Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1942, Page 20

Real Estate B-1 ! 150,000 Saw 13 Silver Star Homes in "41 Designs Reflected World Changes; Details Recalled By MARGARET NOWELL. ‘Thirteen Silver Star Homes ex- hibited to the public in 1941 by The Star were visited by an estimated 150,000 people. Though the houses are shown to encourage and pro- mote better building, rather than as commercial propositions, more than 200 houses, valued in excess of $2,000,000, were sold directly as & result of the campaigns. Silver Star Homes are selected by an independent committee of building experts, who examine ap- plications for the award filed by - builders with The Star. Applications are not solicited. The committee examines plans and specifications for the houses and inspects the jobs Home Improvements The Foening Staf wrn SUNDAY MO&SNING WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1942. Private Building InD. C. Breaks Records in "41 New Construction Shows Increase Of $25,000,000 By JAMES Y. NEWTON. Construction records were broken on all sides of the Capital in 1941 as private builders of Metropolitan Washington obtained permits for new construction valued at $102,- 2727755, an increase of more than $25,000,000 over 1940, previously a record year. These are strictly pri- vate building figures and do not in- clude operations of the Federal or local governments. Forecasts of builders on opera- tions expected this year are not very encouraging. Government priorities on materials and in some instances fear on the part of builders, they will be unable to get materials even though they have a priority rating, are expected to cut private building nearly in half. A falling off of con- struction was noted in the last few months of 1941. A greater reduc- tion of building is looked for more in the District than in outlying areas, due to a shortage of sites for defense housing in the city. Total building operations estab- lished records last year in all the nearby counties of Maryland and Virginia. The valuation for these sections was $52,367,043, as com- pared to $37,489.965 for 1940, which was the old record. The District private total for 1941 was $49.905,- 712, a gain of more than $7,000.000 over 1940, but not as high as in sev- eral years of the middle 1920s. Last year, for the first time in history, | the building volume in suburban sections exceeded that of the Dis- trict. Home Building Sets Record. . Residential construction for 1941 set a record in the District, as well as in each of the nearby areas ex- cept Alexandria. Private builders of the Metropolitan Area last year produced a total of 20,456 family dwelling units, 5403 more than in 1940, previously the highest on rec- ord. It is estimated this new hous- ing would accommodate nearly 100,- 000 people. Despite this there is still a great shortage of space and the Government estimates that 23,- 000 additional units will have to be built in the Capital area by June 30 to take care of the thousands of | new workers descending on the city. New living units built last vear were nearly equally divided between apartments and one-family dwell- ings. The number of new apartment units was 11.064, while the total of | ment (140 units), 1809 G street N-W.; | remove difficulties in the way of four bed Soecial fea- new houses was 9.392. By far the | to cost $300.000. 2 it | ey Peoduction. | The:. cosmities Rie i o e greater number of apartments were| Eugene Phifer, Tower Building,| Massachusetts avenue N.W. from Mr. and Mrs. John C. Rout. The transaction was made throug! further has before it the whole ques- foi with lovelciy | copoer built hml dme Dll(sltnlcl. afl;ne thefcoulr;- owner and builder; Dana B. Johan- | Boss & Plelps, realtors. —Star Staff Photos. “lz;,lh:f e:"ml‘uw’:: building. e flashings, water pipes and ties hold a wide lead in one-family | nes, jr., 927 Fifteenth street N.-W., mmif recomment screens, "insulated slate roof, gtructures. designer; to erect twelve 2-story | for the war period changes in title r - ; B bl T mew conunii | sasoare s et o fartly Sh & Luchs Report ‘hulldmg the firm anticipates an even | $2.000,000 in Realty Sales | VI of the FUH. A Act, either by eectheed sirpeina, Jaltrcooct tion in nearby areas was residential | fiats, 105 to 149 Thirty-fth street JNANNON ICNS KEPOMIS | greater volume of business this year. legislation or by administrative re- ‘ 4 in character, while in the District the total construction was swelled by the inclusion of new office build- | ings and other commercial struc- tures. In each nearby county the record broken by 1941 construction valuation had been set in 1940. December Figure Highest. Permits were issued in the District last year for 2.483 one-family dwell- ings and 7,238 apartment units, a grand total of 9,721, a gain of 1549 | over 1940. In nearby Maryland and Virginia permits were issued for (See 1941 BUILDING, Page B-: 2.) = S to cost $7.000 each. vestment priperties. He said that! S cuvied private dwellings. FISHEH | TRANSFERRED || Real Estate Broker . Jack Coopersmith, Woodward | despite the curtailment of new Columbia Mortgage & Co., Inc. * [| OWNER S | NEW BRICK Building, owner; Warren Spencer, | =—————— ————— | 338 150 st Dist. 6830 3742 Appleton St. N.W. COLONIAL HOME License Is Revoked During the past week the District | ers; Russell O. Kluge, Union Trust | | Building, designer; to erect five 1-| CHEVY CHASE—New home of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. True- worthy at 105 East Woodbine street, in the Rollingwood sec- tion. They bought it from A. Luchs & Son, builders, through the office of William Boswell. 577,665 in Permils | 'For Private Building Issued in Week Apartments Providing For 216 Family Units Are Included Private building having a total | valuation of $577,665 was included | in permits issued during the past week by the office of Building In- spector Robert H. Davis. Included in the list were permits calling for erection of apartments with a ca- pacity of 216 family dwelling units and seven one-family houses. More important permits of the| week follow: Harry H. Brodie, 5946 Georgia av- enue N.W., owner and builder; J. | P. Fitzsimmons, 1010 Vermont av- enue N.W, designer; to erect one | | 8-story brick and concrete apart- H. & S. Construction Co., 1626 K street N.W., owners and builders; George T. Santmyers, 1410 K street | N.W., designer; to erect five 2-story | brick and cinder block flats (4—4, | 6—1), 412 to 430 Mellon street SE.; | to_cost $38,000. Homesite Realty Co., 1915 Shep- | herd street N.E., owners and build- ers; Joseph H. Abel, 1636 Connecti- cut avenue N.W., designer; to erect | five 2-story brick, frame and stone | dwellings, 4406-4408-4412 Thirty- ninth street N.W., 3901 Yuma street N.W. and 3900 Alton place N.W.; NE. to cost $117,000. 1 Inc., 1350 Jonquil street N.W., build- reported tocay. about evenl o & « Sk S IN CATHIDRAL HEIGHTS—Lt. CoX Edwin S. Bette]hetm, jr. One of Its Biggest Years The firm >f Shannon & Luchs ment at 8472 to 8488 Flower avenue, rounded out 35 years of real estate Silver Spring, at well over $100.000; service in 19-1 with one of the big- gest years in the organization's his- | §75000; an apartment house at 4211 tory, Sales Drector A. Jasper Moore | Second Street N.W., for $70,000, and Sales aggregating | several other large investments. $3,642657 were closed during the | | sale to the R. F. C. Mortgage Co. of! year, an incease of $1,000,000 over | 1940. Mr. Moor: said the sales were| divided between resic | POt dential prop-rty and business or in- | Rock Creek Hills Among the transactions closed in | the past few months was the sale | of a large park-and-shop develop- | a large commercial garage located at ‘ 1707 L street N.W., at approximately Al |a site for an office building at a| price in excess of $100,000 also was | Chevy Chase. Md. —Large llvml din- fifu E;tati tecot:rml.(muml remkec} Story stone and brick and cinder | E:hibit House g R WEEE lsr[l]“r“'ro i Adjacent to Wakefield [} ine room. de luxe kitcben, s ! e real estate broker's license of | plock stores, 3732 to 3740 Minne- = N. | 3 [{}§ ird floor. 2 1arse bedr: ! Herry B. Moore. e Lo yirane) [ So0 KessimotomiParkpay THOS. J. FISHER CO. SINCE THE PRIORITIES | | G Chase D.C. | sieestht dhomer and vl | A license as a business chance $15,000 Apartment ‘ ?xfln‘:’{‘.fikx:'x#m Tot ""’o“x'z' _tt. 738 15th St. | th n Only 4 months old. Center type— || trees; 2 porche A real home. salesman was issued to Adelbert R. 2 = roniar e ey oc | Sou akota especially bright comfortable rooms. Seclve, Room 217, 1010 Vermont| Walter Hermann & Brill, Wood-|l| oom dei wichen. "t door L RULING, FINE HOMES n NE Living room about 21x17. Bay windows AM!IICAN’AURT(IVEKSITY ‘v;:u:;:)l‘il‘cl'atlon for a real estate g::)‘:geu’;}dlsnngfitmi? ;:lldo t:lms?;er:i i2Tis Toor nd Bath S-car garage. ARE HARD T0 FIND! ‘ e G adb?xl»rngto:g grcr;:(g ;?::ng:,g ?:cm I 4 I!DROOMS——Z BATHS. salesman’s license was received from (See PERMITS, Page B-2.) OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY 1] An unusually attractive de- space for recreation room, fireplace I e i Cn?nml home. rection i William O. Chapman, 1329 E street TO REACH—Drive out Conmecticut A tached brick Colonial. First installed, air-conditioned, ottached ||} Wan. large living. dining room, de N.W. An application for a business BT e e oerih: New Colonial Homes | ¥ gorage. Ideal location—near public || (I luxe kitchen. air-conditioned, BER: chance broker's license was Te- ST o Ready for Immediate ||| floor den, 12 by 18. Three ond parochiol schools, stores end | [l 3noeroc™firge bedroom. third fioor | ceived from Alexander S. Economon, ROCK CREEK Occupancy { 1| bedrooms, two baths. Fire- churches. Saves your tires os trans- insulated. 1350 Brentwood road N.E. | HILLS Sis tocne two taths tor | place, oil heat; screened | || | portotion is ot hand. | CHEVY c'usAosot, D. C. L haii bacns: run basement, || | porch. Recreation room, ga- Open Saturday Afternoon pitina Gt Baes - ocetated Owned and Developed by garage, porch, fireplace in | | rage. Summer-Winter hook- & Sunday 11 to Dark |§ oniy by owner. Large living. dining Continertal Life Insurance living room. On large | - | y Shom. kitchen with pantry.’3 bed | Sk tiful restrictea _commun- | 1| Practically New and in fine (||| THOS. J. FISHER €O., INC. ||}l fifuee ™ peautitul” yarg. “gowers, | N“TES ; Invistment Building Bises. Dispiay nome now || condition. Realtors shrubbery; Venetian s N Mr. Allen open st 9706 Columbia | 1] 738 15th St. NW. DI. 6830 EARLY AMERICA | ; Bivd. See it todsy without |} | Qpen Sunday 1:30 to 5:30 |[| ety ) HALL COLONIAL—$11,750 2 ||| Stigo 20:8 NA. 8503 1all. 3 | pe! EXCLUSIVE AGENTS greroating, “";‘.“,.f"f&::“fiz:‘x;: Reasonalle Rates ric h ining B o s B . T A Y Boss and Phelps |}/ - ~ | R S o rust g o 2nd floor. beau: Secured on Improved Property. * MnnnEsHILL cu Bivd. ‘and loft to new Realtors : exceptionslly large clos e M N f 37,950 Up $55 PerMo. unLT BY Exclusively R R B e ATIONAL MORTEAS 35, SOLDte, NOW READY SINCE 1300 FULTON R, SRUVER W7 K st NA. 9300 nmbarto@) |ff 2 eonaioned i ! 3 i & Investuent Cone, Brler e Paye® semicd 804-17%St NW. MEt. 4100 el 8 Jum o, . 00 : = = . |l NEWw BRICK COLONIAL (1IN VAves NLW: e A, 008 Tollet, fireplace, automatic heat. ! £ N2 A il e : Tm:"m :“ES m"f"a the 11 Bethesda’s best m'u Reception hall. . fireplace, a atic 3 2 : wind-swept knolls of Dum- e - Furnished House Open Til 9 P.M. '/ . barton, west of historic old |{ff inree ivin bedmo' '“’nl"»figm‘fifi 4725 10TH N.E. Georgetown. It lives, too, in e “bath lot BOx100: Michigan Ave., east of Catholic Uni- || : 0 b air Conaitioned; b versity, morth om 13th St. to o this charming home in New Homes For Sale Enanan SC) tertto 10th. i ; [ which the mellowness of Colony Built Homes . N true Colonial architecture is | 4 ““WNS—I'/‘ BATHS ; . i $11,75 KRAFT REALTY CO. FINEST IN | faithfully reproduced. Un- guver | sprine. e —New prick . o S ke thi , fioor ree Rhode Island S A “"3 tmood P THEIR PRICE CLASS || = 42" il conte Bl e 2 | A , Bt & Lost. oower. | hall leading to the living bedrooms, 2 bnumul e ba Ave. Terrace - ” ] R Hills| onseisss i B Lol i e BUILD MORE HO U SES! osemary it e CHEWY CHASE, D. C 55 F A AT floor library, with lavatory, $11,950 T e wite Where can | i 8 o ey L0Wy cOST dining room in rer, kitchen Jow, aibck detached, cojontal Cooley & Gruver on th: rolling wooded hill- 4 in front. Four bedrooms, | Tuxe Yitchen. "'gguv.d:r"'m:r:c?ml\gf comstractionr . sides that border Rbck : two baths on second floor. %% co’.‘.anmnm. recreation room wih names lonx iden- refinance my e Sl RESPONDS Two-cor_garage, facilities f7en P o S T b | e onoweres |l 5 sronoows_2 mamus tiful fomes, recently com- . CENTER HALL COLONIA : Sereiuly enes mortgage ? | picterJeserply a stond- WITH A 325-HOUSE PROGRAM! o Wisconsin_Avene _in $16.750 i oped communit ard +f living which we =& Georgetown, north to Reser- Chevy Chase, Md. 3 blocks from 7 ‘doubit feon be ‘diplicated , Doing our part to fill the tremendous need for housing, we voir Road and west to evy Ci ¢ ioor, . for nany years to e ’ have 97 homes finished, 34 nearing completion, 194 more 4643 KENMORE DRIVE z0d floor, 5 ROOMS—S$6,300 Distir ch . under woy. Modern, 5 and 6 room homes, §5,235 to $5,9%0. (Just Beyond Fozall R&) m-' 374 oor, one_ large room, 4 U e e e Down payment as low as $675, including all settlement costs. tirul center-hall homes of 3 8 Toied Buliin Beei t Bea cent 1 £ P 6 ROOMS—$6,300 e e e Monthly payment from $33.50, including interest, principal, Dediooms and 3 baths. in a quiet WAVERLY TAYLOR % % |{f = R L0 of the builders' ort. I Gl GOl s e o 10tn Bt ¢ the D. ©. Line [ N — s Averaging one sale for each work- ing day and surpassing their record for any vear, Leo M. Bernstein & Co. announced today the completion of real estate property sales in 1941 aggregating in value approximately $2,000,000. Sales were made in all sections of the city and involved | investment and residential proper- ies. urchased this house at 3927 Company 916 Weodward Blds. NA. 7936. existing cost levels. Title VI is set up through a special national fund for defense situations recognized as involving special risks. Introducing greater flexibility into | its requirements to cover whatever risk and difficulty now arise and thus insure a safe flow of defense | housing privately built would be in- | finitely less expensive than direct Government building and would in no way jeopardize the remalning | F. H. A. mortgage portfolio, officials of the committee point out. In co-operation with government- al agencies, in close consultation with manufacturers of building ma- terials, and through a national pool- ing of ideas of home builders them- selves the committee seeks to find | means whereby ordinary civilian | home buildings may be continued in- | sofar as it would strengthen the | national economy and not interfere with war effort. Home Builders Plan Parley Here Jan. 15 'On Defense Housing Emergency Committee To Map Quick and Sure Production A meeting of the Home Builders’ Emergency Committee, representing the home building industry, will be held January 15 at the Mayflower Hotel, Chairman Hugh Potter, Hous- ton, Tex., announces. The committee, in which the Home Builders’ Institute of America, the National Association of Real Estate Boards and other groups in the home building field are co-operating, will have before it the whole prob- lem of insuring quick and sure pro- duction by private enterprise of dwellings now urgently needed by defense workers, dwellings which in the great majority of locations pri- vate enterprise is both able and will- ing to produce. It will confer with officials of the Government as to | measures which might be taken to Home Mortgages Up 17 Pct. Home financing during November brought the total of recorded non- farm mortgages for the first 11 months of 1941 to nearly four and | & half billion dollars, 17 per cent more than for the same period last | year, Federal Home Loan B-nk‘ Board economists announced today. | { visions, and modification of F. H. A. valuation policy to take into account ;LAST ONE LEFT!'" 3065 Cleveland Ave. N.W. In, Massachusetts Ave Park, Per Sl 000 Walllerqbunhp 1200 154 ST. N.W. DIST. 0222 ’h $13,750 (Corner 38th St.. 1 Seuare North of Albemarle St.) thoroughly, either during construc- tion or upon completion, and at both times where possible. Illus- trating the care used in selecting Silver Star Homes three times as many applications- were rejected as accepted last year. There was only one change on the Silver Star Homes Committee last year. It came in October, when Charles C. Koones succeeded Waver= ly Taylor as president of the Wash- ington Real Estate Board. The head | of the board automatically becomes & member of the committee. Other members were James S. Taylor, for- merly of the Federal Housing Ad- ministration and now with the O. P. M., chairman; Irwin S. Porter, member of the architectural firm of Porter & Lockie, and Edwin H. Rosengarten, builder, member of the contracting firm of Davis, Wick & Rosengarten. ‘World Changes Reflected. Silver Star houses of the last year, | if viewed by a historian, might give more than an inkling of what has been going on in Washington since January, 1941. As world events en- compassing Europe finally came close to our shores, the city of Washington reflected the event. More and more experts were called in and conferences were prolonged until it became necessary to take up residence here, which caused a demand for large homes and trim (See SILVER ¢ STAR , Page B-4) Hampshire Hills “A Restricted Community” In the District Designed homes with three screened porch. Priced at $9,- 000. Only 2 left. 90 RITTENHOUSE ST. N.E. OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY TO REACH: Out New Hampshire Ave. to Eastern Ave.. lejt on Eait ern one block to Siigo Mill Rd.. on Sligo Mill Rd. to Ruunnoun and right to houses. James A. Boorman AD. 4129 Agent DI._5666 Outstanding Home Values 5 “DIOOMS—! BATHS $14,750 you preciate truly fine . livine see 1827 Randolph St. 2226 13th St. N.E. Open Daily and Sunday 2 Display Homes furnished by Palais Rova’. Reached by way of Highway Bridoe and Route 1 to signs. or over Memorial Bridge and *outh C!NTII-;!ALL COLONIAL Ses * * $10,750 to m.m NW. 1 Arlington Ridge Road, right on Mi. Ver- \ FH A, Inpected and Approved WEAVER 3’:’:‘::';’"1',:23:;; v non Ave. o Lynhaven, in Alezandria, Ve. i ut 1 the Mo ot 00 st er Popular Plans Avai \ed. left into Cr : g o Out Rhode_Island Avenue to 12th St. g ane thew Aosser (il | J. WESLEY BUCHANAN mile to our sign, right on new read- N.E. (Trafic light). Bear right on ‘AUL P. STONE & Realtor TEmple 2600 e e AXTHUR S LORD_ ~ : , sion invited t0 what webelieve 5 5 : : Inspection invi webel to 13th St. right to home. ] ED&I??M&«%PX&EFL i o be the gris 1] COOLEY & GRUVER S TiNeioNiat : PRanay Bat + Leslie D. Measell . Dt 2481 & PR 113 1427 bye S1. 2 (]