National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-16
BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS.
Activity I'm Construction and REPAIR
Houses Going Up.

Activity I'm Construction and Repair
Houses Going UP.
Tho end of the present month will wit
moss tho completion of several important
buildings and the repair Of all the district
buildings. The building department is
repairing over eighty buildings owned
and occnpied by the district, including
sixty vo school buildings, sovon station
houses, tho police stations, police court,
and others. The police court will bo
thoroughly strengthened, and many
needy repairs will be made to school
buildings During the past week there
wero twenty.seven permits for repairs
| taken out, and this movement Ia brought
about largely by the condemnation of
unsafe buildings by the building in
spector. The plans for the new twelve
room school and the new station house
and new engine house have been COM
plctod, and will be in fair way OF con-
struction In short time.
Tho now building being erected at tho
corner of Eleventh and + streets by W.
B. Moses is almost finished, all of the
outer walls being up and the roof is now
being put on.
The walls OF Mr.. +. X. Wards new
building are completed and tho work on
tho interior of the building has boon
started, tho lower floor being first finished
for business.
The United States hotel is being put In
condition by ono Of the owners, and that
side Of IL will bo fitted % dwelling
house.
New buildings started during tho past
week In several sections of the city Mr..
| w. X. Shelton is building two brick
dwellings on Massachusetts, avenue bo-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets north
west, to cost $1,000; w. A. Stewart is
erecting one brick dwelling house on
Vermont avenue near Boundary, to cost
$4,000; tho house being erected by Mr.. p.
Hollonan on l. street, between Twenty
sixth and Twenty-seventh street, will
cost, when completed, about 81, 2,700 John
Waggaman & Son are building two brick
dwellings on First street, near B street
northeast to cost $3.50.
A row of handsome houses, ten in
number. on Ninth street, between 8 and
Il streets, are being erected by Mr.. George
w. Utermohle, and will greatly improve
that section. Thoy will be three stories
in height, and of fine pressed brick.
They will cost $4,000.
Mr.. James Payne took out permit on
Thursday to build ono brick dwelling on
vonteenth street, between Q and II
streets, TO cost $4,000.
A handsome dwelling house is being
erected by Mrs. A. V. Keyworth on
Rhode Island avenue, between Sevon-
teenth and Connecticut avenue. Tho
house will bo four stories in height,
pressed brick front and mansard roof.
1t will cost $4,000.
b. w. and L. j. Carpenter are building
two brick dwellings on North Carolina
avenue, between Sixth and Seventh
streets southeast, to cost $4,000,
The magnificent new building of the
Columbia university, at the southeast
corner of Fifteenth and II streets, Is
rapidly nearing completion, and will be
ready for occupancy Mt the beginning of
tho fall term next month. 1t Ia as nearly
perfect in all its appointments as study
and experience can make building In
tended for educational purposes.
The building inspector has ordered the
condemnation after examination of the
following buildings; G. A. Best was noti-
fed that house No. 618 New York avenue
Is unfit for occupation, and was given
thirty days to repair 1t. The occupants
were warned of tho danger of staying in
1t. The attention Of the agent of the
Baltimore and Potomac railroad was
called to the damage done to the church
on Virginia avenue, between Four-and-a-
half and Sixth streets southwest, by
water from the roof Of the railway she'd,
and ten days given for repairing it.
House 81 Pennsylvania avenue. owned
by Cornelius keenan,, thirty days given
for repairs. DIR. Gideon =. Palmer notified
that the back building of 3ls Pennsyl-
vania avenue is SO dilapidated az Il
: endanger life and limb Of occupants
. Thirty days nre named as the limit fol
| repairs. The occupants were notified that
they must vacate. Mr.. Thomas L. Wag-
gaman was notified that Nos. 72 and "a
Myrtle street have tho fronts sprung out
so far that they arc dangerous
Ten days given for repairs. Mr.
Christian Rupert has been informed tha
the rear wall Of the back building o.
house 233 Thirteenth street southwest il
cracked and defective. Thirty days
given for repairs. Mt. Henry 8. Dsvii
\ was informed that the rear wall of til,
store building, No. 402 Seventh street, IL
; dangerous. Thirty days given to have
the same strengthened and repaired. Mr.
Waggaman has been notified that 1910 {
street and 211 Eleventh street northwest
4 connected and occupied as one building
are dangerous. Thirty days givon fol
repairs. The occupants notified, and ad
vised to vacate. Mrs. Josephine Hiok
notified that the three-story porch at tn
rear OF NO. 2l6 Twelfth street Bouthwes
Is dangerous. Ton days given for repair
'' or removal. Mr.. Charles A. Elliott mott
y fed that tho wooden building at tho rea
of 407 Massachusetts, avenue is dangerous
Thirty days named as the limit for re-
pairs.
Work on the new armory and operi
a house is progressing rapidly and Mr.. Nc
!, Carthy, the builder, says no will have tn
u roof on by tho LIST proximo. Yesterda
Mr.. p. ]. Lunritzen, who represents tn
firm of W. H. jackson & Co., Of New Yorh
b was in the city, and in company with MI
= Albaugh and Mr.. Gray. the architect
visited tho building to look into tn
J. matter of the iron stairways which tina
Q firm are to construct. Mr.. Gray says tha
!. If the roofing is completed by Septembe
n !, the building can be ready for occupanc
: by November 10, the date Mr.. Albaug
l. has fixed for his opening.