operative Builders' Association; Louis Justement, past president of the Washington Chap- ter of the American Institute of Archi- tects, who was nominated by Horace W. Peaslee, president of the chapter; Maj. Donald A. Davison, assistant engi- neer commissioner of the District, in charge of building and zoning activi- ties; Wilmer J. Waller, president of the District Bankers’ Association; Alfred H. Lawson, president of the Washington sociation, and a representative of The tar. ‘The dwell will be erected by Shan- non & Lucas, Inc, Waverly Taylor, Inc ;- Baer & Scholz, the North wasx ington Realty Co., Inc., and W. C. A. N. Miller, all of which firms are well known in the construction field of ‘Washington. ‘The scope of the program this year is broader than last year in that there is a wider range in the cost of the va- rious houses and in the architectural styles, which will afford a more varied g:;umumm to the public. The five uses will be erected in scattered sec- tions of the city, also providing wide appeal to the public. be judged from the fact that in cases major changes were made by the builders at the suggestion of the com- mittee. In one case, an attractive house plan was withdrawn voluntarily by the builder and an entirely new design submitted which was unanimously a provd by the committee as better sui ing the site selected for the proposed house. changes were made in the exterior de- sign of the Pro)!cted dwelling, at the suggestion o were approved by the committee after the new design was submitted at a sub- sequent meeting. The first mddel home is being erected by Shannon & Luchs, Maple avenue, Chevy Chase, located north of Bradley lane and the grounds of the Chevy Chase Golf and Country Club. This dwelling will be a white brick colonial in style. B. Heaton, with Shannon & Luchs. It will be fur- :vi;);:’d {«;r &t}fi’tgemngsunuon by the war rop department store. Real Estate Board; Rufus S. Lusk, sec- | retary of the Operative Builders As- );(.ngfcnpmg will be under the direction sociated with the construction firm. It will cost $21,000. The second home on exhibition will be one of eight English group houses to be erected by Waverly Taylor, Inc., on the east side of Forty-fourth street, in Foxhall, rear of the cial treatment, will overlook Foundry Branch Valley. The house selected for the model home will be numbered 1509 Forty-fourth street, the fourth one from the north end of the group. It will be of three stories and be dormers in the front face of the roof. It was designed by Waverly Taylor. | nue, for five years, at a total rental of head of the building concern, in associ- | $7,000; W. F. Weathersbee, 1119 Four- | two | G STREET PROPERTY New Front to Be Erected for Vir-| ginia Dare Dress i Shop. In the second case, major a committeeman, which Business property at 1235 G street has been leased for a period of 10 years beginning today to the Virginia Dare Dress Shop, one of a chain of stores operating nationally, it is. announced | Inc., at 6502 in Forest section of WITR SUNDAY Final Building In Tilden Gardens Is Begun avenue between Tilden and Sedgwick streets. CHAIN STORE LEASES ‘Ncw Structure Is Sixth i—Jnit m Co= Operative Apartment Development on Connecticut Avenue. | Undisclosed Investors Take Construction of the sixth and final building of the Tilden operative apartment development, on Connecticut avenue between Tilden and Sedgwick streets, has been started by M. & R. B. Warren. The new building, in the shape of a double cross, will bring the total cost of the operation to close to $3,000,000. The new building. as _designed Gardens co- It was designed by Arthur | by the firm of Shannon & Luchs, Inc, | local architect associated installation of a new store front, the Virginia Dare organization will open one of its chain business units there. Fred C. Hayes is the owner of the prop- Fahey, landscape artist as- announced. The Zaban Mattress & Box Spring Co., with headquarters in Richmond, Va., has leased the property at 903 E street and the warehouse building at the rear of the property for the manu- facture and sale of mattresses and bed springs, Shannon & Luchs report. The lease is for five years, at a rental ot approximately $25,000. The realtor firm also reports the fol- lowing leases: Ann's Bakery, 5019 Connecticut ave- , south of Q street. The ) W will have spe- featured by It will it enendive erations, nenuaing; OPERATIVE BUILDERS PRAISE TABULATION itV coniainao iiis: dwidea. imie | erty. The rental consideration was not | Rufus Lusk Voices Approval in Let- ter Commending Analysis of Apartment House Survey. Praise for the “very thorough and valuable” analysis and tabulation of the results of the apartment house vacancy survey of the Operative Builders’ Asso- clation of Washington, perts of the Bureau of Building and Housing, is voiced in a letter sent to Secretary of Commerce Lamont by Rufus S. Lusk, secretary of the builders made by ex- ation with Porter & Lockie. cost $13,250. Will Have Five Rooms. New Feature Planned. A new feature will be the inclusion in the program of a modest house costing $8,350, as an illustration of what can be done by careful planning of a small. inexpensive rocw dwelling. This is the least costly home ever included in a Star model home program. ‘There also will be a large, stone, de- tached house, costing between $50.000 and $60,000, which will give an illus- tration of & home in the more costly scale. Other houses will be at various -.~0st scales ranging between the top and bottom levels. ‘Thus there will be open for inspec- tion homes of the costly, medium and inexpensive types, row houses and de- tached dwellings, and houses of widely different styles, locations, plan and ration. . In each case the builders submitted drawings and plans for the inspection of The Star model homes committee which thoroughly studied various phases of the developments. Mem- bers of committee, representing the architectural, blnlnnug‘ engsneebrlx‘:ég,v ?:2- struction, real estate and pul - U points, each studied plll’!sD submitted. | garage and servants’ quarters. That the submitted drawings and lot is wooded and has plans were carefully scrutinized may streams crossing it. north side of M street. It will be in subdivision of Baer & Scholz. wide and 31 feet deep. Scholz was the designer. will cost $8,350. J R Y- HIS chart demonstrates conclusively three im- portant advantages of co-operative apartment ownership in Tilden Gardens. Taking, as an ex- ample, one of our choice apartments of six rooms and two baths: 1 For such a rented apartment you would pay an average of $175 per month for 78 months (64 years), a total of $13,650. For the same apartment in TILDEN GARDENS you pay $136.40 per month for 78 months (6 years), or $10,639, plus the initial payment of $3,100, a total of $13,739—approxi- mately the same as for the rented apartment. rmit .us to lay them before you? ns, open every evening until 9 p.m. TILDEN Connecticut Avenue at Tilden Street The equities sold for more than | of 1113-15 Fifteenth street, for one ’ buildin PHeC & Bchois WIIL he the DR | st Rostun Beaimty ! Bhop. Cili ! flocr owners of the third house in the serles, this being one of a group of small Eng- lish row houses to be erected on the street northeast between Twentieth place and Twentieth the Shelbourne house will contain six rooms and will have a front porch and two open rear porches. The house will be 18 feet Robert O. ‘The house The fourth house in the series will be erected by the North Washington Realty Co. on a large trianglar lot on the northwest cornmer of Locust street and Fernway road, in the Northgate section off Sixteenth street north of Kalmia road. It will be of simplified English architectural style, of brick and stone construction. It will contain nine main rooms, in addition to a two:xg:r e two _small Parks & Baxter W 18T 2ND RD TR ST o) RENTA _“ T | e teenth street, for one year, with an op- tion for two years, at a total rental of $3,600, for use as.a general market: Washington School of Art, second floor organization. ‘The analysis was made by Mrs. of building and housing. of 13290 F street, for two years, at a rental of $3,600; the Gamma Eta Chap- ter, Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, of Genrge ‘Washington University, 1524 K streef and practical manner in are the designers. The house will cost approximately $25.000. ‘The fifth model home will be erected by W. C. & A. N. Miller on a large site at Forty-fourth and Garfleld streets, in Wesley Heights near the Glover Parkway. This will be an all stone arenitesuval syle, Tt wil be the g arc ural style. It wi e larg- ot ‘and most cosily of the series. 1t | OU;the country. has been designed by Gordon E. Mac- Neil, architect, in_association with the Miller concern. It will cost between $50,000 and $60,000. Dates for the public exhibiton of each house and progress stories on the construction, furnishing and decoration of the dwellings will be published later in The Star. more coples. operation.” woman. COMPARE THE COST - - of a RENTED Apartment and Apartment OWNERSHIP! PROPS TO$8942 PER MO T—in the rented apartment after 6)4 years would have accumulated only a series of rent receipts, [n your co-operative apartment home in Tilden Gardens in this same period you have accumulated a salable equity* of $6,200; 28L' you AND—in the rented apartment, beyond the 6)/4-year period you would continue to pay $175 per month or more; while in your co-operative apartment home in Tilden Gardens, after 675 years you pay only $89.90 per month. These are facts! They account for the unusually rapid sale of apartment homes in Tilden Gardens. There are other facts equally as interesting and convincing. | Exhibit Home, tastefully decorated and furnished by W. B. Moses & Why not visit Tilden Gardens now, and GARDENS Co-operative Apartment Homes of Charm and Beauty—A Development of M. and R. B. Warren Telephone Cleveland 6084 *To date, only three apartment homes in Tilden Gardens have been offered for resale. the total paid for them by the original purchasers. Mansfield Spasoff, assistant statistician under the supervision of John R. Riggle- man, chief statistician of the division ‘The letter to Secretary Lamont states “We, as builders, are most grateful for the work the department has done and particularly for the business like which the whole thing was handled. Every one who has seen the tabulation made by Mrs. Spasoff has praised it highly and it already is proving of such value that we are getting repeated requests for “This tabulation and analysis ot apartment vacancies is probably the most complete ever made and it should be a step in the direction of having uniform vacancy surveys made through- “I am writing in order that you may | know what excellent work was done | by the division of building and housing and how pleased we are with their co- Diamonds can drill the hardest rock | as well as decorate the neck of a pretty | Parks & Baxter, will be of English style, similar to the other buildings in the development. The facades will be of brick of rich tone, with stone orna- mentation. This building is being erected near the intersection of Sedgwick street and Connecticut avenue and will be tied in with the landscaping plan of the whole development, which includes series of steps, gravel paths, reflecting basins, lawns, shrubs and trees running about | the six buildings. The construction cost of the last nia Street. quired by a new syndicate of the property. 280 rooms. There will be 40 units of 4 | rcoms, 10 units of 5 rooms and 10 units of 7 rooms. The double-cross shape of the build- ping was designed to afford maximum light, air and outlook for the units in the structure. The whole developmer.t is on a 5-acre tract and all six buildings will occupy approximately one-third of the total area of the site. Construction of the fifth bulldlflkw started in March of last year, this being. the club building of the group, and con- tains many exclusive hotel and club features. complete renovation of the buildi ating systems, it is announced. will be refurbished. Brokers to Be Listed. Real Estate Boards is to be pul in April, a copy of which is placed in the hands of every store organization in the United o e L West of Kalorama -Acvoss Rock Creek. Mass. Ave. entrance at 30™ St. One Square east of New British Embagsy The National Cathedral on west Sites for Individual Homes Priced from %150 per sq.ft. up Within 2 miles of White Fouse Location and contours can never be dublicated in heart of Washington again- Prices and Data from= MIDDAUGH AND SHANNON Inc, 1435 K St. i A 4 - APARTMENTS BOUGHT BY SYNDICATE HERE| | ‘Westmoreland, on Califor- ‘The Westmoreland Apartments, 2122 California street, once owned and oper- | ated by Stilson Hutchins, has been ac- | closed investors, it was announced by | George R. Linkins of the George R. Linkins Co., which has been awarded | the contract for the management of ‘The new owners have authorized the | management firm to start at once with ' to install modern heating and refriger- the interior and exterior of the building [ A directory containing names and ad- dresses of all members of the -brokers’ division of the National Association of Massacauserts Park ' | Over | undis- | ng and ‘The Blaine bill differs from the meas- ure introduced by Senator chiefly in the following points: It provides that the Real Estate Com- mission consist of three appointed members, actively engaged in real estate business. The Capper bill provided that all three commissioners be tate experience. The Blaine bill would make the Dis- trict tax assessor an ex-officio fourth member of the commission. ‘The Blaine measure would make the annual license fee for brokers $15, in- stead of $10 as proposed by realtors. year under either measure. WASHIITYGTON, D. C. @hfi ghfi]’!fli}}g %iaf' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1930. 'HOME & GARDENI B-‘ 'BLAINE REAL ESTATE ACT AIMS TO PROTECT BUYER |Proposed Law, Modeled After Statutes of Twenty- Five States, Would Keep Shyster Dealer Out of Business. BY DON S. WARREN. ' Estate Board, an- the hearings. The transaction was not involved. e o (L analysis of the two bills. Capper not more than two being of practical real es- year. Members could Enactment of a real estate license law for Washington, aimed |at the shyster dealer and providing a definite means of preventing his operation, was brought a step nearer realization this week with the introduction by Senator Blaine of Wisconsin of a bill closely fol- lowing the model code sponsored by the National Association of Real Estate Boards and now in effect in 25 States. | The Blaine measure, drafted after lengthy study of conditions here, differs but in a few points from the measure introduced by | Senator Capper of Kansas, drafted by the Washington Real Estate Board, which has publicly urged its adoption. { Public hearings on the proposed law will be held after the tarift ! question has been disposed of, it is announced. Senator Blaine has s - 3statege:lso tt}}llatsno (:neDl_s tas1 ytet comrirémed definitely to the new bill, 3,008, = jopment, |now before the Senate District committee. architects, of the sixth and last building of the $3,000,000 Tilden Gardens co-operative apartment development, on connec“fllt! ALtFod B Lawsos:. Bl of i | washington Real nounced that the Blaine measure will be studied and that the board would be represented in measure has been forwarded to Gen. Nathan W. MacChesney, general coun- sel of the National Realtor Association, for consideration, The Blaine bill would make it unlaw- ful for a dealer to simulate a real es- tate transaction with intent to mislead others as to the value of a proper by transferring title to property or e: ecuting a mortgage * hen a bona fi Otherwise the two measures are fundamentally the same in purpose and effect, according to an officlal Under the Blaine measure, the Dis- trict Commissioners would name the three appointed members of the com- mission, with whom the tax assessor would serve in an ex-oficio capacity, The three appointed members would be paid $15 for each day in the work of the commission, except that no mem- ber should receive more than $2,000 a be removed the District Commissioners for cnuse.by Records of the commission would be open to public inspection under “rea- sonable” rules of the commission. All fees and charges collected by the commission would be paid into the | The fee for salesmen would be $5 per | United States Treasury to the credit (Continued on Second Page.) Both | blished to be || chain States. Originality of Design— Construction— Location —dozens of features set these new English homes in Woodley Park far above competition. Several already sold. | | | \ \ | \ \ | \ [ Brick and stone construction, slate roof, some center-hali types, concrete front porches, rough hewn timber two rear porches, b two tile baths, electric refri ation two-car buil Most conven: Eaton and er Public Schools. ...$15,750 Up... Exhibit Home Open and Heated Daily Until 9 P.M. J‘{-:«(;.,égnmiémy 1418 Eye St. N.W. Ouners-Builders Reached via Conn. Ave. to Cathedral Ave. west o 29th St. them morth ome square. 2910 Cortland Place National 5903 ' < ool 0o o% o 0% %40 % o %’ eedeedeedeodoodrs I3 K2 QXD 2 Especially Selected Home Offerings Between the Country Clubs in CHEVY CHASE No. 3 East Underwood Street (Just OF Conn. Ave.) New brick and shingle Dutch Colonial, center-hall plan, 7 rooms (4 bedrooms) and 2 tiled baths: built-in garage: large lot. Can be bought on most reasonable terms. No. 19 West Thornapple Street Center-hall Colonial, located in the wooded area west of Conn. Ave. on a 90-foot frontage with many fine shade trees. 6 rooms and 2 tiled baths: built-in garage. Near public school. g Owner has left city and has priced this property to sell. OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY Edw. H. Jones & Co.. Inc. 5520 Conn. Ave: Cleve. 2300 R S Sl e A % Priced Under $13,000 1210 Holly Street N.W. 1, Block of Alaska Ave. A beautiful detached home, containing 7 ° rooms, 4 bedrooms—every room is excep- tionally large and well proportioned and is dec- orated in the latest artistic treatment—screened —weather stripped. The large, deep lot is abun- dantly shrubbed with evergreen trees and flowers. Garage is located in rear of lot on a wide, paved alley. To those interested in a real home in an ideal and convenient location at a price and terms beyond com- parison, should visit this ex- ceptional house. Open, heated and lighted Sun- day till 9 PM. After Sunday phone office for infor- ma tion. & Preuninger & Sons 211 Investment Bldg. Realtors Nat'l 2040 ORI RN I RN W IR W NN As Ethel Barrymore used to say: “That’s All ThereIs . . . « « « There Isn’t Any More!” You see, we’re finishing up in Leland, our Chevy Chase development of nearly 200 homes. Only seven more, five of which are still under construc- tion. NOT that we saved the best for last . . . but it so happens that THIS particular home, just completed, at 4313 Elm St., Chevy Chase —is undoubtedly one of the best values we have ever offered .-. . and that’s a pretty strong state- ment. Really charming, with its stone front, flagstone walk, covered side porch, built-in garage . . . all on a large lot, fully landscaped and with beautiful shade trees. A recent visitor pronounced it “positively ideal.” You'll LIKE IT! And the price . . . well, THAT'S the most pleasant surprise of all. Just TRY to find elsewhere such a home of six spacious, well planned rooms, tiled bath with shower, open fireplace . . . ment and convenience . . near the price of Better see it today, before you are too late. Drive out Wiscomsin Ave. to Leland St., just worth of Bradley Lane, turn east (right) 3 blocks to 44th Street, thew morth (left) 2 blocks to property. M. and R. B. Warren Heated and Lighted for Inspection Until 9 P.M. 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