The Washington times., 1906-02-25
BUILDING PLANS
At SILVER SPRING
Number of New Houses TO
Be Erected There.
AWARD GRADING CONTRACT
Contractor Will Clear Subdivision Gen.
orally, Leaving Only Large Shade
Trees-LOts Sold Last Week.
AWARD GRADING CONTRACT

Robinson & Co. the suburban real
estate dealers, report that the open
winter has been taken advantage of by
a number of lot purchasers in Silver
Spring Park one of their subdivisions
Four houses have been completed
during the winter in this subdivision
and seven more are now under con-
struction- Architects have been busy
this month on plans for other houses
which viii be built on lots recently
. purchased as soon as bids can be OBJ
tained.
Some Who Will Build.
Some OF the houses to be completed
In Silver Spring Park before summer
sets in are to be built by the following
persons:
S. d. and Enoch Waters, four dwell
ings of eight rooms each, to cost 5000.
each house to have a lot 5Ox150 feet to
an alley.
house on three lots, with a frontage OF
100 feet by a depth of 26O feet. to cost
$4,000
Mrs. Ida B. Landon. a cottage con-
tanning nine rooms, on a lot 66xl5O. to
cost $2,SO0.
James ". d. Jordan, bakery and con-
feetionery store. with dwelling above.
Charles J, Frey, business house with
dwelling adjoining, containing eight
rooms.
Luther II, Brown, ten-roOm dwelling
on two lots, IOOx25O, to cost $4,000.
Pearl E. Holland. eight-room cottage.
on lot 50x220. TO cost $500.
Mrs. Alfred L. Donaldson. eight
room dwelling. with stable, on lot 5Ox
go, 10 cost S3.50O.
George II. Osborne, nine-room house.
on lot 50N220, TO cost $4,000.
Mrs. Helen B. Blackburn. seven-roon
dwelling, on lot 5Ox22O, to cost 1880.
Mrs. Viloa Bacon. eight-room house.
10 cost S3,SO0, on two lots 1O0x20O.
Elbert G. Barrett two dwellings of
eight and nine rooms each. TO cost
about $4,000
Mrs Isabelle Leek. two dwellings, of
nine and twelve rooms, TO cost I'm all
about $1,000 These houses will be To-
Gated on large lots containing about
three-quarters OF an acre each.
Mrs Faulconer, nine-room cottage.
on lot containing one-half acre of
ground.
Several other building enterprises
are contemplated. but VIII not be un-
der way before the month Of April.
William II. Draytou, of the Govern
q
beautiful ten-room suburban cottage in
This subdivision. His lot contains three
iourths of an acre and is covered with
beautiful shade trees. He expects to
occupy his new home by April !
RoolnsCn & Co say they sold four
teen lots in Silver Spring during the
week closing yesterday.
Have Sold I8o Lots.
This property was placed on the mar
Aet last April and the sales to date
number 1S2 lots.
Last summer several of the streets
were graded and sidewalks laid. A con-
tract was let the week before last TO
Richard Seek, a contractor living near
Silver Spring, fer the grading Of all
The streets in the subdivision and the
building of sidewalks. The contract
with Mr.. Seek also includes the clear
ing up of all the wooded portion OF the
subdivision, leaving only the large
shade trees. He is also to clear I'D the
property in general
Silver Spring Park has been one Of
the most active suburbs OF Washing
ton during the past eight months in the
way of sales and building operations
il is located on the Brightwood avenue
car line few hundred feet beyond the
District bne. in Montgomery county.
Maryland The subdivision contains
over 300 lots
The rapid strides made in the develop
ment of this property, its promoters
say, shows a demand for property
where purchasers can secure quarter
and half-aCre tracts at reasonable
prices. and prices within the reach OF
persons of limited means and small
salaries.