Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Activity in Building Of Mod
crate Priced Houses.
DEM AND FOR HOMES
SOME CURRENT FEATURES OF
THE MARKET IN REALTY.
Conditions Which Induce the Invest
ment of Money in Bricks and Nor
tar-Apartment Houses.
DEMAND FOR HOMES

A lot on the west side of Connecticut ave-
nue. just south of 8 street is to be improved
with two houses, to be erected from plans
prepared by George S. Cooper, architect
The lot has a frontage of twenty-four feet
and extends through with a frontage on
21st street. One of the houses will front on
Connecticut avenue and the other on 21st
street. Light brick, with stone trimmings
will be the material used in the fronts. The
base and the steps will be of stone. Each
house will contain eleven rooms and two
baths, and will be heated by hot water.
The finish of the entire first floor will be
hard wood. A unique feature will be the
arrangement of the staircase hall, which
will be out of the ordinary.
An Apartment House.
Mr.. Cooper has also prepared plans for
an apartment house, which will front on
Florida avenue and extend through to De-
catur street. 1t will have width of forty
five feet, and will be four stories in height.
There will be twenty-five suites of four,
five and six rooms. The treatment of the
exterior will be in harmony with what is
known the colonial. Black brick will be
used as headers, and will contrast with the
lighter shades of brick with which they
will alternate.
Twenty-One Two-Story Dwellings.
A large building enterprise Is to be car
ried out in the erection of twentyone two
story apartments at the southeast corner of
Tennessee avenue and e street The plans
were drawn by Mr.. Cooper. Each apart
ment will contain four rooms and a bath.
The fronts of the houses will be built of
light brick, and there will be porches ex-
tending across the entire front of both the
second and first stories.
Edward Jones' Purchase.
The large place at Hyattsville formerly
owned by Mr.. John Waggaman, jr., has
been purchased through Early & Lamp
ton, real estate brokers' by Edward Jones
Some forty acres surround the house, which
is an ample structure containing fourteen
rooms, heated with hot water and supplied
with the conveniences of modern dwell
ing Mr. Jones secured the property in ex-
change for city holdings a valuation of
$4,000.
Residence of Mrs. Douglass.
Mrs Augusta A Douglass has bought
through the same brokers, lot fronting
sixty feet on the east side Of Columbia
road Just south OF Wyoming avenue. The
depth is 125 feet and the price paid was
s14731. 1t is the intention of Mrs. Doug
lass to improve this site by the erection of
handsome house which will have the
advantages of unusual light and air for
the building lot. There is to be lawn on
the south side, as we'll as in the rear, and
there will be ample porches on the three
Sides The new structure will be colonial
in design and will consist of three stories,
attic and basement. There will be four
teen rooms and four baths. The interior
finish will be hard wood. On the first floor
will be two large parlors, dining room
and a kitchen.
Sales of Realty.
Among the other transactions recently
made by Early & hampton are the follow
ing:
Sold to Mrs. John B. Henderson, lots 20
and 81 block 9, Meridian HILL fronting 100
feet on the south side of Erie street be-
tween 18th and 18th streets, by a depth OF
100 feet for $1,000; to Mrs. Hettie Christ
man, house 1875 Corcoran street, for $1,000;
farm at Riverdale. Md, to A. Z. Cox,
containing eight acres, for $3.50; to Flor
ence D. Creamer, house No. 1921 Columbia
road, for 81, 800; to Benjamin L. Dulany of
Cincinnati. the house at the northwest cor
ner of 10Th and streets, recently built by
John H. Nolan, for $17,5O0i to Francis
Tubins a lot 19x152 feet. on the south side
of Harvard street between 18th and 14th
streets, for $780, on which he intends to
erect three-story house.
Demand for Houses.
1t is evident there is a good demand for
houses if the effort that is being made to
add to the number can be taken as the
basis of judgment in this respect. The
market for houses of moderate price has, it
is said, never been oversuppled, and it is
probable it never will be, although now the
aid of the apartment house is being freely
invoked. To meet this demand large blocks
of land are being sought for and good
deal is being bought. Rows of houses are
being planned, and at the same time
anfarnriSeS of this cha cter
are in various stages of progress.
What is wanted is cheap land, or rather
land that can be obtained at price which,
when added to the cost of the house. Will
make it possible for the builder to dispose
of the dwellings, at a fair profit. 1t is
claimed by men who are engaged in build
ing that they cannot expect a large profit
in building houses for sale. In most cases
if $500 stands to the credit of the man who
finances such an undertaking he is satisfied.
In many cases even that margin dwindles
under the steady attacks of the daily grow
ing interest account in the event of slow
sales.
Houses and Localities.
1t is said by those who have had consid-
cradle experience in building that it does
not seem to be matter of much conse-
quence what the house is SO long as the
asking price is not more than has been
usual in that special locality. In olner
words, 1t does not do to put up a $4,000
house in a section where $4,000 houses are
the vogue. 1t is of no consequence they
say, that the f1rst-named house is fully
worth that price, and would bring it in
another locality.
The search for low-prfced land has turned
the attention of the builder to the eastern
section of the city. A quantity Of land has
recently changed hands in that section and
a number of houses are under construction
In the meantime the erection of apartment
houses continues, in spite of the fact that
individual houses are also increasing in
number. 1t begins to appear that, after
ALL the apartment house and the individual
house are not antagonistic, but one supple
ments the other in supplying the demand
for homes that come from the increasing
population of great urban center.
Two New Houses.
The frame house at Ills Massachusetts,
avenue, which was recently purchased by
Charles H. Clark, is to be removed On
this site Mr.. Clark intends to erect hand
some residence. The frontage of the lot
is twenty-four feet.
A lot has been bought by Rev. Daniel w.
Fisher, president Of Hanover College, Indi-
ana, in Oakmont, on the Tenleytown