The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-08-11
HALLS OF ANCIENTS
BRINGS $4,000
Real Estate Agent EuyS 1t
for a Client.
NELSON APARTMENT IS SOLD
Richmond Attorneys Acquire Twen-
tfeth street Property and VIII
Hold Il for Investment Purposes
Site Purchased fer Stora &c Ware
house Near FirSt and II streets.

Sale Of the large building on New York
avenue formerly known as the Halls OF
the Ancierts- and now occupied as an
automobile station. was completed yester-
dsy. the price p1id for -he property be
ing Szl59Cl
This sale vas made between r Golden
madison. acting for himself and others
interested IN the ownership Of the prop
erty. and Rcbe-t c. Sl-fnn. who repre-
sen-ed a purchaser whose name is not
made pubIic-
TIE lot has a ground measurement OF
1851 SQUARE feet making che price Of the
property about SIS a square foot
FIRST Concrete Building.
The Halls OF the Aucie-ts~ was erect
ed several years ago by the late Franklin
smith. and was the nrst large concrete
building put up in Washington. Within
ii M smith gathered relics ard repl.cas
OF the ancient world. one OF the features
OF the hall being the reproduction Of one
of the houses uneartne5 IN Pompeu-
In another part Of the building was an
immense panorama OF ancient Rome. and
in this room Mr. Smith gathered for sew
eral years audiences 10 which he lectured
upon Roman. Greciar- Egyptian. and
Moorish history
By degrees ~interest in antiquity faded
out. the proprietor o. The halls was met
by financial difficulties. and in the end
the work OF many years was reluctantly
laid down. and tie Halls Of the Ancients
was sold az auction. realizing about $50
COO About a year ago the property passed
p To-
and others. who never announced their
purpose in purchasing the property. other
than It's rental as a place Of business
I The price involved iH the purchase last
year was in the nsighbCrnood OF 5111.ll0-
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Donaldson was
at one Of the northern lsizes urrn his va
cation the signing for tle p-orersy hav-
ing been accomplished through the mails.
8Ir. Shinn was likewise out Of the city
and further details Of the transaction
could not be CbtaiEed-
Buy a Warehouse Site.
It was also announced yesterday from
: the Office Of Nh Donaldson that he and
1 Malcolm ". HfH have purchased s0.oOl
/ square feet Of ground in square 67S- Thi.
I square lies near the railroad tracks al
Z First and " streets northeast. and it i,
Z the intention Of Mr.. Donaldson and Mr.
( Hill to erect a large warehouse OF tbs
site for storage purposes.
3 The finger Of destiny seems 10 point tC
/ the section in which this ground is 10
/ Gated as the future wholesale and ship
/ ping district Of Washington, and il h
I said 70 he the conviction Of the pur
/ chasers Of this property that by putting
Z up there a new and substantial building
/ they viii be pioneers in the work o
bringing the wholesale business Of Wash
ington 70 that point
Nelson Apartment Sold.
The announcement of another larg
realty transaction IS contained in a dis
patch from Richmond. Va. last night
which stated that O-Flaherty & Fulton
! attorneys Of that city. have purchases
the Nelson apartment house, at I73S Twen
tieth street northwest. for s65.0o0 It !
stated that the Richmond attorneys hav
purchased the property as an investment
and that It viii be conducted along tn
same lines IS formerly. under the sam
I local management.
/ O-FTaherty < Fulton recently sold TO }
Miller Johnson. Of this city, the Water
lick White Sulphur Springs property. i
Warren County, Va, the purchase pfic
being $1,000.
House Brings SI3.55O.
Stone & Fairfax report the sale 70
/ William H. Rider Of the English basemen
residence, 20lS Columbia road. east G
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