Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-06
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Some Attractive Residences
to Be Erected.
FEATURES OF INTEREST
GRANITE LODGE HOUSE AT ROCK
CREEK CEMETERY ENTRANCE.
Promising Outlook for Business in
Spite of the Feather, Which in Its
Present Phases, is Only Temporary.

An attractive addition Is to be made to
the private residences on r street between
21st and 22d streets Col. Louis Helm,
U. 8. A, has bought the lot adjoining on
the east the residence of Gen. Corbin, and
intends to improve it by the erection of a
house for his own use. The lot has 'front.'
age of twenty-five feet, and is only a part
of the ground adjoining the Corbin resi-
dence, which is used as a garden. Mr..
Henry Simpson, architect is preparing the
plans for Col. Helms house, which Is to be
colonial in treatment There are to be
three stories and basement, and red brick
with joints and light stone trimmings are
to be used in the front. On the first floor
will be the parlor library and dining room,
with the kitchen in the basement There
will be four bed rooms and bath room on
each of the two upper floors. The finish
of the woodwork will be In white and IN
natural colorS.
The Tanner House.
On the opposite side of the block Is the
house which has just been completed for
Mrs. Tanner the wife of Capt z. L. Tanner.
1t was designed by Mr.. Simpson, and Is
an English basement The interior ar
rangement Is effective and the staircase
is noticeable for the amount of space given
u.
trance hail. which is highly ornamental
The finish Of the woodwork of the various
rooms is suited to the color scheme
Granite Lodge House.
At the main or southeast entrance of
Rock Creek cemetery, as designed by the
cemetery authorities, a handsome improve
ment is to be made in the form of a fine
granite building, which is to be adapted
for use as an Office and lodge house Ac-
cording to the plans, which have been
drawn by F. B. Pyle, architect, the new
structure is to be of granite, will be of the
English Gothic type of architecture, and
will be appropriate to the surroundings and
in keeping with the artistic and costly me-
MORALS which have been placed in the
cemetery. The new building will have two
stories, and on the first will be the Offices
of the superintendent and Of the secretary
while on the upper story wifi be the yestry
room of Rock Creek parish and other avail
able space.
Lieut.. Sypher's House.
The same architect has completed the
plans for a residence for Lieut.. J. H.
Sypher, United States navy which Is to be
near the main entrance to Cleveland Park
at Connecticut avenue. The house is of
the cottage style, and is an effective de-
sign with its oyerhanging roof caves and
wide porches. The material used will be
wood, and the house stands entirely de-
tached which permits a freedom of
treatment not possible in a city house.
One feature of the interior is attractive, as
the space that is usually given to parlor
and reception room is devoted to a living
room, with the result that one large apart
ment is secured instead of one or two
cramped rooms. There will be brick fire.
place in this ROOM The balance of the
space on this floor will be occupied by the
dining room, staircase hall and kitchen.
IN ha hoy will ho had
rooms, bath room and den.
Effect of Continued Cold.
The cold weather. and especially it's long
continuance, affects the building trades
both in the immediate present and in the
future-tn the present by preventing such
building as was under contract, and in the
future by making 1t difficult to assemble the
material, especially brick, in readiness for
the opening of building operations Owing
to existing conditions, there was not a
large amount of building unfinished when
the winter season set in, and the stoppage
of work has not had as much effect as
would otherwise have been the case. To
certain extent the lack of new building en-
terprises lessons the influence which the
delay in getting material together would
ordinarily have, for as the number OF pro-
jected buildings is not large the demand for
material is CORRESPONDENCE small. In spite
of that fact there are several large struc-
lures that are to be begun soon as the
weather permits. The bad state of the
roads has made 1t impossible to haul brick
from the plants over on the Virginia shore
Of the Potomac to the extent at least that
is usual during the winter season.
Another effect Of the cold weather, and a
rather serious one, is the almost complete
stoppage Of outside work, thereby throwing
out of employment large number of men.
Many of these men, like those in other
lines OF work, are apt to be improvident and
inclined to spend as fast as they earn, with
the result that when there are no pay days
in the week there is no food or fuel at
home. The suffering this winter among
this class has undoubtedly been very great,
and owing to the general extent of the let
UP in employment 1t Is perhaps more widely
extended than during the average winter.
The Demand for Living Space.
AS an indication Of the demand for house
room two cases of apartment houses may
be cited, and these may be taken as samples
of the prevailing conditions The Ham
mond Court apartment house. at the corner
Of Both and Q streets. was completed and
ready for use some time in December. 1t
will be recalled that this property was for
merly the residence of the late Ex-Governor
Henry D. Cooke and one Of the we'll known
private residences in Georgetown. It was
bought by Mr.. c. B. Keferstein, who is an
architect, and who conceived the idea of
making use of the lawn space and pre-
serving the old trees about the house He
built wings, 80 to speak. on each side of
the old mansion. which ran along the sides
of the lawn. leaving the center spaces for
courts. shaded by the large trees. The house
was remodeled and the whole became a
modern apartment house, and now all the
twenty suites with the exception Of three,
are occupied.
The other example is the Ontario apart
ment house. which is built on the brow of
the hill overlooking the Zoo, west of
Columbia Road. This building was ready
for use about the beginning of the year, but
Of the fifty-four suites all but about eigh-