Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-04

Shermsn, pleasant residence and property near
Columbia College, valued AZ $1,000. senator
LANDER, $1,000 erown,stone eease. Senator
Swami, Fernando Wood, and senator Bucking-
Lam occupy q ron OF houses each costing stS00o.
Senator West, q new $4,000 residence. Pre-
hnghuysen, new $50 900 house. Senator Sum-
ner, sto.ooo residence. which has doubled in
value In TOUR years Joseph b. Chafiee, landed
iroperty, With the intention 60 build upon A..
the
PERSONS FRoN A DISTANCE
VIC rave taken the Washington fever aud made
investments In land ans houses here will mama
Shsries Astor Bristed, grandson OF John Jacob
Astor, who has bought Mrs. Stanton,s house
worth $4,000 A. II. Jessup, retired paper man
tacturet, OF fnhadeiphiA, who has invested
si50oo in ground and built three espensiye
houses. with more 20 come. Joseph b. Narnnm
Of New York. who has finished the most hand.
some block on Pennsylvania avenue, WHICH
probably cost S75.ooa. and Is now putting M
another. Mr.. Narnum, although an ofiice-
holder In New York. belongs 20 a family witch
x1c, ss'ehs,xe properly in Mashington aud he
city In lsS. 1hos. Sunderland. wealthy mining
operator from Nevada. Investments q amounf
OF s.Noa, Edward Beale, OF Chester. Pa,
said TO he the greatest lsndhOlder In America,
nss Just purchased the Decatur mansion for
$4,000, and begun improvements Col WRIGHT
hlNes added TO his superb villa rear Biadens-
burg stately city residence. Frank RIves. sou
OF y. Z. Rives, villa and PARK near NJ Ollvef
Is r. Eilbert, OF Massachusetts. has built more
lhhn three hundred houses In different nart< of
The CITY, Mr.. Gilbert was private soldier in
the war, and Is not now more than thirty wears
old. John q. Evans. OF Syracuse n Y.
builder OF $500 on worth Of iirstclass residences
A. l.. Barber, OF Geneva. o.. representing a
Pennsylvania interest. has bought and built 10
the amount of SSnO go, Of which a portion
takes the name Of lie nroict Park. >. q. How
ard, eN-editOr OF Columbus, o., has purcha ed
hity acres two miles from the city Tor a subur-
ban town, which he calls MOnteliO. A. l..
Grant. OF Wisconsin, has erected the most Inn
pressiVe block OF dwellings In Washington. aud
biz constructions cover about 500 ,Uon Moses
Kelly, Of New Hampshire. formerly Chief
Clerk OF the Department of the INTERIOR has
built nearly four hundred houses most OF
them adapted 20 clerks and persons OF mOder-
ate incomes. &. n. Holden, resolute builder
on the slopes OF Capitol Hin Curtis =. Hlllyer,
of Nevada, fifty thousand dollar house
Governor A. X. Shepherd, private residence 20
cost $4,000. surrounded by al entire block, on
Fsrrsgut square, the whole involving S,OO,0Oa
The Governor has about $500 600 this wear in
new constructions. N. VI. Hutchinson. lessee OF
the Alaska Fur Seal Islands, an elegant $50 900
house. j. II. Lathrope ard Thomas Z. BRYAN,
OF Chicago, investments amounting 20 si5O,goO.
j. Z. Kennedy, deceased. OF ALBANY, y ". in
vested 100000 In Washington houses. :. r.
Brown. OF Maine, has built nearly one hundred
houses In the District. The Free1man's Rank
investments in Washington real estate aud COM
struction amounting to $500 900. This bank has
built for its own use one wing OF a prospective
hotel on the most valuable site for that purpose
in Washington, facing the Treasury, and e,-
poets to surrender the property on long time 20
any purchaser who will finish the ediice.
Washington, December 1. LAERTKs.