Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1931, Page 15

19 BUILDING NEWS SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, he Foening St FACTS ON HOME BUILDING TO BE GIVEN TO PUBLIC Leaders in Ownership, Construction and Other Phases of Activity Preparing Special Report for President’s Conference Here Next Fall. PRIVATE BUILDING LEADS | PREVIOUS 7-MONTH MARK i $21,570,879 New Construction Shown by Inspector | Ochmann—July Total, $2,305,115, Approxi- | mately Same as That of Same Month Last Year. ! and Suburbs || New Homes Recently Acquired in City DWELLINGS IN EDGEMOOR, FOREST HILLS, SHEPHERD PARK AND LYON VILLAGE. WEALTH of comprehensive and classified findings regarding home building and home ownership, designed to stimulate both objectives, is to be made available to the public following the conference to be held on the subject, under guidance of President Hoover, next November. | Outstanding leaders in various phases of home ownership and | home construction, designing, financing, equipment and other attend- | ant questions now are engaged in preparing data on specialized sud- | jects, which will be submitted at the conference | How the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership is being organized is seen in a digest issued this week telling how the commitiees of 4he body are collating material, under | the direction of Secretary of Commerce Lamont and Secretary of In- |terior Wilbur, joint chairmen, with the assistance of Dr. John M. ; Gries, executive secretary. here during the first seven months of this year have invested | $21,570,879 in new construction operations here, keeping ahead of the total for the same perlod of last year by well over a million dollars. | The total for the past month, as computed by Col. John W. Oehmann, building inspector, was 2,305,115, this being approximately the same as the volume for July of 1930. The lion’s share of the cost of all private building here last month was for residential con- struction. Nearly $900,000 was for the building of 121 dwellings and close to $700,000 for erection of 46 apartments. The largest other single class of work last month was that or‘ repairs, including remodeling, the cost of which amounted to $266,000. | DEMONSTRATXNG their faith in Washington, private buflders The total estimated cost cf all new operations for which permits were is- sued last week was $483.485. The num- | 1houghtfully Designed, They ber of bullding projects was unusually Iong. Permits issued included the fol i fon Save Housewife Steps and A. L. Aubinoe, designer; to | Facilitate Work. erect seven 2-story brick flats, 1703- | 1711 Cupitol avenue and 1615 and 1617 | — Corcoran street; to cost $45,000. | Zimmerman & Dismer, owners; V.| A compact kitchen, arranged and P. Ducketi, designer; Benton & Miller, | equipped with & view to facilitating the bullders; to erect nine 2-story -brick | work of the housewife, is a feature of dwellings, 1342 to 1354 V street, and | / 2009 and 2011 Fifteenth street south- |68ch of the group of 16 attached east; to cost $36,000. | houses on the north side of Volta place E, M. Willls, jr., owner and builder; west of Forty-fourth street, now on Construction Co., owners and | Upper left: English type stone and stucco residence of William P. Barnbart at 2800 Brandywine street, in Forest Hifls. The home, which contains, 11 rooms and 3 baths, was built and sold by Alfred T. vbold. Upper right: Residence at 7604 Morningside Shepherd Park. purchased recently by William H. Dyer. The home contains six rooms, a sun parlor and two baths, with detached garage. It was built and sold by L. E. Breuninger & Sons, Lower left. Home of R. Clyde Cruit, attorney, at 6921 Fairfax road, Edgemoor, Md. The dwelling is of brick construction, with tile, roof, and contains erect 10 rooms and 3 baths, with built-in two-car garage. It was so'd through flhyfl office of Thomas L. Peyton. agent ¢ ot i H'g:‘gik . "o | The kitchen was designed with the Lower right: Detached brick house at 215 North Oak street, Lyon Village, Va. purchased recently by Roma Plake from F. Raymon use, builder. S S e kfast n th, th a two-car detached garage. The lot was acquired from Lyon & Fitch, real estate dedlers, G, Spicknall,” owner and | tho i iihen, was, designed with {he | The house contains seven rooms, a breakfast alcove and bath, with a two-car garag q ¥ v Tel osiits dkiets, 5516 Broad Branch bulider; George T. Santmyers, architect: | and yet with provision at nand for all | _ i . ! ta _erect two 2-story brick dwellings, | required storage and equipment. Under " Road 40,000-FOOT TRACT SOLD AREA IN BUSINESS ZONE TWO STORES LEASED 5826 Third street and 300 Oglethorpe | the double casement window at the 3 '“sfic'l!‘-“wh ‘:"“v:‘lkfi-wevm 4 builders; | €% Of the room is a large, one-piece (At Morrison Street) , owners an i |double drainboard sink, extending — 5 C. N. Norton, architect; to erect cne 2- | 4 LD AS BUILDING SITE .. story brick _aweliing, 3100 Forty-fifth e s o Dm0 S0 5 SRulydiy Siuey o5 e e street; to cost $15,000. ? \co full height, are built-in china cab- Brestive it DI Ottt Aires 8507-8509 Georgia Avenue. owner, designer and |jnets. Two closets are built under the i ey Two stores in the Casey Building, at 8507-8509 Georgia avenue, have been leased for a period of five years by the Sanitary Grocery Co. from the owner, t was announced today. | one ory brick dwelling, 4900 'be out of notice even there. Distinctive New All Brick—Built with Mr, Frank Simpson 3318 Military Road Chevy Chase, D. C. ‘This splendidly built, all-brick, detached home, located on one of the highest spots in Chevy Chase, D. C, is thoroughly modern. Bladensburg Road Site to Be New Church Lumber Co. Home. Purchase of a tract of land at Bla- densburg Toad and Twenty-fourth place northeast as the site of a new home to be erected by the Church Lumber Co. was announced today by Morris Cafritz, Bacly 5, Duilt 5 38 feet : to_erect two 2-story brick and |sink - drainboards, f which, with cinder-block dwellings, 1000 UPShur | outside - ventiation s . deaigmed © for sireet and 4303 Tenth street northeast: | fruit and vegetable cold storage. In 10 cost $14,500. other places in the kitchen are: Modern | A. T. Newbold, owner and bullder: A. |y, mechanical refs vi B. Plerson, architect; to erect one 315" | ion it o Sqaor, with & ditional private dwellings, this being W thicaghout. the yelr. the total| land Bartholomer of St. Louis, the Com- t. the peak years of 1924 and 19 mittee on Landscape Planning and Houses. by Federal Government. special reference to the problems of sec~ | southwest Washington, several of them of New York City. Home ownership in connection with the Federal Build- | Trigg of Philadelphia, Problems of tax- actions, which were sold through the | Tection of Prof. T. 5. Adams of Yale southwest, purchased from Frederick (Continiad o = three 2-story brick and frame dwellings, | Silver Star Homes demonstration spon- | SIS ek SORETNEL, Toomn N setato 1l Ciwis i THE FINEST BUY nez M. Brown, owner: M. Mesrchhn,'dtvelopment in the Silver Star Homes | west, from Louis DeAtley; 305 Twelfth stone store building, 1214 Eighteenth | modern home development are invited | Quigley; 319 Twelfth street southwest, OFFERED FOR buck Co., builders; to erect one 2-story | Reservoir road, then turning left on | - ? . 4 i 2 nae Milkie through the office of Floyd | » 3 Columbia Construction Co., owners | dwellings are located at the rear, just | ties and the Association for the Pre- | Virginia stucco dwellings, 2790 and 2794 Mili- |the clean expanse of the rear lawns. | - - - i P g e e Wilcox, designer: to erect two 2-story | ment whereby garages are bullt beyond Dlock 9F O Sumet sucihwest: parchinned W. C. and A. N. Miller, owners and | receptical is placed beside each garage A NEW HOME walk or drive from A Dbeautiful example of wide, slate roof, big covered With Residence, Bought 2 insulated rooms third Of the remainder, $188,000 was for the building of stares. | % ¥ 3 4 2 During the past week plans were ap-T———— P & | - The first committees established deal proved for the ccnstruction of 49 ad- B— ? B ’ - : | with residential districts on the setting , g 1 b - : U. S. GETS TITLE | e S T an unusually large number. For in- : : ¢ i i Washington has organized the Commit- stance, if the same pace were main- - G | tee on City Planning and Zoning: Har- Sear. the. toia - e i . , s o TO 18 MORE LOTS f the would reach the high figurs of about it i 4 = % 2 % 3 H tee on Subdivision Layout; Mrs. Junius 2,500, much larger th-n any year since MARK SIAR HUMES 7 ; e e S. Mcrgan of Princeton, N. J., the Com- R Ak il W i Additional Land for Building Pro-| planting, and Morris Knowles of Pitts- . e s gram Is Purchased This Week | urEh. the Committee on Utllities for Home Finaneing Studied. e Problems of home financing with Eighteen more lots of property in| cnd mortgages and foreclosures is under the chairmanship of Frederick H. Ecker with frame and brick dwellings, were . v and leasing is being studied by a com- sold to the United States Government | mittee under the direction of Ernest T. ing program, it was disclosed this week. | ation in relation to housing have been The properties involved in the trans- | assigned to a committee under the di- offices of Boss & Phelps, agents, in- | University. clude the following: 221 Twelfth street | Acute problems involved in blighted . Second Page) 0 Ely; 1206 Virginia av thwest, — = George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect | public _exhibition as a part of the u.'}t;ulred rmmflP!;:in.‘Se!r]‘::: 5203‘: ;r:r- = 5401 Nevada avenue and 3511 and 3515 sored by this newspaper. : - ation street; to cost $25,000. | These houses, the second residential B e T i MG Iy e - e i e 4 hitect: Charles H. Tompkins Co. d daily from 9 | ! ] 120 M O architect; Charles H. Tompkins Co. |award, are open daily from 9 am. e g oot S it " builders; to erect one 3-story brick and [10 pm. All persons interested in | 1955 O skeet. southmest, from Pateiok HAT HAS BEEN street; to cost $23,000. to visit the houses which may be | . A 1y 'y | rom Mrs. Anni key 6 - 3 e N v Dr.'M. W. Perry, owner; Sears, Roe- |reached by driving out Q street to foammh sivnet. sobthimest, S0l foF Jeih SOME TIME IN brick dwelling, 2607 Thirty-first street; | Forty-fourth street to Volta place. ’ o to cost $20,000. The kitchens of these demonstration s i i i e e Nearby and builders: F. G. Wilcox, designer; to |off the dining rooms, and each has an | erect two 2';-story brick, frame and |outiook through a large window over | | yention of Tuberculosls; 249 Third A a | | 431 First street southwest. fi Hi tary road: to cost $18,000. Service facilities at the rear are prac- | ;- st. from Harry Samuel Eig, owner and bullder; F. G. | tically invisible, due to an arrange- | Sheers, and four houses in the 300 |02 Gordon Road brick_and freme dwellings, 6814 and | rear brick garden walls and at lower from Charles P. Ryan. ARLINGTON RIDGE €820 Ninth street; to cost $16,500. |levels than the rear lawns. A trash | builders; G. E. MacNell, architect; 0 |and is sunk into the ground so as to $18,500 ITHIN few minutes the Army, Navy & Marine Club. Awmerican design. wonderfuli and spaclous. ALL BRICK. screened side porch = 24x1 ROOMS AND 2 BATHS nue, by Local Investor. Two completely finished rooms cn the third floor, furnished Sale of premis t 2622 Connecticut ale premises & breakfast nook, outside pantry, atenue, at the intersection of Twenty- story brick and stone dwelling, XKlingle street: to cost $14,000. Hillbrook Lane Dwelling. W. C. & A. N. Miller, owners and | bullders; G. E. MacNell, architect; to | erect one 3-story brick dwelling, 4910 Hillbrook Lane; to cost $13,200 | Joseph A. Shafer, owner, designer and builder; to erect two 2-story brick and frame dwellings, 6216 and 6220 Thirty. |§iven a distinctive outline. #econd street; to cost $13,000. Schwab & Valk, owners and builders; ©. N. Norton, architect; fo erect one 2- story brick dwelling, 4505 Klingle | strest; to cost $11,000. ers; to erect one 2-story brick addition, 3039 Forty-fourth street: to cost $11,000. Joseph D. Gatti, owner; Darnes, designer; Martin Bros., build- ers; to erect three 1-story brick stores, 307 and 301 Kennedy street and 5504 Third street; to cost $12,000 H. J. Sthneider, owner and designer. Gore Co,, builders: to erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 5514 Thirty-third street; o cost $12,000 Jacobson Bros, owners and bullders; Edwin Jacobson, designer; to erect one 2-story brick and frame dwelling, 5510 Nebraska avenue; to cost $10,000. Jacobson Bros;, owners and builders; Edwin Jacobson, designer: to erect one 2-story brick and frame dwelling, 3629 Jocelyn street: to cost $10,000 Prank D. Phillips, owner signer: Willlam H. Thompson, to erect one 2-story dwelling, 3101 Legation $9.500. A. T. Newbold, owner and buflder; C. N. Norton, designer; to erect one 2- story brick dwelling, 3314 Tennyson street: to cost $9,000 Jefferson Patterson, owner: G. N. Ray, architect. E. M. McConthe Co., (Continued on_Second Page.) Petworth Open Sunday 4122 5th St. N.W. 20-foot brick house with hot-water heat, electric lights, front dnd back porches, new- ly painted and decorated throughout; screens, attic and nice yard to alley. Conven- ient to schools, churches and transportation. We can sell this home at the right price on easy terms. Come Out Sunday L. E. Breuninger & Sons Investment Bidg. Nat'l 2040 and de. butider; | street; to cost Only §15,950 Chevy Chase, D.C. corner stone howms facing !§-acre park A real “find” at this low price! Charming in design and setting, large corner lot 75" by 130, Jarge living room, side noven facing group of smali” trees, model kitchen. breakfast alcove. two Tui iled baths, large attic, lots of un- usual attractions. 33rd & Patterson Sts. LIGHTED TILL 10 PM. Drive Tag Chevy, B2 TR squares to Patterson. R. BATES WARREN, Phone Clev. 7483 4507 | style gas range; a | pantry and broom closet, and a cabinet | base. built-in storage The floor is covered with inlaid tile linoleum and the walls and celling with a washable type of covering. These group houses are a modern | They we built by Waverly Taylor, inc.. with Porter & Lockie ‘The houses were awarded a pla | rendering of English design, all of the | same architecturai style but with each re from | plans by Waverly Taylor, in assoclation ce in the Silver Star Homes program by J. Austin Stone, owner; Victor Min- | the committee of specialisis acting for P X v e ; " | The Star. The commitiee in this pro- ct, Morrison Bros. bulld- | joct consisted of James S. Taylor. chiet of the division of building and housing Stanley, chief, United States of Home Economics; Gilbert past president, Washington American Institute of Archi H. Small, 3d, landscape a; Harlean James, American Civic ects executive Association; Arthi Eugene | 0f the Bureau of Standards; Dr. Louise Bureau Rodier, chapte John hitect; Miss secretary, ur Carr, president, Washington Real Estate Board, and Rufus S. Lusk, model home demonstrations official. Yates to Talk at “Texas Day.” Paul C. Yates, Washington spondent for the Houston patch, will speak at the Washingt Memorial at Valley Forge, Pa. on Su day, “Texas day.” Gov. the address, designated Mr. Yates ast speaker when a special session of t Texas Legislature forced him to wit draw veteran corre- Post-Dis- n n- Ross S. Ster- brick and tile|ling of Texas, who was to have delivered he h h ‘The meeting will be held under | the auspices of the Texas State Society of Washington and the Colonial Dames $10,950! 2-Story Colonial wear Chevy Chase Club The only one of this at- tractive group not yet sold Six bright rooms, full tiled bath, large porch, garage to match, charming grounds convenient to community stores, etc. Very reasonable terms! 4514 Stanford Street LIGHTED TILL 10 P.M Drive out Connectieut Ave to Brad- ley Lane. turn west to Fost Ave then worth two squares to Stan ford st R. BATES WARREN Phone Cleve. 7483 Northeast Corner Nebraska Ave. and 31st St. NW. “At the Top of Nebraska Ave. Hill" Open Sat. & Sunday This seven-r and two-bath brick with center hall plan is the most aling home we know of today and will bey closest inspec tion. There are 3 large bed rooms and large attic The construction is the finest known, including furred walls, copper down spouting, gutter and flashing, slate roof and fir joists, There is also a library, breakfast nook and large The lot which is a 122 4t frontage. lovely om your £ by R. B. Fothergill of St arg. Fla, owner, to a local in- s announced this week. The which includes a large resi- former owner, who acted in the negotia- tions. The site, located in the Bladensburg v road industrial area_consists of about ty 40,000 square feet. New bulldings and was recently zone first commer- sheds for the concern are to be erected and it is undersiood plans are thers under way to raze the present structure T) and erect a modern business building The purchaser and purchase price were not diviuged in the announcement from McKeever & Goss, age who . handied the transaction. Tt was stated, 0" T erty n Heating Inspection Urged. e 3 - As an aid to the unemployment situ- . ation it is recommended by the Hol-| A plot consisting of about 18,000 land Institute of Thermology that prop- | square feet of land located in the 8500 erty owners have their heating systems plock of Fourteenth street has been pur- inspected and repaired now 7| chased by the Standard Oil Co. as & would home owners profit g station site, Morris Cafritz, real- having their heating syst Eoarian * condition, but the throughout the cou an_opport 0 peeded mone purchasers of the site is forced out of hi§ former business headquarters in Sou est Washing by progress in the Government bu ing program. earn some much 5421 31st Street (Just North of Military Road) An extremely large, all brick, detached home in Chevy Chase, containing recreation room with open fireplace and many unusual features, thoroughly modern, reason- ably priced and may be pur- chased on advautageous terms. price $14,500 as stated J. Wesley Buchanan Exclusively Realtor 4505 Lowell Street WESLEY HEIGHTS Open Daily INITIAL SHOWING NC\\' Calnnial Home HForest Hills 2741 BRANDYWINE ST. Wooded 165 MACOMB S1 of 35th Corner Cleveland Park Lot 75x127 DETACHED corner home sur- A charming center-hall home rounded by of brick construction, facing south, ten (10) rooms, three (3) baths, equipped with G. E. re- frigerator, oil burn 2-car built-in garage. Individually A planned, best construction, and adjacent to beautiful Rock Creek Park. OPEN—SUNDAY To Reach Drive out Conn. Ave. to Alber- marle turn right thence east to Einnonn Ave. Gl Rl e block to Brandywine or via Rock Creek Park to Broad Branch Road. Newbold, Canby & DeNeale Ine. Reaitors 5626 Conn. Ave. magnificent planting and shrubbery. comfortable large, roomy home containing living library, dining room and kitchen on the first floor rooms and two room, Six large hed baths. Redeco- rated throughout and offered at a remarkably low price. Open Sundas From 1 PM. F. ELIOT MIDDLETON Realtor 205 Investment Bldg. Cley. 1948 Met. 2827 Eugene Case 5361 29th Street (Just South of Military Road) This -Jovely new home, containing many unusual features, located near Rock Creek Park, is really an un usual home and worthy of your personal inspection. J. Wesley Buchanan Exclusively Realtor Met. 1143 where Chevy Chase begins LAST of this attractive first group ALL the other residences thus far completed in this new community, just four.miles from the White House, have been pur- chased by people of re- finement and good judg- ment. We commend this remaining hoxe—a fine cor- ner with large grounds. in all- brick construction on the cen- ter-hall plan, comprising liv- ing room with wide side porch. dining salon, kitchen with built-in breakfast set, five bed chambers and three baths, two-car brick garage and other attractions—to your imme- diate inspection. The price and terms are-surprisingly rea- sonable for such a home and setting! Other Homes At Proportionately Lower Prices \ Closest in Town of Any New Community Drive out Connecticut Ave. squares beyond Albemarle, furn wert om Cumberland one aquere to WAKEFIELD. Phone Cleve. 7483 four $13,950 Louis F. Peak (Owner) North 0167 THREE SPLENDID BUYS IN BEAUTIFUL LOCATIONS 5443 31st Street CHEVY CHASE, D. C. NEW DETACHED ALL- BRICK COLONTAL $12,950 One of the best buys in the section. A beantiful Home at one of the highest points in the communi Breakfast nook, fireplace, copper screens, slate roof, garage are among the many features. Modern to the minute. LOT 125 Ft. DEEP. See it today. Will sell quickly. Drive East on Military Road to 31st St. and North to Property. OPEN SUNDAY 10 TO 9 | | 6308 Mecadow Lane CHEVY CHASE, MD. AN 8-ROOM 2-BATH COLONIAL, IN PER- FECT CONDITION, LOT 70 by 170. One block west of Conn. Ave.. 4 BED ROOMS. shower and built-in fixtures in bath, beau- tifully decorated throughout. wonderful SOLARIUM full length of house. BUILT-IN GARAGE. Plenty of trees, shrubbery and flowers. OPEN SUNDAY 11 TO 6 o | 4422 Greenwich Parkway BEAUTIFUL FOXHALL VILLAGE $13,500 One of the homes that has made the village famous. Vacant and in fine condition. Equipped ith "FLBOTRIO REFRIGERA- TION, built-in garage, large attic and many other charming fea- tures. it at once. Drive out Que St. to Wisconsin Ave. morth to Reservotr Rd., west o 4dth St. turn left to mezt street and west to house. OPEN SUNDAY 1 TO 6 BOSS & PHELPS 1417 K St National 9300 electric refrigera tion, screens, metal weather stripping and brick SUNDAY 2 to 9 P.M. garage are included at the price of [l During Week—s P.M. to 9 P.M. TO REACH: Just welt of M. Ver- $14,950 non Bowlevard about 3 blocks south J. Wesley Buchanan of Little Tea House or 7 blocks south Hume School. ltor BOSS & PHELPS | Exclusively R Northern Virginia Office Artin, Title Co. Bldg. Met. 1143 endon. Schwab and Valk Realtors ke pleasure in announcing Mr. Paul Ryon (Formerly associated with H. G. Smithy Co., Inc.) ~—is now a member of their Sales Staff. Specializing in the sale of residential properties in the Massachusetts Avenue, Park, and immediate Maryland suburban sections. Office: 1704 Connecticut Avenue—Phone: Decatur 2333 | Cleveland Chevy Chase IN Breantiful Marietta Far! IN 4 RESTRICTED COMMUNITY OF NEW, SEMI-DETAC) HOUSES, WE OFFER THESE WELL PLANN PL HOMES. CONTAINING. ROOMS (3-4 BED ROOMS): LY B. N _WOOD-BURNING FL, TS, SCREENED WATER HEATER. Inspect Today Take 14th Bt Car marked ‘Takoms' Get at wal B dvive out Sin 1., turn Joh % k west to houses, Oneida.