Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-18
SHOWING SHADE TREES.
Enlarging q Country Home.

projections on both street fronts, which
will be merely the curving of the walls
and an essential part of them.
Enlarging a Country Home.
The country home of DR.. r. B. Deer at
Round Hill. Va. is to be enlarged from
plans made by Lemuel Norris architect.
The old house on the place is not to be
! removed. but the new part will be built
in front of it. The principal entrance
will be marked by colonial porch, the
roof Of which will be supported by large
columns that will extend through two sto-
ries and with the pediment at the roof
line.
Comfortable in Summer.
1t is good deal to say in favor of a
house in this latitude that 1t is comforta-
BILE in summer. Such can be stated II the
interior arrangement is such that it per-
mits a free circulation of all the air that
is going. There are of course, no arti-
fetal means for changing the temperature
IN areas designed for human habitation,
and such attempts as have been made
have net yet passed the experimental
stage.
At any rate. 1t is not likely that any
device of that sort, il 1t should prove sue.
cessful. could be SO cheaply Installed as
to be generally available. The condition
Of the dwelling in the heated term is still
to remain one that is more or less de-
pendent on the judgment used in planning
the interior. so there should be an unin-
terrupted opening from end to end and on
each floor. or course, the location, both
as to the elevation and the surroundings,
has an influence on the temperature. and
a detached or semi-detached house is
supposed to be more airy because of the
additional openings as compared with a
| house that Is dependent on the two ends.
For the Air to Circulate.
But after all how the rooms open into
each other and the location Of the win
dows and the extent to which these open
ings can be used remain the fundamental
and important consideration in the hot
weather possibilities of the average house.
If the architect who designs a house and
the people who build or furnish the money
to build or to buy had in mind all the
time the adaptability to the seasonal re-
quirements of a Washington summer, 1t
goes without saying that much of what
now passes as desirable and even attrac-
tive and convenient in the interior plan
ming of house would be abandoned.
The pressing necessity that lies upon
the architect of the average city house
to utilize every inch of space Is the real
explanation of much of the disregard
which is seen in the modern home OF
what contributes to comfort during the
dog days. To find space for an additional
/ closet perhaps an opening is cut off or to
opening of a window Is cut down. What
| ever it is that stands in the way of a
| continuous line Of doors and windows
from end to end of a house to that extent
takes away from Its availability as a
place of living during the summer sea-
son.
As a Seller.
There is no doubt that more attention
| is being given in house designing to such
considerations than ever before. and II
| is also recognized that they have a COM
mercial value. The one is largely due to
! the other for at this time the bulk OF
houses are built for sale and there Is no
class of men who study more closely the
| needs and demands of family life and
| the requirements for a home than do the
| men who make II their business to build
| houses for sale.
It is question. however. whether OF
not a sufficient emphasis is laid on such
feature of a house. What "a seller il
| would prove to be to say of a house it is
specially adapted as Q summer home and
to show to prospective buyers just why
| that is the case. 1t might prove to be
more convincing to the mind of a hest
tating purchaser than even cabinet
mantel with a tiled fireplace or a par
quet floor or stylish wall paper and light
| ing fixtures.
Sale of Property.
The Frank T. Rawlings Company has
recently sold improved and unimproved
real estate as follows:
| The three STORY brick apartment house
1 1880 Church street northwest. for Mrs.
/ Marion C. Moebs TO John Dancy; the resi-
dence property 2137 Virginia avenue
| northwest. for Mrs. Elizabeth n Good
man to Henry Openburg; the residence
2l02 Ward place northwest, for the Halter
/ & Cornwell Wallpaper Company to J. G.
/ Dancy; the three-story brick residence
property and the adjoining building, used
! fer storage purposes. 9O5-007 New York
! avenue, to George w. Corbett for Mrs.
Ida NJ. Blue; building lot on the south
side of c street between I'D and DC
to H NJ. Conger; the property 215-
Newport place northwest. to Mrs
| Luella Preston; the brick dwelling 21t
Newport place northwest. 10 Charles
II. Neal who will occupy 1t as his resi-
dence; the house 1923 9Th street north
| west fer the estate of Maria Frain te
Miss Emma b. Hall, who will occupy II
| as her residence: the two dwellings 3Oi
| and 30I Murray's court southeast, sold &c
Miss Josie Ryan; the dwelling at 40s
Spruce street northwest. for Fountain
Peyton: the property 1874 D street south
east, to Dr. p. ]. Jordan; the property al
the southeast corner or 4th ana L streets
northwest, for DR.. Charles A. White to 9
| party who will occupy 1t as home, and
the property at 1913 f street northwest
purchased by Joseph H. Lee as home.
Realty Transactions.
Joseph F. Birch. jr., has sold two apart
ment houses, located on 18th street be
tween I. and NJ. ito William V. Mahoney
These houses have three apartments each
with frontage of forty feet by 100 feet
The purchase is made for an investment
Mr. Maboney has sold to Mr. Birch 81
PENNSYLVANIA avenue southeast, which
has frontage of sixty feet on Penn
sylvania avenue, running back 10 ID street
II Il. understood large fiat building will
be erected on this site. The consideration
on both properties was $4,000. Taylor