Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1935, Page 15

[ rerwwe | @he Foening Shar SILVER STAR HOME OPENS TOMORROW FOR PUBLIC VIEW Attractive Home of French Provincial Architecture in Brookdale Development. DWELLING IS FOURTH IN SERIES OF 1935 Building Is in Lower Price Range of Houses, With Many Superior Structure Features. BY JAMES Y. NEWTON. A small but attractive home of French provincial architecture will be opened to the public tomorrow at 4708 River road as the fourth Silver Star Home of 1935. This white house, with graceful, sweeping lines, is located just over the District line in Montgomery County, Md., and is a part of the new development, Brookdale, built by Cooper Lightbown & Sons. It will be open under sponsorship of The | Star for the next 30 days. The house is sturdily built of brick and is set deep on a lot 65 by 90 feet in dimensions. It contains six rooms, a bath and a lavatory on the first floor. The selling price—$9,500— places it in the lower price range of houses being built about the Capital today. It has been completely and | attractively furnished by Woodward | & Lothrop. Indorsed by Experts. The praise as well as the indorse- ment of The Star's Special Commn.-’ 4ee of housing experts was given this | house. This committee, which gives | rigid examination to all applica- tions for the Silver Star award, spoke highly of the architectural design and planning of the home and pro- nounced it one of the best built struc- tures they have viewed this year. James S. Taylor of the Federal Housing Administration and formerly chief of the Division of Housing of the Department of Commerce, is chairman of the committee. Other | members include: Harold E. Doyle, | well-known Capital business man and president of the Washington Real Estate Board; Edwin H. Rosengarten, | builder and member of the firm of Davis, Wick & Rosengarten; Irwin S. | Porter, recently retired head of the | Washington Chapter of the American | Institute of Architects, and John | Nolen, jr., city planner of the Na- | tional Capital Park and Planning Commission. The committee thought that this Brookdale home was well suited to serve as a model of what should be built in the lower-cost home fleld| about the Capital today. They be- lieved that it represented an ex- | tremely good value. ) Structurally Superior. Structurally, the house is as good | as the average dwelling that is of- fered at a much higher price. All footings are of concrete, and the | foundation walls are of hollow tile. “The exterior walls are of brick veneer | over Reynolds metallated Ecod laths, while the roof is of a high-grade slate. The first floor has steel bar Jjoists with concrete slabs. All heat- mg and water pipes gutters and lead: “(Continued on Page 2, Column 1. ACTING F. H. A. CHIEF TO SPEAK ON RADIO| e | éSecurity, the Basis of the Na-| tional Housing Act,” to Be Sub- | ject in Address Tonight. | “Security, the Basis of the National | Housing Act,” will be the subject of | an address by Acting Federal Hous- ing Administrator Stwart McDonald | over a coast-to-coast radio network | today at 6:15 p.m. | The acting administrator will be | presented on the Mastar Builder pro- gram and will discuss the oppor- tunities provided for modernization and repair offered under the Housing Administration program snd the se- curity provided in the act for lending institutions as well as the public. The speaker will go intc the social, moral and economic benefits offered by the national housing act and will outline progress in modernization, new home building and the refinancing of existing mortgages. Real Estate Salesmen Spl opportunities for experienced men on new-house operations. Ask for Mr. Schwartz. 1404 K CAFRITZ p1. s0s0 More Than 3,000 Lifetime Homes Built and Sold NEW CENTER | HALL COLONIAL No. 2 :hduon St. N.W. New deluhed brlck, 7 mmu recre.u vzn Trepi l-cn nm CORNER HOUSE. D-'y anJ Sunday STROUP REALTY CO. 1427 Eye St. N.W. DL 0368 | gress will be E. C. Baltz, C. Clinton | Mr. | attended the first international con- | countries, monarchist England, Nazi | | the purposes and activities of this Silver Star Home Opens Tomorrow In Brookdale Area The new Silver Star Home, at 4708 River road, Brookdale, Montgomery County, Md., which will be opened to the public to- morrow, may be reached from downtown Washington by driving out Massachusetts avenue to Wisconsin, right or north on Wisconsin avenue to River road and left slightly less than a mile on River road to the home. The dwelling is located about a block beyond the District line. It will be open for 30 days under sponsorship of The Star from 10 am. until 9 pm. It was built by Cooper Lightbown & Sons as a part of their new subdivision, Brookdale, and has been com- pletely furnished by Woodward & Lothrop. BUILDING PARLEY DRAWS D. C. MEN Three From Capital hmong U. S. Delegation to Austrian Conclave. Three Washingtonians will be among the approximately 50 repre- sentatives of the $7,000,000,000 sav- ings, building and loan business, who will compose this country’s delegation to the Fifth International Congress of Building Societies in Salzburg and Vienna, Austria, September 1 to 5. Representatives of the District Building & Loan League at the con- James and Carl J. Bergmann, presi- dent of the league. Mr. James and | Bergmann will be accompanied | by their wives. Fourteen States are represented in the delegation to date, with Ohio and Kansas vying for the largest number of delegates. Lieut. Gov. Charles W. Thompson of Kansas, one of the outstanding building and loan leaders in the State, will be in the party. Headed by H. F. Cellarius, Cincin- nati, secretary-treasurer of the United | States Building and Loan League, who" gress in 1914 when the business repre- sented only $1,350,000,000 in assets, the group will join the English dele- gation of some 100 building society managers en route. Bodfish to Speak. Morton Bodfish, Chicago, executive vice president of the United States | league, will address the assembly of international home financiers in Salz- burg. Another prominent member of the delegation is Henry S. Rosenthal, Cincinnati, assistant secretary of the congress. Discussions at the international gathering, which is the first of its| type to be held on the continent, will compare methods of conducting the thrift and home financing business against the various political and economic backgrounds of European | Germany, republican Austria and | France, and the Balkan variations of these forms of state. Government subsidies to housing and the efforts and results of individual enterprise in the field will come to the fore in| the more general discussions. Divisional Meetings Planned. Along with the congress a meeting of sponsors of the professional educa- tional systems of the home mortgage usiness of Engiand and America will be held, bringing together representa- tives of the American Savings, Build- ing and Loan Institute and the Build- ing Societies’ Institute of the British. | o A member of the American delegation | will address this divisional meeting on country’s building and loan educa- tional and research body. ‘The American group will stop in London for three days for special| study of the municipal housing devel- | opments there, and for first-hand knowledge of the home building re- vival in Great Britain and to trace some of the factors which have brought that revival and which might be grafted onto the American recovery in this field. Besides Kansans, Ohioans and Washingtonians, the group from this country includes building and loan executives from Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Texas and Vermont, and co-operative bankers from Massachu- setts and Rhode Island. Sir Harold Bellman, managing di- " (Continued on Page 7, Column 3.) NEW BRICK *6,850 5;Ioom bungalow, stone freplace, hardwood _floors, ‘tile with Shower, ‘modern’ Kitghen: G, putlc mmble for’ two bed Large, dry basement, laun- oom. Garage. schools, park, I ary irays, coal r Conyenent o bus, Drive out Sligo Ave. from Silver ifi,’hfllfl to Greenwood ' Ave., turn S. F. GIBSON Phone Silver Spring 22R In Exclusive Woodley Park Only One Lett Exhibit Home 2932 Cortland P1. N.W. These houses have 4 bed rooms, 3 baths, first-floor lavatory, balsam wool insulation, furred walls, oil heat and elec. refrigeration. $14,950 Open Daily and Sunday Until 9 P.M. e out n. Ave. to Cathedral Ave. on Cathedral to 2§th, narth one block to Cortland, left to GSmltlnjCo. 811 15th STREET NATL. 6904 Driv west 29th | the walls of the bin adjoin the WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1935. The Silver Star Home Which Will Be Opened Tomorrow This home of French provincial design will be opened tomorrow as !he fourth Sll\er Slar Home of 1935. It is located at 4708 ler road, just over the District line in Montgomery County, Md. Lightbown & Sons lnd is Aponsored by The Star. TOMORROW FINAL DAY | 0perator With F. H. A. Help Declared “Preferred Seller” its resistance to the elements and to| AT SILVER STAR HOME | Thousands Visit Cnpe Cod Co- lonial Residence Opened Four Weeks Ago in Wrenwood. The third Silver Star Home of 1935, located at 3359 Quesada street, Chevy Chase, will be open to the public for | the final day tomorrow. Thousands of persons have visited | this attractive Cape Cod Colonial resi- dence since it was first opened four | weeks ago. It was built by Paul T.| Stone, Inc., and is presented by J. Wesley Buchanan. Hutchison's, Inc. | and John F. Ligon collaborated in the furnishing and decorating. The house is a portion of Stone's | new subdivision, Wrenwood, located in the District at the intersection of | Quesada street and Broad Branch | road. The home may be reached via | Connecticut avenue to Chevy Chase | Circle, east on Western avenue a half | block to Quesada street and then east | two blocks to Broad Branch road. The house will be open tomorrow | from 10 am. until 9 pm. COAL BIN REPAIR Warm Months Give Opportunity | to Make It Dustproof. During the warm months, when the coal supply is either low or ex- hausted, the coal bin should be re- paired and made dust proof. A dust- proof door or lift and a new lining installed over the old walls are ad- | visable. Care should be taken to close all cracks or openings Where | joists. Ceiling applied to the under- side of the joists assists in preventing dust from working up through the floor and side walls of the roof above the bin. i\ THIS CORNER BRICK HOME THAN YOU HAVE EVER SEEN $8,750 In A‘l ICAN, UNIVERSITY' ‘PARK i 4639 DAVENPORT ST. N.W. Out Mass. AeDe to ;gm St., right o OPEN SUNDAY F. Eliot Middleton, MEt. 2827 REALTOR In Beautiful SHEPHERD PARK A BREUNINGER-BUILT Colonial Brick Home 1520 LOCUST ROAD o Six Large Rooms o Two Full Baths o Recreation Room o Garage e Oil Heat it Al kltl' l'lltlhll! IIIBIOI living roe: fireplace, ing oo, 3 -nr-ln hlm-‘ modern Drive bl! 16th St. te Loellt St ra right to | cal From the standpoint of the home purchaser, the operative builder who holds a conditional commitment for | mortgage insurance from the Federal | Housing Administration is the “pre- ferred seller,” H. H. Dearing, director of F. H. A. activities in the District, | declared in a radio address this week. “In order to obtain this conditional commitment,” Mr. Dearing said, “the builder has had to meet certain re- strictions and requirements, and to| submit his building to the inspection made by our architectural inspector | during the building period. This as- sures the purchaser that he is getting value for his money. The builder has | had to meet requirements as to his| financial standing and his ability to finance the project. These reserva- tions serve as a deterrent to the type | of shoe-string operator whose oflice\ was in his hat and who operated on | the principle of borrow, sell and run. | “Buying through a Federal housing insured mortgage means that your house has been inspected from the standpoint of fitness, the general lay- out, the design of the property, its liveability relative to basic require- ments for light and air, the méchani- equipment, accessory buildings, | and from the point of view of du- | rability of structural soundness and 4726 Brandywine St. AMERICAN lJ.NlVEISlTY PARK YOU MAY SEARCH THE CITY AND SUBURBS AND NOT FIND A BETTER NEW, DETACHED, ALL-BRICK, 2-BATH HOME FOR THE PRICE THAN THIS. $9,750 ON CONVENIENT TERMS Drive out_Mass. Ave. to 46th St. north to Brandywine St. and west to house mext to corner of 48th St OPEN TODAY 2 TO 9 SUNDAY 10 to 9 DAILY 6:30 to 9 | borhood are BOSS & PHELPS REALTORS use. “In addition, ratings of the neigh- made. For example: Protection against adverse influences, the facilities of transportation, mainte- nance of utilities, sanitation, the level of taxes and special assessments, and the presence of civic, social and com- mercial centers, which include the accessibility of schools, stores and community centers. “A conditional commitment of the | Pederal Housing Administration will be recognized as the hall mark of a property worth purchasing.” | REALTY AS INVESTMENT | Business Regaining Former Sta- tus, Brokers Find. Real estate is rapidly reattaining its former leading position as an in vestment—this conclusion was reache by the members of the brokers’ divi- | sion of the Detroit Real Estate Board | at its weekly luncheon meeting, based | on the sales reports reaching the board. The NEWEST in Community Group Homes Fnrnuhed by . J. Nee Co. 4 Bed Rooms 2 Baths 117 | semi-detached) 3 Bed Rooms Madison St. N.W. 2 Baths (Semi-detached) Bed_ Rooms 1_Bath (1st-floor lava- tory) The houses are fi- nanced by the con- venient F. H. A. plan Unrouoh ihe Sectrity Savings _and _Com- metxM Bank of this 39 250 up Drive out 16th St. or Kan- 3as Ave. to Madison St. and turn right to homes. Open Dnily 'Til 9 P.M. q Bros. |5 Tower Bldg. National 9240 3105 Cathedral Ave N.W. $19,500 An Extreme Bargain Owner is leaving city and has authorized us to sacrifice this beautiful home in this, our finest section. Living room, library, dining room, butler’s pantry and kitchen on first floor; 4 large bedrooms, one of which is a built-in and heated sleepmg porch, 2 baths and lovely closets on second floor; 2 Yooms and bath on third floor. Two-car brick garage, oil helt, slate roof, large lot, beautiful shrubbery. Inspection Means Appreciation Open Sunday 2 to 6 P.M. PHILLIPS & NA. 4600 NEW BRICK CANBY, Inc. Investment Bldg. BUNGALOWS HUNTINGTON TERRACE, BETHESDA, MD. 219 McKINLEY ST. Quality—Charm—Equipment Lot—82%x115. Walls—Brick, parsed and furred. Roof—Slate, ceilings insulated. Bintnr Boom. 2 Bed leet Kitehen. ’6,750|: Tllod lltb—-’l‘!l and Bagement — H.-W.H. —Hfllblrt Heater. Attie—O ver entire EASY TERMS OPEN DAILY TILL 9:30 P.M. Ave. Ollm!w' ve. i B G, B BRODIE & COLBERT, lnc. 1707 Eye St. Realtors It was built by Cooper —Star Staff Phow‘ ‘BALTIMORE BUILDING IS UNDER 1934 FIGURE | Home Construction This Year, | However, Shows Gain Over Six Months Last Year. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, July 27.—Building operations in Baltimore in the first six months of the current year reached a valuation of $4,113,300, a decrease of $954,036, as compared with the corresponding period of 1934, accord- | ing to permits issued. While the term does not compare favorably with the same period of last year, the record for the current year indicated increased activity in in- | dustrial construction and home build- ing. Home construction was represemed by permits for the erection of 155 dwellings at $607,000, as compared with 52 units of this class of con- | struction valued at $189,000 in the same period last year. New improvements, additions and | alterations last month reached a total f $837,840, as compared with $592,560 or the same month of 1934, and | $979,680 for May, 1935. look— Large Living Room Brick Wood: Dlace. Two Lar Rooms. Kitchen has Gas St Electrie Built-in Cabinets. Directions: Drive out Silver Spring. turn right a 150-acre park, almost in i they're truly homes that e Refrigeration., Building News 186 Pledges Added In Better Housing Drive During Week ‘Workers in the Washington better housing campaign added 186 pledges to their total during the past week, which it was esti- mated amounted to about $46,- 500 in home modernization work. The canvassers interviewed 5,590 home owners in the period. ‘The figures for the week brought the total number of pledges for the entire campaign to 5,589, and these home own- ers, it was estimated, agreed to spend a total of $1,397,250 in repairing, adding to and altering their homes. Miss Elizabeth Wheeler, F. H. A. field worker, stated that 199 modernization “leads™ were given to contractors in the past week. U. 5. MODERNIZING LOANS REACH PEAK High of 34305156 for| Week—Cumulative Total | $103,951,000. All previous weekly totals for mod- ernization credit were again shattered | | for the week ending July 20, when the new high of credit insured by the | Federal Housing Administration ag- gregated $4,305,156. Insured loans for the week ending July 13 totaled $4,282,155, as compared with $3,377,- | 524 for the first week in July. The cumulative total of modernization |loans insured under the national housing act rose o $103,951,917. | The volume of modernization work that is being done with funds from | sources other than modernization | credit loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration is in the ratio of about 6 to 1, which would place | the total amount of rehabilitation work generated through the opera- | tion of the national housing act dur- |ing the 12% months of its opera- | tion at more than $600,000,000. Mu- tual insurance figures for new-home construction and refinancing of exist- | ing mortgages are not included in these totals. “These figures,” according to Ad- ministrator Stewart McDonald, “rep- resent 259,234 loans to individuals. It means that more than a quarter of | a million people have put into circu- | lation that amount of cash for small | | but necessary improvements in their nomes and business properties. In- | surance of this type of loan ends Aprfl 1, 1936." S P “ Variety of Finishings. | Beamed ceilings may be finished | with paint, enamel, lacquer, mmmh ‘or stain. Safe Playgrounds For Your Children Every home has something that mere dollars can't ands of own front yard. And “have everything.” Just urning Fire- Papered Bed Churches, Business Cen- ter. $7,350 Georgia Avemue through on Bonifcnt Street at Peo- ples Drug Store, four blocks to homes. E. BROOKE LEE. Pres. 7966 Georgia Ave. SHepherd 2100 NORTH \ h ASHINGTON Realty company Inc. Beautiful MONROE “4413 Furnished by Hutchison, Inc. left lata Smmng Phone Em. 5744 in Exclusive Grasslands Developed by , Street N. 4 More Homes Nearing Completion This is a General Electric Kitchen Health Home equipped with Automatic H $10,250-00 OPEN DAILY UNTIL 9 P.M. Drive out Wisconsin An. to Yuma St. at Immacu- (west, FICE ON PREM SES New Home WARREN Drape: John F. Ligon Heat. ) 4 blocks to property Earle M. Dawson, Sales PAGE B—1 ONE-FAMILY HOME BOM IS REVIVED WITH 36 PERMITS Week’s Total Only 12 Less Than Sum for July Last Summer. |INCREASE IS 150 PCT. ABOVE PERIOD IN 1934 Valuation of $461,461 Is Nearly Double That of Last Week in District. The boom in small home building which began in the Capital area in early Spring was resumed during the | past week following a slight slowing down of activity, and permits for 58 | one-family dwellings were issued by the office of Building Inspector John W. Oehmann. In number the homes for which permits were issued in the week were only 12 less than were approved by Oehmann's office during the entire month of July last year. The increase over the corresponding week of 1934 was approximately 150 per cent. The valuation of all types of build- ing permits issued in the week, in- cluding new construction, additions, alterations and repairs, was $461,461, " (Continued on Bage 3, Column 1.) DETACHED CORNER Center-Hall Plan 4541 Chesapeake St. Drire out Mass. Ave. to 46th S . Turn right to Exhibit Home. $12,950 A REAL BUY in an unusual corner home with such fea- tures as recreation room, living room with open fireplace and dining alcove, in a smart new restricted Northwest home com- munity between Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues. A FEW FEATURES Perfectly Planned Detached Home English Design Covered Porch All-Masonry Constructicn Landscaped, Sodded Lot 110 Ft. Wide Six_Spacious Rooms Two Tiled Baths Brick Garage Electric Health Kitchen Built-in Cabinets Dry Concrete Cellar G-E Oil Burner Basement Lavatory Copper Water Pipes Weather-Stripping New-Type Radiators Artistic Decorations Completely Furnished by THE HECHT CO. Open Until 9 P.M. 1404 K CAFRITZ pu. %080 Over 3,000 Lifetime Homes Built and Sold 20 Motor Minutes from Downtown 7121 Hampden Lane On a beautifully wooded lot of 95-ft. frontage, this brick Colonial home has 4 cross- ventilated bed rooms and 2 baths with shower; oil burner. HEN YOU BUY OR BUILD in Greenwich Forest, you have the assuramce of a distinctive residence in one of the finest new home com- munities near the Nation's Capital. Beautiful shade trees wide, deep lots afford an un- surpassed setting of mnatural beauty. Constructed of the finest nationally known ma- ferials, with skilled Ilabor, Greenwich Forest homes are priced to give you more for your dollar in home value and comfort on convenient terms. Visit the Display Home and the mew homes now under con- struction. Complete informa- tion on the premises. Open Until 9 P.M. Greentoich Forest out Wisconsin Avenue !mfllc loht gt Bethesdd, turn lm Georgetown Road to Wil Phone: Wisconsin 5204 A Restricted Community by CAFRITZ