Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-04
BEAUTIFUL BARTON HEIGHTS.
A Most Attractive and Growing Rcsiden
tiaI To Richmond.

tiai to Richmond.
A little over eighteen months ago Barton
Heights was regarded by many as some
what of an Utopian dream. To-day u Is 2
beautiful reality. Not only that, but 1t
must be evident 20 any one who viii drive
over il, as Dispatch representative did
yesterday. that its growth TO its present
proportions is but suggestion OF what It's
future is to be-but beginning OF the ex-
tension of Richmond ell over that superb
northern plateau OF which the new subur-
ban citys site is part.
A YEAR AND HALF's WORK.
Barton Heights is just year and halt
old and Is the enterprise OF Mr.. James II.
barton. who has had most successful ex-
perience in building up similar places IN
the West-notable at Memphis and Little
Rock, Ark. Upon visiting Richmond Mr..
Barton saw that the city was rapidly
lengthening. and upon visiting the site OF
Barton Heights he saw no reason why, Il
should not broaden also. There was TO bis
practiced eve every natural condition to
make it extend northward as well as east
ward and westward. All that was neces-
sary was 10 give 1t start in that direction.
MIR. Barton give il the start with the result
that there are at Barton Heights to-day,
completed and occupied, over fifty houses
of varied and picturesque architecture
that five more are building, and that the
demand for new houses is greater than at
any time since the place was started.
ACCESSIBILITY.
Barton Heights Is one and quarter
miles from the post-office, at an elevation
of about one hundred and twenty-five feet
above the Henrico turnpike, which skirts
it on the east. The plateau IS Just rolling
enough to secure perfect drainage, ano
concentring TO it and about 1t are some
of the most beautiful drives near the city
The streets are well-laid of and graded
the place is supplied with electric hghts
and water has been introduced into every
house from spring that discharges about
fifty thousand gallons per day. BY the ex'
tension of the Seventh-Street electric lint
the cars will within the next sixty days
run to point only half mile from the
Heights, and the completion OF the Fifth
Street bridge will afford another convenient
mode of access to the place.
THE POPULATION.
The population of Barton Heights mum
bers about 200 persons, who constitute
charming social circle within themselves
Most of the citiZens were formerly renters
in Richmond, but are now owners or soor
will be owners of the houses they occupy.
Under the conditions of the contract those
desiring to purchase homes make with
Mr.. Barton the possibility OF having any
but nice class Of citizens Is excluded
There is at the Heights spacious hall II
which there are one or two entertainment!
every week. and which is used for church
services on Sunday, but the foundation o
an Episcopal church has already been lait
| and a movement Is on foot to erect Bap-
tist church.
THE ARCHITECTURE, AGAIN
As stated above the architecture of th'
| houses is varied and picturesque, some o
the houses being perfect gems. And thi
applies not only to exteriors, but interiors
There is no more beautiful suburban hom
about Richmond than one of the house
| the Dispdtch representative visited, AM
| this inside and outside was a type of man.
others. only it was magnified as TO size
| The financial plan of Mr.. Barton is sucl
| that one con secure home there on mos
reasonable terms and upon very easy pay
ments-is such. indeed. as stimulates youn
men to economiZe with view OF securing
a home. One of the attractions OF th
| Heights is Harvev's nursery, which IS tn
| largest south of Washington. MIR. Harve
| has eight greenhouses covered by 2o,OO
square feet of glass, and has Just bough
an additional half III order to increas
his nursery facilities.
BRooKLAND PARK.
Just beyond Barton Heights and adjoir
ing it is situated Brookland Park, anOthe
| heautiful tract of land, which Is owned b
Mr.. Barton and Mr.. L. A. Lamb. Her
| three hundred lots have already been sol
and a number of handsome dwellings hav
| been erected. There is also a nurser
here-that of Mr.. Amory, who was s
long with MIR. John Morton and who IS nc
excelled for taste in putting up floral d'
signs.
THE YEARS PROSPECTS.
The prospects tor the new year at Bal
| ton Heights and Brookland Park ~
brighter than ever before. The improve
ments going on in the way OF gradin!
gravelling the walks, opening new stree
and boulevards, &C, is constant, ana III
progress is one that cannot IN the natui
of things stop. The entire plateau is de-
tined to become in the near future the sea
of thousands of new residences.
AS the result of Mr.. Barton's enterpris
values have advanced all around Barto
| Heights in every direction. and other cap
talists have seen the wisdom of inyestln
in North-End property. The impulse b
gave TO development IN that quartz
| opened the eyes of our psopie to the taC
that there was wealth III the old fields o
the northern plateau.
Barton Heights is an illustration OF
waste place being made to blossom as
rose. but now that 1t is blossoming, an
will continue TO blossom in untold lu!
uriance the only wonder is that Others Oh
not see what MIR. Barton saw-that is, th1
this waste place was cut out by nature 10
an extension of Richmond.
Barton Heights has pure air, splendi
water. natural conditions for drainage, pi'
turesaue dwellings, is of the city withor
being in it. and has refined society. 1t i
in short. an ideal suburban addition {
Richmond. Everything about the place
as neat as new pin-as every cltlze
seems to vie with his neighbor in keepin
his premises in good order. What with 4
nearness to the city and its increasing II
cilities FOR reaching our business centre
il is safe to predict that ere long. Barto
Heights and vicinity will be TO Richmon
what some of the most beautiful suburba
towns of New York and Philadelphia are
those cities-that is, the resting-spots
their leading merchants.