Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-01
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Dwelling With Frontage of One
Hundred Feet.
AN UNUSUAL ARRANGEMENT
Garden to Be Finished in the Ital.
ian Style.
SALES OF G STREET PROPERTY
Current Happenings in the Realty
Market-The Demand for Homes
and Ground.
AN UNUSUAL Arrangement
SALES OF G STREET PROPERTY

In the past week work has been begun
| on the foundations of a dwelling which is
| to be built on the south side of street
| just west OF the line of the extension OF
23d street IL that street were opened
/ south of street. 1t is to be a house OF
unusual size, and the architects. Wood.
Dom & Deming. have been enabled by
the unusual width of the site to plan a
! house with a frontage of 100 feet.
There will be basement floor and two
upper stories and another in the roof, but
the height will be SO balanced by the
length as to give the comfortable impress
sion which is generally inseparable from
q house that has plenty Of room to stand
in. 1t will be low-lying structure Of
colonial design, which will be worked out
in brick and stone, and 1t will be open
to the air in a way that is unusual in a
city house where the back buildings
shut off the light and air and produce
narrow and badly lighted area ways.
1t will be only two rooms deep. and
the interior will be so arranged that the
desirable southern exposure will be the
principal one, although the architectural
treatment of the exterior will give that
prominence to the street front which is
on the north Opening out from the
dining room and the parlors on the prin-
cipal floors will be terrace from which
steps will lead down into a garden which
will be finished in the Italian style.
The main entrance will be through the
ground floor where there will be rooms
which can be used for dressing rooms for
guests on occasions of social affairs and
where the wraps can be laid aside before
ascending to the main floor. The pantry
and the serving rooms for the dining
room will be on the street front. while
the dining room will be on the south
front and will be the largest room in the
house having a length of nearly forty
feet. Large windows coming to the floor
will give access to the terrace and the
garden beyond. The suite of parlors will
be on the west side of the house. and
with the halls and the library and the
dining room pantry already mentioned
will about take the space of that hoor.
Proposed New Clubhouse.
Arrangements were completed during
the week by the Army and Navy Club
for the purchase of the Myer property
at the corner of 18th and I streets, direct
ly across the street from the present
home of the club. 1t is expected that
some time in the future a building suit
able for the club will be erected on this
site and In the meanwhile the house will
be used for club chambers.
The new site has frontage of JOG feet
on I street and 149 feet on 18th street.
1t belonged to the heirs OF Gen. Albert j.
Myer. L. 8. A., who acquired IT thirty
years ago.
improvements at Hospital.
Many improvements to roads and build
ings have been started at the Government
Hospital for the Insane. There has been
renewal OF the plumbing throughout
the entire old section of the institution
and similar work is being carried on in
other buildings. contracts for the work
having been let. Roadways of vitrified
brick with granite eurbing, are being
built around the laundry building and to
the stable. the latter the east side of
Nichols avenue. while the system of
cement walks has been continued around
the Richardson group of buildings. also
east of Nichols avenue Preparations
are now being made to undertake i'm
provements at Godding Croft the hospital
farm In the adjacent portion of Prince
George county. Md. Buildings for stock
will be put up and poultry yards con-
structed.
Connecticut Avenue Extended.
II is the intention of Clarke Waggaman
TO continue his building operations along
Connecticut avenue extended. just north
of the new Rock Creek bridge. He is now
engaged in completing the two stone
dwellings which are located Just east of
the north entrance to the bridge occupy.
ing the space between that entrance and
the one TO the street railway bridge over
Rock creek. Both OF these houses al
though still unfinished. have been sold.
and Mr.. Waggaman has just acquired a
frontage of ground on the east side of
Connecticut avenue, short distance north
of the bridge and beyond the home of Mr..
Hoover, which stands at the northeast
corner Of the avenue and the roadway
leading over the electric railway bridge.
The new houses are TO occupy wide
frontage; that is, for city homes, and on