Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

An apartment house is to be built on Ken
son street between 18th and 14th streets by
Mr.. Victor Anderson. According to the plans
prepared by William ]. Palmer, architect,
4 will have a frontage of fifty feet and a
derth of one hundred and twenty-five feet.
1t will be four stories in height and there
will be four suites on each floor. each nav
ing five rooms and bath
Plans for a residence for Otis d. SWEET,
the registrar OF the George Washington
University, are being prepared by Mr.. Pal
mer The new building is to be located on
Grafton street. Chevy Chase and will be
In the Spanish style architecture. with
wide overhanging caves and walls covered
with pebble dash 1t is to be tetn-room
house and will be two stories in height
with a front of thrty-three feet. A rep
lica of Mr.. Swett's house is to be built on
the same street and the two dwellings are
to be connected by an ornamental colon
made.
Activity in House Building.
The figures of the growth OF the busi-
ness of erecting apartment houses are not
likely to create surprise. although not gem
orally known, but what will no doubt
cause some comment is another item in the
monthly report of the building inspector
for the month of May, which gives as the
number Of brick dwellings erected in the
city during the month permits having been
taken out for 172. This as compared with
the fourteen given as the number of per-
mitS Tor the erection of apartment houses,
make the latter assume a rather insig-
niiicant place. 1t Is also of interest in this
connection to note thatt the total cost of
these brick houses is put down at over
three-Quarters of a million. which is less
than the cost Of the apartment houses but
that does not detract from the Importance
of the item.
that during the past month permits have
been granted which will result in the ex-
pehdfture of over three-quarters of a mil
non dollars in adding. to the number of
dwelling houses. The record for previous
months does not make that of the past
thirty days Isolated by any means. There
have been good many houses put up in
TINS city during the past year. and it is
likely that building will continue with
growing volume. There has been some no.
tion that the apartment house will take the
place of what for the sake of distinction
might be called the individual house but a,
Is evident that this is not to be the case
At least not this year.
The Number of Home Owners.
II there We're any way to find out with
any eXactness the proportion of the entire
renting population of the city and of those
that occupy their own homes, some very in
teresting reading could be furnished for the
ested i'll the material welfare of Washing
ton 1T is not possible to give figures for
none exist, but there is no reason why an
intelligent guess should not be haza r(Ied
most any one who is at all familiar with
existing conditions in the realty market
KNOWS one thing to a certainty and that is
there Is and has been good market for
houses In other words the home buyer
mas been in evidence and a large number
OF houses have passed into the control of
'hoSe VINO nave decided to own their homes
Millions in Apartments.
Apartment houses are so large in them
serves and 50 much has been done in the
way of adding to their number, especially
during the past few years, that naturally
the tendency is for these big buildings to
dwarf everything else. The idea that they
represent about all that Is being done in
the way of building is a natural ono al
though, as the official figures show. il is
one mat has no basis at all on facts Ar
the same time there is no intention to I'M
deirate the tremendous strides that have
been made in the last twelve months in
the erection of apartment houses 1t is
difficult to realize that so much money has
been spent and So many buildings put up
as the figures furnished at the Office of the
building inspector show to be the case
In fact the year that will close at the
END or the present month is already on
record without including the figures for
any other year in the history of the CITY
for the amount Of money put into apart
ment houses. For the eleven months end
ing the last of May the total expenditures
for structures of this class almost reached
the enormous sum of 100000 or to be
entirely exact. S2.911 800 The year that
stands next in such comparison is the