Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-05
F[AT-HUNTERS HAPPY
Unusually Large Selection Of.
fered This Fall.
MANY BUILDINGS FINISHED
For Opening of Renting Season Dur
ing Current Month.
.,s--
OTHERS NEARING COMPLETION
"The Executive" at 18th and New
ton Streets and Wardman Block
at 18th and Euclid.

So great has been the demand for mod
ern apartments in all sections OF the city
during the past year that many builders
flocked into the investment field during
the summer and probably scores OF hand
somely appointed flats have been rushed
to completion in readiness for the usual
autumn demand. In almost every case
no efforts were spared to have the apart
ments completed by the opening of the
renting season, September I. and as q re-
suit fat-hunters who have taken time by
the foreiock have had a particularly fine
opportunity to settle down comfortably
for the winter in quarters exactly to their
liking.
The Executive apartment house, To-
Gated at 3401 10th street northwest, which
is the corner Of 10th and Newton streets.
is now nearing completion, and II Is eX-
pected that the building will be ready for
occupancy about October 1. 1t ls being
built by Mr. Joseph J. Moebs, who Is also
the owner.
Faces Three Streets.
The building is a beautiful structure.
four stories in height, and because Of the
fact that 1t is triangular in shape, facing
three streets, every apartment will have
all outside rooms. 1t will contain twelve
apartments, three on each floor. of four
and FIVE rooms each.
II has been reported that there has been
great demand for the apartments In
this building in view of Its beautiful loca-
ton near Rock Creek Park.
The apartment was named after the
Executive Mansion. It's main entrance is
ON 18th street which broad thorOughfare
the owner hopes some day will be re-
christened Executive avenue.
One of the largest of the new building
enterprises was undertaken in the spring
by Harry Wardman, and eight apartment
houses for which foundations were laid
at that time are now not only hnlshed.
but forty-three out of total OF forty
eight are rented and occupied. Six OF the
houses are located in the square along
l4th street between Clifton and Euclid
streets and two Of them immediately
around the corner on the latter thorough
fare. So that all of them form practically
one solid building.
Two More to Be Built.
In the near future two more houses,
also of six apartments each. will be added
to this series, the additions being made
on the Clifton street side, so that the
ton of its north and south sides will be
occupied by the Wardman buildings. AS
indicated by the Illustration on this page,
the new apartments have been built di-r
rectIy on the crown of the 13th street
hill, so that they rise one above the other
in an attractive tier. All of the eight com
pleted buildings are OF brick and steel
construction, each containing three stories
and basement. Each apartment has it's
own separate steam heating plant, and
all have been equipped throughout, with
combination gas and electric fixtures. Al
together they form one OF the most no
table realty improvements in the year of
apartment house building.
The buildings have been divided INTO
five and SIX room apartments and the
owner has stated his intention to hold tbesl
whole as a permanent investment. On an
average the tive-room apartments rent for
$i2. 30 per month. and the SiX-room apart
mentS for $i5 per month, SO that when all
ten houses are finished and fully occupied
the monthly income from them will ap-
proXimate $500.
To Have Miniature Park.
In many of the apartments which are
being built at this time much attention 10
being devoted to the beaut. fication Of the
surrounding grounds. and the 14th and
Euclid streets buildings are no exception
in this respect. Facing on the three
streets. as they do. these houses inclose
a large central court, and It IS planned to
transform this space into n miniature
park with green lawns and growing trees
Among other new apartment houses in
the northwest which are rapidly nearing
completion are included the Thomas II.
Pickford building at the corner of Goth
and streets and four-story white brick
on
northwest