Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1931, Page 20

REAE ESTATE. 'NORTHEAST HOME BUYERS =-w = s Blehly '_‘fld: SAMPLE ! 1701 “D” St. N.E. Daily to 9 P.M. Feat Bauipped _with R Baameicd Gas Fange with 5 neary t joor _coversd wi Iniatd_Lenoleum an with Sani! that folds WAPLE & J 1226 14th St. N.W. North 0962 TONMGRC TR JUST COMPLETED You Should See This Home i Detached, All Brick * Slate Roof, Deep Lot, ‘ 2-Car Garage J A ? breakfast room: b pantry; large and bright kitchen with tiled walls; inlaid linoleum on | floor; electric refrigeration; 4 master bed rooms: 2 modern baths; finished attic; and many " other attractive features that ! have to be seen to be appreciated. | DO NOT MISS INSPECTING ‘ THIS HOME! Open Daily to 9 P.M. ' 6810 9th St. N.W . « st of Georgis Ave. at | Aspen u Will See Our Sigm!) | WAPLE & JAMES, Inc. | 1226 14th St. N'W, Kansas Avenue $8,950 (Excepting Corners) Convenient to Fort Slocum Park, Containing Seventeen Acres of Wooded Area. Homes Consist of Seven large Rooms. Two-tone Baths, with Showers; Electric Refrigeration, Automatic Stor- sge Heaters, Built-in Garages. Convenient to Fourteenth St. Car Line Floyd E. Davis Co. Realtors 733 12th Street Na. 0353 1218 Qates St. N.E. Is Now Ofpen This is a beautiful six- room home with tile bath, spacious kitchen and builtin garage. It has both front and rear porches and a screened sleeping porch. The in- terior has an appearance of real hominess and is besuti fully Schools, stores and trans- portation are convenient. A study of the terms of puschase o you that it is more eco- nomical to purchase than to rent. Only small cash payment necessary. decorated. will See this today! | ROBT. W. SAVAGE | i 717 Union Trust Bldg. Nat. €799 g Your Broker TEN HOUSES CLAI OLDEST L S.HONORS Realty Board Inquiry Pro- duces Rich Legend of Homes. Long forgotien legends and stories of ploneer courage clustering around the history of venerable American dwell- ings are pouring into the headquarters of the Nationai Association of Real Es- tate Boards. which recently started a search for the oldest domicfle in this country. | Claims that at least 10 houses are | older than the Pairbanks home at Ded- to_the association ‘The old home of Capt. John Billopp, at Tottenville, Staten 1555, more than 80 years before the Pairbanks house, it is asserted. Capt. | Billopp, who sailed the seven seas in | , is said to have made a in 1624, completing the trip in 23 hours’ salling time. Sixteenth Century Home. | The old Hardesty home, located a | few miles from Bridgeport, G | also sald to have been bullt'in the six- lmnm century. | In Portsmouth, N. H. is a house at 698 Prospect street in which there is lumber marked in the year 1617. There are three houses in Portsmouth said to have been built in 1623. i The old Stasts home, located on Staats Island, in the Hudson River, is | sald to have been built in 1632 by Maj. | Abraham Staats. | In Quantico, Md., is a house built of |timber and plaster, occupled by mem- 'bers of the same family for 301 years, | since the original King’s it, it 1s | reported. It is now oceu; by_two | aged brothers and an aged T, Mag- gle, Calvert and Charles Conway. The | .| cooking in_this home has been done in | the open fireplace. The old crane and a solid copper pot came from England before 1630 and are still in daily use, it 1s said. Long Island Place Built in 1633. Another home reputed to be older than the Fairbanks home is located in Southhold, Long Island. It is claimed that it was built in 1633 by Barnabas Horton. At 111 Locust street, Danvers, Mass., 15 the old home of Daniel Rae, who, {town records show, actually lived in Plymouth, Mass, in 1630, and moved | to Danvers in 1631. according to & let- | ter from Gov. Bradford to Gov. Win- throp. Descendants say that he built | the house still occupled by his kinfolk |in 1634, which was two years before the | Fairbanks house date. At Swampscott, Mass, on Paradise | road, now stands a house erected for and occupied by John Humphrey, first Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and his wife, Lady Susan, § | house © | known, daughter of the third Earl of Lincoln. This house was built in 1634, though | it has been moved from its original site in the city, records show. The Gov. Craddock House at Med- ford, Mass., s said to have been built in 1634. Another 1634 house is at Scituate and the old Massachusetts families, ©0ld Virginia Residence. The Thoroughgood House at Lynn- haven, Va., on the banks of ven Bay was built in 1636, it is asserted, by Adam Thoroughgood, who came to Virginia in 1621 from England. Mr. Thoroughgood was given a grant of land on which he built this home. He named this grant Norfolk County and the bay he called Lynhaven, after his old home in Lynn. England.’ It is re- corded that Mr. Thoroughgood amass- ed a greas fortune and in 1637 was & member of the Council, which was the Colonial House of Lords under the regime of Gov. Harvey. Many people called attention to the structure at St. Augustine, Fla., on St. Francis strect, publicized for many years as the oldest home in the United States. The buil is said_to daf T te from 1560 when 3 & home for Pranciscan Monks, who had come to St. Augustine with Menendez in that no Franciscan or other monks in St. 1o | Augustine in 156, and that the site of St. Augustine was not then its present site, and that the material of which the is built was at that time un- Santa Fe Lays Claims. [ | santa Fe, N. Mex., also has a struc- | ture claimed to be the oldest home in the country, built about 1545 | & square box-like structure, but is not |a cliff dwelling. ‘The association has been asked whether the search would include the | very early cliff dwellings, some of which have been designated as the first homes on the continent, but it was said at the | association headquarters that the hunt is for a home built by early settlers who had the same concept of the advantages of home owning as still exist today. Among the other homes submitted to the association is one in Greenl N. H. reported to have been built 1638 by John Wingate Weeks “This house was used by the pilgrims at times as a retreat from the attacks of Indians. It always has remained in possession of the Weeks family, and at e ninth and tenth v the house. John W. descendant of this family.” Material on this home was submitted by Julia E. Weeks Whitcomb, 68 years old. S i FIRST SHOWING 5724 NEBRASKA AVE. Chevy Chase, D. C. This new center-ball plan house has six open fircplace, built-in garage, cabiuets, copper & lot 87 feet front. Price, gutters, slate roof and an abundance of shrubbery large rooms, 2 tile baths, , built-in sink and kitchen on $12,750 Terms JOSEPH DEVEREUX, Inc. 1427 Eye St. ., NA. 0640 | ham, Mass., long holder of the title of | the oldest home, have been mhflll.mdl Conn., is{ ’(Zlaim of Hartford Board | This is | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Modernism in Home Style i | “r DOUBLE ROOF HAS was bullt in | Residence of L. WIDE OVERHANG. Corrin Strong. Keen Contest Starts ‘ For Oldest Realty | Dealer of Nation of Dean Honors Brings Scores of Competitors. A real contest is developing over the | question of who in the Uni States has been en in real estate business continuously for the longest time. It all when the Hartford Real Estate Board paid honor on Sep- tember 10 to Joseph Buths as being the dean of veteran realtors and chal- lenged the country to beat his record of continuous activity. 'was published by the to_headq For instance, it is claimed that veteran Mr. Buths, despite his long career, was but & mere boy in school when Willlam A. Bond of Chicago opened his real estate office March 1, 1871 ‘The offices of Mr. Bond, it is re- ported, are lined with several hundred well worn books containing his valu- ations of Chicago properties, which give & history of a sort of the city before the t fire. Mr. Bond is a charter mcm{r:r- of the Chicago Real Estate Board, was its president in 1893 and is & former vice president of the Chi- cago Chamber of Commerce. In Chicago also is Edgar M. Snow, who entered the real estate business only two years after Mr. Bond opened his first office. Mr. Sriow had been | selling Chicago real estate for eight | years before the veteran Mr. Buths | b;mm to appraise Hartford properties in 81 And Portland, Oreg., presents Henry 'W. Pries, who started in Qlllle real estate e as of whieh he is now president. That same year he bought his first piece of and had to handle the tra: lon ugh a third party because he was a minor. He is a charter member and a past president of the Portland R U. S. Chamber of Commerce, 4 1321 Connecticut Ave. One of the city's newer at a highly preferred address.. iager always in attend est order. D2 Luxe featur lobby, ample closets, tile bat losed porches. arial desk service. ment, | < 2 rooms, foyer, kit., | and open porch to 3 ealty Board.operation of the Winc] The Wilkins (Himes Properties) 1512-1514 H Street N.W, OCATED in financial district across the street from Vetedans’ Bureau, near U. S. Treasury Department, White House and form to the present trend to ecc serve-a-doors from corridors to 24-hour te! Elec alcove, kit. J. E. DOUGLASS CO. 1621 K St. N.W. TWO0 WOMEN QUIZZED ‘f ON ABDUCTION OF ONE ‘h:lbdm the desired draft through | Police Believe “Torture” Victim Gave Tip on Hold-up Suspect ‘Who Sought Revenge. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, October 31 —Police were holding two young women today, seek- ing to discover motives behind the re- ported kidnaping and torturing one of them by two men. Anna May, 20, reported she had been kidnaped Tuesday night and held in a house until Thursday night. The kid- napers, she said, tortured her with pins and burning cigarettes, and told her that “maybe you won't talk to the police now.” She was held with her friend, Rose Gaye, 20. Miss May said she did not know the two men and could offer no explanation for the torturing. Miss Gaye was held as a_witness. Police acted on the belief that Miss May is the woman who gave them in- formation that led to the arrest Tues- day of Marvin Webster as a hold-up suspect. They said she was a former sweetheart of Webster. Miss May said that after her two days’ imprisonment she was taken to a downtown street cormer and pushed from an automobile. CITY CUTS PLANT TAXES | Assessment Reduced by $4,601,305 to Aid Buyer Operate. NEW HAVEN, Conn, October 31 () —The Winchester Repeating Arms Co., in the hands of a Federal receiver, yesterday was granted an assessment reduction of $4.601,305 by the Municipal Board of Relief following a lengthy conference with representatives of the Western Cartridge Co., prosj ive pur- chasers of the Winchester The reduction was made, Mayor Thomas A. Tully said, when it was disclosed during the conference that the Western concern of Alton, Il planned to take over and continue hester plant. Boihding blocks irom new Department of Commerce Building, in which, among other branches of Govern- ment, the PATENT OFFICE will be housed. A” Rooms are Large w;tll H igh Ceflim Rent Includes: 24-Howr Elevator Service, eat, Ice Water, Cledning of Rooms and Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Room. Randall H. Hagner & Company H Light, ® Phone Decatur 3600 It's the Little Niceties in Equipment and Service . . . That Make the Big-Difference Toward Comfortable Living at . . . SULGRAVE MANOR 5130 Connecticut Avenue N.W. and finer buildings. ..situated vet featurigg prices that con- »my. Competent resident e services of the high- Be: fully furnished wwers, radio outlets, rients. Choice of open d elevator service. tion at cost of dining alcove, bath rooms, foyer, dining and bath. Met. 5678 Bay a Brick HOME with all features er dwood trim Walker electric dish washer Fluid heat—n Extra heavy tin reof, 20 Exhibit Home 1837 Bay St. SE. Betwoen 160, 19th, B and C Sta. 8.5 r Easters High School $60.00 a Month (imeludes Interest en Both Trusis) Steuart Brothers, Inc. Real Estate Constryction 138 12th SL. NE C., SATURDAY, 1931. 1 | the room in glass. The room has direct cross-draft in each direction. | The elimination of sun glare bas been effected by of a 6-foot counteract any reflection {the face of the house. | hangs occur st each a sort of structural Comfort Is Main Problem | into the secon: d-floor rooms. Solved in House Which | e ni s of waod aed ot Defies Tradition. OCTOBER _ 31, reflect light into the rooms. sides are painted black window in the ho lof these are pain by pleces of wood { tion. in sec- on the walls .ngl roof, to give nd'flod protection from the sun. There are two An llustrstion of ultra-modern | distinct and separate roofs to the thought in architectural design, over 'house. The overhang on the . fioor carries completely through and ‘m“""m"‘"' :’“ :’: 0 mmch 7‘:]‘“"“’“ 1 over the entire house and is in itself in- country, but as yet little con- |y jated. Directly above that is another crete expression, is to be found in the | roof, allowing an 18-inch free air space home of L. Corrin Strong, on Gibson |between the two. The second roof is l‘hndm. Md. a {net as a fundamental lem the | Pet. q\lm‘n\‘of comfort in m.wr?uuu, the | With stationary ventilators. In addi- T, Alexander B. Trowbridge, |tion to this, there is one arge mush- Wi architect, employed prin- |Toom ventilator on the top roof, which ciples of modern design which differ |gives forced ventilation in the air space radically from the more common his- | Detween the two roofs. gl o | On the first floor inere is a living room 18x25 and 17 feet high, with a Has Two Roofs. | baleony running across one end. There This is seen in the employment of it also & master's bed room with bath, two roofs, one over another. and in the | & guest bed room with bath and a liv- very wide projection of the roof over N— A iy S powenizs: fom | NEW CORNER HOME the sun. “Center-Hall Plan” cidentally, this accentuates the horisontal lines which characterize 8 Large Rooms, 2 Baths Built-in Garage. Near All Conveniences SEE IT! 319 Longfellow St. N.W. Waple & James, Inc. Ballders the house, each room in the master's portion of the house has direct cross- ventilation, meaning that in at least two walls of each bed room there is an | opening, centered directly on a similar on the opposite wall. In addi- | tion to this, each master’s bed room has | a corner window, inducing a second line | of draft. The living room is placed in | such a position that it gets a full view | of the bay and shore. This is accom- | plished by designing the entire end of Today's Most Outstanding Value of Washington's Finer . Residential Properties 4419 ARGYLE TERRACE N.W. (At 18th & Allison Sts.) A NEW CORNER DETACHED all-brick center-hall home of eleven rooms, four baths, first floor lavatory and located in our city’s betier residential section, overlooking Rock Creek Park. The house is rerlmly planned for entertaining or housing the large family, and includes every modern appointment for your comfort. ice, $29,500, ts far less than actual cost to produce, but this price is made for a quick sale. DRIVE OUT TODAY OR TOMORROW Open to Inspect RM HOOKER Realtor Metrop. 2663 Tower Bldg. Outstanding New House Value Invites Inspection at Edgemoor Middlesex Lane This home is not quite finished, yet it is sufficiently far along so that you can appreciate its unusual worth. The house is of brick and clapboard, with slate roof. There are six rooms, porch and 2 baths, oil burner and Frigidaire. A large corner lot, with garage. Come Out ToJay or Sunflqy Go out Wisconsin Ave. to Bank of Bethesda, then Jollow car line 1 block, and t left to house. 6-Room Brick With a Detached Brick Garage 8,950 Only Few Steps From FORT SLOCUM PARK Go away back before the war to find a value like this. Seven more windows than you'll find in the average group home...and more privacy...yet only a negligible difference in price. Solid brick construction, six big, bright sunn{ rooms, cement front ana screened double rear porches, detached brick ga- rage, immensely deep landscaped lot, Eaved street and alley. Variegated tile ath, cedar closets, natural finish trim, paneled walls, flawless double oak floors, complete modern kitchen with West- inghouse refrigeration. Model Home ... 5613 2nd Pl. N.W. Complitdly Purihad By s - . . B. Moses & Sons Drive out 16th, 13th or Georgia Ave. to Longfellow, thence east to 2nd Place, or take 14th St. car marked “Takoma” or “Sheridan St” Get off at Longfellow—model home open every day until 9 p.m. ooley Bros. ‘ The entire house is insulated, both | cret of which is used for —“'m-mhm- WIFE OF BEAUREGARD DESCENDANT IS IN RENO Divorce Sought by ¥ormer Jeanie Marston for Second Time in 12 Years, By the A Press. TRIO HELD IN HAVANA | “'si\ “FRANCIS00, october 31— | The Chronicle says Jennie Marston, Arrested by Secret Police Charged | ps ey, % mavard, L Marsicn, sor With Plot Against Government. ‘cho to obtain & divorce for the sece ‘Twelve years ago she divorced Rob- ond time in HAVANA, October 31 (#).—The se-| Ko yesterday three per- | ert J. Adams, son of the chewing gum sons on of being involved in a manufacturer. Her present husband government uncovered | is John Clark Burgard, of vince. | Portland, Oreg. Mrs. Burgard mfl [y are former Representative property settiement had been reached. Dr. Eduardo Valdes Her romance with Burgard, s @irect former lleutenant of descendant of Gen. Oons Nin. | federate commander, began land in 1921, 3 -3 ] FIngpect Tonight or Sunday You Can Buy One of These Homes for the Rent You Are Now Paying ONE SOLD—TWO LEFT $300 CASH MONTHLY PAYMENTS Big Lots—Garages—Gen. Elec. Refrigerators 1322-4-6 Potomac Avenue S.E. Drive out Pennsylvania Ave. to 14th St. S.E., thence south to Potomac Ave. Houses Face New Public Park and School Grounds Beautiful Homes, Built-in Garages, Linoleum Kitchens, General Electric Refrigerators, Plenty Room for Flowers and Vegetables. Come Out! North of Marietta Park Sample Home 6522 7th Place N.W. ARTISTIC DETACHED HOMES NOTEWORTHY FEATURES | Of unusual Attic over entire house charm and refinement, embodying many new ideas in im- proved con- struction. KITCHEN — THE MOST COM- PLETE AND MODERN YET DEVISED, with flowered Sanitas on walls and Kitchen Kraft cabinets. YOU WILL BE SURPRISED AT THE REA- SONABLE PRICE. WE EARNESTLY IN. VITE YOUR MOST CRITICAL INSPECTION Drive out Georgia Ave. to Van Buren St., thence east two blocks to 7th Place and turn to right, J. DALLAS GRADY 1010 Yermont Ave. District 9179 Tile bath in art colors SPACIOUS SLEEPING PORCH Cosy living room of ample size, open fireplace of rustic brick Hardwood floors throughout GUMWOOD TRIM, STAINED RICH ‘WALNUT BROWN; SATIN FINISH COPPER -DOWN SPOUTING SIDE AND DOUBLE REAR PORCHES House fully screened with ~ C;OMMUNITY This Is One of the Many . Charming Individual Type Homes Available at $8,250 The attractive homes them- mel embrace every feature of the complete well-mp- pointed home of today. Large living room with lace; 3 bedrooms; tiled bath with Tateat 7pe was ramwes Wests aten Inghouse electric s tor; hardwoeod throughout; tull cellar, Com- venient to trolley, bus lnes, stores, schools and Model Home, 311 MARION AVE. Drive over Key Bridge—out Wilson Bouletard to Clarendon, turn south on Marion Avenue.