Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-27

LARGE. apartment house is being
a built by Mr. Oscar w. White on Co
IA lumbia road between California and
n Wyoming avenues. Washington
Heights. 1t will be known as
the Oakland The building was started
about four months ago. and will be ready
for occupancy this fall. 1t is built on
lot 100 by ls9 feet to a 15-foot alley in the
rear. 1o-foot alley on the north, and sets
over feet back from the lipe on the south.
Mr. White owns the adjoining ground on
the south. 100 feet wide. Thorough ventila-
ton and light are assured.
Every room in the Oakland will have out
side windows. No light or air wells will be
in the building. which will be on an unusual
and exceptional plan for this class of struc-
ture In fact 1t is the intention OF the own
er to devote about one-fourth of this land
TO yards and outside space. The Oakland
will be I'VE stories high and contain twenty
five apartments, each OF six and seven
rooms, not counting a large reception nan
70 every apartment. This building will con-
tain all the latest improvements and con-
veHlenCes known to this class of structure,
such as a private branch exchange of tele-
phones In each apartment, for which there
will be no charge except for outgoing calls.
There will be mail and letter chutes, private
toilet for servants on every floor; private
bath rooms for servants in the basement
steam heat of the best system, hot water
furnished at all hours, Otis electric elevator
store rooms, bicycle room with a direct run
from the sidewalk for inValids, baby car
riages, etcD This building Will be con-
struCted In a hrst-class manner, and Mr.
White proposes to have all his employees i've
on the promises. The construction will be
a semi-hreproOf one. and the building pro-
vided with all the protection In that respect
known TO the builder and owner Mr.. 3.
Stanley Simmons is the architect who made
the plans.
Next to Capitol Building.
\ beginning has been made In laying the
granite walls which will form the super
structure OF the building which Is being
erected for the National Museum on the
south side of 3 street at the foot OF 10th
street This great undertaking, even In this
city, where large governmental buildings
are located, can hardly be appreciated at
the present stage, not even III the extent
OF the area that is TO be covered. For IL is
10 be, next to the Capitol building, the
greatest in point Of frontage OF any build
ing in this city. The Capitol as is Well
known. stretches its impressive front along
the brow OF Capitol HIM for over 200 feet.
The Museum building is-also to exceed
100 feet from east to west, and in that par
lcular Will have greater dimensions than
the treasury or the War, State and Navy
Department buildings. II will be notable
also in another respect, as it will, according
~ t'te pans pIePareu by tioTHDlOWer ~
marshall. architects, embody all the best
ideas that experience has suggested as Inn
portant in building Of that character.
Like Earlier Structures.
Its size viii give 1t rank among the struc-
lures OF note not only in this city but In
the world. AS stated. the walls OF the
building will be OF granite, and while the
general design is plain. its effectiveness as
an architectural design Will arise rather
from the skillful treatment as a mass