Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1936, Page 25

v @he Foening Shat —_— HOLSIG PROECY TOCOST§1 0000 PLANNEDNEARBY Apartments for 178 Fam- ilies to Be Provided in Development. 10-ACRE SITE LOCATED AT DISTRICT BOUNDARY Blair Management Corp. Is Spon- | sor of Project Approved by F. H. A Announcement of the completion of plans for the financing of a large- scale housing project for the Wash- ington metropolitan area, to be known | as “Hillside Gardens,” was made to- day by Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald. The site, embracing a triangular | tract of land, somewhat in excess of | 10 acres in area. extending east from Sixteenth treet aicng to Colesville | Pike and the East-West Highway, is | located just across the District line | in Silver Spring, Md. The land is | gently rolling and fnll advantage will | be taken of the topography in the | plotting of the buildings and in the | landscaping of the grounds. All Luild- | ings will be set back at least 60 feet | from the boundary streets, an¢ since | the structures will cover less than 20 | per cent of the land, approximately eight acres of the total of 10 acres will be left open for individual gar- dens, playgrounds, lawns and wooded park areas. | The building plans call for two and three-story semi-fireproof structures | which will provide living quarters for 178 families and garages for %8 cars. Particular care was taken in the pian- ning to assure every apartment of cross ventilation and a high cegree of privacy. The buildings will be sub- stantial in construction, ample in ac- commodation and equipped in a thor- oughly up-to-date manner. $67 Is Average Rental. The apartments will vary in size from three to six rooms and the rentals contemplatei range from | $43.50 per month for the three-room (See HOUSING, Page 2.) THEATER AND SHOPS SOON TO BE ERECTED Work to Be Started Shortly on Group of Buildings on Wilson Boulevard. Work will be started shortly on a theater and group of shops to be erected on Wilson boulevard, directly across from the Colonial Village Apart- ments in Arlington County, Va. The cinema theater and stores will be built by Doyle and Russell of Rich- mond, and the theater has been leased by Randall H. Hagner & Co. to Neigh- borhood Theaters, Inc., of Richmond, which operates the State Theater in | Falls Church. The architect for the $150,000 building is Volney O. Chase. Randall H. Hagner & Co., which negotiated for the New York Life Insurance Co. in making the loan for erection of Colo- nial Village, will handle rental of the stores. | Open Saturday & Sunday 6400-6420-6424 31st | Street N.W. Chevy Chase, D. C. Designed by one of Wash- ington’s best architects. As finely built from a con- struction standpoi property in the city. These lovely homes at $9,950 and $12,450 are well worthy of anyone’s careful inspection. - J: Wesley Buchanan, Inc. 916 15th Street N.W. ME. 1143 Chevy Chase Blvd. Chevy Chase, Md. | DUPLICATION CAN NOT BE | EXPECTED. The six larges rooms in town with a perfectly |lovely bath. Rockwool insula- tion and furred walls. GAS| HEAT and RANGE—electric| i n, garage, fireplace. Drive out Wisconsin Ave., opposite | | Cheoy Chase Clud grounds—turn left on Chevy Chase Blvd. PHILLIPS & CANBY, INC. Exclusively Natl. 4600 1012 15th St. NW. | | THIRD ‘STAR HOME WASHINGTON, D. C., ENTERS 4T WEK . Southern Colonial House Visited by Thousands During Display. The third Silver Star Home of {1936, the beautiful Southern Colonial | house at 6520 Barnaby street, Chevy | Chase, tomorrow will enter the fourth | and final week of exhibition. i Thousands of visitors from through- out Washington and nearby have inspected the house and the | approval of these persons of the con- struction and design of the structure has been almost unanimous. There are seven rooms, including both a | second-floor as well as a downstairs | living room, and three baths in the areas | SA TURDAY, JUNE 20, A number of buildings in the second group of apartments at Colonial Village, low-cost housing project near Clarendon, Va., nearing completion. New tenants will move in during July and August The entire project, built by is president, and insured through the Federal Housing Administration, will cost $3,000,000. Upper left: Upper right: Below: Landscaping Drawing showing the cinema theater and shops to $150,000. Randall H. Hagner & Co. will be leasing agents for the stores. treatment about the first grou P. W A }Iousing Project Here home, which is built of brick, painted P Progress of work on the second group, containing altogether 469 apartments. 1936. Building News * % are a firm of which Gustave Ring of 276 apartments, completed early last Fall. e built adjacent to the apartments this Summer, which will cost | white. Designed by Moss. Barnaby Woods Development Co., | of which Edward R. Carr is president, | | erected the house on a portion of its new Barnaby Woods development. It was designed by Louis R. Moss, well-known architect, who has plan- |ned two other houses that received | the Silver Star award within the | past year. The place has been beau- | tifully furnished in antiques by Sarah | Willoughby Moody of Bethesda, Md. The latest Star home has an at- To Demonstrate City Planning BY NELSON M. SHEPARD. | an infinitesimal portion of the urgent Langston Courts, the Public Works | Administration’s $1,600,000 housing project, being built on Benning road, is intended as something more than a mere governmental demonstration of model housing for families of low incomes. It is also a phase of city planning, officials say, with a view| | to minimizing traffic hazards within tractive setting on a. large elevated | ilot at the corner of Barnaby and Worthington streets. The lot is ex- | cellently landscaped and thousands of vines and flowering shrubs have been planted on the portions that slope down to the streets. Indorsement Unanimous. Unanimous indorsement of the Sil- ver Star Homes Committee, composed of experts who thoroughly inspect all | houses submitted for the Star , (See HOME, Page 2.) HIGHWOOD Chevy Chase, D. C. $14,650 3304 Runnymede N.W. This lovely detached French pro- vincial home will appeal to the most discriminating buyer. Cn the first floor: Beautiful en- trance hall with winding staircase, panelled living room 14.6x20.6 with built-in book cases, open fireplace, dining room with built-in china closets, screened porch. Four bed rooms, or library, finished in knotty pine, 2 baths. Open Daily and Sunday From Chevy Chase Circle turn right on Western Ritten- right 3§rd St. left to ° Runnumede, left to property. G. F. Mikkelson & Son Owners-Builders Milton F. Schwab, Sales fection” in home planning. yourself. 1515 K Street N.W. a small but densely populated area. | In view of the multiplying traffic | problems of Washington—many of them due to haphazard planning—the proposed regulation of traffic in Lang- ston Courts is worthy of notice. | Similarly throughout the country, | the housing division of the P. W. A. | has taken cognizance of such prob-| lems in planning and building some | 50 huge slum clearance and low rent | housing developments in 35 cities. | Large as this housing program is when | | considered collectively, it meets only Shepherd Park 7810 13th St. N.W. 3 Bedrooms—2 Baths Bedroom and Bath on 1st Floor This home, just completed, reflects the trend toward “per- _There is an air of refinement about this home and certainly the price is moderate. AN ELECTRIC KITCHEN HEALTH HOME Open Saturday and Sunday Till 9 * 2 squares east of 16th St., between Kalmia and Locust L. E. Breuninger & Sons, Inc. Builders — Realtors |/}l An opportunity to buy a In Beautiful Chevy Chase | And Only $5’975 134 East Bradley Lane |}l charming detached home in an excludve neighborhoed at |§ | a price you can afford. The |} lot, 60x150, unusual in it- self with its lovely flowers, ||| shrubs and fruit trees, not to |}l mention the rippling brook [} | and rustic bridge in the rear. | | House has five large rooms, bath, attic, elec. ref., fire- | place and automatic blower furnace. Immediate inspec- tion advised. | } Open Sunday | Frank S. Phillips 927 15th St. Di. 1411 See this “masterpiece” for NAtional 2040 needs in this country for new and moderately priced homes residents of tenement districts. Taken as an object lesson, the P. W. A. program grows in national importance as a demonstration of the latest ideas in home planning and trafic regulation within congested city areas. for the | settled outlying districts In which| Langston Courts is situated. It is| not a slum clearance development, such as the huge housing projects under construction in New York City, | Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Detroit, Atlanta | and many other large cities. North of | Benning road at Twenty-fourth street, where superstructures soon are to be reared, there is nothing but a vacant tract which offers no traffic problem in itself. That section, of course, is open now to future develop- ment and wisdom of laying out a large sub-division with a view to control- ling incoming and outgoing traffic no doubt will be fulfilled. Most American cities have expanded APARTMENT SOLD Sale of the apartment located at ARCHITECTS ELECT Fred §. Murphy President of Local A. I A Cha‘er. Fred V. Murphy was elected presi- dent of the Washingion Chapter of the American Institute of Architects at a meeting held recently in Colum- bia Country Club. Other officers of the chapter for the coming year are as follows: Theodore L Coe, first vice president; Maurice F. May, second vice president: P. F. Schreier, secretary, and Julius Wenig, | treasurer. Arthur B. Heaton, president for the past year, was named to the Executive Committee. PAGE C—1 BUILDING PERMITS TOTAL 15 §417.460 FOR WEEK'S TINE 41 Single-Family Homes and Five Apartments Are Included. | RAILROAD WILL ERECT ADDITION TO BUILDING Gordon Plans to Build Group in 5000 Block of Second Street. | Ethel Private building in the Capital dur- | ing the past week dropped far below the record-breaking figure of the previous six-day period, and fell slightly under the average volume | for recent -weeks, when the office of | Building Inspector John W. Oehmann approved permits for $417,450 in new construction, and modernization work to existing structures Included in the list for the week (See PERMITS, Page 7.) 109% CASH ~ BALANCE LIKE RENT | New homes of distinction in restricted home community, now developing in nearby 2 On paved highway, 8 Washington. Bus se stricted architecture. stome construction heat, oil burner Price Range, ! prevention. P $2,000,000 for Flood Control. France will spend $2,000,000 on flood | $5,000 to $7,000 No prices comparable in suburban area Phone Greenwood 2746 or 1986, WE INVITE COMPARISON OF THESE FEATURES 1438 Columbia road to a local investor for the Federal Security & Mortgage Co., was announced today by the office of Adlai Mann, real estate broker. FOR 88,450 DON’T DELAY—6 SOLD IN 4 DAYS! On Modified Scale Here. | without much regard to careful plan- In Washington, the demonstration Ding. The typical gridiron of streets is on a modified scale, rendered less 3nd main arteries of traffic have given important because of the sparsely “(See P. W. A, Page 3.) Suburban Values ’8,950 English studio homes, story and half beamed living room with open fireplace, bed room and bath 1st floor, two bed rooms and bath 2nd floor. Furred walls, caulked, insulated, screened, built-in garage. Terms. Electric kitchen health homes. Federal Housing Financing. These and other homes under construction. Each home has a half acre or more of ground. If you have a home ot your own design we can finance and build. Anyway, we want you to see these homes in Hillandale. Directions: Drive out Piney Branch road, 4 miles from D. C. to Hillandale signs and office or call Adams 0022. Drive Out Sunday and Inspect the Appealing New Brick Homes That may be purchased with a small cash payment and as little as S45 Monthly Only 20 minutes’ drive via beautiful 16th Street in BRANWILL PARK On 16th St. bus line convenient to schools, parks, golf courses, etc. REALTY MOSS&sw Tower Bidg. Metro. 1776 Evenings, Shepherd 3742 Including Interest and Principal From traffic lioht on Georgia Avenue o B ring. arive up. the: Coles: ville Road to Franklin Ave (1 block beyond_Sligo Park,) then right on Franklin Avenue 3 blocks to BRAN- WILL PARK. The Bride’s House 6600 SEVENTH ST. N.W. Corner of Van Buren St. 9,250 A new white brick corner home with Cape Cod blue doors; with effective wood paneling in the living room and dining room; a modern kitchen; a master bed room with built-in chest of drawers and a guest room. A distinctive and charm- ingly different new home with an individuality all its own. Built by Gardiner Construction Co. Open Daily and Sunday Till P.M. A. S. GARDINER 1510 K St. N.W. NA. 0334 There are 20 apartments building, which has en assessed valua- tion of approximately $75,000. A Fine Corner Home 5700 8th St. N.W. (Corner Madison St.) 8,950 This conveniently lo- cated house is on a nice corner lot, has six large rooms and a glassed-in sleeping porch; in new- house condition, elec. refrigeration, spacious porches, built-in garage. Open Today and Sunday Until 9 P.M. H.G.Smithy Co. 811 15th St. NNW. Na. 5904 Exhibit Home Furnished and Draped by Palais Royal Studios 7404 Custer Road $8950 w * HOMEL An in-town community in the = ' 3 Bedrooms 2 Tiled Baths on Second Floor Ample Closet Space Recreation Room Large Living Room Big Dining Room EXHIBIT HOME 5126 3rd St. N.W. Breakfast Nook De Luxe Kitchen Built-in Garage ’ Automatic Heat Large Front Porch Furred Walls Weather Stripped, Caulked and Screened. OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY UNTIL 9 P.M. To Reach: Drive out Kansas Avenue or Georgia Avenue to Gallatin Street, then turn east to Third. Built by Brown Bros. Furnished by The Palais Royal Investment District Building WOODLAND A virgin forest transformed into a com- munity of picturesque hom Each gjven a natural setting suiting its special type. Bungalows and Colonials— ranging in size from two to four bed rooms: with ‘one and’ two baths—at prices begin- ning at $8950. The Exhibit Home is @ cozy Cape Cod Bungalow—but, with unusually big rooms: two bed rooms: bath and showe: cally equipped kitchen: big Colonial fire- slace—and an attic that can readily be converted into @ nursery or additional bed rooms. Convenient Terms Arranged Directions—Out Wisconsin Avenue to the Bank of Bethesda, turning left into Old Georgetown Road, ' thence one short mile to Huntington Porkway * of wholly, de- tached homes—on big. wide open lots— profusely landscaped. Just what you have all along wanted in an in-town home but that has never before been possible. The Exhibit Home is only one of the many interesting 'types. Three handsome bed rooms: two mod- emly equipped baths; cozy breakiast nook: electrically equipped kitchen: rock weol insulation: Master Kraft Oil Bumer—and Lifetime construction and finish throughout. Think of such a home in this ideal loca- tion for $10,750. 4444 Brandywine St. Fumished and Draped by Hilda Miller Convenient Terms Amranged Directions—Come out Wiscohsin Avenve fo River Road, furning left one block fo Brondywine Street, thence jo Homelond. 1404 KSt.N.W. ‘'« Invest in a CAFRITZ == $10,750 Open Every D:ry and Sunday DL 9080 Lifetime of Comfortable Living »