National Republican., 1883-07-28
THE REAL ESTATE MARKET.
a Few Sales Reported, hut the General
Condition OF Things Dull.

dull, and many of the dealers have gone ont
of town to recuperate their energies after the
active work of the spring. Inquiries are still
daily received by nearly every dealer in ref
erenco to property and the indications all
point to an active business in the fall.
! The fact that the market has remained
firm shows that the activity in the spring
and early summer was not n fictitious BOOM
but wholesome advance in prices which was
justified by the increased value of the land
| IF | had hundred thousand dollars"
said prominent broker yesterday, " would
| put it all into real estate in this city. Land
here has not reached the stage of fancy prices
! yet. True, in one or two special localities
! prices of an eXOrbitant character have been
! paid, but that was because the purchasers
happened to want those very lots and were
willing to pay the fancy price for them. The
buyers knew that the ground wasn't worth
| in tho market what they paid for it, but the
| location struck their fancy, and the price was
| no object. The general average of land now
in the northwest for building lots Is about -
u foot, and it will 90 above that figure as tho
building operations increase and the number
of vacant lots diminishes."
One firm reported the sale of four lots on
! the west side of the Fourteenth street road,
| portion of the Columbian college property.
and two in block No. 80 of the Stone estate
property. Tho gentlemen composing this
| property is just beginning, and think before
many years Washington will be surrounded
on all sides with beautiful suburban resi-
dences extending for five miles, at least, be-
yond the city limits.
A brief mention was made the other day in
| The REPUBLICAN in reference to the pro-
posed erection of warehouses on Louisiana
avenue by Mr.. John McCleland, the well
| known machinst 1t is Mr.. MCClelland's in
| tontion to retire from the iron business, and
| he proposes to take down his present foundry,
at the corner of Louisiana avenue and Tenth
! street, and to erect on the site eleven spa
cious warehouses. They will be plainly but
substantially built, with pressed brick fronts,
! and the architecture will be such as to give
| them most solid and substantial appear
ance. They will run through from Louisiana
avenue to b street, with facilities for taking
in and removing goods upon both fronts.
! They will make n handsome improvement to
! that locality. The cost will be about $4,000.
A fine three story and basement dwelling is
about to be erected by Mr. A. White, on w
street, near Connecticut avenue northwest.
| 1t will be % by 81 feet on the ground plan,
and will be 1876 feet high from the sidewalk
| to the highest part of the wall. The front
will be of pressed brick, with nodded
| brick cornices and one oCtagoual bay window.
The interior will be supplied with every
modern convenience, and the whole building
will be finished in the best style Of workman
". ..
| Frederick is the architect.
Spacious as is the BrOdhead house, No. 1900
Rhode Island avenue, it has not been found
sufficiently large for the purposes of Prof. A.
G.. Bell, of Bell telephone fame, who pur-
chased it, and he is about to make exten-
sive alterations and changes in it. Among
the improvements contemplated is q brick
addition of two stories on the northeast cor
ner and an addition to the mansard roof. The
entire alterations will cost about $12,0 900.
| The following sales of real estate have been
recently effected through Fitch, Fox, and
Brown: For l.. r. Tuttle the following lots
in the subdivision of Widows Mite: Lot 80,
for SS25; lot 30, to Mrs. Mamie B. Whitman
for $l072.50; lot II, to William o. Smith for
Sl,3S9; lot 2l, to Harvey l.. Shomo fol, $50;
lot 49, to Mrs. Mary V. Bonnell for 81, ,564.6i
| lot Is, TO Mrs. Helen Rand Tindall for $50
cash, and lot 81 to Leigh Robinson for SS25
cash. For Mrs. Charlotte a. Woed-lot Is,
block 80, subdivision north grounds of
Columbia university, to Mrs. Abbe w. Gillct
for 81 ,l96.25 cash, and lot 8, block 40, of same
| subdivision, to Leigh Robinson for SLIGO
cash For Mrs. G. L. Perkins-lot 10, block
80, and lots 13 and Ia, block 40, same sub
division to Mrs. Marie G. Slosson for SO i25a5. 4
For Mrs. Mary A. Holmead-lots to rs in
elusive, block AZ of Holmead's subdivision of
part ofMount Pleasant to Mrs. Alice G. Palmer
| for S6,555.32 For Mrs. Mary A. Holmcad,
lots Z 8, II, and Is, block AZ, same subdivision,
to William A. johnson, for $2,700. For Hon.
Gardiner c. Hubbard, lot S2 square 1872, to
Walker Paris, for $2,529.6O. For Albert A.
Ashe part of lot l, square 1853, to Hon Lam
bert Tree, for S4, 4,69560 cash. For William A.
Johnson, lots 8 and 10, block Al, subdivision
of north grounds of Columbian university, to
Henry Wise Garnett, for $3,032SS. For Will
lam A. johnson, lots 7, 3, IL and 1S, inclusive
block AZ, Holmead's subdivision of part of
Mt. Pleasant to Henry Wise Garnett, for 3d.
| 300. For Lawrence Sands, part of lot 30,
square 1876, to Lieut.. r. NJ. Potts, U. s. NJ, for
$4,000 cash. For Mrs Eliza K. Buchler, lots
Q, 10, IL, IL, and 49, square 1872 to C. b. Jewell.
| for $3l, ,S76.SS. For Hon. Daniel ]. Morrell,
lots IL, II, and 13, square 2l4 (No, 144O NJ
street northwest), to Henry Il. Munson, for
| $40 900 cash.