Evening star., 1902-04-12
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Attractive Features in House
Building.
LAWNS IN THE CITY
ERECTION OF NEW HOUSES IN
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
Some Of the Conditions of the Market
and the Encouraging
Phases.

AT this time of the year a good many
people are looking about either for houses
to rent or to buy The latter class Is a
large one, and the supply of houses avail
able for either purpose is not so great
| as to to overstock the market. In this re-
spect the market is in a very healthy con-
dition, and other things being equal the
prospect is that there will be quite a good
deal Of building going on during the pres
ent season, although the beginnings are
not as brisk as some would like to have
them. In fact, some architects are inclined
to think that the work is coming in slow
ly for this time of the year, and that the
outlook for the year Is not especially
! promising.
At the same time, it is pointed out that
the season is backward in other respects,
and the weather Is not as genial and
springlike as is usual. 1t is thought these
circumstances may have some influence on
the building trades and that after awhile
business in these lines will pick up.
Attractive House Interiors.
AT the same time those who are on the
outlook for homes and inspecting the
new houses that are offered to them are
! impressed with the changes that have
taken place in the method of building resi-
dences for sale. The feature that seems
to call forth the most comment is the at
tractfveness of the dwellings. owing mainly
to the clever planning of the interior so
as not only to use to the best advantage
the space, but to have really attractive and
artistic effects.
One type of house that Is offered at a
moderate figure has as one of it's features
conservatory attached to the dining
room, which opens not only into the din
ing room itself, but can be seen from the
parlor and the central hall. This result
| is reached by utilizing the l. space or
well that separates the back part of the
structure from the wall of the ncighboring
house. This space is simply rooted In with
glass, and has one side mainly of glass;
so that in place of a rather forbidding de-
tail a really beautiful addition is Sc
cured.
A Better Type Of House.
1t is now quite common to find in such
houses provision for sitting room or Ii
brary on the second floor. Sometimes it
takes the form of a den or library for the
master of the house, and in this case of
course, the space given to it is necessarily
somewhat less. There is also noticeable
corresponding care in the selection of the
material and in the construction, so that
the standard of house building here is i'm
proving.
The tendency to erect large houses on
small lots continues, of course, to be notice.
able In the fashionable sections, as we'll
as in those where people of moderate means
make their homes. After while the custom
of having lawn spaces about houses will
become more general and when the indi-
vidual adds from his own holdings to the
provision made by the arrangement of the
streets for grass about the house the ap-
pearance of the residence portion of the
city will be enhanced In attractiveness.
A New Apartment House.
Work has been begun in the erection Of an
apartment house on the east side of Goth
street between and streets. The plans
have been prepared for the owner, Mr.
Franklin T. Sanner, by B. Stanley Simmons,
architect. According to these plans the
structure win be one of the largest of the