The Washington times., 1909-10-21
Kennedy Bros. Plan the
Erection of SiXty-nine
Houses.
WORK is TO BEGIN
BY FIRST OF MONTH
Project Raises Firms Operation
For Year TO Total of
Million.

Constituting the biggest building op-
Grafton of the fall. encouragement is
made today that work viii be com
menced before the end of the month
upon the erection of sixty-nine houses.
to cost $4,000, the property TO be To-
Gated on Rock Creek Church road,
Water street and Georgia avenue.
Kennedy Bros. is financing the project.
which. together with other operations
commenced during the year by this
firm, represents a total Of nearly mill
lion dollars worth of building. Il IS
intended to have a large number Of the
houses completed and on the market by
spring.
Permits Issued.
Permits for the erection of the build
ings have slready been issued. One per
nit calls for the construction Of thirty
OF the residences from zoe to 764 Rock
Creek Church road: another for nine
teen, from Go to $40 Rock Creek Church
road.
The third permit is for six houses.
from 3645 to 1850 Water street, while the
fourth is for eight houses from 5G44 30
S65S on the same street.
The NTH permit which rounds ouJ the
total OF the sixty-nine houses. is for the
erection OF six residences from 1888 10
S6fS Georgia avenue.
All of the buildings win be of the same
tyne being three-story brick structures,
containing eight rooms and two baths
each. They viii be larger, more elab-
orately built, and more expensive Jnan
she average mOderate-priCed house that
has largely characterized the Capital 5
building operations Of the past few
years.
Other Big Contracts.
The other largest operation undertaken
~ this firm this year was commenced in
June. when work was started upon the
construction OF forty-two houses on La
mont street, between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth streets. The firm OF Ken
ncdy & Davis is interested with Ken
nedy Bros. in this operation, the
amount involved in constructing the
building being estimated at more than
S3oU.U0a.
iii is announced today that OF the
foTty-tWO houses whose construction
was bSrun in the summer seventeen Of
them have been completed and eight
Besides these two operations, which
represent a total outlay OF nearly $I0es-
ESQ Kennedy Brothers firm now has
under construction twenty houses in the
Seventh street D street, and Maryland
avenue. Their total value is placed at
more LLlaL a4uVsutt- ILEN are OF q more
expensive type than the houses Of the
TWO larger operations.
Apartment House.
A four-story apartment house, located
at 1874 Columbia road. is being con-
structed by the firm. and wiz be COM
pleted early next month. The value
of this building is placed at $4,000.
No recent announcement Of prepa~
lions TO commence building operations
las aroused greater interest among
LEGAL realty operators than that of Ken
Eedy Brothers today regarding the build
Ing OF the siXty-nine houses.
II is thought the effect Of the big
operation viii be TO accentuate the con-
ddence already felt in the market and
induce other builders TO map out heavy
programs fOr the winter and spring
months.
Dealers say the operation promises TO
make the winter and spring building
record one of the heaviest Washington
has ever known