The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-21
BUILDING NOTES.
Doings of the Owner, Architect and
Builder During the Week.

From he BtiMing Register To-Day.
u. G.. Wheeler has applied for admission
to the Builders Exchange as n non-cor-
porate member.
In the competition for design and plans
for the new Ohio National Bank. Archi-
tcct James @. Hill has been successful.
Architect o. G.. Simonson OF the late
firm of Goenner & Co., will continue the
business at oil Eleventh street northwest.
Architects Fava, Naeff 4 Co. have been
commissioned by the attorneys. for the de-
fensc to make scaled detail plans OF the
corridors and stairs of the United States
Capitol where the Kincaid-Taulbce shoot
ing took place.
Architects Paul Schulze, formerly OF
Chess e Schulze, and Albert Goenncr late
of Goenner Il Co., have formed co-part-
nership. The new firm will be known as
Schulze & Gocnner and will have Offices
| in the Corcoran Building.
]. NJ. York Il Son have contract to |
| build one brick dwelling at 1857 Wylie |
street northeast and -four two-story and |
| basement window houses at sos Thir-
| ieenth street northeast, at a total cost of |
| $1,000. The plans were made by York "
| Son.
Architect T.. NJ. lazarus with Jonas,
Gibbs a. Co., has in hand plans for block
| of ten brick dwellings to be built in Balti-
more Md; also plans for q suburban resi-
dence for Mrs. Hunt that will be erected
near the same city. The latter will cost
| 5000.
Plans have been made for an attractive
cottage that d. Gillin will have built at
Congress Heights. II will be a two-story-
and-cellar house, eight rooms 26xi2 feet
II will have steep shingle roof broad bal
comics, graceful gables tall chimncys. etc.
Cost $1,000.
Thomas w. Buckley, 1885 f street north
.l.l ls,.1 Iln
at berkeley Springs, Va Plans for several
different types will be made and then
duplicated. The first set of drawings are
now being prepared by Architects Fava,
Naeff & co.
John McGregor has the contract to
build Thomas Graham's new residence on
Sstreet, between Sixteenth and Seven
teenth streets. The plans were made by
Architect j. &. Meyers and have been de-
scribcd in these columns. The house will
cost $4,000.
Charles W. King will build four iine
residences on Delaware avenue, between
c and u streets northeast, in square 0S3.
They will be three stories and basement
with fronts of press brick and Hummels-
town brown stone, bay windows. orna-
mental cornices, hardwood trim and all
the most modern appliances. Cost, S2i,-
0C0.
Architect Schneider has awarded con.
| lIdClS us lbllOWS. DdIDy " lytNlS, resi-
dence for w. Nordlinger, n street, between
Thirtieth and Thirty-iirst streets. i. II.
Duchay, three stores with overhead dwell
ings for w. w. Burdette Seventh street
and Rhode Island avenue; j. B. William
son, residence for A. S. johnson, n street,
between Ninth and Tenth streets north
west,
DIR. c. NJ. n. Latimer will have new
residence built at 1926 n street from plans
made by Architect James II. Denison. 1t
will be three stories and cellar. 20x65 feet,
with front of press brick and Hummels-
town brown stone and octagonal bay ter
minating in an open balcony. 1t will
have furnace heat, cabinet mantels, hard
, wood trim, electric bells, speaking tubes,
, | ETC.
Jonas, Gibbs & Co. have contracted to
build three-story and cellar dwelling
l7xG5 feet for Mrs. IT, s. Steele on 7
street, near Sixteenth. 1t will have front
of press. brick and Hummelstown brown
stone, circular bay window with slated
, | tower top brick and iron cornice, furnace
) heat cabinet mantels, oak trim, etc. Cost
, $4,000. The plans were made by Architect
: Il. NJ. Lazarus.
The old structure at the northwest
corner of Eleventh and q streets is being
demolished to make room for more
: modern mansion that George Il. Emmons
will erect from plans now being prepared
by Architect Mt. Haller. The structure
will be four stories and cellar, with
frontage of seventy feet on q street and
4 eighty feet on Eleventh. The exterior
; walls will be of select red and ornamental
brick with Ohio stone trimmings. The
v ground floor will be divided into store
Q rooms, three on G street aud two on
Eleventh street. The upper floors will
constitute an apartment house of lfty-one
rooms, exclusive of dining-room, kitchen,
pantry and servants quarters. The entire
9 building will be heatedby steam and will
be provided with such appliances as
r elevator, electric bells, speaking tubes, a,i-
i. tomato gas-lighting apparatus, etc. Cost,
c $4,000.
Contractor Joseph Richardson last No
i, vember began tearing down the old build
d ing that occupied the site of John A.
Bakers new warehouse on Tenth street,
!. near the gas office. After many efforts to
q secure firm footing for the foundations
it was decided to drive piles. This part OF
the work is now finished, after driving
9 6,T32 lineal feet. The concrete Is now
y being put in, and the first brick will be
Z, laid on Monday, the weather permitting
i Architect Glenn Brown of the Wash
Q ington Chapter A. !. A., is making sci
yond the building line, which will con
= form to the law lately enacted on this sub
ject. Detail drawings of variety of pro
iections are also being made by Mr.
Brown, and Will form part OF the ex
hibit which will be submitted to the Com
missioners for their approval. This work
a is being done at the suggestion of thu
Engineer Commissioner, Colonel Robert
IA Architect Leon II. Dessez recently made
Is plans for a handsome residence that W. |
e Brooke intended having built at Sixteenth
and Swami streets. The preliminary
sketch, showing projections, was approved
10 by the building inspector. Under thu
a, present regulations which provide To-
eight feet of sidewalk beyond projections
a permit for this house has been refused
a. as there are projections OH Swami stree
= which will have only seven and hal
feet of sidewalk. Mr.. Brooke has decided
not to build the house.
Or The erection of three handsome sub
urban residences at the Palisades Of th
r. Potomac will soon be commenced. On
le Of these, j. T.. Clark's house, will be
y more than ordinarily attractive structur
of Baltimore marble, three stories an,
m cellar GGx72 feet. 1t will present man
10 features of a miniature castle. It will
er have portecochere, conservatory, tower
" topped octagon bay, turrets, broad balco
y mics and high pitched slate roof 1t will
be heated by steam and will have tn
10 usual appointments of lirst-class cit
X, home. II will cost $4,000. The desig
to and plans were made by Architect Richar
n Ough The same architect has made plan
~ for dwelling for John G. Hurst, to b
se built at the same place. 1t will be thre