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ing. The office will also be enlarged and
remodeled, and a metal ceiling provided.

ing The office will also be enlarged and
remodeled, and metal ceiling provided.
Convenience in Entertaining.
The residence which Mrs. Joseph Beale
is erecting on Massachusetts avenue be-
tween 20th and Dist streets Is nearing COM
pletion. 1t will be an unusually spacious
structure for a city home, as 1t VIII nave
a frontage of fifty feet, and yet it will not
occupy the entire lot, as side space is
left on the east side between the new struc-
ture and the residence of Miss Grace DEMO
Litchfield. The characteristic features OF
the Romanesque style have been happily
expressed by the architect, Mr.. Glenn
Brown, in the plain, substantial walls OF
brick finished with roof and marked
with strong lines.
The interior arrangement will be of in
terest, 1t is thought to furnish solu-
ton of one of the problems in social EN-
tertainments-the ability to take care of a
large number of guests. The entrance is
what is known as the English basement,
and is on level with the street. There is
an entrance hall, which broadens out into the
staircase hall, and opening out from these
halls are reception rooms, Where the guests
can lay aside their wraps before going up
to the parlor floor. The arrangement of the
parlor floor is such as to preserve the
broad effects which house of such gener-
Gus proportions is capable of, and there is
nothing to interfere with the sweep from
the parlor in the front through the central
hall to the dining room in the rear There
is space for library occupying portion
of the front. The interior finish while
simple in detail, will show some good ef-
fects in hard wood.
The five-story business building at the
southwest corner of 18th and F streets,
which has been erected on the site of the
one that was destroyed by fire last No
yember, is about finished 1t has been built
by the owner, Mr.. Henry Strong of Chi
cago. under the direction of Mr.. Charles
W. King, and the actual time occupied in
the work up to the present has been
seventy-eight days. Within the period
named has been practically all the time
when it has been possible to do outside
work. As an illustration of the unusual
weather of the past winter, this is prob
ably as striking any that can be cited.
1t is only one of the many instances of the
unusual weather that prevailed in this To-
cality during the past winter.
Proposed Dupont Circle Residence.
Plans nave been prepared by Mr. George
Cary, an architect of Buffalo, N Y, for a
residence to be built for Mr.. Herbert Wads-
worth OF Avon, N. Y. on the triangular
square owned by Mr.. Wadsworth and 'front.'
ing on the east side Of Dupont Circle A
church edifice occupies one portion of the
ground, and at one time an Episcopal con-
gregation occupied it. More recently It was
the temporary home of St. Paurs NJ e.
Church. The ground was purchased
some time ago from the estate of the
late Senator Van Wyck, and while Mr.
Wadsworth was said to have contem-
plated the immediate improvement of
the property, this was not done. The pres
ent plans provide for a house to be built
of brick, terra Gotta and marble, to cost
about 10000
A Southwest Improvement.
Julius Wenig architect, has prepared
plans for two two-story and cellar dwell |
ings and two store buildings, with flats on |
I'd and 3D. stories. to be erected at the |
southeast corner Maryland avenue and AZ |
street southwest. The two dwellings on |
Maryland avenue Will be 16x4S feet and will |
contain six rooms and bath. The fronts |
will be of press brick and Ohio stone trim