The Washington times., 1910-09-03
MARKED ALTERATION
INBUSINESS SECTION
Work Being Rushed on
Buildings in Down
g. town Parts.

These are reconstruction days in the
downtown retail business section of
the city.
Three neighbOring business buildings.
the Palais Royal, the Garinkie block.
and the building long known as La
Fetra's Hotel. are approaching compile
IlOn after extensive alterations, rebuild
ing and additions, which total in their
scost approximately S200,008-
About 1900 square feet Of floor space
has been gained by these operations
without any expense for additional
ground, illustrating the value Of work
ing space in the downtown business
section.
In Place of Old Hotel
The most extensive Of these building
changes is the reconstruction Of the cid
La Fet-a Hotel at Eleventh and q
streets northwest The new building
here is nearly complete, and the build
.ers EXPECT 10 finish il in six weeks,
when It VIII be known as the Kenois
building In the case Of this building
ar old structure used for hotel pur-
poses, only four stories in height, and
producing an income on the value OF
the property comparatively inadequate,
has been replaced by a modern Once
additional square feet OF available space
and calculated 10 produce very satls-
factory return upon the value OF the
realty and the inP-9Ve Tnents
Two Washington lawyers. g Z CaI-
houn and james II. Sharp, are haFlIlS
the improvements made on Ihe La
Fet-a site They have named the new
building KenOiS because Mr. Ca1TioUIl
came 10 this city from kentucky, anu
Ny. Sharp from Illinois. and the name
enbodies the first syllable OF one o1sle >
= nd the last of the 0LneT-
Frederick b Pyle, the architect for Ine
new building. has made an enJrely new
structure at q cost Of St7-pt- me on
building was taken the Two upper stoI-
les removed and replaced BY tour
stories and the foundations replaced D
new ones OF sufficient strength 10 sup
port the additional weight
Built of Red Brick
The old hotel was built Of red brick.
but the new material is a white brick
Today the red brick OF he second and
part Of the first story still shows but Il
IS the intention OF the Builders, the
rsorrnlev-PoyutOn Company. 10 treat this
Old face 50 as 10 obtain a uniform color.
The entire interior from he founda-
ton cd has been reconstructed The
ground or street floor has been changed
SO as TO make one continuous series OF
show windows q plate glass front on
both Eleventh and G streets This moor
and the basement Is 70 He occupied by
- one o. KreSEe-s 5 and 10 cent stores
The remaining FIVE stories have been
laid ont as Offices. Of which there are
ninety The building faces eighty teei
on Eleventh street and seventy feet on
G street
A. the corner Of Thirteenth and r
streets northwest, Julius GarhBlle Is
completing an addition to his building
which viii give him about 10000 SQUARE
feet OF additional space for the use 81
his Woman'S department store The
TnaterisI used A. tins, red brick and
brown stone. IS the same as Jnat OF the
old building. and VIII give UNIFORM
appearance on both streets The OLD
building wac in the shape Of an l. witt
the LEGS facing seven stories on both Z
and Thirteenth streets. but with only q
two-story building OF the corner
Five New Stores.
J-pou these two stories FIVE additional
stories are. now about completed filing
in the space between the LEGS Of the old
fyslEIdinC. and making one square. solid
business block Hill & Kendall are the
architects for this piece OF building. and
. 4. Langley 3 the contractor. The
structural iron frame was erected bJ
The addition of an entire story 10 TIT
Palais Royal IS being pushed 20 com
pIetiOn by the GOrml ey--Poynton Com
pany. a structural steel dome is th'
device which gains Tor the big depart
meut store bout. - per cent nlOT'
SsoOr space for merchandising purpose
81 a cost Of not more tina $4,000 To-
construction, nothing having To be IN
vested in expensive real estate. No
only does the building gain adclllOna
space, but the dome wall give nor
imposing appearance 10 the whole build
ing
Whfle these three are the most i'm
uortant reconstruction projects nov
proceeding in the vicinity, others n IN
downtown section are being completed
On the southeast corner OF Futeeut
and + streets. an elaborate TeconSlruc
ton of the old restaurant at mat pi@C
IS now approaching completion.
Of New York Type.
4 ne7v restaurant Of the type We
known in the vicinity Of Broadway an
Fortv-seCond street IS being built g
Washingtonians- Ornamental iron mar
o15ises are hung over the entrances an
windows both on F street and F'ifteent
street and the interior Is an elaborat
scheme Of trelliS work TO be COFeTe
with rvari-cOIOred hop vines I'M
modern place Is being made out Of N
corner ground floor OF one OF the oi1 -
Office buildings in Washington U
CorcOran Building
4 square 20 the east another recor
structiOn work Is progressing IN n1SH-ll.
the New Ezbbitt House out OF the EDou
House When this work is completed q
entirely new appearance VIII have De
given 10 the old hotel
On Seventh street, between + ana
streets an important piece OF recof
ETrl5ctfOu is being done 10 the old SeCOD
National Bank Within a few weet
the Seventh street pedestrian VIII {
srsznrfsed TO see there a new bank buiit
Of massive size instead OF the old-fasl
toned and modest Dank front which the
have known for years
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