Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
New Structures Designed for.
Business Uses.
RAILROAD TERMINAL
LAND PURCHASED FROM INDI-
VIDUALS BY CORPORATIONS.
Improvements of Various Kinds Going
on in All Sections of the
District.

An Improvement is to be made at the
southwest corner of Park and 18th streets
where Charles f. Gross contemplates the
erection of an apartment house. 1t will
take the place of the structure where his
business is now carried on, but according
to the plans prepared for the new building
by Harding & Upman, architects, the cor
ner room of the first floor will be fitted up
for business purposes. There will also be
two stores on Park street, as well as the
entrance to the two upper floors. There
will be three suites of rooms on each of the
two floors above the first, and two of these
suites will consist of five rooms and one of
four rooms The new building will have a
frontage of'twenty-seven feet on 18th street
and eighty-three feet on Park street The
exterior walls will be of red brick with
white trimmings, and the treatment will
be colonial.
Steam Railroad Terminals.
The great work Of changing the steam
railroad terminals In this city is to be
actively begun In the near future-that is
to say. the physical work. the actual
shoveling Of dirt. For months past prepa-
rations have been going on in order that
such an elaborate undertaking as is pro-
posed can be carried on with success For
some time past the Pennsylvania COMPANY
has been engaged in acquiring land along
the line leading outside of the city and the
process of adding additional tracks to the
regular service of the road has been going
on until now four track road into the
city is believed to be only a question of a
short time.
The travel in and from the city has be-
come of late years so heavy and the freight
traffic so extensive that these enlarged
facilities are an absolute necessity. Pro-
\ orr &c hn;v A.
the railroad bridge over the Potomac which
is to take the place of the Long bridge,
while at the entrance point of the line from
the north into this city it is expected in a
very short time the work of adding to that
tunnel on the west will be in progress.
Capitol Hill Tunnel.
At present the tunnel ends about 18th
street southeast, and it is proposed to con-
struct an underground line which will lie
continued as far west as Garfield Park
Some distance farther west will be the
junction of the main line with that which
will emerge from the tunnel that is to pass
under Capitol Hill along 1st street cas-. to
the union station at the north of the Cap
itol building. The end of what might be
termed the depot tunnel will probably be at
Sd street southwest, where the tunnel
tracks as they emerge from the under
| ground opening will connect with the main
| line that will pass through the southern
| section of the city much as it does now on
Virginia and Maryland avenues.
In order to make the radical changes
| within the city which have thus been out
| lined and which viii include also the con-
| solidation of the two lines of the Baltimors
and Ohio road into one on Delaware ave-
| nue.. 1t has been necessary for the COM
| panies to buy many squares of land in both
sections of the city. and they are still in
the market. The Pennsylvania company
| has acquired from the owners q strip OF
| land which will be above the tunnel he
| tween LIST and B streets southeast along a
| diagonal line to about Sd and Virginia ave.