The Washington times., 1905-10-29
NEW SUBDIVISION
IN NORTHWEST
Borders Fourteenth Street
as Now Extended.
WILL HAVE CITY FEATURES
WILL HAVE CITY FEATURES
Iwenty-one Acre Rupert Tract Bought
oy Robinson & Co. and Others
for About $4,000.

ne" subdivision 70 be known as
Fourteenth Street Heights is to be
opeheo up by Robinson & Co., in con-
hecuen with the general Improvement
"nich Is In progress In the northwest
suburbs. as a result Of the extension
or the highways in that section.
Inc tract on which the subdivision is
10 be made lies on the line of the new
Fourteenth street extended. and COM
prises what is left of the Rupert tract.
and was bought by Robinson & Co. and
several OF their Virginia clients, from
henry j. Rupert. Gregor ]. Rupert.
ana Bernard P. Rupert. 1t is located
oetween Fourteenth street extended and
brghtwood avenue, and comprises a lit
ue less than twenty-one acres, for
~ $4,000. S'
Ihose promoting the subdivision pro-
pose to go to some expense In grading
'he iand, installing water service and
sewers, laying sidewalks, and otherwise
improving the site.
On Market at Once.
The property will be immediately SUBJ
divided into building lots and placed
upon the market All lots are to be re-
ouceo 10 srade. and the permanent sys-
trenton, Utica. Vallejo. and Thirteenth
streets and Arkansas and Iowa avenues
The residents of the new subdivision
II Is explained. are to have city improves
ments without cost. and George p. Rob
inson, who negotiated the purchase for
MS nrm and its clients states that the
new owners Will build a number of SUBJ
s'antiai residences to be sold Mr.. Rob
inson says that the style of these houses
VIII be exceptionally good as it is in
tended to foster from the start a ehsrac-
ter of buildings which will lend Mt
.ractiveness to the section and enhance
its value. The idea is to maintain the
tone of the locality on a par with the
Improvement on Columbia Heights and
adjoining properties.
Near Car Lines.
Brightwood avenue skirts along ,ba
tract Tor quarter Of a mile on its
eastern frontage, making IL accessible
TO the car line which goes out that
shoroughfare, while the Fourteenth
street line, which will be operating on
IT'S extended tracks by spring. will pro-
vide traction service on the western line
OF the subdivision. At the point where
II passes this property. Brightwood ave.
nUe is about on a line with Twelfth
street. thus making the tract two blocks
In width and placing all the lots within
a block OF one car line and within two
blocks of the other
Nearly all the land is on the street
grade. and. for this reason, will require 1
very little work to make the subdivision |
practically level. A feature of the sec |
tfon will be the broad streets and ave
nues with which It viii be intersected /
Their width is to vary from 30 to I2U
feet. thus allowing an unusual amount |
of breathing space.
Own Other Properties.
Robinson & Co.. who will have exclu- !
sive control Of thu development OF the
property, are widely known as success
full operators in suburban realty in this
vicinity. They are the owners OF Con-
necttcut Avenue Highlands North CO.
lumbia Heights. ard Silver Spring Park.
and have had TO do with other extensive /
subdivisions during recent years. Mr..
Robinson has devoted his attention
largely 10 this class of property for a
long time. and has been very successful
II .t
Carlton B. Hazard represented the
Rupperts IN the transaction. which has
been pending for two months. The Dur-
chase Is the first made recently near
the lire of the extension of Fourteenth
street.