National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-06-13
THE REAL ESTATE MARX ET.
An Encouraging Exhibit-substantiai lin
provements In Progress.

M encouraging Exhibt-Subatantiat lin
provements In Progress.
As an evidence Of the increasing activity in
real estate transactions in Washington VIC ap.
pend list of some of the more prominent
transfers OF property made within the past
few days, which shows that the tide of sub
stantial prosperity is again being felt upon the
material interests of the capital city. These
numerous transactions and the remarkable ex-
tont of Government and private improve.
ments, going on throughout all sections of the
city, is certain augury that the times of de-
preston are rapidly passing away, that conf
deuce is being restored and real property Is
sought for as among the surust and safest
sources of remunerativc investment. The
most important transfers are the following
Mary Il. Johnston, Ct al. to James b. Ed.
monds, sub 3, square ISL, on X street between
sixteenth and Seventeenth streets for 5000.
Thomas Sunderland aud wife, TO Captain II. ID.
Manley, U. ). n, lot 40, square lis. front.
Ing on Connecticut avenue circle $500.
George Peter and A. Thomas Bradley, trus.
tees, TO Frank ]. ribbett's, $500, part lot 81
square $50 brick house on ] street. between
Thirteenth aud Fourteenth streets, opposite
franklin square. John +. Olmstead aud wife
TO :. X. bond, lot &C. square 2ll, containing
1910 square feet, fronting OH Iowa Circle, ut
sl.25 per foot-S4 9j5.75. Robert l. Fleming
to Elizabeth l.. Dallas, $1,000 lot 81, w. s.
ROOsc's subdivision original lots 10, 10, II, aud
Is, square 1872, two-story brick house on Eff
teenth street, between Il and $ streets. Jerome
u. Chailee to Peter Campbell, $1,000, lot 3
square 1875, fronting on Connecticut avenue
circle, and containing 1851 square feet.
Charles Z. Glover Ut uX. to Roswell ID. Hitch
cock, jr, 1880 part lot 90 square los, II three
story brick house on Fifteenth street, between
* and l. streets John f. Olmstead and
l 70 oil.
threc-story brick house on Ninth street. be-
tween Z aud q streets, for $4,000. William ID.
Baldwin ct Tx. to Margaret $. Hopkins, $1,000,
lot 81 square BIG u three-story brick house on
X street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets.
John f. Omstead and wife to William b.
Orme, lot 50, square 24l, containing 4,2l5
square feet, fronting on Iowa circle, ut 81 25
per square foot, S5,2GS.75. Walter S. Cox and
Thomas c. Cox, trustees to Owen O'Harc,
Sll,35O. lot q, square $50; business property on
Louisiana avenue between Ninth aud Tenth
streets. The Sisters of the Visitation to Emma
Jane Aulick, $780, lot 10, Mary A. Derby's
subdivision part square 1862 q two.story brick
house on De Sayles street, between Seventeenth
street and Connecticut avenue. John +. Ohm.
stead aud wife to f. s. Parker, lot 30 square
Isl, $500; threc-story brick house on
| q street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets. Phllipinl Butler, to Barbara V on
Der lIeide, $1,000, part lot Q, square 3S2 bust.
ness property on Louisiana avenue, between
! Ninth aud Tenth streets. John w. Starr,
trustee, to j. Sophia Donoho, $500, part lot
%, square pa on Kingman court, between p
and q streets. John f. Olmstcad aud wife to
| w. W. Belknap, su6ot a, square 2l2 on Rhode
Island avenue, near Iowa circle, at Sl.50 per
square foot, S7l6i. Thomas Il. Jones ct ux to
Mrs, Maria l.. Richey, $1,000, part lot 5,
square go; brick house on Twelfth
street, between L and G streets.
! Thomas II. White to James Gray, 1904. 40,
lot p, j. l.. kidwell's subdivision square 2l7,
ON Fourteenth street between X aud IL streets.
Jshu +. Olmstead and wife to General w. w.
Belknap sublot %, square 275, two-story
! brick house Oh Twelfth street, between and
L streets, for 5000. Thomas NJ. Lanahan ct
Tx. to Matthew 4. Wallace, $4,000, part of
square 675. Many of the purchasers of lots
| have already commenced the erection of line
residences, aud we venture the assertion that
there are more tirst-class residences being
erected this season than before in ten years.