The Washington herald., 1908-04-22
REAL ESTATE NOTES.

J. Fred GatcheII, the welI-known tailor
has obtained permit to erect a bachelor
apartment house on the property recently
purchased at $50 Fourteenth street north
west. The Improvement viii amount 10
a complete rebuilding OF the structure
now upon the property A new front will
be put in. the ground floor to be used
for the tailoring establishment OF the
| owner. The building will be 81 feet front
| by a feet deep The upper part OF the
building viii be used as an apartment
house. Room viii be provided for twelve
suites. Plans for the work were pre-
pared by Frank II. Jackson. architect
and Jones & Peters viii do the construc-
tion work It is expected the building
VIII be ready for occupancy by July l.
Thomas J. Fisher & Co. report the
sale Of the last Of the FIVE houses on the
north side Of Monroe street Just east of
Fourteenth street. which are now being
built by Louis r Breuninger. Mr.. Breun-
inger took title to the ground January
Il, and the houses are not yet quite fin
ished
Mr.. Breuninger has bought six addi-
tional lots on Monroe street at the cor
neT of HOlmead avenue, and is now
erecting six houses. which VIII be offered
exclusively forsale by Fisher & Co. the
corner house at $3.50, and the inside
houses at about $500. Each house will
be three stories and cellar. and contain
ten rooms, and be heated with hot water.
They viii be % feet front. each or
colonial design and be what are known as
box houses two rooms in front and
two rooms in the rear, which will give
all the rooms ample light.
Fisher & Co. have sold two lots on Nc
Kinley street in Chevy Chase D. c.. to
Ernest II. Elliot. of the Treasury De-
partment. The price paid was 80 cents a
square foot Mr. Elliot expects to start
the erection Of his house within the next
six months.
n. L. Sansbury has sold to c. B. Wait
the large lot situated at the southwest
corner of Fifteenth and Delaield streets
in Sauls Addition II is the intention of
the purchaser to erect on the property a
modern ten-room residence which he will
occupy as his summer home when COM
pleted. The price paid for the ground is
understood to have been $500.
Shannon & Luchs have sold the two
story brick house at IA [ street north
west TO James Maddux. The house has
eight looms The price paid was $500.
and il is the intention of the purchaser to
occupy it as hts home
Stone & Fairfax have sold the three
story brick house at 1884 Q street north
west for J. A. Harley The price and the
name Of the purchaser are withheld.
swartzell. Rheem & Hensey have ar
ranged for a formal reception in their
new building in Fifteenth street, which
will be in the nature of a house-warming.
The reception VIII be held on the evening
of May ?, snd the company will occupy
the new building on the following Mon
day morning
F. A. Blundon, the builder has taken
out permit for the erection Of six three
story brick dwellings al % 10 90 Bryant
street northwest, al a cost of S24,000. w.
c. Allard viii construct the buildings.
]. +. Briggs has commissioned r. -
Hess to erect for him three two-story
brick houses at 639 to 643 L street south
east. estimated to cost S10500 C. E.
Webb. architect prepared the plans.
n. r. Grimm has drawn the plans and
T. II. Melton viii construct for F. w
McReynolds a two-story brick apartment
house at 2S5i Champlain avenue north
west. estimated to cost sS.000