Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
New Buildings Planned and
Others Going Up.
APARTMENT HOUSES
ELECTRIC r. R. ENTERPRISES AND
THEIR SIGNIFICANCE.
Increasing Importance of This City as
Center for Large Region
of Country.


Plans have been placed in the hands of
bidders for the proposed hotel building
which has been designed to be erected on
E street next to the National Theater. The
plans. as prepared by c. A. Didden, archi-
tect provide for a structure twelve stories
III height and covering frontage of over
seventy feet. The height of the building
will be 100 feet, the maximum allowed in the
District. At the last session of Congress a
change was made in the law which makes
the erection of this structure possible. AS
the main portion of the lot fronts on E
street and only small section on PennsyI-
vania avenue, the height of the building
under the former regulations would have
been fixed by the width of these two
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is, a portion could have
been twelve stories in height and the bal
ance nine stories. Now, however, the law
recognizes the peculiar situation brought
about by the intersection of rectangular
streets with transverse avenues, and pro-
videS that in such cases, where they happen
in business section, the width of the
widest street shall regulate the height of
the buildings. This structure will there
fore have height permitted on street 100
feet wide, which is the width of Pennsyl-
Vania avenue.
On New Hampshire Avenue.
A company has been formed for the pur-
pose of erecting an apartment house on the
east side of New Hampshire avenue be-
tween R and streets. The property was
secured by Mr.. Smms of Alabama, who ex-
changed for it some time ago the house at
the northeast corner of 18th and K streets.
The incorporators are Frank II. Duehay,
William a. yesterday and Charles E.
Duehay. and the capital is $4,000 The
rob tact &c CpHr
The lot has a frontage of about GS feet
and an average depth of 1875 feet. 1t is pos
sible that building operations may be be-
gun this fall, although it is more likely that
they will be postponed until next spring.
Fourteenth Street Apartment House.
Plans have been prepared by Speiden q
Speiden. architects for handsome four
story building, to be erected at the north
west corner of 14th and L streets north
west, for DR.. Edward M. McComas Work
men have already commenced the removal
of the old structure, which has been
landmark for many years. The new build
ing will have a frontage of % feet on l.
street and 9S feet on 14th street
The rooms on the first floor will comprise
two stores, one Of which will be occupied as
a drug store, reception room and offices.
The other floors will contain two apart
ments each. The front will be of notified
Roman brick with copper and brown-stone
liliHluiHSS 0edtln2, electric light,
bells and speaking tubes are among the
convenienceS specified. Mr.. George G..
Hough is the contractor.
Three-Story Apartment House,
The same architects have prepared plans
for and work has commenced upon a three
story apartment house for DR.. A. c. Mer-
RAM on Morgan street northwest There
will be six apartments of five and six rooms
and bath. with all modern conveniences
The building has a frontage of forty feet
and a dapth of sixty feet. The front will
be OF red brick with light stone trimmings.
Heating will be by hot water.
Mr.. Wizards Building Enterprises.
During the coming summer it is the in
tention of Mr.. Henry A. Willard to have
the old building removed which Is on Penn
sylvania avenue adjoining the new Will
lard. and have erected there a four-story
structure which is to be fitted UP for use
as bachelor apartment house. Plans for
this structure are being prepared by Hill &
Kendall. architects Before leaving the
city for his summer home at Nantucket.
Mass. Mr.. Willard turned over to the De-
partment of Commerce the large Office
building which he has just completed on
lith street between Pennsylvania avenue
and F street. Mr.. Willard has in mind
the improvement Of his property on
street adjoining the Kellogg building and IL
is likely that some time next year he will
remove the buildings at 141S and 1920 F
street and erect on that ample site a mod
ern once structure. perhaps similar in
height to the Kellogg building which they
adjoin. and which is also the property of
Mr. Willard.
Extension Of the City.
The electric street railroad projects that
are either under way or in serious con-
temptation indicate that the sphere of the
influence of this city as a center of popu-
lation is expanding. Already in two d.
rections radii extend twenty miles from
the center of the city, as is shown by the
railroad lines running to Rockville and to
Laurel Now it is proposed to build lines
of almost equal length, one going to Great
Falls and the other to Fairfax Court
House, Va, and possibly Manassas. In
addition. there is under way an interurban
road which Is to connect Baltimore and
Washington, with line to Annapolis, a
distance in the first case of forty miles
and thirty in the second.
A few years ago the planning of cleo
trio road to run seven or eight miles from
the heart of the city was looked upon as
almost chimercal enterprise-certainly 50
when viewed from the standpoint of divi-
dend-paying investment. Now with the
urban and suburban lines operated in a
common interest, it is found that such
roads are able to earn enough money to
pay their expenses, although there are
no doubt some exceptions still to that state
ment.
Influence on Business.
If that result has been ACCOMPLISHED in
less than ten years 1t ought not to be I'M
reasonable. it is contended, to suppose
! there will be a similar development during
| the coming ten years. At the end of that
period it will no doubt be true that the
| roads now projected to run twenty and
| even forty miles from the city will be
| able to show an earning power equal at
| least to the expense of their operation.
| 1t is not beyond reason to expect that they
| will make even better showing.
! There seems to be no question in the
minds of intelligent men that an increase
in Of con icaf ion hac