Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Turning Acreage Property Into
City Building Lots.
IlARKS OF. GROWTH OF CITY
Purchasers as Rule Are Those Seek
ing Homes.
AVAILABLE FOR SUBDIVISION
Progress of improvements in Various
Sections of City at Open
ing of the Season.
AVAILABLE FOR SUBDIVISION

An additional portion of the holdings of
the Chevy Chase Land Company along
Connecticut avenue extended Is to be made
available for building purposes during the
coming season. A subdivision has been
made of some twenty acres which COM
prises the land about the school house
which is on the east side of the avenue
just south of the Chevy Chase circle
In addition to extending on both sides
of the school house. which is District in
stitur-or' the building lots will also run
to the east of that structure Streets are
to be opened up running east and west,
and affordinG approaches from Connecticut
avenue to the new thoroughfare which is
to bound the subdivision on the west. The
plan of the city is. of course. followed in
laying out-the streets of this subdivision.
Like Lots in the City.
The rect. which. will extend around the
eastern side of the property, is num-
bered street, and is known as 3Ith street,
which gives some idea of the location in
rela ton to the city.
All of the lots, except those which front
on Connecticut avenue, and which will be
each fifty feet front, will be twenty-five
feet front, with the usual depth of the lots
in the average city block to an alley. In
this respect the subdivision resembles that
of the city, and is recognition of the fact
that what are known as suburban building
sites are not in demand, even when one
goes as far as four miles or so from the
city center
As to Suburban Houses.
The other subdivision which has been
made by the company along that avenue
and within the District is Fernwood.
located farther to the south. and in that
case the lots are of similar dimensions,
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the expectation OF property holders as well
as OF others that the city is to be closely
built up throughout the entire area of the
District. The attempts at suburban build
ing. which was made some years ago on
the borders of the city, just north of
Florida avenue, have been given up long
ago. and now all through the region of Co
lumbia Heights and Washington Heights
where il was Supposed that only country
houses would be built are rows of city
homes.
In Cleveland Park a decided change in the
same direction has taken place in the past
few years, and now houses are built much
more closely together than the original plan
OF the place provided, showing the pressure
for living places, and of which this is, Of
course only an instance.
The City's Growth.
Houses of the city type are found far
from the main center of population. 1t
seems sometimes that there is to be no real
country houses within the entire area of the
District at least In some sections, and that
those who want to live under the conditions
OF a genuine country life will have to go a
considerable distance. The growth of the
population Is Fastening the spreading out
process. and the Improvement in the method
OF rapid transit IS making 1t easy.
Another Subdivision.
On the opposite side of Connecticut avenue
from this property. and extending along the
west sorder Of that thoroughfare just south
of the c!-cle, is the subdivision which has
been Gu'se recently placed on the market by
Fulton r.. Gordon. 1t is known Connecti-
cut A. .nus Terrace.
In tbs property lots are being sold and
preparations being made to build. and no
doubt IN q short time thriving settlement
will spring up there, thus making contin-
uarion OF that which Is found to the north
OF the circle.
Some New Buildings.
TIE bIldinS operations of Mr.. L. f.
BreuE-2ser just al present are confined to
the continuation of the erection OF houses on
Irving street between 18th and 18th streets
northwest. Recently he finished a row of
eight two-story houses there, and now he is
building seven mo-e of the same general
style. --..-
He is also building on Columbia road be-
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apartment house. II is located near the ap-
preach to Ontario avenue, and will have a
frontage of forty-fve feet and depth of
one hundred feet. II will contain twelve
suites.
Site for a University.
The authorities of the George Washington
University are likely to make some progress
toward liberal education in regard to the
amount and market price OF acreage prop
erty in the vicinity of this city. The an
nouncement made of the sale of the Van
Ness Park property for the tuilding of the
American republics bureau ard also tiIat
the university had secured an option on the
Dean property az the head of Connecticut
avenue has served to cali general aTten-
ton to the future Of the university. In