Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1931, Page 17

WEEK’S PRIVATE BUILDING PROJECTS TOTAL $770,000 WASHINGTON, D. c, 'President’s Aide Bu Theodore G. Joslin to Plans for 46 Dwellings, Largest Number of Opera- Qccupy Colonial Type tions by Far During Recent Weeks, Are Includ XPENDITURE of $770,000 for the past week. While the total is District is provided in plans the District building inspector, | ed in List. ‘ private building operations in the | for new projects approved by | Col. John W. Oehmann, during below the million-dollar mark, the number of | projects is longer than usual and indicates an increase in activities as to the number of operations. Plans for 46 dwellings of various cost classes are included in the list, this being a higher figure than has been reached in a considerable number of weeks. ol | Permits issued revealed a wide range in the type of buildings rojected, except that there were no plans for apartment houses cluded. Among the larger plans approved were those for the $250,000 warehouse for the Palais Royal Department Store, houses costing $122,000 to be erected by the Cafritz Construction Co., $65,000 church hall for the Franciscan Order, home construction costing $45,000 by Charles D. Sager, and $39,000 in house construction by Boss & Pheips. Permits issued included the following | tems: | Palais Royal, owners; Abbott-Merkt & Co., Inc., architects; George A. Fuller | Co., builders; to erect one 4-story brick | and concrete warehouse, First | street northeast; to cost $250,000. | Cafritz Construction Co., owners and | builders; A. L. Aubinoe, designer; to| erect twelve 2-story brick dwellings, 5011 | % 5025 Kansas avenue and 400 to 406 | ailatin street; to cost $120,000. Cafritz Construction Co., qwners and builders; to erect four metal garages, | 400 Galiatin street and 5013 and 5015 Kansas avenue; to cost $2,000. Commissariat of the Holy Land, Fran- ciscan Monast:ry, owners; Murphy & Olmsted, architects; H. T. Booth & Co., Inc., builders; to erect one 1-story brick and concrete church hall, 1340 Quincy street northeast; to cost $65,000. Charles D. Sager, owner and builder; George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect six 2-story brick and frame dwell- ings, 3606 to 3612 Veazey street a 4218 to 4220 Reno road; to cost $45,000. Six Dwellings Planned. Boss & Phelps, owners and builders; John W. Kearney, architect; to erect six 2,story brick and frame dwellings, 4432 to 4442 Faraday place; to cost $39,000. M. J. Uline, owner; Consolidated En- gineering Co., builders; to erect one | 1-story brick and concrete ice manufac- | turing building, 1150 Third street north- | east; to cost $35,000. | C. W. Williams, owner and builder; | Georg> T. Santmyers, architect; to erect five 2-story brick dwellings, 5231 to 5239 Kansas avenue: to cost $27,000. W. G. & A. N. Miller, owners and | builders; George E. MacNeil, archi- | tect; to erect one 3-story brick, stone and frame dw:lling, 4316 Forest lane; to cost $15,200. Jacob Rubin, owner and builder; Herry A. Brandt, architect; to erect one | 215-story brick and stone dwelling, 4319 | Eight-ent street; to cost $15,000. | Freeman & Cohn, own‘rs end build- ers; Louis W. Giles, architect: to thr-e 2-storv brick dwellings, 1612, and 1616 S strest southeast; to cost $15,000. | Jsrael Dicmond, owner, designer and | bu'lder: to erct three 2-story brick | flats. 608 to 612 Newton place; to cost | $11,500. X | Iron Shop to Be Built. ». Fanning, owner, des'gner and builder; to ¢rect one 2-storv brick and | frame Cwe'ling, 2046 Northampton street; to cost $10.000. Potomac Iron Works, owners; Bam- el Alpher, bufld'r; Joscph Baumer, chitect; to erect one 2-storv brick and | concrete iron shop, 1026 Sixth street; to cost $10,000. L. E. Breuninger & Sons, Inc., owners and builders; H. L. Breuninger, de-| signer; to_er:ct ome 2%-story brick | dwelling, 7604 Morningside drive; to cost $9,000. Joseph A. Wise. owner: Charles E. Dillon, designer: Robey Bros.. builders to erect ore 2-story brick and tile dwell- Propert, By British Embassy| Acquired by Cady‘ perty Vacated ‘ Erection of Office Build- ing for Physicians and | Dentists Planned. Title to the old British Embassy property at Connecticut avenue and N | street, vacated during the past year when the embassy staff moved into | their preteniious new home on Massa- chusetts avenue, was acquired this week by Edward Everett Cady. { The mew owner of the property, it has been reported, is one of a group at work on final plans for the construc-| tion of a large office building for phy- | sicians and dentists. Acquisition of | the property by the new owner is in line with previously announced plans to this end. Papers filed with the recorder ()i‘ deeds under the date of August 31, 1925, revealed the passing of title by | the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings of His Majesty, the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to Harry Wardman, Thomas P. Bones and James D. Hobbs. The old British Embassy property was held in escrow as a part of the transaction under which Wardman sold to the British government the site for the new building, and was to acquire ownership of the old embassy property. | Wardman bullt the new embassy. | A second transfer filed this week re- | corded the passing of title to the old | embassy property by the Wardman of- | ficials to the new owner. er: to erect one 2-story brick dwelling, U835 Twenty-sixth street northeast, cost. $5,000. | Mrs. Annie E. Hargett, owner; Jick‘ Thornton, builder; B. K. Lemke, de- signer; to erect one 2-story frame dwel- | ling, 2515 Thirtieth street northeast, 1o cost $4,500. I Frank C. Haines, owner and builder; | C. N. Norton, architect; to ersct one 2- story brick addition and make repairs, 1401 Good Hope road southeast, to cost | 54,000, Block Dwellings Projected. A. Broadmax, owner and builde: . Giles, architec L. | w. | conerete block dwellings, 1117 and 1119 | Forty-ninth street northeast, to cost $4,060. Mrs, Golda Warner, 5545 Forty-first streei, owner; George D. Warner, build- | er; 10 erect one 1-story brick addition, 5417 Georgia avenue, to cost $2,000. Sears, Roebuck & Co., owners; Nim- mons, Carr & Wright, designers; Ir- | erally House in Near Future. EXTENSIVE GARDEN EFFECTS PLANNED Dwelling Has Large Living, Room, Library and Four Bedroomso Theodore G. Joslin, newly appointed | by President Hoover as one of his sec- retaries, to succeed George Akerson, re- | signed, has purchased and soon will occupy the large house recently com- | pleted for him at 493¢ Indian lane, | Spring Valley. The house is of center-hall plan and | both the exterior and interior designs | are of colonial motif. The house, gen- | of the rectangular layout, is| marked by stone in the first story of the tacade, with wide clapboard featur- | ing the second story and with brick in the ends of the exterior. | The house is somewhat removed from the street, on a lot having a frcntage of 116 feet and a depth of about 220 feet. Mr. Joslin plans rather extensi landscaping treatment for the property, including the development of a formal garden in the rear of the house, Has Winding Walk. A winding walk leads to the front entrance, which is recessed into the building structure and also shielded by an overhanging bay directly above the entrance. The lot is dotted with trees In the first story, on one side of the center hall is a spacious living rcom, with an adjoining sun room, while on the other are the dining room, pantry and kitchen. On the second floor are four bed- rocms and a library, which has an out- look over the rear garcen. In the third | story are one finished room and a large | storage space. Basement Facilities. | | A recreation room, garage, heating plant and storage space are prcvided in the basement. Mr. Joslin, prior to his appointment to the Whife House post, was for 15 years Washington _correspondent _for | the Bcston Transcript. Mr, and Mrs, Joslin and their two children formerly resided at 202 Raymond street, Chevy Chase, Md., which he recer old. The new home was built for Mr Josiin by W. C. and A. N. Miller, BUILDING INDUSTRY \ SHOWS Risie TREND&ZOO 000 PROPERTIES OF BAUM TRANSFERRED ;Eizlk Bros., Importers, New Own- ers of 1737 and 1739 L Street and 1108 Conecticut Avenue. Formal transfer of the properties of Oscar Baum at 1737 and 1739 L street and 1108 Connecticut avenue to Rizik Brothers, importers, was effected this week. ‘The transaction, through the real estate office of Henry K. Jawish, was reported to involve ap- | proximately $200,000. The firm, which has been in business at 1213 F street for more than a quar- |ter of a centur; od to be contemplating a new branch store at |the Connecticut avenue address. The structure has a two-story height on the avenue side, and is five storles high on L street, with store frontages on both_street: 0| Economic Service Says, for First| Time in Many Months, Im- provement Is Probable. Indications of an upward trend in the building industry are seen by the Brook- mire Economic Service, Inc., which states that for the first time in a great many months “it is possible to say that there is a fOOd balance of probability that the volume of construction under way will turn upward. “This Spring is likely to see a fair- | sized bulge in building activity, though the rate will remain well below normal and below the level of a year ago. ‘Some stimulus will be given as more of the public projects of the relief variety are rushed through. Thereafter, | when the major decline in this class of construction takes place, it will necessary for residential building to rise be | SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1391. ysNewHome onIndian Lane . ¥ HOME OF THEODORE G. JOSLIN AT 4034 INDIAN LANE, SPRING VALLEY. WILLIAM C. MILLER WILL EDIT VOLUME Realtor to Discuss Home Building and Subdividing in Tech- nical Book. William Cammack Miller, Washington realtor and builder, is to be the editor of & volume on the subject of home building and subdividing, one of a group of specialized, technical books to be published this year by five of the divi- sions of the National Association of Real | Estate Boards. The books to the regular “Annals of Real Estate Practice,” published yearly by the asso- claticn, and will be distributed to mem- { bers of the specialized divisions of the national body. They will not be for sale. Mr. Miller, a past president of the Washington Real Estate Board, is a director of the national association and a past chairman of its home buiiders’ and subdividers’ division. | Other books being prepared under this plan are “Real Estate Brokerage.” | edited by Mark Lev raising.” edited by p “Real Estate Finance,” edited by Samuel N. Reep, and “Property Management,” | edited by Leo J. Sheridan. 1l be issued in addition | * handlefl | to cost | win and Leighton, builders; to erect ing. 5400 Thirty-second strect; $9.000. | one 1-story brick tire changing shed fairly sharply if the gain in the total is to be maintained. | L. E. Breuninger & Sons. Inc., ow! ers and buflders; H. L. Breuninger. de- | signer; to erect one 2-story brick dwel-| ling, 1357 Juniver street. to cost $9,000.| O. T. and W. A. Carr, owners and | builders; Robert Carr, designer: to] erect one 1-story and attic drewwing, | 5001 Massachusetts avenue, to cost .500. C. W. McKendrie, owner and builder; George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect one 2-storv brick and frame dwel- | 1ling, to cost $8.000. Realty Company, owner and | M. Platshorn, designer: to erect | 1-story brick gasoline station, 1504 | E street northeast, to cost $7,500. | Filling Stations Listed. | Standard Oll Company of New Jer- sey, owners and builders; to erect three 1-story and steel buildings for gasoline filling station, 5 Q street, to cost $7,500 ‘Wilson L. Davis, owrer: Thomas J Jones, designer and builder; to erect one 2-story brick and tile dwelling, 1522 | Twenty-fifth street southeast, to cost 5,700, s C. L. Henley, owner; Sears, Rocbuck & Co., designers; Hay & Kyle, build- ers; to erect one 1-story frame dwel- ling, 4810 Forty-seventh street, to cost $6,800. ¢ Theresa_V. Carter, owner and_build- SRR R S S S s St 2 ) See Our New Sample House Facing the Park 252 Madison St. N.W. Open Daily Until 9 P.M. 7 Rooms (4 Bed Rooms), Built-in Garage Price, $9,650 EASY TERMS Waple & James, Inc. Owners and Builders 1226 14th St. N.W. North 0962 ZARNVANRLEEARANRR SNNRANS Mt. Pleasant *9,950 (Easy Terms) At this price it would be dif- ficult to duplicate a home in perfect condition in such a splendid _location having 9 rooms, 2-car garage, double parches. Don’t Miss Seeing It Sunday 1749 Kilbourne St. N.W. Phillips & Canby, Inc. Exclusively Investment Bldg. Nat'l 4600 7 Z 7 ; R s S S S SXRRRARNRNRR NS SN SR g : 2 ? : in rear 9i1 Bladensburg road north- east. to cost $4,000. Vincent L. Toomey, owner; A. 8. J.| Atkinson, architect; to erect one 1-story | brick auto service store, rear 2031 to, 2035 Eighth strect northwest 1o cost $2,000. West A. and Percival Y. Hamilton, owners; J. A. Ferguson, architect; West A. Hamilton, builder; to erect one 2- story_brick addition, ‘1353 U street, to cost $1,500. | Loan Heads to Meet. The board of directors of the United States Building and Loan League will meet in Chicago April 1 and 18 for the Spring session of the body, it is an- nounced by R. Holtby Myers, league president. C. Clinton James of this city, past president of the national league and a member of its directing board, will_represent this district. 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 IOUR OPPORTUNITY $13,750 3355 Military Rd. —to purchase the outstanding buy in a mew all-brick house close to Conn. Ave. 6 delightful rooms 2 baths A perfect kitchen Large attic, Southern ex- posure, choice lot. A real buy for the particular buyer. A. G. HUGHES Realty Associates 1427 Eye Natl. 8744 “Demand for bullding materials wil improve and the decline in employment of labor will be checked.” The Striking Individuality of 106 Primrose St. Chevy, Chase, Md. —will unquestionably appeal to the discrimjnating home-buyer; it is an English type BRICK construction and has 4 bed rooms, 2 baths, most attractive living and dining rooms; beauti- ful breakfast room, bright kitch- en, two-car garage end large ar- tistically landscaped lot. $21,500 Open Sunday PHILLIPS & CANBY, Inc. EXCLUSIVELY Investment Bldg. Nat'l 4600 A GREATER VALUE than we have ever been able to offer before 5404 Broad Branch Road A Jovely, detached colonial home in new section of Chevy Chase, D. C. Center Hall plan with master’s den and guest lavatory on first floor. Unusually large, modern daylight kitchen, containing furnished breakfast alcove and outside pantry. Four bedrooms and two baths, with extra lavatory and tollet on sec- ond floor. Plenty of room for a hélc“m’ or card room in the attic. Open and Heated for Your Inspection. It's hard to believe, but this desirable property is priced Under $15,000 next to eorner. J. WESLEY BUCHANAN Realtor Met. 1143 Wis. 3732 At the Top of !Clli('agoan Outlines Realtors’ Meaning 'Of “An Act of God” It Actress Helen Hayes had been a | tenant in a building covered by a Na- | tional Assoziation of Real Estate Boards standard lease form she might have used Fer “act of Good” plea to good ad- vantage If the premises were visited by e. rthquake or flood. Miss Hayes a year or more ago termed motherhood “an act of God” in an effort to get out of a stage contract. This phrase occurs in the standard forms covering office buildings, apart- ment buildings and shops prepared by divisions of the National Association of Real Estate Boards as an aid to their country-wide membership. Asked to define an “act of God” in the realty field, Mark Levy, president of the Chicago’ Real Estate Board and member of the committee which drew forms for office buildings and shops, n determining what constitutes an | ‘act of God’ in the possible cancellation of one of these leases, the courts prob- : | ably would hold that this phrase covers only such things as could not be con- trolled by human agency. | probably include earthquakes, cyclones {and tornadoes, lightning and such fires s might wipe out an entire city, like lheAg‘rl‘fll Chicago fire. | 9% fire started as a result of human | carelessness, even if started in a build- ing removed from the one in question, would not be considered an ‘act of | God.! “Riots, invasion or war might be con- strued as ‘acts of God' beyond the |power of human agencles to control, and these, destroying the intended use of & commercfal property, might permit | | the cancellation of the leases covering it. “These leases were drown to protect tenants and owner: SEMI-DETACHED Brick Home for Only $9,650.00 Colonial porch, parlor, heated sleeping porch, giving you eight rooms. Natural wood trim, built-in bath with shower, cedar closets, Frigidaire, very large yard with garage, paved street and alley. sun Where Can You Duplicate It? 442 Jefferson St. N.W. Open Sunday and Daily Wm. M. Threckmorton 208 Investment Bldg. Dis. 6093 Massachusetts Avenue A Lovzly Center-hall Detached Home 2800 BELLEVUE TERRACE Northwest Corner Fultcn Street and Bellevue Terrace Just West of Wisconsin and South of Massachusetts Ave. 513,950 A challenge to competitive values, plus convenience and desirability of location. Built and planned by the present owner just a litte over three yea 's ago, and we are confident you will be immediately impressed with the spacious plan of the cheerful and delightfu touch, solid comfort and genial hospit: rooms with three expo oak floors, pain lly srranged room: su late gl length copper screens, huge closets, master breakfa: e house radiates an art, nclude: Two tile baths, four insulation over second floor, hi i . It is being sold at away for the day to allow every opportunity for an unem- Open Sunday from 11 A, M. to 6 P. M. Schwab, Valk & Canby 1704 Connecticu t Avenue Potomac 0830 “Thus, an ‘act of God,' to give suffi- | clenit cause to cancel our leases, would $50,000 ADDITION T0 PLANT COMPLETED D. C. Manufacturing Firm Adds| Three-Story Structure to Factory. A $50,000 2ddition to the D. Bal- leuf Manufacturing Co.’s plant, at 619 to 621 H street, was recently completed |on the company’s property. The addi- | tion s a three-story structure, having a ilO-IO"t frontage on H street and a | depth of 100 feet. The original building was 40 by 140 feet. The firm, engaged in the manufac- | ture of models and machinery, has been | in business here for more than 60 years. | Rudolph Schnieder s manager of the | company. iyl Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecua- dor, San Salvador and Uruguay have t signed the treaty for the re- war. Foxhall Village 4425 Que Street N.W. Price, $12,500. Semi-de- tached, large rooms, perfect condition. Large attic: Built- in garage. Faces South. Other houses, 3,4, 5 & 6 bedrooms; 1, 2 & 3 bath- rooms with shower. PRICES $12,500 to $23,500 * Furnished Model Home 1606 44th Street BOSS & PHELPS 1417 K Street BUILDING NEWS CLEARING OF WAR-NAVY SITE NOT PLANNED IN 1931 Fate of Three Large Apartments in General Area . Uncertain Under Present Program. HILE the selection of the general area for the site of the new War and Navy Department Buildings presaged large-scale development between Eighteenth and Twenty-third streets, Constitution and New York avenues, the question of how long privately owned structures in the section will remain undis- turbed is uncertain. Decision depends, generally, on the size of building or buildings found needed to house the two large departments and on what par- cels in the chosen area are selected to accommodate the new devel- opments. Apartments May Remain, It appears unlikely, judging from available official advice, that condemnation and razing of private buildings in the War-Navy site will become a fact this year. As other matters must be settled first in arranging for this huge construction program, it also may be that some private properties in the area will have a longer tenure of existence. This applies particularly, according {Ban on Bill])oar(ié Sought in 18 States Real Estate Boards Believe Advertisers Will Aban- don Practise. Eighteen States now have bills pend- ing in their Legislatures to tax bill- boards in an effort to cut down their number, according to the National As- sociation of Real Estate Boards. Connecticut charges $3 a year for each sign containing 300 square feet or less, and this fee increases to $9 for signs containing mcre than 600 square feet and not over 900 square feet Other States amending existing laws or proposing new laws designed to tax outdoor ~ advertising _include Georgia, Indians, Towa, Maine, Maryland, Min- nesota, 'Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohlo, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia, Delaware, Michi- gan and New York. | Public Through Taxation| to present plans, to the three large apartment houses standing in a block near the western end of the truncated triangle forming the War-Navy site. Senator Smoot, chairman of the Buildings Commission, which selected the building site, stated that these three apartment buildings with other properties would be acquired and razed to make way for new Govern- ment developments. Smith Company Financing. An interesting point, revealed today, is that one of these apartment bufld- ings was financed through the F. H. Smith Co., the much-investigated real- ty finance firm. Thus a new chapter may be written concerning some of the Smith Co. investors. Individuals who purchased and are holding Smith Co. bonds, secured on this property, may be benefited by & Government cash pay- ment for the property, if and when the Government acquires this part of the site. The apartment building referred to is the Riverside Apartments, located at Twenty-second and C streets and New York avenue. Decision ss to this and the other two apartments as yet is in the future. Pirst will be the matter of the size of the new War-Navy Buildings, then the se- lection of the best ilable area in the (Continued o tiful entrance. WE KNOW THERE IS REAL VALUE IN THESE DETACHED HOMES See 4453 Faraday Place N.W. . #Our display home of a group of real early Amer- ican types, built on a street with a surprisingly beau- Prices, $10,950 to $12,000 Brick and cypress construction, slate roof, all cak floors. Handsome Colonial fireplace. Beautiful imported wall papers, modern kitchen with Frigidaire. Charming fixtures, roomy tiled bath with shower. Built-in garage. BOSSEEHELPS FOUNDED 1907 HOME OF HOMES 1417 K Street Drive out Wisconsin Avenue to Fessenden Street. West to 45th Street at River Road, North . 45th to Faraday Place. FIRST MICHI LR SHO¥'SoLD GAN MANOR Suburban Environment—12 Minutes From Downtown 14TH ST. N.E. AT MICHIGAN AVE. AND VARNUM STREET EXHIBIT HOME 4407 14TH ST. N.E. PUBLIC APPRECIATION has resulted in the immediate sale of an entire row of these beautiful homes and two of this new group THE REASON IS before they were completed. APPARENT—It is humanly impossible to build & home more beautiful than these; to ‘husband plan a home so complete as to meet every desire of a wife, or to satisfy the vanity of a discriminating and still be below the price you expected to pay. HOME—SEMI-DETACHED—SIX ROOMS—Porches open or enclosed. Two baths, shower. Sanitas-covered kitchen and baths. Fireplace, pantry, Frigidaire, hardwood floors and trim. -Large lot, beautifully planted. Paved street, etc DIRECTIONS—Drive out North itol St., right on Michigan Ave. to 14th St., and left to or Brookland car to Michigan Ave., Wllkog':hl to llt:‘sh _ - Tower Bldg. 14th & K Sts.