Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-26
IN THE REALTY MARKET
Notable Additions to 10th
Street Residences.
JOHN JOY EDs0N's PURCHASE
Clarence Moore's Plans for Home on
Massachusetts, Avenue.
WILL COST HALF A MILLION
Description of the Proposed Structure
Present Activity in Real
Estate Field Unusual.

While the realty market is not SO
active as during the past few months,
it is far from stagnant, as is illus
trated by the announcement that Mr..
Clarence Moore is to build a half
million-dollar residence on Massa-
chusetts avenue and deal in which
DR.. A. 0. Bliss, Mr.. John Joy Edison
and the Potomac Realty Company
are the principal factors. By this
latter deal. involving many thou
sands of dollars, the block on 10th
street between N and 0 streets will
be made one of the most attractive
in the vicinity.
LIE Roy Mark. real estate agent, today
consummated a deal by which Mr.. John Joy
Edison president of the Washington Loan
and Trust Company has purchased two
lots on 10th street between n and streets
for a consideration in the neighborhood of
$4,000. The lots have a frontage of forty
four feet on 10Th street and adjoin Mr..
Edson's already handsome residence which
1t is understood will be greatly beautified
and important additions made thereto
DR.. Bliss would not sell the lots pur-
chased by Mr.. Edison unless he could also
part with another lot with a twenty-seven-
foot frontage the same block.
This latter lot was purchased by the Po-
tomac Realty Company through Wescott
& Story for $4,000.
ha
two magnificent homes on the block at
cost of $4,000 each, and they will build
still another house adjoining the property
purchased by Mr. Edison, which will cost
in the neighborhood of $3.50, 600 1t was
said today that work would not be begun
on the latter residence Immediately 1t
Will not be great while. however before
all the new residences will be completed
and as the architects plans call for lines of
unusual symmetry the block when Mr.
Edison has completed his addition and al
terations to his home, will 1t is declared
be one of the most attractive in Washing
ton. Mr.. Edson's holding bears the street
numbers 1920 and 1922 He said today that
he contemplated making additions but that
the work would not be done Immediately
Other Deals Pending.
The Potomac Realty Company's deals on
18th street have attracted other home-seek-
ers to that already beautiful thoroughfare
and at least two other deals are under way
and may be contaminated in a day or two
While the real estate market has not been
as active recently as during the spring real
estate men regard the present activity as
remarkable considering the time of the
year. One dealer said that more business
had been transacted so far this July than
during the entire months OF July and Au-
gust last year Whether the new Jobbers
and Shippers Association has anything to
do with the market or not is probe ma tical
Some
the possibility of Washington at last ac-
curing some manufacturing interests is
keeping the market up and that 1t will re-
main steady all the summer rather than
fall into the slough of despond" that is
usually expected during the midsummer
term.
Another Handsome Home
Mr.. Clarence Moore is about to erect a
magnificent home on the south side of Mas
sachusetts avenue between 10Th and 18th
streets. The George A. Fuller Construc-
ton Company has the contract for doing
the building work. At the office of the
builder today it was stated that the new
structure will compare favorably with any
in this city, and that it will probably be
completed within the next two years
The residence will be designed after the
architecture of the Louis XVI PERIOD and
will be five stories In height with basement,
and will contain sixty-four rooms, sixteen
baths and eighty closets. 1t will have a
frontage of So feet inches on Massachu-
sets avenue, and will run back 100 feet and
s inches. The lot on which 1t is to be erect
ed has frontage of 50 feet and depth of
200 feet. The rear of the lot will be ar
ranged as a garden.
Around the house will be a driveway. In
diana limestone and white Powhatan brick.
with slate roof and copper cresting, will
mark the exterior, and there will be a
wrought iron marquise over the front en-
trance and iron balcony at the third-story
windows.
Details in Allegiance.
Some of the details of the first floor have
not yet been decided upon. There will be
a den on the right of the entrance hall and
a billiard room on the left, in the rear of
which will be a smoking room. The music
nd he Ian the secQnd main