Evening star., 1900-10-13
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Adapting a House to the Requirements
of a Narrow Lot.
INDICATION OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY
Some Examples Of Modern Sub
stantiaI Construction in This City.
Y A r Q I S Nj A II T f r

The plan of the house which is being
erected by Mr. Thomas Hyde on the west
side of Connecticut avenue between De
Sales and NJ streets is interesting for sew
eral reasons. The architect, Mr.. l.. Norris,
made the plan so as to provide q house that
would be convenient for the use of a ply
sician and was obliged to adapt such a de-
sign to lot that is only eighteen feet in
width The result, il is believed will be
satisfactory The main portion of the
building will be two rooms deep and then
instead of attaching the back building i'm
mediately to this section, there will be quite
space, which will be used as a light
shaft.
The narrow connecting part between the
main and the back buildings will be used
Tor a passageway and there will be also
space for the staircase. The main en-
trance, which will be elevated only few
steps above the level of the pavement will
open into a hall extending back to the
staircase hall From the entrance hall
there will be access to the waiting room,
and in the rear is the office, which will re-
cetve light and air from the wide area
obtained by putting the back building far
tier along on the lot On this floor the
space in the back building will be occu-
pied by the kitchen.
Beneath the house will be a cellar where
the heating apparatus will be placed. The
arrangement of the space on the second
floor will be the same as that of the first
with the parlor in front, then library and
In the rear the dining room There will be
four chambers and a bath room on the
upper floor. The front wall of the house
will be built of red brick laid in Flemish
bond and trimmed with Indiana lime stone.
There will be a swell bay window extending
to the roof. and the cornice line will be fin
ished with d baluStrade.
Large RusinesS RuiIdip,
1t is expected by Mr. John S Larcombe,
under whose supervision the large struc-
ture for the use of ST Vincents Orphan
Asylum is being built, that it will be ready
for occupancy some time in January next.
1t may be, however, that some delays not
foreseen may occur, and so defer the com
pletion of the structure until later in the
year 1t will without doubt be ready for
use some time in the early part of the COM
ing season. The new building, which oc-
cupies an elevated site on the Chase place
just north of lexington, is one of the larg-
est structures of the sort in this vicinity,
although in that immediate locality is the
Catholic University and about it a number
OF extensive ediflceS which are the homes
OF the various educational institutions that
have clustered there.
W hen the orphans have vacated the
present building at the corner of 10th and
@ streets northwest, the new owners of the
property, MeSSrS. Woodward and IIUthrop,
Will take possession. 1t is the intention of
this firm to erect there a building which
will be an addition to their present estab-
ljshment, and which will then occupy the
entire square bounded by 10th, 11th, r and
G. streets, with the exception of the corner
at 10th and streets and the adjoining
property. Plans for the proposed structure
are being prepared by Henry Ives Cobb
architect.
Demand for Office Room.
for office rooms have been surprised 10 fine
that the choice is a rather limited one No
that the numbers of buildings of such &
| chara cter Is inadequate, but for some reasor
accommodations of this kind are very much
! In demand just now, and many rooms which
have been vacant are taken. In some build
| tngs where the tenants for the past few
years have seemed to disappear wthou
| any apparent reason. and have left thei
places, IL seemed, hopelessly vacant
there is now hardly an empty room TO b.
| found. This condition is reported not alone
| of one section of the city, but of all, anC
those to whose attention this circulnstanc.
| has been called are. inclined to think tina
| II furnishes only another evidence of tn,
/ increasing business prosperity of the city
1t Is thought, as people do not lease ofiic,
room unless they have business to transact
| that the activity I'm this class of propert,
may be taken a sign that the volume o
business in the city has expanded. Addi
uons are being made all the time to prop
! erty of this kind. and at one period II wa:
| believed ii had rather been overdone ant
| that the supply greater than the de
mand. Now, however, ii seems that tn,
demand is getting up with the supply, ant
the new buildings that have been com
| pleted or are in process of being built hav,
an encouraging outlook 1t is said many @
| the offices in a large office building on 14ti
street that Is now being erected have al
ready been leased.
Fireproof Building.
| An extensive addition to an office build
| ing has been made during the past season
| and is now nearly completed. As IL is II
| the rear of an existing building, the fac
| that such an Improvement is going OIL
| may have been overlooked, except b,
these Immediately interested. It u q,