The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-24
MANY FINE EDIFICEs.
PLANS FOR NOTABLE BUILDING I'M
PRovEMENTS IN THE CITY.
The Handsome Flat to be Erected at New
Hampshire and Oregon Avenues
New Houses and New Blocks in Con-
temptation and Under Erection.

The fine apartment-house to be erected at
the corner of New Hampshire and Oregon ave
nues by DR.. j. NJ. Gregory and party of
friends will be unique in its way. DIR. Gregory
and the friends who are associated with him
in the enterprise have passed much time abroad
and have lived in flats in Paris, Berlin, Lon
don, Switzerland, and Rome. They have
picked up many ideas on the best methods of
flat construction and have become impressed
with the conviction that properly planned
house of this kind can be made to furnish
maximum Of the comforts and pleasures of
home life, with minimum of the cares of
housekeeping and expense. Some of the gen.
tlemen interested possess houses of their own
in Washington, but so partial are they to liv
ing in flats constructed on the plans which
prevail so largely in Paris and other European
cities that they have decided to build an apart
ment-house after the ideas they have been
gathering for years, which when completed
they will make their homes in preference to
living in separate private houses.
1t has been stated that the fiat these gentle
men propose to build at New Hampshire and
Oregon avenues will be run on cooperative
or Bellamy scheme, but this is not correct.
Each of the families Of the gentlemen inter-
ested will have separate and distinct estab-
iishments, as much so as in other apartment
houses. But the house will be built to suit
the convenience OF those who will occupy the
suites, and all those who are admitted to oc-
cupancy will be the original promoters and
few friends of theirs who are agreeable
socially and otherwise to them and their fami-
lies. Thus the congeniality of all the resi-
dents Of the building will be secured, and at
least socially it will be like one big house
hold.
The ground on which the building will
stand is 50x116 feet in dimensions, and the
syndicate of gentlemen who purchased It paid
s13,12s, or about 81. .25 per square foot for it.
Plans for the building were invited and were
submitted by three different architects, that
of Mr.. o. Won Nerta being accepted as most
satisfactory.
The house will be an imposing building five
stories in height. 1t will be faced with buff
brick, with ornamental trimmings of Indiana
limestone. The general style of the building
will be the Italian Renaissance. The main
front will be on New Hampshire avenue, but
the principal entrance will face on Oregon
avenue. On the first floor there is to be
cafe and drug store. The remainder of the
building will be devoted to thirteen suites of
rooms. The work will be of the best charac-
ter and the decorations will be highly artistic
Modern improvements of the most approved
Kind Will be used throughout 1t is likely
that the building will be supplied with electric
lights and call-bells as well as an elevator.
The entire cost of the building and ground
will be about $75, 900. The stock of the syndi-
cate has been divided into twenty-five shares,
all but one of which have already been taken.
A particularly attractive feature of the en-
terprse is that each of the families interested
will be able practically to lay out the apart
ments which they will occupy to suit their
own taste and convenience. The suites will
vary in the number of rooms composing
them from three to ten, and these will be
large or small, as the prospective occupants
may desire. AS a rule, however, the rooms
Will be more spacious than those generally
found in apartment houses. The interior
decorations of each suite will also be modified
In accordance with the desires of the family
that is to occupy it. Each suite will be pro-
Wded with kitchen, and have in fact all the
conVeniences of private house. At the
same time there will be cafe and caterer in
the house, SO that those who do not desire to
maintain private kitchen can be accommo-
dated in the building. There will be common
reading and stting-room, where the gentle
men OF the house may gather in the evening
to smoke and talk
The plan on which this apartment-house
will be built differs from similar ones in New
York, where each suite of rooms is owned by
The member OF the syndicate who occupies it,
and can be sold as if it were a separate house.
The ownership of this h house will be in com
mon and will be represented by holdings of
the stock. At present but five or six gentle
men are associated with DR.. Gregoryin the en-
terprise, but others are expected to join shortly.
Among them are two United States Senators.
All the gentlemen are old-time friends. The
suites OF apartments not occupied by the mem
pers OF The syndicate will be rented to friends
who are congenial to them.
GATIFnRNIA