Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
a Heavy Transaction in WE'LL Located
Mt. Pleasant Property.
EIGHTY THREE THOUSAND Feet SOLD
The Outlook for Improvement Con-
tinues Very Good.
NEW BUILDINGS PLANNED
NEW BUILDINGS PLANNED

The rather sluggish condition of affairs in
real estate circles was pleasantly agitated
during the past week by two very large
transactions. The first was the transfer by
Mr.. w. Bourke Cochran Of New York to Mr..
John T. Williams of the same city of the
handsome residence known as the Robson
house, at the corner of 10Th and o streets,
just north of Scott circle. The other was
the sale by Mr. George w. Silsby
to Mr.. ]. L. White of Montreal, of $4,000
square feet Of land in Mount Pleasant
This handsome property is part of Ingle-
side and extends from 18th to 18th streets,
fronting en- Park street. Mr.. White paid
81 per foot for the property, cash. About
year ago, when things were so much de-
pressed, Mr.. Silsby purchased it from Mr..
Chaplin Brown for about IS cents foot, so
his Investment has proved highly profit
able. 1t has also shown that he took a cor
rect view of the future at the time he made
the purchase. for he asserted then that
prices would improve substantially in
very short time.
Mr.. White, the purchaser, is known as
"the Jim Keene of Washington's Wall
street. having been so remarkably fortu-
I ate in his operations on the stock mar
ket, 1t being said Oh excellent authority
that he has made s15oO0O in the last eleven
months. He has large interests in the
SoulH III the shape OF cypress forests, and
has been in the lumber business all his life
He contemplates building mansion on his
newly acquired property that will cost not
less than 100000, and he will improve the
grounds in such a way as to form one of
the handsomest private parks In the Dis
trict.
Views of an Expert.
In speaking of the sale yesterday evening
b well-known real estate man said 1t was
only another instance Of the fact that the
Improvement In the real estate market here
would be first felt in suburban property
lying along or near quick transit roads 1t
vas already being shown. he said. in the
higher grades of property located near the
Metropolitan and Capital Traction lines.
and medium-priced property would come in
when the lexington road was improved
end the Brightwood road bettered NV an
interchange of transfers with city lines.
TIE next improvement we will see" he
continued, will be in the erection of fine
city residences: The disturbed condition
of labor thu oughout the country will have,
l am sure, a tendency to cause CAPITALISTS
to crowd to the national capital where
they can be free from uneasiness and find
ample laws for protection, while at the
same time they can direct their affairs else
where without Inconvenience This NAV
sound like the fears Of a nervous man. but
1t Is true. Then, again, republican ad-
mlnlstratlon always attracts well-to-do peo-
pie to Washington. So l look for a very
substantial spring revival in the building
and the renting of houses of superior
character"
Good Signs for the Future.
Among architects there is considerable
work of a preliminary nature that will
take substantial shape in a short time An
other apartment house is in contemplation,
and the chances are that it will be erected
| Messrs. George E. Emmons and Charles
w. Simpson have the matter under consid-
GRAFTON, and Architect A. B. Morgan has
| outlined the plans. 1t is proposed to build
| it at the southwest corner Of 25th street
and pennsylvania avenue The preliminary
drawings call for structure 100 by 146
| in size, of steel beams and terra Gotta fill
! Ing. making the construction fireproof. The
front will be of buff brick and Hummels-
| town stone. 1t will be six stories, attic and
| basement in height. All the latest improve
| ments will be introduced, and the cost will
be between $4,000 and $4,000. If present
| indications hold good work will be COM
| menced this fall, and be completed in the
| spring of next year.
| The row of white marble dwellings which
| MesSrS EmmonS and Simpson are erecting
| at the corner of 14th and Yale streets Co
| lumba Heights, are completed as to their
| fronts, which have been rubbed down, and
their attractive style is being commented
| on In very favorable way. The stone is
| Georgia marble, the same as that used in
| the new Cocoran Gallery, and it possesses
the characteristic of growing whittier all the
| time.
| buildings to BE Erected.
| The movement on Columbia Heights con-
| tinues. Henry Simpson has prepared plans
| for three eight-room dwellings on Kenyon
| street between 18th and 14th streets They
| will be 1863 by Al feet in dimensions ard
| will nave very prettily designed fronts of
| notified brick. Cabinet mantels tiled YES
| tibules and baths and modern conveniences
| will be introduced. The cost will he 5000.
I. w. Stone will have j. c. iost erect for
| him on plans drawn by Architect Edward
| Woltz three-story brick dwelling on 18th
street between A and streets southeast.
| The pressed brick front will have a square
| bay window running the full height. The
| house will be % by 80 feet in dimensions.
1t will be heated by hot water and equipped
| with all recent fixtures. The cost win be
$500.
Three very handsome houses are to be
| erected by BEDFORD w. Walker & Son on
21st between r and 8 streets. The plans
| have been prepared by c. L. Harding.
| They will be three stories and basement in
| height. with balcony bay fronts of Seneca
| stone and mottled brick, with gables and
| The hard woods in the interior will be oak
and pine: the baths will be tiled and steam
heating fixtures and electric appliances IN
| troduced. The cost will be $4,000.
| The northeast is getting a very good
share of Improvement: D. B. Gottwalls
| will build twenty dwellings in that section
from. plans PREPARED by B. Stanley Sim
ncns. They will be two-story and cellar
| houses. with bay-window fronts of pressed
| brick and Indiana limestone. They will be
| heated by latrobes. Six of these dwellings
| will be erected at the corner Of 10th and
streets northeast, and fourteen at 18th and
| S streets northeast, Trinidad. The latter
| will have fiat fronts
| DR.. w. c. p. Hazen will build three dwell
| ings on street northeast between
| 9th and It'll streets. They will be
| each 10 by 4S feet in dimensions,
| three stories and basement, with press
| brick fronts end Hummelstown' stone bay
l WINDOWS, The ard roofs will no clo +.
| ed. Heating will he by latrobes and fur
| naces. and all modern improvements will be
| introduced, including tiled baths and cleo
| trio appliances b. F. Judson is the archi-
tect.
| Thin Excuse.
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| Deacon Hasbeen laYing down his nanarl