Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1933, Page 13

REAL ESTATE WASHINGTON, D. C, ’ I)B gnming WITR SUNDAY MORNING EDITION %tuf " ' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1033 | BUILDING NEWS |p ; . . ! ! Home-Owning and Building Section for Washington and Suburbs ~Charming Colonial Character Marks Exhibit House NEW SILVER STAR HOME REVEALS VALUE OF CAREFUL PLANNING. HUNDREDS GO TO INSPECT NEW SILVER STAR HOME Shepherd Park Residence Reveals Great Advantage of Careful Planning by Simplicity and Studied Efficiency. UNDREDS of .visitors were attracted to the new Silver Star Home at 7515 Morningside drive, in Shepherd Park, which was opened this week for a month of public exhibition as a part of the better homes’ program sponsored by The Star. Here is a dwelling of charming simplicity in design, studied in plan and equipment, which reveals the importance of employing painstaking care in the planning of each of the manifold details that go into the development of a modern home. > Ample opportunity is afforded all interested in home building to make an inspection of this exhibit house for it will remain open daily throughout the month, from 10 am. to 9 pm. The dwelling has been furnished for the exhibition. ‘To reach the house visitors may drive © out Sixteenth street, turning half right | into Alaska avenue to Morningside drive, then left to the house. The house was built by L. E. Breun- inger & Sons, realtors and builders, from plans by Harvey P. Baxter in as- scciation with Harry L. Edwards, ‘Washington architects, and has been furnished by D. S. Pool. Judged by Specialists. Tt was awarded a place in the Silver Star Homes’ series by the committee of specialists which arranges the pro- gram for The Star. Members of the committee made a detailed study of the dwelling and then awarded to it the Silver Star medal for merit in building. ‘The house is replete with interesting &nd distinctive features, which have captured attention of the many visi- tors who already have inspected its quarters and grounds. Among points of especial interest are the cozy den off the living room, the dressing room | adjoining the master bed room, the ample supply of cupboards throughout the house, and club room in the base- | ment, and the treatment of the grounds, including the formal lawn and garden in the rear of the building. Architecturally the house is illustra- tive of the New Jersey Colonial farm house motif, as applied to modern plans, methods and materials, and pre- sents a quiet air of simple treatment which enhances rather than detracts grom its interest. The house is of brick, which has been painted white with a specially prepared | 000 material, which gives the structure a Bright aspect. The green blinds at the | windows and the gray of the heavy slate roof add to the appealing color scheme. ‘The dwelling is of center-hall plan, ith the living room, 13 feet wide and 4 feet decp, at the right. It has three exposures to assure good light and ven- tilation. The den, in the small wing to the right, is connected with the living room by a door just to the rear of the lar-e wecod-burning fireplace in the ugddle of the right wall. Arrangement Appealing. left front of the house is the m, which has two exposures, 1 at the left rear is the kitchen, h convcniently is connected with ning alcove at the end of the cen- r hell, The arrangement provides for * communication between associated tors and sets off the living room rnd den from close contact with the ezrvice portions of the house. Upsteirs is found the master’s suite the right side of the house, with two ional bed rooms on the other side of the eenter hall. The master’s suite includes a large | dressing room for milady, with an am- le array of storage cupboards and awers, and adjoins a closet fitted with large shelves. In the private bath is a #lass-inclosed shower. At the head of the center hall on this floor is a second bath, which es the two extra bed rooms. Both ese bed rooms, as well as the mas- s room, have cross ventilation and e fitted with storage cupboards. The entire attic space is protected by Insulation boarding. The space is lighted and heated and could be con- verted into an extra bed room if desired. Half of the basement, which extends wnder the entire housé, is devoted to the club room, which has insulated walls of Mvood peneling, a wood-burning fire- ace and a colored asphalt tile floor. club room is reached by stairs h drop down from the main hall the first floor, and thus access from the kitchen. the club room is & lavatory. Good Vista Provided. ‘The remainder of the basement, set e modern heating unit, automatic Wpater heater, laundry trays and storage elosets, The property has a frontage of 75 feet on Morningside drive, and the situation of the house on the corner lot provides a good vista. At the rear of the triangular-shaped ot is a two-car garage, which has an outlet on a paved alley. The building is tled in with the landscape treatment of the rear lawn in an interesting man- ner. Flagstones mark off the rectangu- lar formal lawn. The rear of the prop- erty is given a feeling of privacy by the placemens of a thick row of ever- greens at the outside edge. o Baltimore Improvements Drop. BALTIMORE, February 4 (Special). —New improvements, additions and alterations in Baltimore during January | reached & total valuation of $590,880, constrasting with $946,200 fot the same month of 1932 and $482,620 for Decem- | ber. Of the total for last month $290,~ 040 was for new construction. To t G € v 8 t « c [ s I3 2 A Real Buy! DETACHED . HOMES . 6 Well-Planned Rooms Covered Front Porch Silver-Green Kitchen Two-Toned Tile Bath Deep Lot, 42x95 Ft. Separate Garage 23d and RANDOLPH PL. N.E. rive out New York Avemue to Bladens- urog Road, South one Square to Ran- dolph Place. East to Houses. REAL BUY in s charming Co- lonial home, 22 ft wide with , “beautifully deco- g.;r:fl‘&'"fil'émmm.'. lighting fixtures, T a; . open fireplace, concealed radiators, arge _concrete screens a weather strip- . Only $8,450. MONTHLY PAYMENTS -359.50 SMALL CASH PAYMENT Open and Lighted until 9 P. M. CAFRITZ | George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect | bvilders; to erect one 2-story brick ve-‘ BUILDING PERMITS AT §344,135 MARK Week’s List Includes $245,- 000 School for Northeast Section of City. Plans for new building operations in the District, having a total estimated construction cost of $344,135, were ap- proved during the last week by Building Inspector John W. Oehmann. The list of new work was headed by specifica- tions for a $245.000 public school build- irg in the Northeast section to be used as a boys’ trade school. There were plans also for 12 private dwellings. Per- mits issued included the following: District of Columbia, owners; to erect one 2-story brick public school building and shop, K, H, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth streets, to cost $245,000. Rev. F. X. Cavanagh, owner; Donald S. Johnson, architect; Bahen & Wright, builders; to erect one 1-story brick and cinder block church building, 3411 Nichols avenue southeast, to cost $20,- Five Homes to Be Built. Max Sugar, owner and builder; five 2-story brick dwellings, 5610 to 5618 First street, to cost $20,000. L. E. Breuninger & Sons, Inc., own- ers and builders; H. L. Breuninger, architect; to erect one 2-story brick g&l‘oelllng. 1741 Holly street, to cost $10,~ William C. Haines, owner; E. J. Con- ner, designer; Sears, Roebuck & Co., | neer dwelling, 6157 Thirtieth street, to cost $7,500. Maude V. Phares, owner; C. E. Dil- lon and J. H. Abel, designers; W. A. Kingsbury, builder; to erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 6400 Utah avenue, to cost $7,000. ‘Thome-, J. Farley, owner and buflder; Dillon « Abel, designers; to erect one 2-story brick, tile and frame dwelling, ggooz);rhuuenth street northeast, to cost William McAllister, owner and build- er; F. G. Wilcox, designer; to erect) one 2-story brick and frame dwelling, 4804 Firty-sixth street, to cost $5,000. George Ondusko, owner and designer; Cadle-Fellows, Inc., builders; to erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 1652 U street southeast, to cost $3,500. William H. Booth, owner and builder; R. C. Archer, jr, architect; to erect one l-story brick addition and make alterations, 5308 Jay street northeast, to cost $2,000. Dwelling Planned. David Feldman, owner; J. J. Stan- ley, designer and builder; to erect one 2-story frame building, 230 Walnut street, to cost $3,500. G. C. Murphy Co., owners; H. E.| Crosby, designer; to erect ore 1-story brick addition, 1215 to 1219 F street, to_cost $2.500. M. A. Marceron, owner and builder; P. J. Dalton, architect; to erect one 2-story frame addition, 5101 Wiscon- sin avenue, to cost $2,000. 8 Rosemary Street Chevy Chase, Md. 1 dlock North Chevy Chase Club; % block West Conn. Avemue. This beautiful 10-room, 3-bath. 2-extra-lavatory residence; 3rd floor finished as library, with facilities for 6.000_ books; 2nd-floor sun room: large living room with open fireplace. Situated on lot with frontage of 120 feet: surrounded by hundreds of ex- pensive rosebushes and shrubs: oil urner with a thousand-gallon tank. This property actually cost over $50. 000.00; now priced under $: Open Ba da; Goss Realty Co. J. S. Eaton, Sales Dept. 1405 Eye St. N.W. National 1353 Spanish Bungalow 6200 31st Street (Chevy Chase. D. C.) Price $9,450 All brick, 8 rooms, very large bath, sun room, splendid condition. Huge front porch, awnings. A most attractive, livable home. Open Today and All Day Sunday » . Center-Hall Brick 3608 Military Road (Chevy Chase, D. C.) Just east of Conn. Ave. on a wide lot. Six spacious rooms, 2 baths, breakfast room, attic, slate roof, 2-car garage, every modern conven- fence. A real home in a most convenient location. Priced most attractively. Open and Heated Every Day 2 to 9 P.M. and All Day Sunday Realty Associates, Inc. |GEN. DRUM LEASES A view of the dwelling at 7515 Morningside drive, now open to the public. —Star Staff Photo. | ODDIE RESIDENCE New Deputy Chief of Staff for U.! Unusual Building Bricks Give Off Many" Colors and Are! Very Strong. S. Army Takes Palatial Home | of Senator at 2123 Leroy Place. ‘ Maj. Gen. Hugh Drum, new deputy"’" the Associated Press. chief of staff of the United States COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 4—| Army, who comes to Washington for |People who live in the “Jjoseph coat” | duty this month, has leased the home | tYP® Of glass houses may throw all the | of Senator and Mrs. Tasker L. Oddie, Stones they like, for rocks will not 2 | damage their walls. | < l‘“:’: place, % & Zmporied by | U1 tew Gamualcent uhios heick. being | Boss & Phelps. | developed in the experimental piant of | ‘The residence is a large town house |a largte glasslcgm any here, is the sub- i ject of actual building tests, Troderniaentior, Qddie had ccmpletely | e brick, made by separately pressing ago. It contains 14 rooms o fous | @ five-sided glass box and a lid which 'PEOPLE IN NEW GLASS HOUSES NOT TO WORRY ABOUT STONES | developed ss & load-bearing material, the experimenters believe no difficulty will be found in mezting buiiding code requirements with proper lateral stiff- | ness in a 4-inch wall. BODFISH WILL SPEAK Member of Home Loan Board to Address National Institute. Morton Bodfish, & member of the "BUILDING COSTS EASE ‘ Wholesale Prices Show Slight Drop | for Week Ending Jan. 28. | Building materials as a group de- the week ended January 28, according to the current report of the United | States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The | index number for January 28 was 70.2, | as compared with 70.3 for January 21 and 70.8 for December 31. The index for house furniching goods remained steady at 72.8 during the two weeks enced January 28, as compared | with 73.3 for the two preceding weeks. | baths and is suited to the accommoda- | tion of entertainment functions. | The drawing room measures 30 by 18 feet and the paneled, wainsccted din- ing room is 24 by 20 feet. An upstairs library has three full-length French windows, a fireplace and built-in book- cases. | Gen. and Mrs, Drum will be accom- | panied by Mrs. Drum's sister, Miss | Raume, and their daughter, Miss Car- roll Drum. ; JAMES T. HOWARD HEADS| NEW COLONIAL HOTEL, INC. James T. Howard has been elected | president of New Colonial Hotel, Inc., | owners of the hotel at Fifteenth and M | streets, it was announced today. | For the past 15 years Mr. Howard has | served as managing director of the Cairo Hotel, Sixteenth and Q streets, and also has served in recent years as general manager of the T. F. Schneider Corpo- ration, which operates numerous apart- ment properties. In taking over the new position Wed- | nesday, Mr. Howard resigned the posts formeriy held. | Fhomes af Comorrow in FOXALL @ Double fronts, six and eight rooms, with one, two and three baths . . . double screened porches « . . open fireplace . . . electric refrigeration . . . gas heat . . . insulation . . . garage . . . out- standing value at $11,350 to $14,950, with monthly pay- ments less than rental value. Visit our Budget-Balancing Home at 4410 Volta Place, three short blocks south of Reservoir Road. Open 9:30 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. WAVERLY. TAYLOR 1522 K STREET NAT'L 1040 Built by Dunigan, Built Right OWN Your Home By Letting Rent- Money Pay For It! EXHIBIT HOME 5416 Kansas Ave. N.W. High elevation on a boulevard— Built-in _garages—6 rooms with 2 colored-tile baths and showers— paved street and alley—recreation room and Dunigan dinette and Screened-in sleeping porches. In- cluded are G-E Electric Hot-Point Range—G-E Electric _ Refrigerator with Monitor Top—G-E Electric Water Heater—G-E Electric Venti- lators—G-E Electric Clocks, | TERMS LIKE RE! I On a Beautiful Boulevard Open Every Day Till 9 P.M. D.J. Dunigan, Inc. - Tower Building Realtors 1427 EyeSt. Nat.1438 BN NAtional 1265 then is sealed in place to form an air- tight chamber, is being tested for its structural and decorative possiblities. Experimental _buildings have been erccted. One of them is an office for the mold shop at the plant. It is all glass from foundation to roof. This office has been dubbed “Joseph’s coat” | because of the color effects obtained as the building is viewed from varying angles. Surfaces of the brick in contact with the mortar are coated with a colored cement paint to make the mortar stick, to give the blocks suction when they | Federal Home Loan Bank Board, will be one of the principal speakers at the Innmml Winter meetings of the Amer- ican Savings, Building and Loan In- stitute, to be held here February 20-21. He will address a group of about 250 home financiers on “The Broadening Horizon of the Building and Loan Asso- clations” at a banquet meeting which will be a feature of the conference. The institute is the educational unit of the are laid, to prevent water from pene- | try, trating the wall and to prevent un- sightly airpockets in the mortar. Light reflected from the cement paint gives the effect of tinted, light-colored glass, although the bricks themselves are clear. ‘The range of colors, however, is limit- ed to cobalt blue, light blue, emerald green, light green, amber and rose am- ber. 'Although translucent, the glass blocks are not transparent. Although the glass block is not being Open Sunday 508 Ingraham St.N.W. Six (6) room brick house with glassed-in sleeping porch. Very deep yard to garage. We have just painted, papered and re- conditioned house throughout like new. Will Sell on the Easiest Terms L BrvtotrS S Investment Bldg. NAt. 2040 BEECH 6307 Hill First New Homes —In 1933— Spacious and Attractive SEE THEM NOW You will be delighted with the new ments and many features. incorporated in’ these NEW 1933 HOMES. Sample Open Daily to 9 P.M. 1659 C St. N.E. (Corner 13th & C Sts. ) Facing wide boulevard. ~conveni- ently located. just a short distance to all government depts.. and shop- ping center. 5 Minutes to U. S. Capitol. 6, 7 and 8 Roems—2 Baths (Easily Arranged for 2 Familles) Large Recreation Room Prices lower than you would expect. R AND M. olOvlmm and Builders, WAPLE & JAMES, INC. 1226 14th St. N.W. Dist. 3346 We invite your in- spection of the newest model home 1in wOOD crest Place Homes built to your own plans To reach, drive out Connecticut Ave. to Thornapple St., left 2 blocks to Beech~ wood Drive and left to houses. from or from various designs we have which you may choose— *from $14,500 up. Other homes imwhich you may be interested are in various stages of con- struction., G. F. Mikkel 200 Wu-t Thomapple St. son & Son Chevy Chase, Md. Wisconsin 4255 or 2323 building and loan business of the coun- | The index numbers are based on aver- | | age prices of 1926 as 100 in the scale. Model Home GLOVER PARK Overlooking City | OPEN TODAY | and daily 9 am. to 9 pm. || 3818 CALVERT ST. N.W. Built by Brown Bros. ® 6 & 8 large rooms 2 colored baths breakfast nook ® brick garage ® deep Ict ® weather-stripped ® sunny basement ® all brick ® near transportation Out Mass. Ave. to Wis.; South 4 blocks to Calvert; right 1 block. Featuring a KITCHEN Electric Range Electric Refrigerator Ventilating Fan FABRICATED UNITS URGED TO CUT BUILDING COSTS John J. Whelan, D. C. Architect, Advocates Comple- tion of Heating, Power, Kitchen and Other Home Sections in Factories. NEW thought in the now wide field of proposals and planning A of possible means of producing housing at lower standard charges was advanced today by John J. Whelan, Washington architect, who has drafted a formula for factory fabrication of certain important portions of a house. He proposes the manufacture of three large mechanical units in shops and’ their transportation to the building site ready to be set into place quickly and cheaply. These would include heating and power units, a pantry or Kitchen section and complete bath room sections. Inclusion of such pre-fabricated units in one shaft, he believes. would effect large savings and speed up construction, while at the MODERN ELECTRIC Electric Clock Electric Water Heater same time leaving unfettered theedesigning of a building. NEW HOMES HELP MONTH’S BUILDING Thirty-five Dwellings, Costing $226,150, Included Here in $392,080 Total for January. Building operations approved during the last month in the District, exclu- sive of Federal work, had a total esti- mated construction cost of $392,080, ac- cording to the January report by Col. John W. Oehmann, building inspector. The largest single item was for resi- dential construction, permits being is- sued for the erection of 35 dwellings, having a total cost estimated at $226,- 150. This would give an average cost for the houses permitted last month of $6,461. Thirty of the permits were for detached dwellings and five for row houses. There were no plans for apart- [ clned slightly in wholesale cost during ments or flats. Repair and remodeling work approved | last month had an estimated construc- tion cost totaling $100,280. Of the January total $206,200 was for projects in the Northwest section, $40, 000 in the Southwest section, 00 in the Southeast section and $18,600 in the Northeast section. Mr. Whelan, who has made exten- sive studies of how such a building method could be applied to dwellings or other structures of widely varied size, | form and architectural style, estimates that a saving of, roughly, 30 to 35 per cent in the cost of construction and installation of such mechanical unit could be effected in comparison Wwith present methods. | Mass Production Helps. | “Principles of mass production in | their application to the home buildine industry must be tempered by versatile design in order to appe:! to the home buying public,” he stat presentation of a plan for a semi-pre- fabricated house I have chosen a tradi- tional approach to the housing problem, neither discarding all that is tradi- tional nor accepting all that is radical and revolutionary. I propose factory fabrication and standardiz-tion of the mechanical elements of a cwelling leaving architectural expression to the option of the owner.” He emphasizes that in the pre-fabri- cation of such mechanical units therc would be no restriction in exterior ce- sign imposed on the owner and nc limitation placed on the ingenuity of the designer. An area of 70 square feet per floor 500 feet of cubic content. would be reserved for the shaft, which would in- clude the mechanical units. Choice of extericr design would be optional, variable and without r tion, he explains, and inteior pla: would be flexible and restricted o (Continued on Second Page.) 3315 Quesada Street CHEVY CHASE, D. C. The LAST of a Group Done in Early American Style . The fireplace end of the living room is an eract reproduction of the Wakefield in which Washington was born. In working have faithfully” copied finest features obtainable, Lazin exact, measured eopies of the o The front door is copied from the old Williamsburg in which Nathaniel Bacon followers. 1) inals of the one in the old d the old home of Chief mond. Galt H Jestice is the last of a . all others sold. £roup of five homes of this home at The house fs all- brick construction with slate roof. A master's bedroom 5t the details of this home the builders frors famous old heir architects make at their source. homes the a model kitchen ~with breakfast nook ad- joining _are modern convenience features. Each room in th- house is worthy of a study from a stand- point of fine ar tecture and good taste. Galt House at met with his l; Sponsored By J. WESLEY BYCHANAN, Inc., Realtors 1427 Eye Street N.W. Representing MUHLEMAN Chevy Chase, Md. DISTINCTIVE worth-while many Met. 1143 & KAYHOE, Richmond, Va. 102 WEST ASPEN ST. - with All home features. new stone; slate roof; copper gutters; two baths; first floor lavatory . . . NOW COMPLETED AND Open for Your Inspection Daily Until 9 P.M. 8 @ $12,950 Drive out Connecticut Avenue to Aspen Street (ome block morth of Leland St.), turn west, left 11-2 blocks to property. brook A Restricted Community