The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-12-31
Subdivisions Beyond the City
Growing Rapidly.
MOVING IN ALL DIRECTIONS
Opportunities offered by Rapid
Transit Awaited OF to Escape High
Rental and Reduce Living Ex-
penses-BuiIdinE Operations Won
der of Close Observers.

MS was the tA PRESTON USED Dy we'll
Informed real estate dealer yesterday, in
speaking of what he termed the principal
movement in the development Of the city
during the past year. II was the opinion
of this dealer that despite the glamour
thrown around deals in business property
and the sales of residences. the year 1906
has been chiefly notable for the extent of
the subdivisions of suburban property
and the opening of new tracts 10 market
Inquiry among the dealers who are ex-
plotting this class OF property furnished
considerable proof Of the soundness of the
views expressed Some of them held
/ that Il was not fair to limit consideration
of the movement simply to the year past,
as it had been going on for at least i've
years with increasing momentum, finding
Its greatest speed within the past twelve
months
Older subdivisions Grow.
In the older subdivisions. such as Cleve-
| land Park. Mount Pleasant Columbia
/ Heights, Lanier Heights, Petworth,
Brightwood Park. Tak9ma Park. Bloom
/ ingdale, Trinidad Keniiworth, and Con-
gress Heights. as well as the subdivisions
/ above Georgetown. there have been during
the year 1906 extensive building operations.
/ The year began with many houses I'M
/ finished new dwellings were started in
/ the spring and finished before autumn.
and others were undertaken later in the
/ year. and the end of the twelve-month
/ period hnds, If possible, more unfinished
/ houses than were going up year ago.
/ The building movement in all this out
/ side territory has been continuous, and Of
a character that has excited the wonder
of many as to where the money all came
| from to invest in suburban homes.
Probably in no other direction has this
/ movement been more marked than toward
/ the far northwest in the direction Of
/ Chevy Chase. Along the entire length Of
/ Connecticut avenue extended, alike in the
older subdivisions and in the newer ones.
I the sale Of lots has been almost phe-
nOmenal, and on many of the lots bought
during the year building has actually be-
/ gun, or preparations are making to start
/ with the opening Of the spring season.
/ In addition 10 the newly developed Con-
necticut Avenue Terrace two or three
/ tracts between Connecticut avenue and
/ the TennallytOWn road have been recent
/ ly purchased. and will be subdvided and
thrown upon the market in the near
/ future. And so the movement goes coun-
/ tryWaTd on past the boundary of the Dis
/ trict out into Maryland.
Pushing Out wisconsin Avenue.
/ Along Wisconsin avenue the progress
/ OF building has been no less marked
/ than along its sister avenue The sub
/ division of Friendship, just within the
1 District line. has several rivals beyond
in Somerset Heights, Drummond, and the
several parks" that are growing up out
side the District
Farther TO the west. along the Conduit
road, District property is fast being
bought up by home seekers and improved.
and the movement in that direction is
pressing on rapidly out to Glen Echo.
Out Fourteenth street and Sixteenth
street the movement Is going with ac-
/ celebrating momentum. The completion Of
the Piney Branch Bridge will almost i'm
/ mediately throw upon the market ali the
/ available property this Size or the Bright
wood reservoir. and the extension OF the
/ Fourteenth street car line has opened a
veritable paradise along the southern con-
fines of Rock Creek Park. Fourteenth
]
/ have been filing with suburban home
seekers, and the sale of lots in that Gi-
rection has been beyond the expectations
/ Of those who undertook the development
of that territory with fear and trembling
/ something less than a year ago. I'm
provement In that direction cannot help
/ being one of the notable signs of progress
in the year to come.
! City Extending Northvyard
Along the Brghtwood road, including
the subdivisions of Petworth and Bright
wood Park. the development which be-
gan six years ago Is going rapidly for
ward Despite the poor car service. which
is said to have been a visible hindrance
TO progress out there. the population has
steadily grown, and the company has
been compelled to put on more cars and
TO improve the character of transit.
out North Capitol street all the way TO
/ BrOokland, vacant property is being Oc-
/ cupied at a rapid rate, and to one riding
out that way the continuity of rows of
/ houses seems broken only by the ceme-
teries, the filtration plant, the Soldiers
Home park, and the great buildings of the
Catholic University and affiliated institu-
tons
The opening of Rhode Island avenue,
both within the city limits and out beyond
| the railroad tracks. mas been going on
| rapidly during the year past. In PetwOrth,
in Bloomingdale. and over beyond in
North I.angdon, and out into Maryland
the occupation of the ridges by former
/ city jewellers has been the wonder of the
old farmers who stick to their former
mansions. while their land goes at what
seems fabulous prices. The suburban
movement stops only with the car line
| at Laurel, and real estate men are offer
ing remarkable bargains TO department
4 people and others within and beyond the
/ District line
Seeking Homes Around Benning.
over in Benning and beyond the move
ment spreads with astonishing rapidly
Even the subdivision on the heights
south of Chesapeake Junction. just out
side of the District, has practically all
been sold, and within three years 1SC
houses have been built out there by
persons who fled the city to escape the
high rents and the difficulties of finding
a roof to cover the family with what
the husband and father could earn.
Still farther south, at Congress Heights
the interchangeable Col. Randle has literally
built a city, and has gobbled up several
new subdivisions with which to entice
home builders to the heights about Good
Hope and above Twining City. The new
subdivision of Benning Heights, just
opened by Mr.. StaIlings. also promises
we'll and within the next twelve months
unless present signs are faulty, the high
lands south of Anacostia from Kenilworth
TO the Potomac will be dotted with pleas
ant homes. into which city jewellers will
move and swell the number of suburban
ties in that direction.
South ~ the Potomac in Virginia the
movement of the population is continuous