Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Building Foundations of Con-
tinental Hall.
DEMAND FOR PROPERTY
AMPLE SITES FOR EDUCATIONAL
STRUCTURES SOUGHT FOR.
Increase in the Number of Schools At
tended by Pupils From
Other Sections.
DEM land FOR PROPERTY

Progress is being made in the construo-
ton of Continental Hall, which Is to be the
home of the Daughters Of the American
Revolution. Occupying it will the en-
tire eastern frontage of the square on nth
street between c and D streets northwest,
the new building will be large and spacious
as Is needed in order to provide proper quar-
tiers for an organization whose members
run into the tens of thousands. 1t has
been found by the Richardson & Burgess
Company, which has the contract for lay
ing the foundations, that 1t was necessary
to go deeper than was anticipated.
This. of course, was due to the nature
of the soil, which proved to be made
ground for practically the entire extent or
the property. In order to secure proper
footing for the foundations an average
depth of ten feet was needed. At the north
east corner of the square the depth that
was excavated was twelve feet.
This part of the work is now practically
completed and the laying of the brick
foundations is going on and will be prose-
cut ted to completion.
Sites for Large Buildings.
Brokers who are familiar with the real
estate market in all it's phases state that
recently quite a demand has sprung up for
large building sites, either within the old
bounds of the city or within easy reach
of the citys center. The use to which such
property is to be placed 1t is stated, Is
as sites of schools for young ladies and
girls. The requirements for such a pur-
pose are chiefly considerable piece of
ground. so that the proposed building can
stand detached, as is required in the case
of large structures, in order to secure light
and air Property of this sort entirely
without Improvements is rather hard to
find, and the owners of good sized tracts
within the area mentioned are inclined to
think they have desirable holdings.
The suggestion that such inquiries give
rise to brings out a feature of the recent
development of the city that is perhaps as
important any that can be mentioned,
and that is the rise and progress of the
schools for girls IN this city. A few years
ago such schools We're practically unknown
and the number of girls who We're sent here
to be educated was so insignificant to
hardly attract attention. Now, however,
what may be termed, with due regard for
the meaning of the term, great educational
institutions have sprung up and are -four
lshing and expanding, and now 1t is evil
dent that additions are to be made to their
number.
Thousands of Students.
1t Is a conservative estimate to say that
several thousand young ladies come here
each year for their education and they
find in the various institutions throughout
accommodations, such as are to be had
In all irst-class schools of the Sort as
well as a large and competent corps of
teachers. The popularity of this city as a
place for the education of girls is fully
attested by the rapid growth of such in
stitutions, and there is reason for the con-
fident beliefs of those who have given
thought to the development of Columbian
University or the George Washington Uni
versity, as 1t is now to be known, that
there is opportunity here for providing an
additional number of men with a collegiate
education and that there is reason why
stream of young men should not be turn
ed in the direction of this city in the same
manner as has proved to be the case with
the young women.
In order to provide for what is believed
to be a genuine need the Van Ness property
has been bought by the university and there
1t fs proposed to erect buildings about
campus where not only there will be pro-
vision for class rooms but where there will