Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-02
GROWTH OF CITY TOWARD
THE NORTHWEST IS RAPID
Remarkable Building Activity This Year Along
Connecticut Avenue and Co1um-
bia Road Car Line

The section of the city and its outlying
REGIONS where one can see at the present
time piles of brick and other building ma
teriaI along the streets more frequently
than in. any other is that which is taV-
ersed by the Connecticut avenue line of
cars. AS an evidence of building activity
such collections of materials may be
looked upon as conclusive. although they
do not have the official character or the
map which Mr.. Hacker. the building IN
spector, has in his office, where all the
permits issued for either repair work or
for new construction are recorded py
means of pins with large white ana piach
heads that are stuck in the locations
where the work is in progress.
The bristling array of pins practically
covering the plan of the city corroborates
the statistics of buildings, which snow an
increase this year as compared with last,
not only in the number of permits, but In
tho amount of money that is being spent
Last Nav was a bigger month than that
Of the preceding year, but IL is hard to
realize it. for according to the testimony
of men who are most active in such oper-
atoms as well as from what is observed
gong ABOUT inc Sit9' INV
building has evidently decreased.
Where Activity Begins.
At any rate it is quite evident that ad-
ditions are being made to the number OF
new buildings out Columbia ROAD anu
Mount Pleasant street. This activity does
not begin Immediately north OF Florloa
avenue. although the residence OF MI
I,othrop. which commands the vista OF the
avenue to the north, is still unnnisned'
hut sufficiently so to show the harmonious
proportions of what is recognized as one
of the most attractive and satisfactory
types of domestic architecture that mas
been erected in recent years.
West on California street announcer
large aDartment house is being finished.
which gives TO that block an add!tlon 10
ouite a group of such structures. ana al
of the class of large buildings. IL is aiso
expected that the vacant grouno or al
least a portion of it on the east slde OF
C.oJ,,mtia road and a little farther to the
north IS to be improved in the near ~
ture by the erection OF an apartment
house which will be fianked by the
wyoming and the Oakland
At the present time an apartment mouse
is going UP on a portion of the now va
cant frontage on Columbia road between
Wyoming and Kalorama avenues, being
built BY Howard Etchison, while on the
west side of 18th street south OF Column.
Inia road and opposite the Cook School
building John Warren is erecting an
anartment house. On 18th street an ad-
dition is being built to the two-story
anartment house which adJoirs on the
south the Wilson School building. but the
other building structures or TINS type
mentioned are four stories in height
At Bridge Entrance.
Another apartment house is being built
hv n. L. Rust on Belmont road just
east of Columbia road, while at the en-
trance of the Connecticut Avenue bridge
an apartment house of the largest size is
nearing completion and stands just across
the avenue from another great building
of the same sort that was occupied
this sea- son for the first time Then there
is the Netherland apartment house on
the west side of Columbia road just north
of Kalorama road, which has just been
finished.
There are also some private residences
being built The most notable and the
largest Is the home for w. w. Lawrence
on KaIorama road just west of the
bridge. There are also five houses.
three stories in height. which are being
built farther to the east on the same
street and just east of Columbia road.
Also at the southwest corner of 18th and
Euclid streets a row OF houses is going
up.
AS one passes farther to the north on
Columbia road he sees the walls rising
out of the ground of a large apartment
house at the northwest corner of Co.
lumbia and Quarry roads. This building
which is being erected by L. A. Perie is
to be four stories in height, but will cover
large piece of ground, though not as