The Washington times., 1910-04-09
HUNDRED NEW HOMES
IN WOODLEY PARK
Development Within Year
Observation-Disclosures
Sell Before Completion.
GROUND VALUES
ADVANCE RAPIDLY
Buildings Range in Price From
$500 to Sos, 0OO-Little
Land Left.

one hundred residences, built and sold,
ranging In price from 1850 10 $500. is
the record OF the last twelve months
building IN WOodIey Park
With not one instance of a house built
IN this section having been unsold at the
time OF completion, with ground values
as high again as they were a year ago;
with comparatively little ground left 60
be purchased by speculative builders.
Wocdley Park, say local real estate men,
when entirely built up, viii have record
81 one OF the most remarkable develop
ments. If not tho most remarkable, OF
airy section Of any city in the United
States.
Looking north from the top Of the
Highlands apartment house at this time
last year one would have seen but the
beginning Of the remarkable building &C
tivity which has since characterized
HCodley lark
A birdseye view taken from the same
point today reveals changes which it Is
difficult to realize have been brought
about within such q short period
Changes IN Year.
Formerly, one would have seen prin-
Cipally scattered houses. not a few Of
which We're built by individuals as
homes For instance. there had been
constructed at that time the three
dwellings at the intersection Of Calvert
street with Connecticut avenue. lust
beyond the Connecticut avenue bridge
Harry Wardman's home had been com
pleted, as had been q few other resi-
oences on Connecticut avenue. beyond
Inc bridge Less than half a dozen
houses had been built on Cathedral
avenue
From the TOP Of the Highlands apart
ment houses at the present time, one
sees hrst, amO2E the improvements Of
the year the Dresden apartment house.
built this side OF Connecticut avenue
bridge And, across from the Dresden.
anoIheF apartment building is under
way, which shortly viii he added TO the
improvements
But it is beyond the bridge. along
Connecticut avenue, Cathedral avenue,
ana Calvert street. IN every section Of
y cooley Park that the big develop
meut has taken place
Conn eCticut avenue has been built I'd
70 point considerably beyond the
Wardman property with handsome and
costly residences Streets futerSectfng
connecticut avenue. and running paraI-
lei 10 II, in WoOdlcy Park, have been
improved by the construction OF entire
rows OF dwellings. which are occupied.
No Section Sighted
almost to the Calvert street bridge In
short, no part Of the section has been
Sighted by either individual home build
e-s OF speculative builders
While the record OF VVood1ev PARK
with respect TO no houses having been
unsold at the time Of completion is
unusual, the feature that has marked
Us development most IS the fact that
all the houses built have been Of a s1l-
70 49,
lecture and class Of construction.
It IS now uncomfortable that this lat
ter feature viii not be maintained un-
VI WUOuteE Park has fRel entirely de-
.Teloped. With the increasing SEA cfrv
q available building ground prices have
advanced. thus making the section con
staFtly more exclusive.
As an example Of this, ground bought
q year ago at IS cents a foot in certain
portions Of the section is now being re-
sold at 90 cents and IN some instances
81 higher price 1t may be that not
IS many dwellings viii be constructed
this year as were last. but dealers are
unanimous in asserting that no Condf-
1lonS can arise whereby the class Of
building that has developed the section
SO Tar viii not be maintained indeh-
nitelv.
Harmony n Architecture.
The architecture Of WoodIey Park Is
purer than that found in the extended
sections CT most American cities. It
possesses character and Individuality
its whole effect IS not without harmony
however. Notwithstanding the fact that
the architectural designs found within
rs limits include Spanish, Old English
Colonial and others
6Ae building firms which have deveI-
CEed DiUC-trGths Of WoOdle- Park in
ClzILe Middaugb & Shannon. L. E
J5TeUniuSes. Kennedy & Kennedy Clarke
N.agEamaE, and Franklin T. Sanner-
IL IS said that the Bachelor Tennis
Cub, which last year purchased ground
between squares y and % between
NFOOdlev road and Cathedral avenue
has had several offers. as a result Of
the increasing demand for building
ground in WOOdley Park. whereby II
may now dispose Of the properly for an
advance o One-third above the amount
paid for f..