Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-25
REAL ESTATE MATTERS.
The Extension Of the Business Area and
Its Causes.

Inc Extension Of the Business Area and
Its Causes.
nrRovExrSrs OF SUBURBAN aoApwAYs-soM,
SEw HOUSES TO BE ERrcrEp-How WASHING
TON Has GROWN TO BE GREAT PLACE FOL
sHoPPINa-oTHER SoTEs OF INTEREST.
- ECENT real estate transactions in the
IA heart Of the city have shown that wha
is called the business area Of the city il
yrapidly extending. y and streets ane
the thoroughfares crossing them be
pulse 7th and 18th have especially felt the i'm
tweengiven real estate values BY this movement
That it is not q tendency on the part Of business
70 move from one quarter to another is showr
by the fact that property on the old established
business streets continues to advance
steadily. Mr.. Myron NJ Parker, president Of
the board of trade, discussing this feature
OF the real estate market with STAR repor.
ter, suggested as an explanation that Wash.
ington was growing as q business place in a
ratio exceeding that Of the growth OF popula-
ton. In recent years the enterprise Of mer-
chants has made Washington a great shopping
city. Whatever might have been the case in
the past. now no one in Washington thinks il
necessary to 60 to New York, Philadelphia,
baltimore or other cities to make pure bases.
NOW there are large establishments here
where one can find much and trade to as
great advantage as in any center OF trade
IN the country. Business that may have once
gone to other cities ID now kept here, and nat
urally there 10 an extension of the business
area One evidence Of the value Of the WASH
ington trade and the fact that it is kept
largely at home is the tendency shown on the
part OF merchants OF other cities to establish
branch establishments here.
SUBURBAN RoADwAYs
Besides the improvements which are going
rapidly forward by private enterprise in the
suburbs some important advances are being
made by the District government in the way of
opening and improving streets. At present
there are under contract improvements on
North Capitol street extended, Lincoln avenue,
Brentwood road and California avenue. Brent
wood road il being macadamized. North Capt.
tai street is being macadamized out to Glenwood
cemetery and will be improved with sidewalks.
Lincoln avenue will also have sidewalks and
cutters out to Glenwood. The lexington cleo
trio line will run out North Capitol street.
Asphalt pavement will be laid on r street ex-
tended, SO that there will a continuous asphalt
roadway from Lincoln avenue to Georgetown
by way OF r street.
CAPT. TYLER's RESIDENCE.
The house to be erected by Capt. A. @. Tyler
on the site Of the Tracy house. on street. 'front.'
ing on Fsrragut Square, will be not only one Of
the most commodious dwellings in the city, but
will be striking in design. To make room for
this structure Capt. Tyler has had the Tracy
house, which was not so badly damaged by fire
but that it was still of considerable value, COM
Pletely removed. The new house will occupy
the whole of the frontage Of 46 feet and have a
total depth OF 81 feet. The style of the front
and all of the arrangements and decorations Of
the interior suggest the colonial period. 1t
will be an English basement house with loggia
extending the whole length of the front ON the
hrst floor. This ioggia will be feet deep. and
upon 1t will open the French easement windows
OF the drawing room and adjacent boudOir. The
height Of the front of the cornice, which will be
treated in colonial style, with terra Gotta panels
will be AZ feet. There will be four floors and
an attic. Up to the second floor the material
of the front will be Ohio free stone. The base
ment is of rock-faced stone. Above the second
floor the front will be of buff brick. The inner
wall OF the loggia will be of buff brick The
entrance, which is literally carved in the
colonial style, leads into a vestibule hall and
that into an inner semi-circular hall, with a
colonnade. On the right is Mr.. Tylers room.
aud on the left o reception room. In the rear
Is dining room u by q feet. The rest of the
floor is taken up with kitchens, servants rooms
and household offices. The dining room is
paneled two-thirds OF the way up with white
pine. painted in white in the colonial style
On the first floor, besides the drawing room
and boudoir, are two bed chambers The
drawing room will be over 40 feet long, and
finished deliberately In the white colonial style
with carved panels. The upper floors are
divided into bed rooms and sitting rooms. All
through the house every bed room is provided
with a bath room.
VENETIAN MANSION,
The same firm of architects designed the
residence Of Mr.. A. C. Barney, which is now
nearing completion, on Rhode Island avenue
between 10Th and 18th streets. This house Is
treated IN the Venetian style. 1t occupies a
front OF forty-six feet and has height of forty
eight feet and depth of ZIG feet A feature
OF this capacious residence is an inner court,
SO arranged that every room Of the house is
well lighted 1t is an English basement house,
the basement being Of buff Ohio stone and the
rest of Perth Amboy brick with Ohio stone
trimming. Over the entrance at the front is a
small loggia in three bays with Venetian COL
umns and arches. The front OF the upper story
and frieze are diapered with stone and brick
and above Is an elaborate corbelled cornice
The main entrance and the servant entrances
are closed with wrought iron gates in the Vene-
tian style, while the basement windows are pro-
tected with wrought iron gratings of a design
similar to the gates. In the basement will be
yestibule hall The reception room, octago-
nal in form, will be treated in light oak. The
staircase hall Is Venetian Gothic in design with
stone columns and oak beams. The household
offices are located in the basement On the
frst floor is a handsome library forty-two by
twenty-three feet with oak beam ceiling and a
handsome Venetian stone chimney piece. on
from this room is a music room. A salon
treated in the Louis XVI style adoins the
library and opens upon the loggia. One feature
OF the floor Is picture CALLER formed of three
bays 1t is fifty-eight feet long and has an
average depth of seventeen feet There are
two dining rooms, octagonal in form, with
Gothic paneled ceiling. The floors are all of
oak. The upper floors are arranged in bed
rooms and sitting rooms.
Mr.. W. NoRDLIs0ER's NEW RESIDENCE.
Mr.. W. Nordlinger will build new residence
for himself on the south side Of n street be-
tween 30th and 3lst streets, West Washington.
1t will have a frontage of 81 feet and side
yard and depth of 80 feet 1t will have two
principal stories and the very high tiled roof
will form an attic, which will be finished. 1t
Will be a semi-double house with large square
reception hall as one enters, to the rear of
which Is handsome oak staircase, screened
from the hall by handsome wood work. To the
left of the reception hall is a large double or
saloon parlor. There is also a library in the
main building. In the back building is a dining
room, 10 by 20 feet, with windows overlooking
the side yard to the east through a small bay
window; and there is large back hall with
back stairway and toilet room. A buffers pan
try and kitchen completes the first foor The
interior finish of the first floor will be in oak
and cherry. On the second floor there are
about eight rooms and two bath rooms. The
front will be treated in the Romanesaue STYLE
Of architecture and will be OF Hummelstown
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