Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1935, Page 15

HOME BUILOING INCAPITAL SHOWS GREAT INCREASE Total in First Week of March Only Slightly Under Entire Month in 1934. PERMITS FOR PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION $283,263 Drive of Better Housing Cam- paign Has Had Effect on Week's Activity in Modernization. Residential construction in Wash- {ngton during the first week of March was only slightly short of the total for the entire month in 1934, and the valuation of all types of private con- struction during the week estimated by building permits reached the im- pressive total of $283,263. Permits for erection of 35 residen- tial structures, 30 of which are one-| family dwellings, were issued by the office of Building Inspector John W. Oehmann during the last week. In the entire month of March last year 42 residential structures were in- cluded in the list of permits. Another striking statistical fact in- dicative of the awakening of the con- struction industry locally is that the valuation of all types of building in the last week was about 60 per cent as great as the total for last March— $455,645. Campaign Effects Felt. The intensive drive of the Wash- {ngton Better Housing Csm?a.\gn also had its effect in the week’s activity es a large number of property mod- ernization permits were included. In all there were 8¢ permits issued dur- ing the week, the largest number this ear. i ! A permit to build 10 »twu-slory brick houses at a total estimated cost of 50,000, which was obtained by the Calvert Realty Co., 1625 K street, was the largest of the week. The homes are to be located in the 3800 block of Calvert street. R. O. Scholz was amed architect. nclarence W. Gosnell, Inc, 1414 Monroe street, was granted & permit to construct five 2-story brick flats in the 300 block of Jefferson street and 5400 block of Third street. The total cost was estimated at $35,000. Dana B. Johannes was listed as de- signer. Cooley Bros., located in the Tower Building, obtained a permit to build three dwellings in_the 100 block of Madison street. This project will cost about $18,000. Permits of Importance. More important permits of the week are as follows: Calvert Realty Co., 1625 K street, owners and builders; R. O. Scholz, architect; to erect ten 2-story brick dwellings, 3801-19 Calvert street; to cost $50,000. Clarence W. Gosnell, Inc, 1414 Monroe street, owners and builders; Dana B. Johannes, designer; to erect | five 2-story brick flats, 301 Jefferson street and 5402, 5406, 5410 and 5414 | Third street; to cost $35,000. | George ATBUS, Cincinnati, Ohio, owner; David L. Stern, architect: David L. Stern Construction Co., 1412 1 street, builders; to erect two 1-story brick and concrete stores, 6901 and 6905 Fourth street; to cost $20.000. Cooley Bros., Tower Building, owner and builder; George T. Sant- myers, architect; to erect three 2-story brick dwellings, 113-115-117 Madison street; to cost $18,000. Boss & Phelps, 1417 K street, owner and builder; Harvey P. Baxter, architect; to erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 4411 Hadfield lane; to cost $16,500. p Harry Poretsky, 521 Irving street, owner and builder; Dillon & Abel, designers; to_erect two 2-story brlcl.( dwellings, 1350-1352 Sheridan street; 6,000. mvcl:;tle‘& James, 1226 Fourteenth street, owners and builders; F. G. Wilcox, designer; to erect two 2-story brig: dwellings, 5711 and 5715 Kansas avewue; to cost $12,000. Phillips & Canby, Inc., Investment Building, owner; Eimer Cappelmann, architect; P. H. Willis, 927 Fifteenth street, builder; to erect one 2-story CASH BUYERS For all types of Investment Properties Properly Priced Call Mr. Carr THOSSiSHERG INCORPORATED 738 15th St. N.W. Dist. 6830 NINE SPLENDID NEW HOMES On beautiful lots, 75-ft. frontage, covered with many trees. Each house different. Colo- nial, French, English —center hall and studio—6 and 7 rooms, 2 baths — first-floor bedroom and bath in some. A real oppor- tunity. Be sure to take advantage of it. Sunday from 10 to 9 > Week Days from 1to 6 Realty Associates, Inc. Realtors 1506 K Street National 1438 New Homes That Figured in Recent Capital Real Estate Transactions AY MORNING EDITION gning Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1935. 15 HOME LOANS BACKED BY BANK All Likely to Be Approved for Insurance Under F. H. A. Rules. The Security Savings & Commer- cial Bank has approved a total of 15 | home loans for insurance by the Fed- eral Housing Administration, Francis G. Addison, jr., president of the in- stitution, announced today. Officials of F. H. A. sald it was likely all of these mortgages would be approved for insurance. Mr. Addison, in commenting on the loans, commended the F. H. A. for the speed with which their or- ganization has heen set up, and pre- dicted that with completion of title 3 of the housing act the Government effort to revive the construction in- dustry will be successful. Title 3 provides for establishment of mort- gage association with private capital to purchase the insured mMOrtgages. The executive of the bank at Ninth ana G streets sald he was entirely satisfied with the class of security offered by the insured loans. Indus- trial recovery, Addison continued, will be accelerated when the housing movement gains momentum and is fully recognized by the public and all financial institutions. Most, of the loans made by the Se- curity Saving & Commercial Bank were made through the office of Frederick W. Berens. To Remodel Home. Special Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va., March 9.—Mrs. Emma Harner Belt has selected Court- ney S. Welton of Richmond as the architect to remodel and improve her home, an old stone house on Cul- peper street, Warrenton. A Lovely New Brick Home in Select LANGHORNE COMMUNITY 319 Milton Ave. Clarendon, Va. Large Bedrooms Tile Bath and Shower Many Deep Closets Fireplace Big Attic, Garage Shade Trees, Corner Lot Refrigeration 15 Minutes from Downtown $7,750 OPEN DAILY UNTIL DARK TO REACH: Motor over Key Bridge, take Wilson Blvd. thru Clarendon, past Monument to Milton Ave. and follow signs to home. ‘Washington Bldg. Dist. 6 1204 Longfellow St. N.W. 6 rooms and bath. inclosed porches. making 8 rooms. with garage. This _hou: o Sunday, 10 AM. to 5:30 P, NA. 2040 Investment Bldg. GREATER LUMBER OUTPUT REPORTED 1934 Production More Than Billion Feet Increase Over 1933. ‘The National Lumber Manufactur- ers’ Association has reported an in- crease of more than a billion feet in lumber production in 1934 over that of 1933. The report, made from records kept by the lumber code authority, was the first compilation of a year's activity | It showed | in the lumber industry. production and shipments and stocks on hand at the mills as of January | 1, 1935. Comparative figures were available for production, but no complete fig- ures ever had been kept on ship- ments. The figures for 1934 showed a grad- ual climb from the low production period of 1933, when output dropped to 10,000,000,000 feet, from a high of 36,000,000,000 in 1929. The 1933 pro- duction was given as 14,000,000,000 feet and 1934 as 15,222,946,000 feet. Total shipments for the year were glven as 15116,380,000 feet, or an average of 290,699,600 feet per week, while stocks on hand as of Janu- ary 1, 1935, were 7,803,366,000 feet, approximately the same as for Janu- ary 1, 1934 —_— New Cleaning Fluid. Now offered for household use, a new non-inflammable cleaning fluid is said to evaporate perfectly, leave no ordor., Grease, oil, tar, gum, even {‘res?‘ paint are said to be removed y it CENTER-HALLPLAN 4 Detached Brick Home This is the type of home that you builder . . [ that will delight you! Oriental Rl;lgl by Hintlian Buile by SEE TODAY! ‘onnecticut Chevy to right western Ave. Street to home. Shows | to Tennyson o« REALTORS FAIL TO BACK IMARYLAND LICENSE BILL Baltimore Board's Directors Differ on Provisions of Measure. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March 9.—Members Estate Board of Baltimore voted down | a proposal to submit and sponsor a | regulatory license law to govern real | estate brokers and salesmen. C. Philip Pitt, secretary, said con- siderable backing among members of | (o Six beauti- ful rooms g room . . . modern kitchen . . . fine recreation room . . . modern oil heat . . . large fin- . . big landscaped IT on Tower Bldg. DI. 3100 and waterproofed; open firepl model electric kitchen, leum, oversized hot-water tached garage, 12x18. Built by J. C. Price 729 15th St. N.W. R & 617 Underwood St. N.-W. Six rooms, 2 baths (bed room and bath on 1st floor, 2 bed rooms, bath and storage room on 2nd floor) ; detached brick, southern exposure, lot 44x112; premises Lhnmugh]l.y&screened. weather-stripped, insulated Tully equipped; Crosley refrigerator, inlaid lino- heating furnace and extra radiation; de- Only $8,950 Open Daily and Sunday L. T. GRAVATTE Realtor white oak floors, washable paper, of the board of directors of the Real | = i the board had been found for a|W. MacChesney, counsel for the Na- However, a difference of | tional opinion as to the provisions of the pro- posed bill developed, and supporters of the measure agreed to reconsider the matter and gave a majority vote license law. to its tabling for the present time. A special commiitee of the board | had drafted the bill following in gen- | eral the provisions of the ‘“model | license law” prepared by Gen. Nathan NEW CENTER HALL PLAN COLONIAL LT T T——"— 6121 32nd Place N.W. $11,750 6 LARGE ROOMS, 2 BATHS, GAME ROOM IN BASEMENT, TWO-CAR BRICK GARAGE, OIL HEAT WIDE LOT WITH TREES Drive east on Rittenhouse st. from ‘hevy Chase Circle to 32nd Place, Gurn et (north) s Block. o © 1o _HEALTH HOME J. Wesley Buchanan, Inc. Realtors 916 15th St. N.W. MEt. 1113 NEW CHARLESTON COLONIAL HOME (Built by Frank J. Wagner Co.) 4890 Chevy Chase Blvd. Chevy Chase, Md. Six beautiful rooms, tiled bath - . . 2 double porches, slate roof, furred walls, weather-stripped, inclosed radiation, modern kitchen with 8-foot sink. elec- tric refrigeration, garage, beau- tiful landscaped lot 50x115 ad- proposed 60-acre park. Exceptionally Low Priced Lighted Evenings Drive out Wisconsin Ave. to Chevy Chase Boul , , OPDO! Che: Chase Golf Course, turn teft to home. a Government National 0753 GOSS REALTY CO. J. S. EATON, Sales Dept. 1405 Eye St. NAt'l 1353 Building News PAGE B—1 \DOMIDERNEING PLEDRES ORTANED N CANPAGH HER 100 Workers Making Can- vass Interview 3,468 Property Owners. $325,000 IN MORTGAGES INSURED SINCE JAN. 1 $107,750 for New Construction and Only Four Applications Have Been Rejected. Upper left: Home of Colonial de= sign at 1935 Parkside drive, Coe lonial Village, purchased by Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Graf. The house was designed by Eimer W. Cappele man. Upper right: New home of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Burch, at 3846 Macomb street, which was built and sold by Frank S. Phillips. Below: Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Denton H. Reed from the District Developing Corp. through the office of Boss & Phelps, realtors. The home is located at 3908 Macomb street, —Star Staff Photos. @ | GRAYSON BUILDS HOME [ | Special Dispatch to The Star. | | miral Cary T. Graylson, new chair- {man of the American Red Cross, is building an attractive country resi- dence on his farm near Upperville, | |Va. Waddy B. Wood of Washington 'is the architect and Jones & Con- quest of Richmond are the contrac- to! WONDERFUL BUYS OFFERED BY BOSS & PHELPS 6134 30th St. N.W. $9,500 . . . A New Home. From Chevy Chase Circle drive Association of Real Estate east on Rittenhouse St. to 30th Boards. St. (at intersection of Utah ; Ave), thence to house. | F— —— 5428 30th Place N.W. $10,750 . . . A New Home. From Connecticut Ave., east on Military Rd. to 30th Place and north to houst 6811 Fairfax Road $10,950 . . . A New Home. From Bethesda Bank at Wis- consin Ave. and old George- town Rd., turn,left into Edge- moor Lane to Fairfax Rd. and left to house, in Edgemoor, Md. 103 Grafton Street $24,750 . . . A Beautiful Home in New Condition. Drive around Chevy Chase Circle to west side and into Grafton Street, Chevy Chase, Md. OPEN AND HEATED TODAY. 2 TO 6—SUNDAY. 10 TO 6 BOSS & PHELPS Realtors i LIVE IN oo UXMANOR | The Suburb of Contentment HOMES ON 1, ACRE SITES OR MORE Model home open daily and Sunday until 6 P.M. Directions—Out Wisconsin Ave. to Bank of Bethesda and follow car line road to Luzmanor signs. Just 25, minutes from the heart of the city. SHANNON-& LUCHS DEVELOPMENT €O.* WAVERLY TAYLOR - cordially invites you to visit today the furnished Foundry Park Model Home Foxall @ FULLY DETACHED and situated on a deep lot high above the Potomac and adjoining beautiful Foundry Branch Park. @ FURNISHED in exquisite taste by W B Moses € Sons. @ LANDSCAPED to harmonize with the natural beauty park surroundings by J. H. Small & Sons. @ DESIGNED AND BUILT to meet the exacting demands of today's purchasers, with seven rooms and two baths. a finished base- ment containing an attractive lounge. lavatory room. laundry room. heater room and built-in garage: two delightful porches and a most useful first floor study- ® EQUIPPED to give maximum comfort and convenience, with gas heat. gas refrigerator and gas range. Oxford kitchen cabinets, bronze wirecloth screens, heavy slate roof. copper gutters and downspouts. @ OTHER HOMES being completed in this group contain the famous Budget Balancing Suite in addition to seven rooms and two baths, at prices from $12.250 to $13.750 of the Visit the Model Home at 1421 44th Street TO REACH: Drive out Que Street to Wisconsin Avenue. north one block to Reservoir Road and west to 44th Street, then turn left to No. 1421. Open 9:30 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. Sponsored by The Washington Post WARRENTON, Va,, March 9.—Ad- | Workers in the Washington Better | Housing Campaign passed the thous- |sand mark this week in number of property owners pledged since the drive to uncover $6,000,000 in modern- ization work was inaugurated a month 2go. When officials at campaign head- quarters in the Shoreham Building had completed the count for the week they discovered that exactly 1,002 owners of homes and commercial prop- | erties had pledged themselves to carry out improvements. The workers were given a “batting average” of slightly less than .333 per cent, for it was announced that 3,468 property owners had been interviewed Joseph Karl Gilchrist. chief of | F. H. A. operations in the District, | stated that approximately 100 men have been engaged in the canvass ’dunng the past week. . He has hopes | of doubling the number. The canvass |is directly under the guidance of | James E. Woodruff, Gilchrist's execu- tive assistant. It was estimated by the headquar- (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) Center Hall Brick Colonial Home Mass. Ave. Park $19,500 2732 34th St. N.W. Beautiful Center-Hall Colo- | § nial Home, all brick and of the ||| finest construction. The most ||| outstanding in value of any homes ever offered in this ex- ‘ cellent section. Is practically new and perfectly done over from cellar to roof. A thoroughe= }y modern property incorporat- ing every appointment for your convenience. Center hall, large living room with fireplace, bright dining room with bay window, modern kitchen, cozy breakfast room and first floor lavatory. On the second floor are four well planned bed rooms, two pretty baths and open screened porch. A slate roof, large attic, oil heat, maid's quarters with bath, electric re- frigeration, a two-car brick gar- age and a large well graded lot with abundance of pretty shrub- bery all add to make this a per- fect home. The price has been made extremely low to sell it quickly. Open to Inspect RM HOOKER Tower Bldg. Met. 2663 —=F NO.70§ BONIFANT ST. An Early Spring. Opportunity That Says “Act Quickly” If you really want a mod- ern new home that has everything—and at a modest cost—don’t wait a moment. We couldn’t build them fast enough to meet the demand all winter. Our advice is “hurry.” ©® 30 minutes from U. S. Treasury Large living rooms ‘Wood-burning fireplaces Two papered bed rooms Tiled baths Complete kitchens Steel windows Detached brick garage Hot-water heat Ten minutes from Univer. sity of Maryland Near graded schools, churches, business center $7,550 Directions: Drive out Georgia Avenue through_Silver Spring, turn_right on Bonifant Streel at Peoples D reo Store, dlocks to homes. | | NORTMASH!NGTON | Realty compony Inc. E. BROOKE LEE, President 7906 Georgia Ave., SHepherd 2400 four