Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-18
real ESTATE GOSSIP
Transactions in a Business
Locality, Past and Present.
RECORD OF RECENT PRICES
Large Residence to Be Erected on
18th Street.
TYPES OF ARCHITECTURE
Trend of Event in Circles Interested
in Property and It's I'm
provement.
RECORD OF RECENT PRICES
TPES OF ARCHITECTURE

During the week announcement was
made Of the purchase by the Judd & Det-
weller Printing Company of the property
occupied for many years by 1T, known as
40 18th street northwest The building
Is a large four-story structure covering
nearly the entire lot, which is 55 by 100
! feet. The price paid, said to have been
! $50 900, was nearly Sill per square foot.
The transaction is one of interest to
those who are concerned in the value of
property In that locality. as showing the
current state of the market. With due
regard to changes in conditions, some
times recent prices paid in the immediate
vicinity Of a transaction like this afford
q basis for reaching q conclusion as to
the course of values.
Recent Transactions.
The most recent record of the kind was
made the latter part of last May, when
the property 513 18th street was offered at
public sale. 1t has frontage Of % feet
and a depth Of 95 feet and contains 1915
square feet. The improvement is three
otory building occupying practically the
entire lot. =,
The best bid obtained was $4,000, or
about $40 per square foot, but the own
ers declined to let 1t go for that and the
property was withdrawn. Two years ago
the property across the street. Ola 18th
The lot is 20 by 100 feet and the price per
square foot was therefore $l5.
Nine Years Ago.
Nine years ago the property 4O5 11tf
street. adjoining on the north the building
at the northeast corner OF Pennsylvania
avenue and 18th street. was sold at auc.
ton and brought $23.4J0. which was al
the rate of s1a. per square foot. The
frontage is 24sfeet and the entire area Is
HI feet.
In the same year the property at the
northwest corner of 18th and e streets
was sold at auction for $S.l4 per square
foot. the ground being 3ox70 feet.
Large 10th Street Residence.
\ contract has been awarded to John
McGregor for the erection of dwelling
for c. l.. Marlatt at the northeast corner
of 18th and Church streets. The design
of the structure was drawn by Lemuel
Norris. architect. and provides for an
int rior that is rather unusual for city
nome. AT least in the particular OF
spacfonsness. The full advantage OF the
generous building space provided will be
/ brought ont in the arrangement of the
principal floor. where there will be prac-
tically only three rooms. and which Will
he so related that the entire area will be
uninterrupted and will allow for the ex-
tended vistas which are SO effective in
houses interiors.
The house will have a frontage of forty
seven feet on 10th street and will extend
hack on Church street a distance of about
ninety feet. The main entrance VIA lie
at the corner. where there will be
a driveway. and on each side of the en-
trance hall will be two rooms, which
will be available on occasions OF enter
tanning for dressing rooms, and where
guests may enter from the street before
going into the main hall of the house The
latter will be the principal room, and will
have a length of about forty feet, with
the staircase near the east end. On the
Church street front will be the library.
which will also be a room of large pro-
portions. and back of that, as well as of
the hall. will be the dining room, twenty
three by twenty-nine feet.
Plain. But Effective.
a small reception room will be TO the
left OF the entrance hall. with windows
on 10th street. All these rooms will be
finished either in oak or in mahogany
with wainscoting. On the second floor
there will be four bedrooms. each hav-
ing a bathroom attached and one with 2
dressing room while the third floor
there win be six rooms. including those
provided for the servants.
The exterior is 10 be treated in the
style which Richardson made familiar In
this country. known as the Romanesque
a characteristic of which is sturdy walls
surmounted by a rooH with strong lines
The. material to be used in working ou
such a design will be red brick and stone
with copper for the caves, which Will b.
somewhat pronounced.
Absence Of fermentation.
The effect OF the rather low-lying walls
crowned BY tile great roof with plain bu
vf.c-..., lines, will be in harmony wit
the entire scheme. which is not de
- f,dent Tor effect upon mere ornamental
ton. I'm fact, there will be no carving o
other details OF that sort. There will b.