Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-02

huch as the Dullding at the northeast
corner of Columbia road and Messmore
street. across the way. This latter is one
or Harry Wardmans enterprises and is
also one of the largest structures of the
type ha has built. 1t is like the letter H,
the two legs being joined by central
building.
Mystery of Fine House.
Presently the juncture with 18th street
is reached where the car line turns and
the cars pass north out Mount Pleasant
street, but just to the south on 18th street
rises the walls of what is planned to be a
private house. but its proportions are
such. especially its height, with relation
to its width, that it suggests an apart
ment house. 1t is to have four stories and
basement with such an ample supply of
openings on the north side that the occu-
pants will not be able to complain that
they do not have the means Of securing a
bountiful supply of air.
There is mystery about this house, but
only or pleasant character, for the name
or the owner has been Withheld 1t is
SAID In explanation of such unusual retf-
cence that 1t is the plan of the wife of a
well known public official to be able to
bring her husband 10 a fine, new house,
completely furnished and say to him that
it is his home, and thus be able to secure
what they both want, but which he
shrinks from going about because of his
dislike to being bothered with the details
of the building. Whether this is the true
version or not and whether the name
that is commonly mentioned as the future
occupant Of the house is the correct one,
still 1t remains that the house itself owing
mainly to these unsettled circumstances
Is subject OF a good deal of remark
AS one goes farther north on Mount
Pleasant street it is noted that additions
are being made to the number of new
houses, and that, too, in section where
so much has been done In the past few
years that the entire appearance of things
nave been changed. Irving and Lamont
and kilbourne streets as they pass to the
west are for the most part lined with
houses now. although 1t was not so long
ago that the lines which these thorough
fares now follow passed through fields
Green Foliage of Park.
What the people who use rather tech
meal terms when they come to speak Of
natural surroundings call the vista of
these streets is the soft masses of foliage
that cover the sides OF the gorge of
Rock creek and the wooded heights CT
the Zoo Park. In fact, these streets APP
pear to plunge right into the midst of
those masses. and the idea is not at all
uninviting on hot day. as the green
looks so cool and attractive
There is quite group of houses on
two corners at 18th and kilbourne streets
under the management of n. l.. Sansbury
that are nearing completion and will add
to the number of homes in that locality;
also on the west side of 18th street be-
tween Kenyon and kilbourne.
Another row Is to be found on the west
side of Mount Pleasant street little to
the south of Kflbourne street, which is
managed by the Simpson-Sullivan COM
pany. while a group of three apartment
houses on the opposite side of the street
has just received an addition in the shape
of the New Bloomfield apartment house,
which is now completed.
The end of the car line, at Park road.
Is by no means the end of the houses,
for they continue in rows along the
streets to the north and to the east and
west until the former appear to plunge
into the leafy masses of the gorge of the
Piney branch on the west into the
wooded heights of Rock Creek Park.