Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-16
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Glass Of Home Buyers a Factor in
the Market.
GROWING DEMAND FOR HOUSES
Additions Being Made to the Mum
Der of Apartment Houses.
LARGE OFFICE BUILDING

LARGE OFFICE BUILDING
! The spring-like weather which fell to the
| lot of people of this locality during the
| past week has not only been enjoyed as a
| pleasing variation of the kind that usual
| ly comes in the month of March, but II
| has also served to turn the attention of in
| vestorS and prospective home builders or
| buyers to real estate. For some time past
| the class of home buyers has been in evil
| dence to some extent in the market and
| while in the opinion of the dealers there
! might be more of them to advantage, still
| the fact that they are, so to speak, an in
| creasing factor in the local market is an
| indication of the substantial character of
| the latter.
Some of these people are looking for and
| are buying vacant ground, where they can
| build homes, while others acquire houses
which they change to suit their own pur-
poses or occupy them they are. In the
| former class may be mentioned Walter F.
Collins, Geo. A, Cross and w. H. Keith,
who recently purchased through the Thos.
| }. Fisher Company three adjoining lots on
| Sth street near North Carolina avenue
southeast, where they =intend to erect
! houses for their own use. They paid for
! the ground at the rate of s. cents per
| square foot.
W. j. Newton is erecting for his own use
a three-story and cellar residence on the
north side of East Capitol street between
18th and 18th streets. facing Lincoln Park
at a cost of about $500. Adjoining to the
west Mr. billiard is erecting a residence
| for himself, to cost the same sum.
Arthur Curtis of Boston, Mass, has
also commenced the erection of a residence
on the north side of Lincoln Park which
he will occupy in the fall. 1t will cost
about $500 H. T. Suit is contemplating
the erection Of home on street south
east near 18th street, on lot which he
recently bought.
bought for Homes
The residence known as 1926 10Th street
has been bought by r. Dickinson Jewett
for $4,000 through the Thos j. Fisher
Company. The same firm has sold to Eli
gene E Stevens a lot on LenoN street
Chevy Chase, where he intends to build a
house for his own use. The price paid for
tn. lot was Is cents per square foot
The house at 1925 n street was recently
bought by Gen. Sawtelle through the Thos.
J. Fisher Company, and the price paid was
$4,000.
Mrs Harriet A. Doe has bought through
the X. o. Hoffman Office the two-story
house known as 2149 X street northwest
The price paid was $4.250 Through the
same office r. S. Wolf has bought the
three-story residence at 4l2 9Th street
northwest, paying for it S7,6Oi. while Ed
gar I. Gaddis has bought the two-story
house 1Oe1 East Capitol street for $f,G50.
= The board of managers of the Methodist
Home for the Aged, located at 18th and NJ
streets northeast, has decided to erect on
the property a new building which will
more nearly meet the demands upon the
board for accommodations than the pres
ent structure has done for some time past.
y lot on the south side of l street be-
tween Connecticut avenue or 18th street
and 10th street has been bought from Will
liam Corcoran Eustis, through his agent
Low tic
Heap, who was represented in the trans
action by E. c. Baumgras, real estate
broker. The lot has a frontage of twenty
Tour feet and an average depth of about
one hundred feet. The price paid was in
excess of four dollars per square foot Ii
is understood to be the intention of the
purchaser to erect a residence on this site
The Demand for Flats.
There is talk of increasing the accom-
modations afforded by apartment houses in
the vicinity of the government printing
office by the erection of a series of three
story houses, on each floor of which are to
be two suites of rooms The entrance is to
be in the center of each house. and the
apartments located on each side. If this
scheme is undertaken it will result In the
erection of a long row of such buildings
There are to be no elevators in the houses
and the scale of prices is to be what is
known as moderate. 1t has not been deter
mined whether such enterprise can be
represented in such a light that it will be
undertaken by those who have money for
investment.
1t is the intention of Mr.. B. H. Warner.
who recently bought large building site
on the east side of 18th street between 1
ana Il streets, to build an apartment house
there. The ground has a frontage of
So feet inches and an average depth of
ia feet, and it is the purpose to have the
structure cover the entire lot and to he
seven stories in height.
Plans for an apartment house have been
made by T. F. Schneider for w. A. Easter
day and A M. German, agents, which is to |
be located on G street between 21st and ODD !
streets northwest. 1t is to be four stories |
In height and 40 by 12S feet and there are |
to be suites on each side of a central hall
way: There is to be no elevator in the |
building.
Erection of Buildings. |
1t is the purpose of Mr.. John o. Johnson !
to begin at once the erection of an apart |
ment house at the southeast corner of p
and Hopkins streets. about a square west |
of Dupont circle. The new structure is to |
have a frontage of ninety feet on Hopkins |
street and % feet on p street. 1t will be |
four stories in height, and will have two |
suites on each floor, on both sides of the |
main entrance, which will be from Hopkins !
street Each suite will contain three |
rooms, kitchen and a bath room. The !
plans, which have been prepared by Victor |
M1ndeleH, provide for the use of brick and |
stone for the exterior walls There will be |
no elevator.
A residence is to be erected by Dr. Shep- |
ard at Massachusetts avenue and 2Ist and |
q Streets while a house for Mr.. Mullet of |
Baltimore is being built on the north side
OF Massachusetts avenue near Goth street
The house adjoining this lot to the east |
was recently purchased for SIS 600, and is
being improved and will be the home of |
Rev. DR.. Kumler of Pittsburg
Extensive alterations and improvements
are being made in the house at the south |
east corner of N and 10th streets which |
was recently purchased by Senator TlepeW
and given to his niece. The new entrance
Is to be on 10Th street instead of from
N street. as at present the roof is IN he