Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-17
real ESTATE INVESTMENTS TT / n 3
The Steady March Of Improvement in
this City.


this City.
THE MARKET NOT AFFECTED BY THE DECLINE IN
sTOcKs-NR. ENTwIsTLE's OPINION AS TO
PROPERTY IN THE NORTHWESTERN. FRANK K.
WARDS PROJECTED NEW DAIRY ESTABLISH
MENT-oTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN PROGRESS.
'sThe panic in New York does not affect things
here in Washington, remarked q real estate
dealer to STAR reporter. 1--WE are not easily
affected by financial fluctuations as II this was
commercial city. The great panic of 1873 was
not felt here until three years after. But then"
he added refectively, sit took us five years
to recover. My business has not been affected.
and expect that it will be improved by this
scare in the stock market
What leads you to form such an expecta-
tom" asked the reporter.
Because there is something sure about real
estate, was the reply. "a man can't be wiped
out simply because bank cOlapses. The land
remains, although prices may iuctuate. People
after such an experience generally seek real
estate investments"
WHAT THE BUILDING INSPECTOR SAYS
Building Inspector Entwistle in the course of
a conversation with STAR man on the improve
ments in. the northwest, said New Hampshire
avenue will be the next one taken up for hand
Tor improvements. running in a different di-
rectiOn from the others and extending to
Boundary street. The views from the sites
through its entire length are very fine making
most attractive street for residences. Already
many good houses have been Quilt and MANY
sales have been made OF building SITES and the
next big thing in the boom line will be the pur-
chase of the Holmead cemetery site for dwell
ing houses This property is coming into
market at once. The Commissioners have
- RI nix ttnrif TO
vey these grounds to purchasers, which
authority was omitted in the bill last wear
This, he continued, sis large and valua-
Die square containing many building lots and
most elegantly situated at Goth and Boundary
streets. Everyone of the graves have been re-
moved and the bodies buried elsewhere in
accordance with the law. Look at the recent
sales at Meridian hill, and the preparations for
building there this season! There is to be
chapel commenced there at once and it is said
that some fine residences are to be erected this
year Just as soon as the grades can be- estab-
iished. The fact is that almost anywhere i'm
this direction land can be purchased at less cost
than it ever will be in the future. The prospect
OF large public park in the Rock creek valley,
embracing the hills skirting it, with all the
beautiful scenery, seems favorable, and this
seems to give a sort of secret impetus to the
building boom In this direction"
MIR. WARDS SPLENDID BUILDING.
Mr. Glenn Brown, the architect, has prepared
the plans for the new building which Mr. Frank
h. Ward will soon begin to erect on street.
between 9th and 10th. This building. which
will be used by Mr.. Ward as the main Office for
his dairy business, will have frontage of 50
feet 3 inches on ID street, and will run back 1870
feet. 1t will be six stories high, and the front
Will be OF an ornate style OF architecture, EN-
bodying SOME Of the features of the Queen Anne
order :-s-..
The first story is entirely open, having large
chntI Undo inl>n a.~o 1t
play of flowers will be madecand there will be
an Ornamented vestibule with encaustic tile
floor. This vestibule will lead through large
doors into Mr.. Wards lunch room, which will
be arranged in the most artistic manner with
ornamental panels, beams, staircases and ee-
vators ascending to the rooms above. From
the second story will project an orlole window,
gracefully detailed, and in harmony with the
other parts of the building. The oriole will be
finished in balcony on the fifth story The
projection is SO placed that the front of the
building will show most advantageously from
the avenue The large window, extending
from the second to the third stories, is fine
feature. 1t will be fianked on either side with
pilasters of moulded BRICK resting on moulded
vases. and topped with carved terra Gotta capt.
tails. which are all made from special designs
by the architect. In a panel between the WIN
dows. having buff back ground, there will be
an attistically-modelled Alderney cows head
modelled in red terra Gotta
A novel as well as properly arranged feature
Will be the signs. which are so designed as not
to mar the architectural beauty of the front
The signs some OF them in red terra Gotta on a
buff ground. will serve as Legitimate ornament
Tor the building forming as 'they7will q part Of
the building. very fine portion of the design
is in the sixth story with its row of terra Gotta
columns with carved capital bases. On one
side OF the pediment will be highly Ornamented
OF ornamental chimney. which will be corbeIled
from the face Of the wall. In this chimney will
be the date of the erection of the building on a
panel. made from special design by the arch-
tect. The root will be covered with red tile and
finished with crossings, cOpings and finals The
cost of the building will be $4,000. Mr.. G.. W.
COrbett is the contractor.
MRS. GUILD NEW HOUSE.
Mrs. l.. w. Guild. of New York has COM
menced the erection of two handsome Queen
Anne houses on the north side of III street. near
18th. They will each be 20x45 feet, with three
stories and a basement, and will cost when COM
pleted $4,000. The bay windows are entirely
of different designs, and will extend through
the second story, one being finished with q
brick and stone parapet wall. and the other
having an iron railing of unique design. Rob-
ert Stead is the architect.
BUILDING NOTES.
Mrs. T. P. Dixie is building two houses on
10Th street, above Dupont circle, which, in the
design will be treated as one house having a
wide flight of stone steps leading up to the
front entrance. The fronts will be OF pressed
and moulded brick and terra Gotta. Robert
Stead is the architect
Mr.. Samuel Norment is erecting four brick
dwellings on the corner of Cd and Canal streets
southwest at cost of 81 600.
Two three-stOry and basement houses are
being built by Mr.. A. A. Wilson On G street, be-
tween 10Th and Goth. at a cost of $4,000
MIR. W. T. Bright is building twO-story house
on Sth street southeast at cost of 81 800
three-story and basement dwelling is being
erected on NJ street. between 18th and 10TH by
Mrs. III. Campbell, at cost of $4,000.
Four twO-story dwellings are being built on
Dstreet between 18th and Sth. by Messrs. Michael
Stanisci and G. Schneider, at cost Of sc, 600.
South Washington Real Estate.
ROSY VIEW OF THE Observation-Disclosures OF
PRICES IN SPITE OF RAILROADS.
Mr.. c. II. Parker, thereal estate dealer of South
Washington stated to STAR reporter that real
estate in South Washington is higher now than
before the B. & p. railroad entered the CITY, and
he would not object having more roads enter
South Washington, for all the harm they may
do to property.
II have been in business" said Mr. Parker,
"for many years in the same place where am
now located. and / never saw the time when
there was such a demand for dwellings and so
| few to be sold or rented. Houses are hard to
! find for tenants. and on Maryland and Virginia
avenues, east of 9th street more especially good