Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1931, Page 17

REAL ESTATE WASHINGT ON, D. C, 1841101 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star, SILVER STAR HOME NOW IN 4TH WEEK OF EXHIBIT Visitors View Features Which Give Modern Comfort to Design Based on Colonial Type With Early Connecticut Influence. HE Silver Star Home, at 1705 Hoban road, a part of the demon- stration sponsored by The Star, in interest of encouraging l building of better homes and fostering more widespread home ownership, tomorrow enters its fourth week of public exhibition. Hundreds of visitors each week have viewed the features of this house that brought it the Silver Star award from the committee of specialists in home-building matters who act for this newspaper in arranging the better homes show. 4 The house will be open to the public in the Silver Star Home grogram each day through the ensuing week, he house is located in the new Colony Hill section near the inter- section of Forty-fourth street and Reservoir road. ‘The house may be reached by driving |~ _ out Q street to Wisconsin avenue in Georgetown, north to Reservoir road, then west on this road to Heban road, | Just beyond Forty-fourth street. The Colony Hiil demonstration house from 9 am. to 9 p.m. | Brick From Capitol Being Used to Build| New Homes in Greater Washington Developments 1= of -early American architectural in- Tuence. with & Connecticut aspect, as | Lyon Villa Home| eslgmed by Horace W. Peaslce for the | i ge | The house is of frame construction, | painted white, and, with the neatness | From Foundations of West | hete, which is carried out in the - StepsAfterReconstruction | erior treatment. i signed door and window frames, mold- | foundations of the west steps of the | ings, cornices #nd hardware, but there | United States Capitol in the rebuilding | were selected with particular thought | Colonial in architectural form. [ 10 their relation to the rooms 4n color. | About half of the 60,000 brick, more spection of the interior of the house is the economical use of space. Though ters reveals more rooms and larger Tooms than one could first expect. thing, the entire area of outside walls and the roof has been insulated against Luilders, Boss & Phelps. | e e i |Material Was Removed| of the lines revealed outside, it imme. diately presents an individual atmos- | | Not only has the interior been given | s | individual character by specially de- | Thirty thousand brick taken from the is @ distinctive touch in the soft finish | work in progress there are being laid | of the woodwork. Wallpaper designs | up in the form of a six-room dwelling | One of the particularly pleasing ef- | or lesc, that were taken from the foun- fects visitors have received from an in- the dwelling does not appear to be large from an outside view, a tour of its quar- A particularly important feature of the house is its construction. For one heat in Summer weather ani e<'d in Winter. Design Is M-dernized. The Silver £izr Home, like the other dwellings '~ing erected in Colony Hill, is of early American style, although, of course, its design is individual, the thought being to give distinctive char- mcter to each house, while still main- taining the same general architectural motif for the entire community. The Colony Hill house, it is explained by the architect, has not been developzd primarily on the basis of detailed copy- ing of early American patterns, but with an adaptation of the best features of Colonial homes, in so far as they are | applicable to present conditions and | subject to them. | ‘The requirements of modern living coxdicions have influenced the house for that stylistic expression, because the historic types of Colonial dwellings <id not have such modern devclopments &3 two-car garages, radiators, serving pentries, living porches or master bed T°cr1 sultes end bath rooms now avail- ab’s Has Connecticut Overhang. Thy_demonstration house has come | to be known as one of Connecticut in- flusnce. This is mainly due to the| slight overhang of the second story | which, even in Connecticut types of the period from which it 1s taken, was merely a traditional relic of the over- | hanging stories of English and Contin- | ental cities by which inside space was | gained without street encroachment. | The framing of the entrance resem- | bles that of the Richards house at| Litchfield, Conn., dating from 1730; but | with this is associated for climatic con- | ditions a two-story garden porch of local precedents, and likewise, with i/ are combined room arrangements and service facilities foreign to its origin but meeting the normal living condi- tions of this day. Various rooms of the exhibit house are of adequate sizes for their special purposes, with ceilings of a height which emphasizes ratier than dimin- ishes the appearance of space. Living Room Paneled. One end of the living room is en- tirely of wood in the old manner, with built-in bookcases and fireplace, while the remainder of the room is wains- coted to the height of a chair rail. Both living and dining rooms open onto a porch with eastern and southern ex- posures and garden outlooks, On the second floor is a large bed | yoom with firepiace, having a private bath, covered porch and ample closets and designed to provide space for twin‘ beds. On this floor also are three ad- ditional bed rooms and a bath open- | ing off a hall. As an instance of the utilization of all possible space in the building, one of the bed rooms has a double closet. Inside one of goadly width one finds a door to another of lesser width which makes use of a space next to the stair well. Shepherd Park See Our Home 1335 Hemlock St. N.W. Completely Furnished L. E. Breuninger & Sons Washington's Oldest Established Builders A Big Six-Room Home This beautifully sranged stone front home is 20 feet wide and in addition to its six large rooms it has screened double rear porches, wood-burning fireplace, ‘electric refrigeration, modern | bath with shower and a com- pietely equipped _ kitchen. fts I"docation offess & clean, restricted neighborhood close to all schools -yet within twelve minutes of downtown. Don't delay your in- Spection; this is a real buy. 1702 37th N.W. (One Square From Western Hish) Open Saturday 5-8 P.M. Sunday 11-7 P.M. 1435 K St. NW. NA. 2345 'BUILDING MATERIALS daticns of the Capitol steps, it was re- ported totlay by the office of the Brum- back Realty Co., have been acquired for the house being erected for Rev. and Mrs. Ben Hardin, on Hollywood place, | Lyon Village; Va. David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, | checking Tecords of his office today, | found that these brick were built into | the wide, long ctretch of the two fiights | of the west steps of the Capitol in 1870. | Thus for 61 years visitors from all | parts of the world have climbed the | stone steps lald on the brick founda- tions. Enough of the stone slabs also were acquired to provide material for the steps -and walks about the dwelling Teing erected for Rev. Mr. Hardin, who formerly was pastor of the Stone Church in Chicago. | The house is being built by Brum- Upper left influence and contains Upper right: Cent | Inc. Tt contains three bed rocms. | butlders. 1t con Residence at 4505 Klingle street, Weslby Heights, purchased by Walter Scott Watson from Schwab ven main rooms, two baths, first-floor lavatory and two-car garage. hall type of house at 3314 Tennyson street, acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Lyle O. Cook through the agency of Newbold, Canby & De Neale, The property has a frontage of 72 feet. Lower left: Home of Mrs. Anna Welton Miller and Io Miller Allman at 7610 Morningside drive, Shepherd Park, purchased from L. E. Breuninger & Sons, | ains six main rooms and two baths Lower right: Residence at 115 Woodlawn avenue, Kenwocd, built for Mr. and Mrs. Raymond K. Kyle through the agency of Kennedy-Chamberlin Develop- ment Co. The lot contains about one-half acre. The house contairs a recreation r back from plans by A. F. Thelander, architect. | CARPENTRY BIGGEST | HOME BUILDING COST How Construction Dollar Is Spent Is Shown by Study Made on ‘ Two-Story House. | Wholesale prices nfdlumbzr,dtl::mznu ‘ paint materials and = miscellaneous | How the 1931 dollar was civided as products for the bullding industry €on- | 4 yas spent for the construction of one | October, the Department of Labor an- | “average” $10,000 house fn the Middle | nounces, | West _is shown in a study reported in There was no change reported in | the General Building Contractor. | prices for structual steel and there was | The largest item in the dollar is spent a slight increase in brick quotations. on carpentry. even in this machine- The group as a whole showed a de- | driven age, this work taking 43.3 per crease of less than 1 per cent as com- | cent of the bullding dollar in this pared with September. There was a | Gwelling. v wider _difference, however, between | The house under scrutiny was a two- prices last, month and those of October, | Story and basement frame structure of 1930, The index number for the | 30,600 cubic feet content. It was built building materials group as a whole for | Petween March 21 and July 25, 1931, last month was 743, as compared with | i & small town near Chicago, and cost P | 31 ‘cents per cubic foot. A face-brick 2,3,,:’; ,‘,’,fig":;;,;,:’gv, Yith 100 Y€PTe- | Yencer formes its exterior. Footings | and foundation walls of plain concrete | | were covered on the outside with an | asphaltic waterproofing compound. | Masonry cost 16.3 per cent of the whole, or $.0507 of the 31-cent cubic | foot cost. Heating equipment was next | in importance, taking 7.7 per cent of the building dollar. Plastering was | next, calling for 6 per cent of this| | building dollar. Plumbing cost 4.9 per cent, painting cost 4.2 per cent, con- SHOW FALL IN PRICES | Wholesale Figures on Lumber, | Cement and Paint Products Continue to Drop. HEADS REALTY BOARD Charles H. Buck Elected President of Baltimore Group. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 21.—Charles H. Buck, president of the Maryland Title Guarantee Co. and vice president of the Equitable Trust Co., was elected | president of the Real Estate Board of | Baltimore at its seventeenth annual | [} meeting here this week. | Harry E. Gilbert, former president, |t was elected first vice president, and H. | Findlay French, director of the indus- | trial bureau of the Baltimore Associa- | tion of Commerce, was chosen second vice president. Randolph N. Dame was elected treasurer, and C. Philip Pitt secretary. They All Exclaim Over— 5416 31st Street Marietta Park 5816 6th St. N.W. Detached brick homes of charm, 8 rooms, complete baths, attic, electric refrigera- tion, wonderful lot, garage, etc. Chevy Chase D. C. UNIQUE in de- sign and ap- pointments, with delightful wooded grounds and ga- rage to match Terraced ap- proach, seven cheery rooms, two tiled baths, elec- tric dishwasher and innvmerable other refine- ments. In every Tespect an excep- tional home at an exceptional price! $12,950 = TERMS Drive Last from Conn. “Ave. on Military” Rd. to 315t St Drive out 5th St. left on Nichol- son St. one block to houses. Tower Bldg. Dist. 0853 LIGHTED TILL 9 PM. J. WESLEY BUCHANAN 1427 Eye St. Metro. 1144 e e [OUTSTANDING | CHEVY CHASE VALUE 101 West Virgilia Street ’hfll Juniper St SHEPHERD PARK “% ELIEVE IT o1 crete cost 4.4 per cent, 3.6 per cent of the dollar was given over to sheet metal work, 3.2 to overhead, and 2.3 per cent hand-grading items. The other items making up the 100 per cent were 1.7 per cent in forms, a like amount in electrical work and 0.7 p2r cent in excavation work. COMMITTEE WILL PLAN APPRAISER CERTIFYING Realty Board Association Head Will Name Nine Men to Study Examination and Grading. Harry 8. Kissell, president of the National Association of Real Estate| Boards, will appoint this week a com- | mittee of nine, to conduct further con- | ferences on a plan for the certification of real estate appraisers. | Work on this matter has been in progress for more than a year under the supervision of Philip Kniskern, New York City. Many points of view have been ex- pressed as to exactly how appraisers could be examined and graded to form a professional group, and the new com- mittees will work out a final proposal for the consideration of member boards. and miscellaneous Thirtieth Place IF You have been unable to find a home with bed rooms large enough to accom- modate your fur- niture then be sure to visit, this new home of Eng- lish design in Chevy Chase, $13,500 Wm.H. Savunders Co. 1519 K N.W, DIst. 1016 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE CORNER HOME Center-hall plan, large rooms, 2 baths, open fire- place, very large kitchen with electrical refrigeration, finished room in attic, slate roof, 2-car built-in garage, Corner of Meadow Lane —One Square West of Conn. Ave., at Wil- liams Lane A house of UNUSUAL charm in an UNSURPASSED setting, 2mid GIANT OAKS and beauti- ful SHRUBBERY. CENTER HALL PLAN Spacious rooms, 3 baths, 2-car garage. Attic, gas and coal furnaces. You must visit this property to appreciate the charmigz %;tedor n;d the many attractive features within, The Location Is Ideal and the Price Is Right. Owner, or not. “hat tire- some Yoo of home- | wunting i3 all over | when you set eyver | on thiz imposing | center-hal. all- i | brick residence in exclusive Shepherd, | Park. Inspect it ' senerous rooms, | fine tiled baths &1 room, semi-fnished | attic —and realize LIGHTED | [} it can be yours for TILL 9 P.M. only $14,950 Try and find value 5 = square 1d18 Juniper. BUCHANAN 1427 E. Met Street | g ‘erms for you. 144 large pretty yard. 4330 37th St. N.W. (Corner 37th & Yuma Sts.) el Tocstion—High: Restricted, Convenient A Real Value—Open Sunday All Day and Priced to Sell! Drive_out Wisconsin Ave. to Yuma St. and east 3 blocks to house, or out Conmnecticut Ave. and up by Bureau of Standards to 37th St. and north to Yuma. Wm.M.Throckmorton Investment Bldg, Dist. 6093 DWELLINGS cdm’n:n OR SOLD IN METROPOLITAN AREA. S & Valk, builders. The house is of Colonial o three bed rooms and two-car garage. WILL ERECT NEW FLATS C. J. Harnett, Owner, Files Plans for Seven Dwellings. Seven two-story flats are to be erected | ty C. J. Harnett at 1310 to 1330 Orren street and 1311 Oates street northeast, | according to plans filed with the Dis- | trict government. The cost of the project has been esti- mated at $46,000. Clarence W. Gosnell is listed as the buflder and Mr. Harnett as the owner and designer. at 2308 to 2316 Thirty-ninth place at | a cost of $35,000. B. H. Gruver filed applications for permits for the erection of five two- story brick dwellings at 2440 to 2450 Thirty-ninth place, costing $35,000. NEW DETACHED BRICK 7 Rooms — 4 Bed Rooms 607 Oglethorpe PLAN TEN DWELLINGS qoFlans for the construction of 10 St. N.W. wellings, having an estimated cost of | Dol Tt et il unmwllnA :\{-EITflArenrwAeRhKnumul uilding inspector yesterday. oc ) '} Cooley Bros. revealed plans for the [ bafdzeod, trim. pentry. Frigideice. building of five two-story brick houses | igh ele; center of Nowhere else do we this in value n_ the Marietta Park. know of the equal to and you will agree when you gee it. DRIVE OUT AY. Through 5th or 8th St to Oglethorpe, four squares above Kennedy. OPEN—LIGHTED—HEATED RM HOOKER Tower Bldg. Met. 2663 CHEVY CHASE An Outstanding Bargain $11,950 sh home contain- bath and garage; to Bragley ares o East Ave. then ri Ridge St. Phone Cl MICHIGAN MANOR $9,450 Delightful Homes That Speak for - Themselves C. H. SMALL, Bldr. 4435 14th ST. NE. WASHINGTON’S CLOSEST SUBURB Six, seven, eight rooms. Two beautifully colored complete tile baths, fireplace, pantry, Westinghouse Electric Refrigerator. Large lot. Garage, etc. Paved street. Drive out N. Capltol St Risht on Michigan Ave., left on 14th Bt. Tower 2706 Military Road An Interesting Example of the NORMAN-FRENCH OPEN $14,950 DAILY Wm. H. Saunders Co., Inc. 1519 K St. NW, DIst. 1016 ' BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1931 BUILDING NEWS |p 4 fm———— U. S. BUILDING PICKS UP AS D. C. PERMITS FALL Private Construction to Cost $225,800 Approved, Plans for $100,000 More Filed as $8,383,000 Supreme Court Contract Is Awarded. HILE increased activity is in progress in the extensive Fed- eral building program in Washington, which is rapidly transforming large areas of downtown property, local i private building projects showed a slump during the past week. New private construction programs for Washington having a cost estimated to total $225,800 were approved during the past week by Col. John W. Oehmann, building inspector, this %)elng low com- pared with levels of ‘earlier weeks of this year. . Project.s. however, plans having a valuation aced on file with applications for permits. In addition to these of about $100,000 were g These figures do not include the large amount of Federal opera- tions now underway. The highlight of the week was the award of a contract for $8,383,000 for construction of the classic structure for the United States Supreme Court. REALTORS ACQUIRE 82 RESIDENCE LOTS Boss & Phelps Dispose of Commer- cial Sites for Land for Homes. ‘The court building is to be erected by the George A. Fuller Co. on the site to the north of the Congressional Library. Meanwhile, construction of the new wing of the Senate Office Building, on the east side of the square occuglhed by that building, has been started. This will_provide additional office quarters for Senators and their staffs. Capitol Garage Progresses. As work progresses on the treatment of the greatly enlarged Capitol Plaza between the Capitol - Grounds and Union Station, the large underground Congressional garage lying south of the the Fort Slocum Village section have | C street street car subway in the Plaza been acquired by the firm of Boss & | areA: "1: rap'i:ly %‘lc(c.‘:‘ form. contemplated new local projects, Phelps, realtors and builders, in an ex- | y1o 5 G, Smithy Co. has filed appli- change for a large commercial tract in | gm;n ’orw;’ye"gxfl-:‘kw; u;l,l building u:‘ the northeast section, it was disclosed | WO-Sf c] wellings in the m: e 1300 block of Madison street and the A valuation of approximately $165.- | 5600 block of Third street, at an esti- 000 was placed on the properties in the | The Washington Inv o transaction, it 1s reported, under which = oty Vo , and C. Wolgemuth, jr.,” as Boss & Phelps traded an area of ap-|OVaer: o proximately 20,000 square feet of land, | Dulider. revealed plans for the erection zoned for . second commercial use, | Of_three two-story brick market build- located on Rhode Island avenue near | __(Continued on SPond Page) Fourth street northeast. o T ‘The residential property, acquired by the firm from an undisclosed local in- vestor includes lots located on First, Longfellow, Madison, Nicholson, Third and Fourth streets, First place and Third place. The property is zoned for row and semi-detached houses. Negotiations were handled by the offices of Boss & Phelps and Hedges & Landvoigt. Eighty-two residential lots located in | 133 HESKETH ST. Adjoining Chevy Chase Club Grounds 8 rooms. 3 baths, 65t. frontage Open Sunday 2106 Drive 2 blocks west om Grafton St. Jrom Chevy Chase Circl mnorth to Hesketh St. left to hou: H. L. Rust Company 1001 Fifteenth St. National 8100 ‘ ONE LEFT FURNISHED - MODEL HOME Semi-detached, 2 complete baths, fireplace, electric refrig- gration, built-in garage. Large 521 Oneida St. N.W. MARIETTA PARK Built by J. B. Tiffey Drive out 5th St. to Oneida 4709 Colorado Ave. N.W. Washington’s Most Exclusive Section The most drastic sacrifice in years, A gorgeous home at nearly half the original price. rado Ave. West to Houses. Open Sat. and Sun. Day and Dist. 0853 $9,850 to $13,750 Six of the largest roomswithtwo baths to be found in any new house in the city at the price, is only one of the outstanding features in this EARLY AMER- ICAN development of BOSS & PHELPS. + FURNISHED MODEL HOME 4436 FARADAY PLACE Fort Bayard Park ST. ANN'S PARISH Open Daily, 10 am. to 6 pm In order to assist present owners who desire to have a larger home, we will consider small house around $6,000 or well located lot, preferably clear, in ex- change. Drive out Wisconsin Ave. to Fessenden St., west to 45th St., north to Faraday Pl. BOSS & PHELPS Creators and Ezelusi ST E oy il S FomnRelRRe