The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-30
WASHINGTON HOMES.
Tile Palatial Residences of weT-Known P0-
litieaI Magnates.


Washington letter to Cleveland Leader.
Thirteen hundred new buildings, worth about
So. 000 000 were erected In Washington last year.
Fine residences are going up all over the city,
and it is fast becoming the custom for public
man to own his own house In Washington. One
of the leading real estate agents here is my
authority for the following estimate of the homes
of some of the leading men of the Nation:
Blaines house cost $780, 000 and itreats for 10 per
cent on $3.50 600 Don Camerons big house on
Scott circle is worth $50 000 and it is one of the
finest finished houses in Washington. WINDOWS
house, just across the way, which cost him his
place in the Senate, is worth $60, 900, and ought
to rent for good interest on that amount
Pendleton's house, just above Cameron's, cost
$40, coo to build ard is now worth $50, 600.
and the big brick of Secretary Robson,
which adjoins it, is valued at twice
this sum- Bell the telephone man,
also lives on Scott circle. He paid $ll5, 600 for
his house and stable, and it is one of the most
valuable properties in Washington. Omar D.
Conger has a house on M street, just off of
Thomas circle, which Mrs Conger bought at a.
bargain. She gave $50 900 for it, 1t was built
by a pawn broker, and it is, should say, worth
twice as much as it cost Mrs. Dahlgren, the
wife of the Admiral, has mansion looking out
toward the Thomas statue, worth 500, 600, and
just across the way, in brown stors, on the
ner, which is certainly worth $50 000 lives Poker
Bob Schenck.
General Sherman's house is worth about $780,
600. Sunset Cox has the prettest little house in
| Washington, made OF green stone, and this his
wife bought for 0000 and Senator Allison, of
| Iowa, has a brick, painted white, just opposite
the Portland Flats, which will bring any day
$15, 900 under the hammer. John Sherman's
home on K street is worth at least 100000 He
| bought the ground for song when Franklin
| Park, which it faces, was cow-pasture and
| ball ground, and his friends laughed at the
| idea of it ever being worth any great amount.
| Now suppose you could not buy vacant ground
! there if there were any, for less than 500
| square foot, and the best houses of the capital
| are all around it. Sherman also owns much
! other real estate about the city. He is far
| seeing, and would make fine real estate man.
| "What is w. w. Corcorans house WORTH
1T lies, you know. just across from the White
| House and includes a whole square of ground
| 1t could not be bought for any price, but sup
| pose it to be worth $500 at least. A little
| further up on street. Bancroft, the old histo-
| rian, lives in $35 600 house of painted brick,
| and catacornered across the way Is the house of
| John McLean's father in-law, General Beale,
worth. should say, 900. The McLeans own
! good deal of Washington real estate. John
! Cemetery lot, above Blaines and he will
! divide it up into lots and sell it. Washington
Mclean, Johns father, owns house on of
the best corners of street, worth several times
| the salary of the Chief Justice of the United
| States and he has just bought Dan Sickles's
] house near the White House, for. I think, $751;
| 000 Speaking of the Supreme Court" the real
| estate man continued, Waite owns house ON
| FL street worth $50, 600, Miilers house is worth
| $4,000 Matthews has a home on the corner
| of l and Eighteenth Streets which is
| asthetically built, and would bring. / should
say, 500, 900. 1t is in the heart Of the best