Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1931, Page 17

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT THIRD IN U. S. FOR FEBRUARY BUILDING| . $5,159,315 Worth of Construction Was Started Here Last Month—Week Shows Total of $372,000. HE National Capital, with a February total of building permits amounting to a valuation of approximately $5,159,315, ranks third among 25 cities reporting the largest volume of permits for that month, statistics furnished by the National Monthly Building Survey reveal. Total value of permits issued by the District building inspector for the past week amounts to $372,000 for 43 individual projects. While this total is eomparatively low as contrasted with the totals for the two preceding weeks, 1t brings the total value of operations undertaken during March to $5,481,982. A favorable showing is thus D0, Ch Anonymous Donation of $200,000 Spurs Plan for Buflding CONSTRUCTION WORK TO START IN SPRING Architects Map Structure to | Harmonize With All of Campus. apel to Beautify Georgetown Prep Grounds ARCHITECTS TO DISCUSS PUBLIC WORKS IN APRIL Bureaucratic Tendencies Will Be Theme of Debates at Convention in Texas Next Month. JUBLIC works, involving especially a discussion of “bureaucratic architecture,” will be a principal theme of the sixty-fourth convention of the American Institute of Architects, to be held in San-Antonio, Tex. April 14, 15 and 16. ‘The conclave is being arranged under the auspices of the West Texas Chapter, according to Robert D. Kohm of New York, president of the national organization. Sixty-six chapters of the institute, in all parts of the United States, will participate in the conference through their delegates. The Committee on Public Works of the institute will report through its chairman, Arthur W. Rice of Boston. indicated for Match, which is but three weeks old. Six Per C Projected building and construction activities throughout the country, as measured by official re] 545 cities and towns, showed a 6 per cent gain during February over| January, according to S. W. Straus & Co. The volume for the two! months was February, $111,445475; for last month, however, represented a decrease of 14 per cent as compared with February, 1930, figure. Exceeded in building operations only by New York and Chicago during last month, the February figure for the Na- tional Capital represented a substantial increase over the 1930 figure for the corresponding month of $857,170. In the 25 cities reporting the Jargest vol- | ume of building permits during Febru- ary a collective gain of 12 per cent over | February of 1930 was shown. Brick Houses Planned. Local building operations authorized by the District building inspector this week were headed by a $92,000 project to erect 12 two-story brick houses in| the 1600 block of West Virginia avenue | northeast. This permit was issued to| Young & Oppenheimer, owners and | builders. The buildings were designed | by George T. Santmyers. Other permits issued this week in- clude: Cooley Bros.,, Tower Building, owners | and builders; George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect 11 2-story brick dwellings, 1917 to 1937 Thirty-eighth street, to cost $60,000. Harris Shapero, 1477 Girard street, owner and builder; George T. Sant- myers, architect; to erect three 2-story brick and frame dwellings, 5812, 5816 and 5820 Sixth street, to cost $24,000. Louise S. Moffett, 1902 Second street northeast, owner and builder; George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect four 2-story brick dwellings, 3608 to 3614 In- gomar place, to cost $26,000. William C. & A. N. Miller, 1117 Sev- enteenth street, owners and builders; G. E. MacNell, architect; to erect one 3. story stone dwelling, 2810 Forty-fourth | street, to cost $19,400. Vincent C. Kramer, 926 Ingraham | strcet northeast, owner and builder, J. A. Molby, architect; to erect two 2 story brick dwellings, 3631 and 3633 | Jenifer street, to cost $16,000. Jacobson Bros., 1616 K street, owners and builders; George S. White, archi- ¢ ne 2-story brick and stone | , 6327 Western avenue, to cost Schwab, Valk & Canby, owners and builders; C. N. Norton, designe: one 2-story stcne, brick, tile dweliing, 4505 Lowell stres! $10.000. American Dairy Supply Co., Delaware avenue and Canal street southwest, eatyeard Constru Co. ApS: . Mt E ‘ (Continued on_Second 4627 44th Street N.W, (Between Brandywine and Chesapeake Streets) Detached House Three Spacious Porches Large Lot Four Rooms on the First Floor Price, $10,450 | Easy Terms Open for Inspection Boss & Phelps 1417 K Street DETACHED ALL-BRICK Chevy Chase Home 2 BATHS $12,950 5346 32d St. OPEN Saturday Afternoon All Day Sunday An exceptional buy. Very hard to find an all-brick home at this price in Chevy Chase. Wonderful kitchen and big ntry, all oak foors, fireplace, uilt-in garage, pretty lot. Many interesting features. Early American design. Conn, Ave. to Nebraska Ave.. east o Military Road, right 1o 324 Bt and right to house. BOSS & PHELPS 1417 K St National 9300 6603 EAST AVE. Chevy Chase SPECIAL For Quick Sale Open Saturday and Sunday BRICK COLONIAL. with six full- room. dom. it poreh: Tultiled The lot is of sufficlent size fo de- Ught the flower grower with his gar- en , . . Paneled walls of duo-toned paper decorate well-proporiioned rooms of exceptional size . . . A view over the golf course lends enchantment to this real home of beauty and exceptional value Conn. Ave. to Bradle t t o East Av FISCHER & COMPANY 1427 Eve St v Lane, West e. | valued at $702,000. as contrasied with ent Gain. ports of building permits issued in January, $104,999,777. The figure ARCHITECTS APPROVE 15 BUILDING PROJECTS | Advisory Council Passes Favorably | | an Apartment House at | 3900 Fourteenth. Fifteen local building projects were | approved the Architects' Advisory | Council this week. Plans passed on in- | dluded an apartment building at 3900 | Fourteenth street, designed by George | T. Santmyers, for Goldsmith & Keller, | owners. The dwellings approved included a | residence at 3627 Cumberland street, | Warren & Marthinson, designers and | owners; dwelling at 4308 Forest lane, G. E. MacNeil, architect, W. C. & A. N. Miller, owners: dwelling at 1438 Jonquil street, E. W. Cappleman, designer, Ver- non M. Eriggs, owner; five dwellings in | the 1300 block of Allison street, George | T. Santmyers, architect, F. B. Mills, | owner; a residence at 7604 Fourteenth street, George S. White, designer for District Construction Co., owners; three | dwellings at 4532, 4535 and 4537 South | Dakota avenue northeast, Paul F. Fox, | designer, for J. E. Fox, owner; a dwell- | ing at 1317 Jonquil street, Henry J.| Connor, desigrer and owner, and a resi- | dence at 1708 TdSlor street, George F. Santmyers, architect, Max Sugar, owner. HOME BUILDING DROPS Baltimore Construction Mark Set at $702,000 This Year. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE. March 21. — Home building in Baltimore for the first two months this year, marked a decline from the same period of 1930, the total for the current year being 145 dwellings, 266 dwellings, valued at $1,375,000, for the corresponding term in 1930. Feb- ruary, however, showed an increase in this type of building over the first month of this year. 1707 Allison St. N.W. Open Sunday ‘We will sell this home at an outstanding price. All brick, center hall, 8 2 baths, 2-car garage. s L. E. Breuninger & Sons 4 Aspen Sgreet Chevy Chase, Maryland Combining the charm of Co- lonial architecture with an en- vironment that is unsurpassed, this distinctive home with un- usual features will appehl to the most critical mind. Open and heated for your per- sonal inspection. J. Wesley Buchanan Realtor Met. 1143 Wis. 3732 4425 Que Street N.W. Foxhall Village Open for Inspection Daily Price, $12,500 Semi-detached, lar ge rooms, perfect condition. Large attic. Built-in garage. Faces South. OTHER HOUSES 3, 4, 5 and 6 bed rooms, 1, 2 and 3 bath rooms with shower Prices $12,500 to $24,500 Furnished Model Home 1606 44th Street N.W. BOSSand PHELPS 1417 K Street | nave is to be terminated by a gable in Financed by an anonymous donation | of approximately $200,000 a new chapel, of Italian Renaissance architecture and designed with a capacity to seat 300 persons, is proposed soon to take its| place beside the imposing Georgetown Preparatory _ School _Administration Building on the Rockville pike, Garrett | Park, Md. Anticipating settlement of the con- | tract award within a few. weeks, work | on the new structure is expected to be | started during the Spring months. The chapel will occupy the locatien of the students’ tennis courts, just morth of the present school building, With its facade toward the boulevard. Structure Harmonizes. | Planned by the Boston ecclesiastical architects, Maginnis & Waish, the new | unit has been designed with particular | regard for its harmonious relation with the present structure. The Itallarf Renaissance style was restorted to in- stead of the Colonial type of the exist- | ing building as a design which brings | both buildings into perfect accord. | The building is substantially sym- | metrical, but with enough of varlety of mass to justify the introduction of a slender campanile, designed to incor- | porate chimes. The facade of the build- | ing has two orders superimposed, the | lower corresponding in scale to that im- | panile to incorporate chimes, according to Architect’s drawing of the proposed Georgetown Preparatory School Chapel, to be erected next to the present school buflding in Garrett Park, Md. The bell tower shown at the rear of the building is to be supplanted by a slender cam- revised plans. plied M the portico of the school. Clerestory Provided. By virtue of the interior plan, which is modifiedly Bascilican, a clerestory is provided which is designed to gje pic- | turesque variety to the interior and ex- terior effect. Delicately carved en- franement, crowned by segmental pedi- ment of sculpture, will feature the re- cessed main doorway, flanked by col- umns. Above this will be a tablet bor- | dered by pilasters in slight relief and | designed for a Latin inscription. The ’ tuary. of the proposed new chapel will be a | Provision for an organ is made over | G nave is to be terminated by 8 gable in | boys' sacristy beneath. e center of which is placed & | circular medallion of sculpture. The | 105 Altar is to be surmounted by & pilaster treatment is carried into the aisle walls with delicate projections. The exterior construction of the | chapel will be of brick corresponding to | that used in the present school build- ings, with trimmings of white marble. The interior of thE new structure will | be divided longitudinally into six bays. Two large columns will be 5o placed as to form side ambulatories, in which there will be no sittings. On the axis $11,950 Chevy Chase, D. C. Just West of Conn. Ave. | 3 Bed Rooms, Closed- in Sleeping Porch, 2 Complete Baths, Front and Rear Porches. Moust Sell in Two Weeks. Phone Clev. 7483 slender diameter. In the east end of each aisle of the chapel will be a ni¢he |}/ for statuary. Two confessionals will ||| flank the vestibule. Marble columns Open Sunday 938 Shepherd St. N.W. (19-t. House) $7,95000 All-brick home, 6 rocms, 2 baths, electric refrigerator, oil burner, wide paved street and alley, 2-car hollow tile garage. A Real Home—at a Reasonable Price L. E. Breuninger & Sons 5343 Nevada Ave. N.W. Chevy Chase, D. C, $13,500 Six unusually large rooms, two tiled baths, lovely kitch- en and furnished breakfast room, a real attic, and electric refrigeration. Detached garage. [ 1205 Geranium St. | 16th St. Heights A DETACHED I Center-Hall Plan on Big Lo#l | $10,000 - BOUTHERN EXPOSURE. All rooms are spacious and bright, Feplace for sour Winter fogs. Tiled i ‘and space for another Dath. ciglly Ahe. closets’ avd. pantry Roors " Hotowater: hear. and ¥ Tot, 1425 feet Y Rose garden R "GARAGE'" An ex- h—Low Monthly Payments OPEN rday Aftern a Day & BOSSEHELPS 1417 K St. Realtors. Nat. 9300. Drive out 16th st. to Alaska ave., thence o nium st., east to propert Of ‘stone, brick and clapboard construction, this lovely new home on an unusually deep lot is an outstanding value. starte ceptional e Heated and open for your inspection. J. Wesley Buchanan Realtor Met. 1143 Wis. 3732 5905 33rd Stieet Chevy Chase, D. C. Facing a 7-acre Government Park is this charming new Colonial home. Six r-arvelously planned rooms. Liv- ing room, 23x13Y, feet, open fireplace, dining room has good wall space, kitchen and pantry with equipment that pleases the women, 3 lovely bright bed rooms with 6 closets, tile bath, shower. Concrete porch, screens, weather locked, garage, large lot, well landscaped and shrubbed. Close to schools, stores, transportation and churches. - Open Daily to 9 P.M.—Heated Drive out Conn. Ave. to McKinley St., turn right to 33rd St., left to Patterson St. M. & R. B. Warren Cle. 7483 Pot. 5824 of these two ambulatories there will be | will suppcrt a horizontal entablature, | two chapels flanking the main sanc- | from which will spring the semi-cir- | cular barrel vault whicn crowns the On what is known as the epistle side | Rave. choir capable of seating 48 persons. | be mads to erect cther buildings in the the north vestibule porch. A similar | including & gymnasium and-dormitories. porch on the south will communicate | The tennis courts, the site of which will | 000,000 léss this year than last yea with the priests’ sacristy and a stair- | be occupied by the new chapel, will be case will lesd from this to the altar |shifted farther to the north and it is|payers’ Association there that brought | planned to double their present number. about reduction of levies. semi-baldachin, the columns being of | [~ - | Tax Payments Drop. Property owners in 89 cities, where they are now organized for rezlty tax relief, should be heartened by the statement of Philip_ Zoercher, commis- ]sloner of the State Board of Tax Com- As funds become available plans will eorgetown Preparatory School group, | missioners, Indianapolis, who saysthat taxpayers in Indiana are paying 85, due entirely to the activity of the Tax An Exceftional Home At a Remarkably Low Price 442 Jefferson St. N.W. Semi-Detached Brick Large rooms, sun parlor, inclosed and heated sleeping . porch, giving you EIGHT ROOMS. Many other attractive features. Exceptionally deep yard with GARAGE. $9,650.00 Open Sunday and Daily Until 9 P.M. Wm. M. Throckmorton Dis. 6093 Investment Bldg. Two New Brick Houses Of Surpassing Charm IN MASS. AVE. HEIGHTS. Nos. 2706-08 36th, St. N.W. (Just one square south of Mass. Ave.) Here are two unusual homes, just completed, that will appeal to the discriminating buyer who wants a home in ultra-exclufive location. —Note These Features— Large center halls—extra large rooms throughout, delight- ful sun parlors—breakfast nooks—4 spacious bed rooms, with extra size master chamber. One house has two fine baths on 2nd floor, the other has three—Two finished rooms and bath on third floor. 2 Purchaser has selection of oil burner and electric refrigera- tion. 2-car garage on each lot. Paved alley. We commend these houses for their commanding location, excellence of design, materials and workmanship, and pleasing also will you find the price and terms. OPEN TODAY, 2 TO 6 P.M.: SUNDAY, 10 AM. UNTIL DARK, AND EVERY AFTERNOON UNTIL SOLD. Drive out Massachusetts Avenue to 36th St., turning left to houses. MSKEEVER £ GOS$ 1415 K St. N:W. NA. 4750 “We must consider,” said the an- nouncement by Mr. Kohn, “what has been done this past year to meet the emergency situation regarding public works and, more important still, we must get the considered opinion‘of the delegates on what should be the future policy of the institute toward the ques- tion of the employment of architects in private practice for public buildings. v Study Development. “The convention will be asked to take up not only the tendency toward what some belleve to be bureaucratic archi- tecture, as in the office of the super- vising architect of the Treasury, but ex- tensive developments in the same direc- tion in States and. cities.” Community development, which, it is said, has given rise to uncxpected prob- lems, will be the topic at a session at which Willlam Stanley Parker of Bos- ton will preside. Mr. Parker will out- line his work as a member of the plan- ning group of President Hoover’s Com- mission on Housing. “It is reported,” according to M. Kohn, “that the Real Estate Boards, as represented by their national associa- tion, have said that the era of sub- division of plots and ‘lot’ sales is over, perhaps for good.” Registration Laws. ‘The subject of uniform registration laws, it was pointed out, has suddenly taken on a new importance because of the effort of a special institute com- mittee, under the chairmanship of D. Everett Waid of New York, to reach an agreement with a committee of engi- neers on what should be the scope of each profession, as defined in registra- tion or licensing acts. “Sérious differences,” Mr. Kohn ex- plained, “have developed between cer- ontinued on Second Page. slate roof, all oak floors. some Colonial fireplace. imported wall papers, kitchen with Frigidaiee. ing fixtures, with shower. Built-in garage. BOS FORT BAYARD PARK WASHINGTON'S NEW COMMUNITY OF EARLY AMERICAN HOMES. Brick and cypress construction, Hand- Beautiful modern Charm- roomy tiled bath SEBPHE POUNDED 1807 HOME OF HOMES 1417 K Street Drive out Wisconsin Avenue to Fessenden Street, West to 45th Street at River Road, North on 45th to Faraday Place. WE KNOW THERE IS REAL VALUE IN THESE See 4453 Faraday Place N.W. Our Display Home of a group of real early American types, built on a street with a surprisingly beautiful en- trance. Prices $10,950 to $12,500 Open Daily, 10 to 6 A house designed and built by the construction depart- ment of Boss & Phelps bears a lasting guarantee-decidedly worth having. LPS living at its best. values. Volta Place. 1522 K Street SPRINGTIME FOXALL Spring . . . to the fortunate home-owners in Foxall, means their flower gardens . . . the awakening of beautiful Foundry Branch Valley Park with its profusion of dogwood, red bud and violets . . . the enjoyment of . Three “early purchasers” have already chosen their homes in our newest group of -Double-Front English Homes just started two weeks ago on the crest of Volta Place . . . most convincing evidence of their fore- sight and the exceptional desirability and outstanding value of these homes. contain six and eight rooms, with one, two and three baths, maid’s room and garage, and are priced from $11,250 to $14,750. Protected by -Foundry Branch Valley Park and Foxhall Village, and but 10 minutes’ drive from the White Houee, here is found that ideal combination . . . convenient loca- tion . . . suburban atmosphere . . . cultural environment . . . permanently protected They Obey that natural home-seeking impulse « « « visit our new Model Home, furnished and decorated by W. B. Moses & Sons. Drive out Que Street and Reservoir Road, make left turn at 44th Street, three short blocks south to the corner of 44th and WAVERLY TAYLOR. - National 1040