Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Large CONSTRUCTION Enter
prises Being Carried Out.
HOUSES AND LOTS SOLD
BUILDINGS THAT ARE TO BE
EREcTEu THIS YEAR.
Improvement in and Out of the City
and Various Phases Of
the Market.
HOUSES AND LOTS SOLD

the Market.
One of the noteworthy realty transactions
of the week, aud one that Is the probable
forerunner of the villa development of the
region in the near future, Is the sale for
200 of a part of the Bfagden property
known as Argyle" to Mr. Shelton L. Cam
eron of the firm of Mauro, Cameron, Lewis
& Massie, patent attorneys OF Washing
ten and New York. The sale was made
for Mr.. Thomas Blagden unsought by him,
the property never having been placed on
the market up to the present time, except
ing for renting purposes.
Foreseeing the extension Of 18th street q
number of years ago, Mr.. Blagden had ac-
curate surveys made and built on the line
of said street, introducing at the same time
city water, sewer and gas. He Is believer
of the villa Site and the preservation of
our native trees, and is opposed to the city
lot in the suburbs for the present time at
least, hence the sale by him of a lot of I'M
usual size.
With Ample Ground.
Mr.. Camerons purchase has frontage on
the east side of 18th street of 100 feet and
extends for that width through to Piney
branch road, and a southern frontage Of
nearly 800 feet on what will be Allison
street, ninety feet wide, which will proba-
bly, be opened in the early future to connect
10th street with -Brightwood avenue The
plat has nearly 10000 square feet, for which
Mr.. Cameron paid 80 cents a foot. The i'm
provements consist of handsome two
story and-a-half stone dwelling. The prop
erty has been purchased by Mr.. Cameron
for his residence, and the ample ground he
has secured is but another indication of the
tendency of professional and business men,
whose occupations prescribe extended alb
sence from Washington during the summer,
to secure homes affording the pleasures or
suburban life combined with urban conven-
fences. In order to meet this growing de-
mand. it is understood that Mr.. Thomas
Blagden, who has now decided to place his
property the market, will sell 1t by
metes and bounds, so as to meet individual
requirements of purchasers. yet strictly adj
herring to the street extension plan.
Mr.. Sanner's Purchase
Moore & HILL real estate brokers, have
sold to Franklin II. Sanner, through the
office of Thomas ]. Fisher & Co., the hand
some lot at intersection of Adams Mill
road and Cincinnati streets, Washington
Heights. This lot while one of the hand
soonest In this section, is considered espe-
cially desirable on account of its peculiar
shape. 1t is a quadrantal or quarter circle
and has a frontage of $50 feet and a depth
of 1O2< feet, the total area being nearly
1900 square feet. Mr.. Sanner recently sold
his home on Columbia road, Columbia
Heights and he will start at once the erec-
ton of a handsome dwelling for his resi-
dence. 1t Is understood that the price paid
was about ~ per ssquare foot.
Moore d Hill report the consumatiOn OF
seventeen separate cash sales during the
week. They have sold for Harry Wardman
eleven of the seventeen apartment buildings
just completed on % street and Dumbarton
avenue, seven having been disposed of this
week.
ss1Goloradof Heights hImprovement.s
Mr.. Samuel C. HILL with E. Lodge Hill,
who are the exclusive agents for the new
subdivision known as Colorado Heights,
reports that seldom has work progressed
more rapidly and with better satisfaction
than the improvements that are being made
in that locality.
I'VE advertised these improvements would
be made" said Mr.. Hill, land the contract,
which was given to Mr.. George B. Mullen
about March 10. with instructions to push
1T along rapidly as possible, is being full
filled. During this time only twenty-nine
days have been fit for work; yet over TO-
900 cubic yards of earth have been re-
moved. The streets and alleys have been
graded and the lots are now receiving like
treatment to an average terrace of three
feet. Those familiar with work of this
nature known that 1t could not be done
rapidly by the use of picks, shovels, wheel
barrows and carts, but 1t is being accom-
plished by the use of strong teams, plows
and heavy wheel scoops, and we expect to
have 1t finished In May. 1t will then be as
we have promised, one of the choicest and
best improved tracts ever put upon this
real estate market. 1t gives US much sat
isfaction to report the many inquiries and
the general approval of the public in re-
gard to this subdivision, and when the
weather moderates the sale of lots will be
phenomenal We say phenomenal, because
we have the highest and choicest location
for the lowest prices and our tract controls
av,6 vie 81 tI,a
and Washington. We are within two
squares of the splendid Chevy Chase car
line, and one fare to any part of the city,
Extensive Enterprises.
The large amount of public and semi
public work that is now in progress in
Washington, and that likely will be during
the coming season, leads one to the impress
sion that numerous additions are being
made to the business and living aecommo-
dations of the city. 1t is sometimes difficult
for the casual visitor to distinguish be-
tween the two classes of work As one
passes along the streets of the city, either
In street cars or by means of an observa-
ton automobile, one notices excavations
here and there, and piles of building ma
terial and throngs of workmen. There is,
OF course, a fair amount of what NAV be
termed private building going on but the
proportion to the great undertakings which
are now being carried out by the govern
ment ana the steam railroads rather throws
tie other class of work in the shade In the
immediate vicinity of the Capitol, where
the bulk of strangers in the city naturally
find their way, an entire square Is being
stripped of houses, and at this time this
site for the proposed Office building for the
House of Representatives southeast of the
Capitol building is nearly cleared. 1t is an
impressive sight to see such large area of
land that was -butJa short time ago thickly
covered with houses now vacant and bare.
New Steam Railroad Terminals.
One can get ~ glimpse without coins. far
from the plaza. ofsthe Capitol of the work
that is going ON In the southern section of
the city which WIN result in a tunnel UNI
der Capitol Hill to the new union depot
to the north Of The Capitol for the use
of the trunk lines entering the city from the
south. To the month there is a wide strip
Of vacant land Whish Is swarming with men
and punctuated with derricks, and here the
rapid progress of making the new steam
railroad terminal can be seen to advantage.
Portions of the masonry viaduct are in
place, and excavations have been made and
great mounds Aof earth have been carted
away, so that the line of the new roadway
as far south as Massachusetts avenue Is
now assuming come form and shape. SINH