Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1933, Page 18

REAL ESTATE THE EVENING STAR, W BULDIG ERVIT TOTALIS G251 Figure Represents a Gain Over Last Week’s Listing of $149,574. The total value of building cperations in the District for which permits were issued during the last week was $162.- 516, according to figures compiled by Col. John Ochmann, ‘District building inspector. The permits issued included one for a $30,000 project at the Lorton Re- formatory, g undertaken by the District government. The total repre- sented a gain over previous week, which stood at $149 Permits issued District of Columb roje e ded , owners; to erect , D. C. Ref a: Va., to cost $30,000. Anna K. Johnson, 3512 s and builders; hitect; to erect i 4517 Twenty- to cost $20,000. Paul Jones t L. Ed o cost $14,35 Alban Towe k dwelling, to cost $14,000. E. J. Duffy, Chevy : Main & MacNeille, Bros., Bethesda, M ory frame and 2420 and 2426 | ) Chase, Md., designer | New Bus Terminal Completed NEVIN LINES STATION IS AT TWELFTH STREET AND NEW YORK AVENUE Architect’s sketch of the decently completed $50,000 bus terminal erected for the Nevin Bus Lines at ‘Twelfth street O and New York avenue, Designed and built by George E. Locknane, the structure contains waiting rooms 1885 | on the first floor, and rest rooms, company offices and additional waiting room on the second floor. 2 driveway on the New York avenue side, emerging on Twelfth str eet. and ticket office The busses enter FUNDS ARE SOUGHT Two-Story Suites Feature New Idea rtment House DECLINE SHOWN IN FORECLOSURES D. C., SATURDAY. 'SYNTHETIC HOME 1 MADE OF CHEMICAL Vinyl Resin Offers Solution to Small House Develop- ment, Says Journal. ‘The synthetic home, goal of the post- | war generation of American chemists, | has been achieved with the aid of a | man-made chemical known and ne- glected for a century, it is reported in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, | journal of the American Chemical So- clety. From the chemical, vinyl resin, was | constructed virtually every part of the ! home, a three-room apartment in New York City, according to Dr. J. G. David- son and H. B. McClure of the develop- ment labofatory of the Carbide & Car- | bon Chemicals Corporation, joint au- | thors of the report. Part of the research in the vinyl| resins was conducted at the Mellon In- stitute, Pittsburgh. Earlier studies | were carried out tly with the Pierce Foundation, set up in 1917 by the late | John B. Pierce, president of the Amer- ican Radiator Co., for heating and ven- tilation research. | ‘The resins, according to the report, | are applicable to the construction of small homes and offer a solution, with further development, to this phase of the building industry’s problems. Vinyl resin castings, weighing approximately 150 pounds each, have been made re- | peatedly and in the course of a Yem’i not one cracked, warped, or otherwise deteriorated. They are the largest ever | die\;:loped from the usual plastic mate- | rials. | “While the apartment was bu!lt“ soley as a means of demonstrating the | possibility of using this resin for ar- | JUNE . 10, 1 REAL ESTATE ARCHITECT COUNCIL WILL EXPAND WORK Will Fight Defacement of Build- ings by Ill-Considered Placing of Signs. Home on Meadow Lane DWELLING ACQUIRED BY DR. MAYNARD 0. WILLIAMS. | The Architeclss Advisory Council | composed of a vountary-serving mittee of Washington architects, will expand its activities d the coming | year to Include speciat efforts to pre- | vent the defacement of dell-designed commercial buildings by unrelated and ill-considered placement of signs. | his announcement was made this week by Capt. Hugh P. Oram, director |of inspection for the District, as the | council entered upon its eleventh con- | secutive year of service to Washington. The prime purpose of the council, it | was explained, is to improve the char- acter of construction in the Capital by | giving free examination of building ex- teriors amd offering suggestions for | their imp*ovement. | The work is made possible by the | treely given service of representative architects of the city. Each week a |jury of three architects examines cur- |Tent plans filed for building permits ESIDENCE of Dr. Maynard Owen Williams of the National Geographic |iho, classifies them as “approveds’ Society, recently purchased through the offices of Boss & Phelps, real- | case suggestions are made for improve- tors. The house has 12 rooms and 3 baths, and is located at 6720 Ments. and opportunity is given for re- Meadow lane, Chevy Chase, Md. __Star Staff Photo. | classification. — s Once a month the chairmen of the committees meet, review the proved NOISE FROM DRAINPIPE CAUSED BY VIBRATION a) plans and select those worthy or a spe- ‘commended” award % i | The following leases were recorded | Reprrangement iof Installation o | at the office of the recorder of deeds of | Avoid Contact Usually | the District during the last week: Necessary. | Rhoda E. Zegowitz to Timothy J. | Bradley; premises, first floor, 1433 P | 1t is no longer necessary for the pas- street; term, two years, beginning June sage of water from the bath room down | : the drainpipe in the wall to be heard | 1, 1933; ending May 31, 1935; rental, | all over the house. | 81,320 for term; for value received | Leases Recorded Cash Payment Terms Better Than Rent 1855 Ingleside Terrace | Apa e i | | Designing for Consumer | B. Johanne to ercct two y e dwellings, 1800 et south- T0 RDVDE 108 A. F. of L. Head Asks New | Capital Expenditures for | Milwaukee. Unemployed. ‘ |Federal Home Bank Survey Covers First Part of Year in Realty. east; to cost $8 M, B. Swar eet, owner to ere ling 2791 Brandywine | tory ma- ; to cost| one 1633 B The fundamental idea of designing | Dunayor, 3020 Park place, owrer and builder; Walter Valentine. Gesigner; to erect one 2-story brick and | cinder block store, flat and gas station, Central avenue northeast, to cost $6.000. Eloise A owmer; 915 Fifteenth street. e, designer; Mitchell street, builder; to and frame dwel- on place, to cost @ nick S.V iani Corstruction Co.. 236 F street owners and builders; F. G ileox. desig to_erect_one 2-sto e and frame dwelling, 3206 Stephen- n place. to cost $5,000. ! 0 hra E Burton, 2024 Rhode Island cenue northeast, owner, designer and vilder; to erect one 2-story brick and | le dwelling, 3207 Chestnut street portheast, to cost $4,500. % Leo V. Burbage, 127 Carroll street outheast, cwner: R. C. Starr, designer; C. Stine, 127 Maple avenue, Takoma M., builder; to erect one 1-story and tile dwelling, 2108 Thirty- rst street southeast. to cost $4,500. % Fox Bros, 411 Madison street, nd builders; William G. Fox, d story bric 1's Sons, 1750 Pennsyl- rmers; A, B. Mullett & Harry F. Boyer, 1416 F jtreet, builder; to make repairs, 1750-, ¢-53' Pennsylvania gvenue, to cost| 4.000. 0., architect e would start a general even swing up- Investment of a few billion dollars | for construction would take up only a fractional part of the loss in national | income the country is suffering as a result of continuation of the depres- sion, in the opinion of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, | Writing in the current issue of the Engineering News-Record, Mr. Green points out that the 13,000,000 men and women barred from normal living “will not remain patient indefinitely.” They want work, he says, and there is no substitute. “Back of every worker on the spot | of construction would be a line of work- ers getting out the materials and trans- porting them for use” he asserts. | “Workers for these jobs would be pulled ! off the relief lists and their wages | would be spent largely for consumer | goods. | “The construction industry stands | well at the bottom in business activity. | Orders for construction would start the | wheels of our heavy industries and ward. | “The essential justification for using | national wealth to promote business re- | covery is that it is the most immediate | and practical way of giving the un- | employed an opportunity to become | self-supporting and thus increase pur- chasing power. The effect would be plied in practically every large scale era, housing authorities agree. That building owners, as it has in the case of other industries has been substan- tially proved in Milwaukee where an apartment house incorporating new, revolutionary and patented ideas of de- sign and construction has a record of 92 per cent occupancy since its com- pletion in 1931 in the face of 60 per cent occupancy in apartments generally. This particular building has several novel features. While there are one- story garden apartments on the first floor, on all floors above, the suites are two stories in height, with living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens on the lower floors, and with stairways in each suite | communicating %ith bed rooms and bath rooms on the floors above. The two-story suites are arranged in tiers throughout the height of the building. | The apartments contain all the con- veniences and features of desirability found in modern two-story houses. There are no public corridors on the bed room floors, the corridor space be- ing converted into additional room space. ‘While apartments of the duplex or two-story type are not unknown in high rental buildings, their use in popular price apartments is a new development, PWilliam O. Engler, 4727 Thirteenth | felt along the whole economic struc- e i e | e s D Iator: % trect DOC 1| Goaiets. oo ol Wil Teaedt whet story brick addition to 1023 Eighteenth | workers' are at work on the construc- #treet, to cost $1,500. ¥ 2 ____|tion undertakings, supplying materials Mrs. Henry M. Hoyt, owner; Edward | for the job, transporting, making the made possible only by the elimination of corridors on alternate floors. Apart- ment buildings incorporating these fea- tures are now under consideration in a number of other cities. PR 5 i MODERNIZED FURNITURE ‘ st S for the consumer, which has been ap- | Real estate foreclosures in the United | industrial success, will be applied to | States have declined appreciably since | housing in the next residential building | the beginning of this year, according to a_survey by the Division of Research and Statistics of the Federal Home Loan | this principle works as well in housing, | Bank Board. both from the viewpoint of tenants and | Reports from 660 representative com- munities in the 48 States, comprising | 449 per cent of the total pouulation, | show a total of 13,431 foreclosures dur- | ing the month of April, 1933. This is | a drop of 162 compared with the figures for March of this year, 13,593, and of | 1,181 compared with the January total | of 14,612 foreclosures. These figures include farms and commercial proper- ties as well as hemes. ‘This decline in foreclosures in the first four months of this year is con- trary to the trend for the same period in previous years, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board report shows. In 1932 there were 2,295 more foreclosures | in April than in January and even in the pre-depression days of 1926, fore- closures increased in April by 627 over the January figure. ‘The surprising results of this survey show the headway that is being made to relieve distress in the mortgage field. Federal home loan banks whose ac- tive lending operations began about the middle of January, 1923, already have authorized loans amounting to $43,944,- 738 to member institutions for home financing purposes. William F. Steven- son, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, says that home fi- nancing institutions have undoubtedly been influenced to refrain from fore- closures through anticipation of the increased availability of funds by the extension of the Home Loan Bank Sys- tem, as its membership increases and loans mount. Encouragement inspired by the legislative measures for home relief now pending has also contributed 1 chitectural construction, with no in- tention at the moment to the economic problems involved,” says the report, “it | 1s of interest that the more the project | is studied the more feasible it becomes | from this standpoint. | “The materials from which this resin is derived are considered inexhaustible | and the larger the scale on which oper- | ations are conducted, the cheaper will both the resin and the finished product become. “On the basis of performance and probable cost, it is reasonable to ex- pect wide use of factory-fabricated vinyl resin in architectural shapes.” i OPENS OFFICES Richard D. Stimson Formerly Was ‘With Thomas E. Jarrell Co. Announcement of the establishment | of his own offices in the Investment | Building was made this week by Rich- ard D. Stimson, who for the past seven years has been with the Thomas E. Jar- rell Co., realtors. Mr. Stimson is oc- cupying a suite with H. Clifford Bangs, realtor. Mr. Stimson, who was born in Wash- ington, Ill, has been active in the Washington Real Estate Board and in the Board of Trade. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Prevent Doors From Sticking. Docrs that won't close and drawers that won't open may be corrected by sand-papering the edges and varnish- This noise is the Tesult of the vibra- | tions caused by the rush of water being | transmitted to the various wooden parts of the wall touched by the drainpipe. For this reason a simple packing of in- | sulation around the pipe would do no The only cure for this nuisance is to | rearrange the installation of the pipe so it carries down through the wall en- tirely clear of any contacts. At the| Rhoda E. Zegowitz hereby transfers and assigns all right, title and interest | in and to the within agreement to Law- rence J. Mills. | Elizabeth L. Kahn to Charles E.| Tribby; premises, first-floor storeroom and shop and basement thereunder of | premises, 617 Seventh street, for five years, beginning June 1, 1933; ending May 31, 1938; rental, $16,800 for term. Sam Chernikoff and Ida_ Chernikoff A new home in Mt. Pleasant overlooking Rock Creek Park, a section in which new homes are in demand . . . You owe it to yourself to see this if you ‘\are a thrifty Buyer. Open Daily and Sunday Until 9 P.M. same time insulation can be put around the pipe, packed carefully so as not to form a sound-transmitter to the wooden parts of the wall. This problem is one of the points to be checked by owners who are makinz alterations on their homes. If you are adding a bath room, by all means in- sist the drainpipes be placed so as to avoid this objectionable noise. to Abraham I. Selwyn and Fannie Sel- wyn; premises 46 Fenton street north- east, for eight years, beginning May 18, 1933, for $420 per annum for first two years and $480 per annum for remain- ing six years. Wm. M. Throckmorton 208 Investment Bldg. DlIstrict 6092 | | For $10,950 Compare This Home, Item for Item, With Any You Have Seen at a Similar Price 5513 30th Place N.W. Chevy Chase, D. C. Above Military Rd. Open Today SALE FURNISHED NEW CORNER 1717 D ST. NE. Furniture Included at $9,950 Four bed rooms, garage, electric refrigeration. _36-ft. lot. FREE Living room, dining room and 3 bed room suites, rugs, lamps, drapes, pictures, etc., at no extra cost. Move right in. EXCEPTIONALLY EASY TERMS PROMPT INSPECTION URGED AS SUCH VALUE WILL NEVER BE FOUND AGAIN OPEN UNTIL 9 P.M. WAPLE & JAMES, Inc. This lovely detached home is below actual value . . . 3 double baths—one a shower finished attic suitable for fe —the kitchen is equipped two-color enamel—it will laundry and drying room. ing them. The varnish prevents fur- ther swelling and shrinking. FFICE 1226 14th St. N.W. DL 3347 WM. H. SAUNDERS CO., Inc. 1519 K St. N.W. District 1018 Two Splendid Values for ectham, designer; is F. Collier, | things for which the laborers will spend | Teunis 109 Twentieth street, builder; to make | their wages. largely toward a more optimistic feel- ROOMS pairs, 2153 Florida avenue, to cost| 1,000. | . O. T. Burrell, 4623 Gault place north- east, owner and builder; F. A. Crump, designer: to erect one 1-story stone coal | yard office, 712 Division avenue north- east, to cost $800, H. C. Corpening, John Paul Jones Apartments, owner; Osbert L. Edwards, designer; Randolph L. Jennings, 726 Fourteenth street, builder: to erect brick garage, 1885 Plymouth street, to ¢ 500. | ward J. Hillyard, 700 Randolph street, owner and huilder; to erect brick + #ddition, 1424 Tenth street, to cost $600. Mrs. Cora B. Miller, 1130 Morse street northeast, owner; W. I. McCoy, builde: to erect porch, 1130 Morse atreet northeast, to cost $600. M. L R street, owner and builder; to irs, 1341 New Hampshire avenue B 1 Molobsky, owners ct brick garages, t; to cost $500. vel Corporation s and builders; J. ard, designer; to erect mer vault, 1636 Half place t; to cost $400. ari, Inc., 1612 K street, owner; ., 1341 Connecticut avenue, to make repairs, 1612 0 cost $385 1620 Pirst street, own- to reet southea: ¥ st i i Georgi r; to erect brick eenth street] to cost ern street, Blair road, frame to cost $300. ; B R 1710 “We should not delay action longer,” Mr. Green emphasizes, “but should initiate a plan of new capital expendi- tures to put the unemployed to work in order to restore purchasing power and to put values back into our invest- ments.” M street, builder; to erect brick coal bin, 7308 Georgia avenue; to cost $300. R. E. Haliday, 5807 Fourth street, | owner and builder; to erect frame garage, 1232 Emerson street; to cost | H. O, B. Cooper, Alexandria, Va. (owner; H. D. Barber, 221 F street, | builder; to erect metal garage, 6811 Ninth street; to cost $200. John R. Farrell, avenue northeast, owner; don, 1937 Girard street northeast, builder; to erect brick garage, 2025 Rhode Island avenue northeast; to cost 200. John R. Bradbury, 1327 Ingraham street, owner; Acme Construction Co., 4213 Ninth street, builder; to erect metal garage, 1327 Ingraham street; to cost $200. L. E. Breuninger & Sons, Invest- ment Building, owners and builders; H. L. Breuninger, designer; inclose | | porches, 4207-09 Eighteenth street; to | cost $200 each. Elvin_Hig- First Showing Detached Stone- Front Home At Row-House Price Alteration of Mid-Victorian Beds Suggested. Out-of-date bed room pieces of fur- niture lend themselves particularly well to modernization. Midvictorian beds | may have the high head board cut down to the height of the foot board; or the head board may be removed en- ;‘uely. and the foot board used as the ead. A bed of this type can almost inva- | riably have the legs cut down with good results in appearance. Iron anc brass beds with little knobs may alsc | be improved by removing the knobs and filling the holes with putty beforc repainting. 2025 Rhode Island | = SHEPHERD PARK 1150 Kalmia Road $12,950 Detached 6-room, 3-bath home on large corner lot, beautifully landscaped; of the most attractive homes in this desirable section. Come out and see this excellent value. Open Sunday, 2 to 9 P.M. Also Evenings, 7 to 10 DONNELLY & PLANT, Inc. 1374 Park Rd. Col. 0838 Six rooms, bath, extra lavatory, open fireplace in living room and recreation room; electric refriger- ation, large modern kitchen, floored attic with 2-tone plastered walls; garage; landscaped lot, 50x142 ft. 6024 North Dakota Ave. At 2nd and Quackenbos Sts. ; to cost | street builder addition, Open for Inspection Convenient to 11th St. Cars. WAPLE & JAMES, INC. 1226 14th St. N.W. DIst. 3346 Six rooms Two shower baths Big screened porch Level yard COOL o work two east windows, Detached Brick all-electric kitchen with an enamel table 8 feet long. Lots of cabinets and a breakfast table. A RECEPTION HALL, big living rooms. . .Three bed rooms' with deep closets, attic, finished light cellar, garage. A cool comfortable home d in HARDWOOD and convenient to stores, schools, churches and an employed couple. transportation. Ideal for OPEN DAILY UNTIL 9:00 a or Georgia Ave., past t Street straight ahead to 839 Gl turn right end of car line, Gist Ave., turn right. ST AVE. Claude G. Johnson Owner Col Builder 1. 7013 ing on home mortgage problems. Water Heaters Protected. Coal and oil fired water heaters are protected against overheating by a new emergency valve containing a “fuse” which softens under excess heat, itting the escape of too-hot water. A COOL SPOT 3349 Tennyson St. (Chevy Chase, D. C.) Reduced to $12,950 A most artistic home in a beautiful wooded setting. An all-brick home of 8 rooms, 2 baths, sun parlor 20 ft. long, master bed room about 30 ft. long. Oil burner, garage. Large, level lot covered with giant trees. The above price represents a tremendous sacrifice to present owner. 0 Reach: Drive out Conmn. . “to Circle. turn right on Western Ave., about 5 squares out 2o Tennyson Street.) Open today and all day Sunday Realty Associates, Inc. REALTORS 1506 K Street Nat, 1438 5468 31st STREET—(Chevy Chase, D. C.) Price, $7’45 0 Located in a section of high-class homes, on a high elevation, and oficred at a eusprisingly low price.l Six Inzge rooms, in- cluding a sun parlor adjacent to living room. The house has just been attractively redecorated and is very modern. Garage. fronts on two streets. terms. A feature of the property is the long lot which Can be purchased on very easy Convenient to transportation and public schools. (To reach, drive out Conn. Ave., turn right on Nebraska Ave., about four squares, turn right at 31st Street.) Open Every Day, 2 to 9 P.M., and All Day Sunday REALTY ASSOCIATES, Inc. Realtors 1506 K St. N.W. FREE GREATLY DEcatur 1011 26th and Pen hallowed ground into 100 appropriate name of beautiful built-to-your-order extremely low prices. HAVE SOLD UP $10,950 National 1438 7002 Arlington Rd. Built By A. T. Newbold Boss & Phelps 3 From ALL-DAY PARKING Every modern office convenience attends upon spacious single rooms and suites, both second and third floor locations at your disposal. Call STNUT FARMS BUILDING CATAWISSA, CONEJOHOLO, CONOY Gone is the Redskin and his colorful dance and “Pow Wow” who, in his day, held forth at above vil- lages, located at Four Corners, Md.—comes now the “Pale Face” with plans to subdivide 100 acres of that INDIAN SPRING VILLAGE (OPPOSITE INDMN SPRING GOLF COURSE) Architects, Engineers and Designers are hard at work preparing an unusually large variety of attractive home buildings from which to select that distinctive, MORE IN NEXT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY STAR NEVER BEFORE HAS SUCH A HOME BEEN OFFERED IN EDGEMOOR PROPER AT A PRICE LIKE THIS. 4 Bed Rooms (including fin- ished 3d floor)—2 Baths— 2.Car Garage—Lot fronting Georgetown REDUCED RENTALS 6621 Piney Branch Rd. N.W. Detached Brick 524 Jefferson St. N.-W. Large Row Brick 6 big rooms. 2 baths, 3 porches, woed- Demetitul Eitcheh, laree e mith Doiok sarage. Paved alley and street. 6 rooms, recreation room, electrical refrigeration, attic, large lof witl rage. All brick, slate roof, copper ters, open fireplace. —Rental Department nsylvania Ave. N.W. Phillips & Canby, Inc. Investment Bldg. Beautiful Corner Roomy—All-Brick Home Price Revised to $8,450 For Quick Sale 624 Delafield Place N.W. Corner 7th and Delafiel¢—Overlooking Sherman Circle large homesites under the Here's real value—a big six-room all-brick home on a large, well- graded corner lot right in the finest section of popular Petworth at less than row-house prices. Large, bright, airy rooms with cross ventilation, beautiful hardwood floors, Frigidaire, Oxford cabinets, built-in garage, weather-stripped, and is ultra modern in every respect. The house is practically new, vacant, and so perfectly refinished you would never know it had been occupied. At the new low price, this home will probably sell to the first thinking family to inspect it, so come out early. home of your dreams at Open and Lighted Today and Tomorrow Blag. RM HOOKER Biag, MEtrop. IN MIDST OF HOMES THAT IN THOUSANDS 1426 ongfll Y, Acre of Ground [ J b win consider L smalt_“house, Droperty or clear grou w St. N.W. Spacious reception hall, large liv- ing room with fireplace, separate stairway from kitchen to upstairs. 4 bed rooms and 2 baths on 2nd floor, 2 bed rooms on 3d floor; oak floors, oil burner. Open Saturday and Sunday Wm. H. Saunders Ce., Inc. 1519 K ST. N.W. 60 feet . . . PEN DAILY UNTIL 9 P.M. junction of Wisconsin Ave. and Old at Bethesda Bank, throuoh DIST. 1018 Edgemoor Lane 1 block and right.