Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1930, Page 21

REAL FAMOUS BROOKLYN ROAD SOON T0 PASS Stately Villas and Palaces! Will Yield to March of Time. With the doom actually pronounced, but resisting to the end the march of ultra-modernism, soon will vass into memory the last spot of its kind in the | City of New York. The famous Shore Road, Brooklyn, easily the most pic- turesque 2-mile stretch in the mun! pal limits, will yleld its stately villas and palacss to a virtually continuous | facade of huge piles, similar to those of Riverside Drive. These, with their cold, unromantic brick and stone, will sup- plant the beauty spots, some of which for the best part of a century have kept this area wholly unchanged in char- acter as a country-side against any en- croachment. These fine places were built when homes were homes, not merely stopping places, and some of the earlier ones were selected out of broad acres owned by their builders as the ideal sites for their manors, with areas surrounding thé substantial hou: reaching from the bay front for a half mile back to what now is Third avenue. Few streets were cut through until 30 years ago, and the dividing lines were the lanes and driveways between estates—mere dirt or gravel paths. Entrances mostly were on the present Third avenue, then & dirt highway, and the main road o Fort Hlmflton.l In .h few instances, gateways and lodge houses were on Wwhat now is Ridge boulevard. From Schermerhorn mansion, on Gowanus Bay, down to the Narrows & vista of rare appeal and of ideal Tesideritial comfort and enviable com- munity life. Large dwellings, with lawn, grove and garden, outlined the fronts, set well back from the shore. ‘The “landscaping” was the work of mnflom of those who knew nature close contact with growing things. ‘The structures were adorned with cu- polas and towers, as was the fashion of the period, even the' immense barns and carriage houses following this . The social life was about the most exclusive of old Brooklyi, not ex- cepting the once glorious Heights. At that time, the upper part of this was Gowanus, which merged into Bay Ridge, the dividing line being the present Sixty-ninth street, or Bay Ridge ave- nue, at the intersection of which with Third avenue stool until recently the old Bay Ridge Tavern of Colonial days. With the passing of the Schermer- horn homestead began the intrusion which, however, aimed to preserve the icence and the exclusiveness that marked the entire residential stretch, ‘The Schermerhorn house, by the way, ‘Wak the birthplace of Mrs. Caroline Astorfounder of that famil; and who ruled the Passing south from the Schermerhorn acres, one found a long line of Van Brunt homes, of Van Bergens (later mwoarnized into Bergen), Van Cleefs, Van Cotts, Van Names, Van Nesses, Van Voorhises and other descendants of set- tlers of Breuckkelyn. But posterity was restless, and in some instances veckiess, and these shrines fell into other hands—mostly good hands, who kzt their prestige and their menages fairly well. Two of the old places still stand intact, thought necessarily renovated and somewhat modernized, but retaining the criginal outline and hing. These, which still vie with their newer neighbors, are the Bergen house, near Seventy-fourth street, and & Van Brunt home, south of the Cres- cent Athletic Clul big house and g:nd; at Eigthy-fifth street. It has tuccoed and ite surrounding plot has diminished, but still stretches back about 300 feet to Narrows avenue. ‘Was on the bay shore of this house t! Justice Van Brunt fatally shot a burg- , Charles Mosher, with whom is sup- posed to have died the secret of the fa- mous Charlie Ross kidnaping. A real show place was the Nash | estate, reaching from the bay to its || ladge house and gateway on Third avenue, and extending from Pifty- seventh to Sixtieth street. The resi- dence was a castle in imitation of the | Elizabethan period, set in a grove of oak and elm trees that began at the | sandy beach of the bay. Standing on an space of lawn, the home gave the feeling of England of centuries 2goj —_— 0 Dunigan-Built Sample Home 422 Longfellow St. N.W. Open until 9 P.M. Four bed rooms, big porches, tiled bath with shower, fully screened, elec- teic refrigeration, cedar tlosets, large yard, garage and many other features. 9,250 Sold on easy payments D. J. Dunigan, Inc. Tower Building National prone for auto to Inspect New Homes of Architectural Distinction just being completed in best section of Chevy Chas C. surrounded by house: higher price— very expensive of the highest eleva ESTATE. DEPICTS o Tl O ? ~ep” s P 7 Dinine ‘There is no good reason why we) should not work out a new architectural | style as interesting as any of the old | ones to express the spirit of our times | just as thoroughly as other styles ex- | pressed the spirit of their times. | In patterning this house, the designer | has taken into consideration the typical | requirements of a family of four to five | people who wish to build on a 50 by 100 | foot lot. He has laid out floor plans that will | best suit the needs of such a family. The kitchen is at the front, the living room has a wing to itself and the dining | room faces the rear—connected with the living room, yet well divided from it. In this case the passage which sepa- | rates living and dining room has been made into a little solarium by the intro- duction of a bay window. This window THE _EVENING ST NEW ARCHITECTURAL STYLE SPIRIT OF TIMES " /) ™ not only provides sunlight but increases the size of the room. The stairway to the second floor rises from the entrance hall. On this floor we have three large bed rooms, a dress- ing room and two baths. The dressing room opens from the master's bed room and connects with the bath which is used only by the occupants of this room. ‘The other bath opens to the hall. The house is constructed of brick, painted white. About the doorway red brick has been used for accent, and this color brick has also been carried out in the upper section of the chimney. A radical departure from customary procedure has been adopted in having the roof eaves come down behind the house walls instead of over them, as is usual. FARM BUILDING GROUP CONTROLLED BY TASTE In New England Structures Are i of living still to a great extent controls | Connected to Protect Farmer From Exposure. BY WILLIAM F. DOMINICK. The rambling, haphazard stringing along of farm buildings without any preconceived arrangement, bu% each| placed apparently by chance or for| convenience, generally gives a pleasing Ppicturesqueness wherever we find them. In New England the white wooden buildings are connected one to the other and to the farmhouse to protect the farmer against exposure in severe ‘Winter weather. In the older countries of Europe the old farm buildings are of more perma- nent materials and connected sometimes with high masonry walls inclosing the farm yard, occupied by the stock, as well as the farmer and his family, but the casual grouping of the buildings is enhanced in picturesqueness because of their being so connected. Their simple construction and design, with little or no elaboration or ornamentation and no conscious effort toward balance and symmetry, make them informal in con- trast to the larger, more pretentious —_— The place passed out of hand with the cutting through of Second avenue, its romanticism scarcely surviving the con- version of a bathing establishment known as Brooklyn Beach. 411 Greene Ave. —this beautiful five-room bungal (1) Lot 80x135 feet. @ Beautiful shrubs in front and rear yards. (3) Lily pond in rear {3} Screns Shrousnout reens ughout (8) Coat closet by front door. ceiling in living room. -foot fireplace. r_covers Hardwood floors throughout. Textone walls throughout. Screened side porch. Flagstone porch fioor. iy e— Washington's Most Phone “Built by C. H the Maximum i A Beautiful Subdivision will surprise you. Outstanding in Design residence type—call it castle, manor house, chateau, villa or mansion—which expresses greater wealth and luxury of living in sophisticated formal design. Today when we build here the mode the type of architecture in the large residences, which are of the formal type, some of them picturesque like the castles and chateaux and some of them stately like the villa and the Georgian mansion. The moderate sized houses, however, are either formal or informal; for it is entirely possible to make the informal farmhouse type just as comfortable and luxurious within as the formal—so that the manner of living does not control, but rather the personal taste for for- mality or informality. Four Rooms, Kitchen and Bath, $57.50 Cambria-Majestic 1324 Euclid Street N.W. Telephone National 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to your home every evening and Sunday morning. ‘The Route Agent will collect at the end of each month, at the rate of 115 cents per day and 5 cents Sunday. Aurora Hills, Va, ow built of brick and stucco is offcred for sale at a very reasonable figure. Two Dosen Special Features Are— (14) Built-in ohina cabinet in dining 15) Iniaid linoleum in_ kitchen. 19) Built-in kitchen cabinet and fce x (17) One-piece roll-edge sink. (18) Screened rear porch (19) Bullt-in tile bath with shower. 20) Colored walls and curtain bath room. (21) Crane fixtures. (22) Natural woodwork throughout. (23) Two closets in master bed room. (24) Bullt-in telephone stand. in OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY Or Can Be Seen During the Week by Calling at Our Office Several Other Properties for Sale or Rent AURORA HILLS HOMES, INC. Convenient Suburb Clarendon 1057 . Small & Co.” Means That You Are Getting n Home Values And case the value in this is greater than usual due to their excellent location in MICHIGAN PARK MANOR of Semi-Detached Homes All brick, semi-detached. 6 large rooms. tiled bath with shower, xtra half-bath with Master ‘bed room and autiful fireplace and electric refrigeration are only a many ultra-modern features in his wonderful home. exira tollet in basement. few of the The low price SEE 4408 14th ST. N.E. Drive out Michigan Avenue N.E., and one-half dlock north to sample home. 1o 14th Street AR, WASHINGTON SEEK 0 STABLIZE | PROPERTY VALUES Builders’ League Would Dis-| courage Homebuyers From Going Beyond Means. D. A Nation-wide campaign to stabilize | realty values by not allowing homebuy- ers to purchase domiciles beyond their means will be undertaken dur: the next few months by the United States Bullding & Loan League, according to R. Holtby Myers, the new league presi- dent, who announced the plan in Chi- cago today. Mr. Myers has appointed a committee of league officers to see that home- buyers throughout the country do mot purchase more than they can pay for. He believes that calling the attention of the public to the up with the Joneses purchasing too-expensive homes is con- cerned will greatly aid in adjusting | conditions throughout the country. Committee Personnel. The committee includes Mr. Myers, | Los Angeles; William E. Best, Pitts- | burgh; Ward B. Whitlock, Springfield, T.; H. F. Cellarius, Cincinnati; Wil |lard K. Denton, New York City: C. Clin- ton James, Washington: Carl J. Weber; | Fort Wayne, Ind.; William P. Siegert, | Philadelphia; John Warren, Jersey City 1 assu F Street at N; President Herbert W. Primm Asst. R. E. Officer John B. Larner O N. J; L. P. McCullough, Columbus, hi E. McKinnis, Shawnee, Okla.; Lee C. Stidd, Portland, Oreg.; Ernest A. Hale, Boston. “Many people have a tendency to undertake homes they cannot afford, and this is bad for the homeowning movement, and bad for the country in general,” says the league president’s T “It such homes are thrown on the market, no one really benefits from the transaction. It would be better if the home had never been built or sold. Unfortunately, women are often behind the too-expensive home. They sigh for the more preten- tious features in homes beyond the family income, and their husbands too often give them such homes in an effort to keep peace in the family. This is, in effect, an effort to keep up with the Joneses which has disastrous results for the realty and other markets. “For even if the family is able to meet the payments and keep up & home too high priced for their financial status, they are inevitably and foolishly denying themselves luxuries and even netcreumes to do so, and other markets suffer. Buyers' Interests Considered. “Although the building and loan as- sociations throughout the United States are primarily interested in encouraging homeownership, we realize that the homeowner must have some life aside from his home, and that homeowning will be most successful if the homeowner is happy and can live a well rounded life and not put every cent he has into his_house. “Moreover, the spectacle of families straining every nerve to keep up the payments on a high-priced home is bad for the homeowning movement, for others will note the struggles of such people to pay for and retain their homes, and not stopping to think that this is unnecessary because such fami- lies might have purchased other domi. | ciles within their means, the public wil ! Our Real Estate Department has re- cently listed several business prop- erties that offer unusual investment values at attractive prices. Locations are excellent, the yield lucrative, with red appreciation in value, Inquiry Is Invited THE WASHINGTON LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY inth Vice Pres. Edward L. Brady Asst. R. E. Officer Seventeenth Street at G Alfred H. Lawson SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930. REAL ESTATE BOND ISSUES SEEN SOUND Chicago Banker Declares Mortgage Loan Securities Are Just as Good as Ever. “Mortgage loan securities are as sound as ever,” Gen. Abel Davis, vice president, Chicago Title & Trust Co., told the Mortgage Bankers’ Association at Detroit this week. “While some real estate bond issues are in difficulties, by far the greatest majority are sound and in good condi- tion. The mortgage banking profes- sion must keep them in that category by the exercise of ordinary business conservatism and by adhering to rules of experience,” he said. “Mortgage bankers must set them- selves firmly against future inflations characterize homeowning as too great a hardship.” Mr. Myers has already made public & schedule for the family with an in- come of $175 a month. He says such |a family cannot possibly put more than $4,000 into a home, including the site. The committee he has appointed on this matter will work out schedules for other incomes and additional data on this subject which the 1,200 member building and loan associations of the league will be asked to put before pros- pects who apply for loans. lllIII|I||Ilfi||||llllI!RIIIIllIIIHI!I|IIlIIIIIIIIIIIi|lIll|IIIIIIIIl|lllIII||$IIIIIIIIIIlIIlIlIIIII||HIHl||NlllllllIIIIIlIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIH!IILQEI Unusual Real Estate Investments and Real Estate Officer Basil C. Linthicum Manager, Sales Dept. 0000 ’fiflefileg Thetahts BY EVERY CRITERION 1§ ~ ENTITLED TO ITS APPELATION " The Ganden Spot of Preservation of Natural Contours Preservation of Magnificent Trees Wide Paved Streets Spacious Lawns Washington” Individual and Harmonious Design of Homes Each Home Designed for Individual Setting Artistic development of gardens and careful upkeep of homes motivated by pride in ownership. VISIT THE NEW SECTION AT 44th AND: GARFIELD And inspect the homes in various stages of construction All Miller-Built Homes Insulated With “Celotex” and again rather than facts, “The business is _convalescing—it needs quiet and rest. It will get on its feet as soon as the issues in trouble are cleared up, the surplus of buildings absorbed, vacancies filled and rents stabilized. In due course a demand for new buildings and new financing will come.” Gen. Davis pointed out some prin- ciples to be observed to hasten this recovery: “Make no loan on any consideration other than the inherent soundness of tnel investment. Appraisals must be real after the fact for the purpose of bol- stering up a loan already made. Should Rest on Values. “Discontinue the general policy of supporting underserving loans so that loans will be made to rest upon their own values. In exceptional cases where defaults are due to extraneous circum- stances and the loan is supported no- tice should be given to all bondholders. “When securities are repurchased the price should be their actual value at the time of the repurchase, or at most & price that will make a resale possible appraisals and not appraisals! mand and supply was nored and money loaned which the necessity ‘vmved)‘ | SEE TRAVEL PERIOD CUT i | | Architects Think Long Absences Hurt Students in U. 8. Improved educational opportunities in the United States and the loss of contact which the architectute student suffers in long absences from his native | country are becoming sound reasons for limiting scholarship study and | travel, according to a report to the | American Institute of Architects by its | committee on education, of which Wil- liam Emerson of Boston, is chairman. A study or travel period of one year, rather than two or three, is the term suggested by the committee. Loss of more than a year's contact with asso- clations in his'own country which are essential to his future success is a se- rious handicap to the student, the com- without a loss. “Due to the inflation that accom- panied the unprecedented advance in real estate values from 1919 to 1920 certain fundamentals which had guided the mortgage loan business in the past ‘Thus the rule of de- mittee points out. It is further urged that a reduction in the length of scholarshi [Jeriods ability would greatly increase the a of such scholarships to other udents, multiplying by several times the scholar~ ships -total of the country, 6,950 Open All Day Sunday 729 Madison St. N.W. A beautiful six-room and bath brick home on a paved street in an excep- tional neighborhood. THIS home has been put in new condition and is ready for immediate occupancy. There is a large back yard, built-in garage with an easy approach, and three large porches. Strictly modern, were cast aside. We believe this to be the soundest value we can offer in Washington today and urge your inspection, Phillips & Canby, Inc. Exclusive Agents Investment Bldg. Nat. 4600 i Srae 6 l?;ast oodbine St. CHEVY CHASE, MD. Less Than Half Block East of Conn. Ave. A New Brick Home With Facade of Extraordinary Architectural Value, $16,500 This s a beautiful, well built and finely planned home in an exceptionally charming location. It has an immedi- ate appeal to the lover of fine architecture. A gracefully sloping tile roof encases the peaked roof of the colonial doorway, and to the left of doorway is a large inset porch with curved balustrades and French door entrance to liv- ing room. A spacious center hall with two coat closets, and private entrance to basement and a wonderful kitchen done in blue and white. The bed rooms are large, beauti- fully decorated and served by TWO INVITING BATHS, ONE,WITH SHOWER. Big floored attic with stairway. All_oak floors and many other fine features. FACE BRICK GARAGE and big lot complete an unusual home. Open Saturday Afternoon & All Day Sunday 1417 K St. B OE'%‘%&%L PSNl!ionll 9300 JUST COMPLETED North Woodside, Md. 1225 Glen Ross Rd. . This is the last of a series of new bungalows avail- able for 1930 occupancy in this delightful community and its sturdy construction of brick and stucco together with its modern appointments insures an ideal home at a con- servative price, 9 Convenient Terms Five large rooms, attic and sleeping porch. Tile bath, hardwood floors, built-in garage and other features com- mensurate with superior construction. Open for Inspection Daily and Sunday Motor out 16th St. turning into Alaska Ave. to the at . North under the viaduct about 134 miles to to North Woodside on the left. Thence to 1225 Woodside Construction Co. Phone Silver Spring 109