Evening star., 1900-06-09
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Large Sums Of Money Being Ex-
pended in Business Buildings.
WILLARD HOTEL SQUARE IMPROVEMENT
The avorab!e Conditions Noted in
the Local Market.


Next week will witness the beginning. of
of large sums of money. 1t is expected a
start will be made at that time in the re-
moval of the southern portion of the Will
lard Hotel building. AS soon as the Old
structure is ieve,ed TO the ground the foun-
dations for the fine modern hotel structure
heretofore described in The Star will be
laid. 1t is expected that two years will be
spent in building. and at the end of that
period a large fireproof structure will cover
the present avenue frontage of the hotel
and extend about half way up the block on
14th street.
The owner of the property. Mr. Joseph l..
Willard. Will make this Improvement, and
the estimated cost is about $500, 900. While
the new building is going up the portion of
the old structure which fronts on F street
will be used for hotel purposes. A new
entrance has just been completed on r
street from plans made by Marsh & Peters,
architects.
Large Investment.
AS soon as the avenue section of the hotel
building is finished 1t Is the intention of
Mr.. Willard to begin the erection of the
balance of the 14th street front and also
the street portion in a style correspond
ing to that of the new structure on Penn
sylvania avenue. When the entire pan is
carried out, and including the value of the
ground, 1t may be said that the new Will
lard's Hotel will represent an investment
OF about s2.0OO,00 which is a large sum Of
money for one individual to have invested
in one enterprise.
In addition to the hotel building Mr.. Will
lard has also arranged to occupy the west
forty feet Of the street front with a build
:ng which is to be the home of the Union
Trust and Storage Company. Without in
cluding an estimate of the value of the land
Mr.. Willard will expend in this latter i'm
provement the sum of about sGo,ooo.
New BusIness Building.
The new structure Is to have a frontage
of forty feet and depth of 100 feet. Ac-
tive building operations are to be begun
during the coming week. The building, ac-
cording to pans prepared by Marsh x
Peters, architects. is to have an attractive
front of pink granite. The main entrance.
in the center of the front, will be marked
by pediment and above will be triple
window with a fiat head, and then comes
the cornice, the front being finished by a
pararet
The entire front will be enriched with
carvings. not lavishly applied. but found
in the corn:ce and in and about the great
window and in the pediment Of the en-
trance. designed in the spirit of the French
renaissance school of architecture. The
building is to be only one story in height,
but the elevation and the treatment are
such as will enable it to stand comparison
with its neighbors which exceed 1t in
height.
An Attractive Interior.
The interior arrangement Is interesting
A central passageway divides the lofty
room into two parts. On one side will be
the banking department of the company,
while on the other will be the real estate
and trust departments. The partitions will
he. Inv
mahogany counters In the center of the
building the passageway will widen out into
u circular place, where the desks for the
use of customers will be found. Farther
back will be the gate and bronze screen
which mark the entrance to the safe and
deposit vaults, while above will be the
meZZanine story, where the room for the
directors Will be found The lofty ceiling
with its cove cornice and the skylight filed
with stained glass. will extend over the
principal portion of the ROOM On the right
side of the main entrance will be the office
of the president. while on the left will be
that of the secretary. The plan of the inter-
| ior has been arranged with specia! refer
ence to the business of the company that
will occupy it.
This company. however. is doing some
building on its own account and is erect
ing on its square at 1st and X streets north
east a large warehouse and cold storage
STRUCTURE, involving an outlay of about
S2OO,UOp.
An Apartment House.
The Henrietta apartment house. now be-
ing erected on the north side Of N street
| between 9th and 10th streets northwest,
will be an attractive addition to that sec
tion. The building will be five stories above
cellar. with frontage of forty-nine feet
and a depth of 10 feet 1t will contain four
housekeeping apartments on each floor of
six rooms and bath each. At either side
] Of the building there will be en- iron porch