The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-09
PROPERTY MARKET
REMAINS ACTIVE
Builders Purchase Tracts on
Which to Erect Houses.
SYNDICATE PLANS A HOTEL
Several Homes Sold During First
Week Of New Year-OutIOOk for
Construction Especially Bright.
Prospect Is that 1916 VIII Exceed
the High Record of 1909.

good degree OF activity has marked
the turn of the year. While weather
conditions last week were far from ideal.
the local brokers pulled off some good
deals. and the first week of January
finds most of the offices with more than
enough commissions 10 pay ONCE ex-
penses.
Plans for new buildings are going for
ward with increasing momentum, and
while the year 1909 was the biggest build
ing year for the Capital. at least in the
number Of structures erected, the record
promises to be greatly surpassed in 1910
Among the sales Of the week was the
transfer of a twenty-six-acre tract lying
between Rock Creek Park and Connect
cut avenue by oscar B. COblentz to
Charles Edmund Rafferty, of New York.
Ii is the purpose of the purchaser to
subdivide the tract into villa park sites.
reserving a large block for his own
suburban home. which he contemplates
building this spring. The form OF con-
struction. it is said viii reduce cost and
increase efficiency and durability 10 such
an extent as TO excite national interest
building material and labor, with the at
tendant temptation leading TO inferior
construction.
Rev John Chester Buys Home,
Thomas J. Fisher q Co. report the
sale of the house al 1521 o street north
west. for J. H, Reinhart to Rev. John
Chester The house contains six rooms
and bath, and occupies a lot 20 by 100 to
an alley II is the intention OF the new
owner to make extensive Improvements
and make it his home.
The same firm has sold to Noncure
Burke twenty-five feet front on Woodley
place, near Cathedral avenue, Woodiey
Park. 1t is understood the price paid
was 50 cents foot It is Mr.. Burke's
intention to build home on the lot.
The triangular building site at the north
west corner Of Calvert street and adams
Mill road viii be improved by the erection
Of a large apartment house. The ground
was recently sold TO Thomas ]. Fisher
< Co. The purchaser. J. J. MOebs, paid
for the property about S250 a square foot.
The site has two frontages, one being 10
feet and the other $50 feet. The area is
$3.50 square feet.
The building viii be six stories high,
and the entire Improvement will cost
about $4,000.
Gardiner & Dent. Inc. have sold for
Jacob Fechtig the property at . 0 street
northeast, a two-story brick house con-
tanning six rooms and bath. The lot is
about seventeen feet front, and has a
depth Of about eighty feet. The pur-
chaser, Mrs. Matilda Miller, viii occupy
the house as her home. The consideration
is about 5000.
Work upon the addition 10 the Washing
ton Canoe Club, which IS to cost $1,000, is
now under way. It was designed by
Architect G. P HaIes.
The addition is sixty by forty feet. and
gives the building total dimensions of 100
by 40 feet. II will be equipped on the
first floor with "a grill, kitchen, and a
shop, and on the second floor with a re-
ception hall and ladies' lounging and
dressing rooms.
It will serve to add fourteen feet to the
assembly hall. thus giving that room
dimensions of forty-six by thirty-two
feet.
Plans Big Hotel.
The rumor is current that New York
capitalists will soon erect a big hotel at
Connecticut avenue and Superior street
The story current about the project con-
meets the ThompsOn-StaTrett Company
Herewith as the builders and that the
contract will call for a building to cost
about 81, 100000.
The ground floor Of the structure. il is
said, will have dimensions OF 200 by go
feet while the building will be nine
stories high. One Of its features will be
large auditorium.
The site comprises four acres, recently
leveled. and has a commanding view Of
Rock Creek Park.
It is understood that Joseph P. Sheehan