Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-30
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
One Feature of Improvements Made
by the District.
BUILDING ACTIVITY DURING WINTER
Importance of the Determination
of Suburban Street Lines.
SOME NEW BUILDING S

The announcement of the proposed sched-
ule for street improvements to be carried out
next year calls to mind work now going on
under the contracts for the present year.
Residents as rule do not need to be told
that pavements are being repaired or relaid,
or that sidewalks are being renewed. This
work is brought to their attention daily by
the barricaded streets, and the groups of
| busy workmen which may be seen here and
there throughout the city.
Outside of the mere improvement of the
streets and sidewalks, which is the result of
these efforts, all this is q gratifying spec
tacle because of the fact that large number
of men are given employment and money is
being expended. which will find its way into
| the general avenues of business. This latter
consideration is OF especial value just now
as the sem-annual taxes on real estate have
been practically all paid, and property own
ers and the banks where they keep their
deposits are feeling correSpondiEgly poor.
In addition to the wage-yieldng service
which is afforded by municipal improve
ments. great deal of work is usually going
on in connection with the erection of new
buildings of various kinds. Just now en-
ployment of this sort is not as abundant as
it was a few weeks ago. The active period
in the building trade is naturally drawing
toward close. the limits are largely de-
termEei by the seasons of the year.
The building Trades.
AS rule the time of greatest activity in
building in this locality is during the spring,
| summer and early fall. When winter sets in
the amount of outside work that can be done
| is somewhat limited. although there have
been years when outside construction could
be carried on almost continuously during the
entire winter. Such 4 season is what is
known as an open winter. but even in years
when the weather has been quite severe it
has been possible TO do great deal of out
side work. While frequently q Washington
winter is characterized by cold weather
sometimes very cold weather-yet such
periods are by no means continuous. and in
the interval It is possible to lay brick walls
and TO do other work that is exposed to the
weather.
While it is not expected that there will he
any great amount of building done during
the coming winter, yet it is thought that
the building season of next Year viii open
re Their early, and that good many enter
pr.ses will he begun sometime before the
calendar announces the approach of spring.
The Highway Law.
There is an opinion, which is entertained
by a good many men who are more or less
familiar with the Washington real estate
market that the coming season promises 20
be one OF unusual activity. 1t is not claim
ed that there is 10 be boom in the usual
meaning of that term, but it is thought
and that there will be a good demand for
property on the part of conservative buyers
who desire investment rather than mere
speculative ventures.
One consideration which leads to this
opinion is the probability of the final settle
ment Of The street extension question. The
direct advantage to be derived from final
disposition of this matter is the determine
ton of individual holdings. What the prop
erty holders. specially in the immediate
suburbs, want is final and authoritative
settlement of the lines of the streets and
avenues, so that they may know what they
own and where it is located. This is the
meaning of the highway act.
Some improvements.
Two houses in the northwest, 1Gx3s feet,
with fronts of light brick and stone trim
mings and copper oriels are soon to be
| erected by George Arlington from plans
prepared by Waddy B. Wood, architect.
The houses will contain eight rooms and
bath each, and will be fitted with all the
modern convenienceS.
b. +. Meyers, architect has prepared the
| plans for the erection of two three story
brick dwellings for L. E. BreGnilger. and
| the contract has been awarded to w. W.
Souder to do the building. The front of
| the buildings will be brick and hrownstane.
The buildings will be heated by furnace
and will have a frontage of eighteen feet
by depth of twenty-eight feet six inches.
Charles Freshman VIII erect or Sd street
story and basement brick dwelling, i1y:2
feet. The front will be of pressed brick
and limestone, with mansard slate roof and
a bay window terminating in tower. Plans
have been drawn by A. Goenner rchitect.
At the corner of Anacostia avenue and @
street northwest John T. Clark will build
a twc-story frame cottage for J. Frank
rrazZari. The dimensions are G.X2o feet
and the cost is estimated at $1,000.
DesseZ & Julien, architects, have drawn
plans for two-Story and attic frame dwell
ing. which they VIII erect on 18th street,
Brookland. 1t will be 36X46 feet, and there
will be two bay windows and pitch shingle
roof with dormers.
The Bujldins Record.
Seven permits We're issued by the permit
clerk ill the building inspectors office dur
ing the week ending yesterday, at an est
mated cost of s15,55O divided among the
several sections of the city as follows:
Southeast, two permits, costing $500;
five for