Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06
Proposed Large Office Building.

For convenience in the management of
this property, well as the other prep
critics in this city owned by Senator Proc
tor, a company has been organized, known
the Taplin Building Company, which
gets it's name from Mr.. II. n. Taplin, who
has charge OF all of Senator Proctor's real
estate interests in this city. In addition to
his agency. interest, Mr.. Taplin is also
financially concerned in this new company.
1t is proposed in the near future TO i'm
prove the property at the northeast cor
ner of Vermont avenue and X street. Includ-
ing the two houses to the east of the corner
lot, Senator Proctor controls total FROM
age of 135 feet on X street and wide eX-
tent on Vermont avenue The plan now is
to put up this site large building which
VIII be entirely modern in construction and
in arrangement and available as an office
building for the use of the government. II
this plan is carried out the new structure
will be larger than the Mills building, at
Pennsylvania avenue and 18th street.
Four-story Apartment.
An apartment house is to be erected at
$3.50 Maryland avenue southwest from plans
prepared by Harding & Upman, architects.
The owner is Mrs. Maria Waters. The new
building is to be three stories and base
ment in height and on each floor there
will be four suites of rooms of four and
five rooms each. The frontage will be
forty-four feet and there will be l. in
the rear which will broaden out that end
to sixty-four feet. Red brick and stone
trimmings will be used in the details of the
colonial design
The same architects are also engaged on
plans for changes in Peck Chapel at 18th
and NJ streets In addition to the changes
which will be made in the interior of the
building there is to be a tower erected.
The addition to this building which will be
used in connection with the work of
this mission, has been completed, or
practically so, and the facilities which have
thus been secured will add greatly to the
efficiency of the undertaking.
Regulating Apartment Buildings.
The conclusions of the committee that at
the request of the District Commissioners
have been considering the problem of the
proper method of treating the various ques-
lions that have arisen in connection with
the increase in the number of apart
ment buildings in this city have been sub
mitted. In a general way what the COM
mittee seems to have aimed to do Is to SO
modify the present building regulations
that without direct reference to the height
of such buildings that feature will be large
ly determined by the provisions which are
suggested requiring the leaving a certain
percentage of each building lot unused.
This percentage is based upon the prin-
ciple that In the case of every apartment
house or tenement designed for human
habitation, such space must be left un0c-
cupied the ground on which it is built
as SHdll give liSHl anu ar lHue-
pendent of any use that any other property
owner may make of the adjoining or neigh
boring lots. This space according to the
Judgment of the committee, is thirty-five
per cent of interior lots and ten per cent
of corner lots. 1t is further provided that
the yards for interior lots in the case of
buildings fifty feet In height shall be not
less than twelve feet in every part. This
space, however, is to be increased in depth
by one foot for every additional ten feet
of height.
Borrowing Light and Air.
Provision is made to leave interior courts
open to the sky and STIMULATING what shall
be the Dimensions of such courts or air
stacks In other words. one of the things
that will be accomplished by such change
in the regulations will be to limit the abil-
ity of men who want to build to help
themselves too freely from the light and
air from the neighbors' property. 1t is
quite evident that when property holders
are restrained by municipal regulation from
using all they want of the actual space of
their own property their calculations as to
the earning power Of that property will be
based upon this reduced use.
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