The Critic and record., 1891-04-25
BUILDING NEWS.
AFFAIRS AMONG THE BUILDERS, CON.
TRACTORS AND ARCHITECTS.

ditiOn-Bank Building Corner & and
Tenth Streets -Shorcham's Floors
Residences Erecting for Rent and
Rcsidcnts-Othcr Notes.
F,om Hc BvUdipq Register. io.doy.
Robert Proctor will erect thrce-story
Office building at 0O7 & street A. NJ.
Proctor is the builder
A, j. Fisher has the contract to erect
three.story storehouse for j. II, Johnson
at 1866 b street southwest which will cost
$1,000.
Faya, Nacfr & Co. are designing plans for
a frame cottage with brick foundation to
be built at Brightwood, u. c. 1t will be
TWO stories with large porches
Two two-story press brick fronts with
square bay-windows will be built on Il
street, between Thirtieth and Thirty-frst
streets, by j. J. Clark. They will cost
$1,000
A. II. Semmes has designed residence
that lie will have erected for himself at
2l3N Florida avenue. IL will be three
stories and basement, with press brick
front and circular bay-window. w. B.
Turner and Son are the builders. Cost,
$500,
nller Il. Croft will improve Seventh
street northeast, between G and III streets,
with seven neat brick dwelling houses
that will cost $4,000. They will be two
stories with cellars press brick fronts and
OClagoual and square bay windows.
The permit has been granted for the
construction of the American Security
and Trust Company's Building at li05 q
street, description of which has already
appeared in these columns. The front
will be Of marble. Cost $4,000.
Kennedy & Davis will erect three neat
dwellings for II. l.. Rust at 1906, 1908,
1910 North Capitol street. They will have
square bay windows, press-brick fronts,
and will be l7X30 feet, with back build
ing. Cost $1,000.
The delay in getting a solid foundation
for John \. Bakers large warehouse on
Tenth street, above the Gas Office was
only equalcd by the progress made since
then by Builder Joseph Richardson, who
has the foundation walls up, the floor
luists laid, and nearly all of the iron
columns in place to hold the second floor.
keeler ~ Ritz are putting in new front
and bay window in black mortar for Mr..
Wright, on Fifth street between NJ and
streets northwest. They are also erect
ing brick addition to the same premises.
They are also putting in new front and
adding q story to Go Twelfth street north
west for Wurdeman Il Co., furniture
dealers.
A. A. Wilson will have built three hand
some dwellings on Twentieth street, be-
tween G and ii streets, which will cost
Sl5,OOO. The plans were made by Charles
A. Harkness. These houses will be three
stories, with cellars. They will be l7x3s,
with two.stOry back building The fronts
Will be of press brick, with square and
circular bay windows. They will also
have slate roofs and iron cornices Charles
). Denham is the builder
Colonel Robert |. Fleming is engaged in
tearing out the floor landings in the Shore
ham from basement to attic. The ioists
are found to be in a bad state of decay.
This was evidently caused by the packing
put between them to make the floors fire.
proof, or nearly so. This is called the
slow burning process, and consists of a
composition Of cement coal ashes, etc.
These wooden joists are only eleven feet
long, and are supported on cast-iron beams
eleven feet apart. The joists are laid six
teen inches apart, and this packing is put
in and the floor tiles are laid over 1t.
The Inspector of Buildings has ordered
the floors throughout the building to be
plugged, with view of examining the
ioists, to see whether or not the iosts have
rotted. The result of the investigation
has not been made known as yet. 1t
should be laid to the credit of the archi-
tects of Washington that this "slow
burning" but fast rotting" process has
not been adopted by them and that a firm
of New York architects built this house.
A permit has been applied for to erect a
bank building for the Ohio National Bank
of Washington, corner of Twelfth and G
streets. j. q. Hill, architect.
Plans have been made by the inspector
OF Buildings for a High School building
Ia be erected on the Walach school LOT
on Capitol Hill. The appropriation for
this building is $4,000. Proposals for its
construction will be received and opened
on May (.
A. Il. Mulett & Co. have made plans
for another addition to w. b. Moses
furniture store at the southwest corner OF
Eleventh and Il streets. The addition
which will be on + street, will have 9
frontage Of twenty-five feet and will he OF
the same design as the present building
IL will be seven stories high, ninety-fouI
feet deep and will cost $4,000.
i. Il. Pyles is designing handsome cot
tage residence to be built at Glen Echo
for Mrs b. S. Robinson. 1t will be con
structed of stone, two stories, attic ant
cellar 43X50, slate roof, hot water, electric
bells and all modern conyeniences. Cos
$1,000. The special features will be
spacious circular Yeranda.