The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-03
MARKET now ACTIVE
Sales of Real Estate of Large
Proportions Recorded.
APARTMENT HOUSES TRADED
Brokers Take Cheerful View of the
OutlOOk-French Embassy to Erect
the Building acknowledgements
OF the Storage Business.

ENiNEncSS multiply Lndl the real estate
market is awakening, so to speak, from
its holiday Information. During the past
week sales have been frequent and some
OF them Of large proportions. Building
operations are going on rapidly under the
favorable conditions OF the open winter
and architects and builders are making
preparations for renewed activity with
the opening of the spring season i.rok-
ers take a more hopeful view Of the stu
alton. and expressions are frequent among
them that by the LIST OF March the market
will be back again to the activity Of the
fall months.
During the week deeds and conveyances
have been registered of many OF the biz
deals Of previous months and weeks.
such as the Tuckerman home, at Six
teenth and I streets, the registry of the
properties traded for the Highlands apart
ment house. the Warder Building and
others. The past week has also seen the
closing OF important deals, Of which some
are as follows:
The Seville apartment house. at Eigh-
teenth street and wyoming avenue. was
sold for $4,000 to outside capitalists. rep
resented in Washington by George s.
Reese.
Ten Eyck Wendell, Of CazenOvia, \. Y,
has purchased through Peachy & Hagner
the residence owned by Harrington Mills,
Connecticut avenue, south Of R street, for
$4,000.
Home of French Embassy.
R.. D. .
from John p. Henderson a portion Of the
valuable tract near the corner Of Six
teenth street and Kalorama avenue.
where new embassy viii be built ac-
cording 10 plans prepared by George Oak
ley Totten. ir. The new embassy will be
located on Sixteenth street, between the
Castle" and the new Venetian Palace, ~
recently completed and leased 20 Score
tary Strsus. Of the Department Of Com
merce and Labor.
Eugene :. Benjamin. Of New York, has
sold 10 Anna r. Forney and Cecilia
Hanna the property at as Eighth street,
improved by a three-story brick store,
leased TO J. G. McCrorey * Co. for bust
ness purposes.
Stone q Fairfax nave sold for T. "A.
Piokford 10 A. c. Wiley, block Of twen-
ty-four houses on Pickford place north
east. IN the block bounded by F, 9,
Eighth and Ninth streets, for $1,000.
The New Berne apartment house. at
Massachusetts avenue and Twelfth street.
has been exchanged by Bates Warren
10 an out-of-tOWu investor for other
apartment houses and valuable property.
unimproved. at Twenty-fourth and F
streets northwest. The two apartment
houses figuring in the deal are each three
stories high, on Swami street, between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets north
west.
stone 4 Fairfax sales.
Stone & Fairfax yesterday announced
the following sales.
For George z. McElwee. 70 the Column
bia Real Estate and Title Company, a
three-story and basement house. NJ ly75
Irving street. Columbia Heights. for SO
900.
For Henry B. Wilson, a three-story
brown stone and brick residence. at Is
Ninth street northeast. for $500.
For Lewis StCarman, a one-stOry store.
at 3l12 Eleventh street northwest, for
1850.
sales by Il. n. Bradford.
Benjamin B. Bradford. real estate
broker. yesterday announced the follow
ing sales during the month Of January.
warder Building, Ninth and streets
$25s,00o.
FendaH Building. John Marshall Place
and Louisiana avenue northwest, &i25,000-
Northeast corner OF C0rcoran and Four
teenth streets. $4,000
Sixty feet water front in Norfolk Va.
$50 600.
Mount Vernon apartment house. Ninth
street and New York avenue northwest.
SIS 600
Montrose Hotel. Fourteenth and II
streets northwest, $4,000.
Franklin apartment house. 1913 Four
teenth street northwest. $4,000.
Highlands apartment house. Connecticut
and California avenues. $4,000
Northwest corner Of Twenty-first and
r streets northwest. $4,000.
some New Building Projects.
Among the new building projects coming
to light during the week are that Of the
new theater to be erected by Luekett &
Dwyer at some prominent point in the
downtown district not yet made pubic.
The building Of the new playhouse IS in
anticipation OF MI Luckett abandoning
the management OF the Columbia Thea
ter. which viii be taken over in 1908 by
Fred G. Berger.
Newman & Smith will erect, within the
next few months. a handsome residence
for Representative George r. HUI. Of
at the intersection Of
Eighteenth and @ street and New HamP
shire avenue. at an estimated cost %
so. COO The plans were drawn by Hor-
ace Trumbar, OF Philadelphia.
Frank Ellis will build a four-story
brick dwelling on Sheridan Circle north
west. at a cost OF $500o0. Career &
Hastings are the architects. and the ]. c.
Vreeland company the builder.
". A. Hettinger will erect a two-stOry
brick dwelling at SOC Maryland avenue
northeast. at a cost Of 5000
Expansion Of Sto.age Houses.
The Terminal Storage Company is max
ing preparations to extend its building on
L street between First street and Della
ware avenue northeast. A considerable
addition will be erected in the near fu-
ture on the lot fronting on First street.
a. B. Mullett & Sons, architects. are de-
signing the plans. The addition Will be
So feet Ions. and will conform to the rest
Of the structure, Besides the older stor-
age house, TO which this addition Is to be
made. the same company has a storage
warehouse at First and X streets The
owns other unimproved prop
erty In the square, which II will probably
occupy with other buildings as their bus
mess increases.
The Security Storage Company is also
forming plans TO erect an addition TO its
large building at Fifteenth and L streets