The Washington times., 1902-07-13
Home Seekers and In
vestors Buying Landand
Erecting Houses
SECTION RAPIDLY GROWING
Railways Preparing to Extend Lines
Three Seventh Street Landmarks
Torn Down to Permit Expansion of
Business Houses.

number of building operations which
have been started in the section during
the past few months. has served to at
tract the attention of homeseekers and
investors to this rapidly growing neigh
borhood.
While much notice has been given to
Bloomingdale and Columbia Heights. it
is asserted by brokers, in position to
know, that the deals on the west Of
Fourteenth Street, north of the Boun-
dairy OF Florida Avenue, as the thor
oughfare is now known. have exceeded
those to the east of Fourteenth Street.
Almost every day for the past two
years one or more deals have been put
through, involving property in this sec
tion. but it was not until recent months
that people appreciated the character
cf residences being constructed.
Section Well Built Up.
The demand for property on the high
ground is noted not only on Washing
ton Heights, but to the west, on Lanier
Heights. Here. a few years ago. ground
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now built up with fine residences.
The improvements made during the
past year along Connecticut Avenue ex-
tended 10 the loop of the Capital Trac-
ton Company, near Rock Creek, will
soon have that neighborhood built up
with houses occupied by some of the
best people at the National Capital.
Mr. B. Stanley Simmons has drawn
plans for a number of residences IN this
section during the past two years. and
they are of a better class than those to
be constructed in other sections. He has
just prepared plans for eight houses to
be put up on the south side of Balti-
more Street between Connecticut Ave
hue and Twentieth Street, which will
have a frontage of nearly nineteen feet
by a depth of sixty eight feet. They
will be three stories in height. twelve
rooms and two baths, and will be heat
ed by hot water. The fronts will be OF
Indiana lime stone and selected red
brick in Colonial style.
Mr. Lester A. Barr is building the
houses, and expects to expend about
$1,000 on each of them.
A row of five houses is also being
erected on the southeast corner of
Eleventh and Harvard Streets north
west on plans prepared by Mr.. Simmons.
They viii be IS by 81 feet, three stories
in height, and will contain eight rooms
and bath. They will be heated by steam.
The fronts will be of limestone and
brown brick, and 1t is estimated they
will cost $1,000 to construct.
A Row of Houses.
Mr.. L. E Breuninger is erecting a row
of houses on the east side of Eigh-
teenth Street, near the intersection of
Connecticut Avenue, while there is also
a row of houses just south of these
which front south on U Street. 1t is un-
derstood that there is also TO be another
large apartment house constructed on
Washington Heights by the McLachlen
Real Estate Company.
Building material has been reduced in
price since the spring. and it is ex-
pected there will be a further drop with
in the next two months. There has not
been the amount of building which was
tApttltu= anu Win lI1 StAlitll4tHL Vi llit
labor troubles and a drop in the price
of material. there should be an active
midsummer and fall in building circles.
The Messrs. Davidson, who recently
purchased through a syndicate from
John R. Mclean, the square bounded by
S Street and Florida Avenue, Nineteenth
and Twentieth Street northwest, intend
improving the property.
Negotiations have been concluded by
which the entire frontage of the square
on S Street. between Nineteenth and
Twentieth Streets, has been sold TO Mr.
John H. Nolan.
1t is the intention of the new owner
to cover the entire frontage with a row
of houses. eighteen In number The
plans for this Improvement have been
drawn by George S. Cooper, architect,
and the buildings will be begun at once
The houses are TO be three stories in
height. The block of ground sold to Mr..
Nolan has depth OF ninety feet TO a
ten-foot alley.
1t is understood that no plans have
been made in regard to the disposition
of the balance of the square, and 1t has
not been determined as yet whether OF
not Oregon Street will be continued
through the square.
Home Savings Bank Building.
The buildings are being removed at the
northeast corner of Seventh Street and
Massachusetts Avenue. and the work Of
erecting the fine bank building for the
use OF the Home Savings Bank is to be
begun. The plan OF this structure.
which was designed by Appleton y.
Clark, jr., architect. provides for seven
stories, the lower portion of which win
be used as the Offices of the bank and
the upper will be arranged as apart
ments. Brick. terra Gotta and stone will
be the materials used in the construc
tion of the walls. This improvement
will occupy conspicuous place and viii
be a handsome addition to the business
buildings OF the city.
1t is expected that by the early part
of August work Will be commenced on
the extension OF the Metropolitan Rail-
road north from Columbia Road and
Eighteenth Street. The officials of the
road have been assured that the rails
will be on the road by the lst of the
month. and then there will be no delay
in tie start.
II IS estimated that four weeks will
be spent in completing the mile and
one-eighth of road which is TO be fin
ished in order to carry the tracks from
the present terminus TO Sixteenth Street
and Park Avenue. This latter point. as
is well known, is In Mount Pleasant. and
the extension of what is known as the
Connecticut Avenue line OF the sys-.
tenn operated by the Washington Street