The Washington herald., 1911-05-21

Washington Heights has accomplished
its metamorphosis. From a suburb It has
become a 'congested residential section, "
according to the property owners and
dwellers in that favored neighborhood.
Building operations now under way and
in contemplation for the immediate fu-
ture will have practically no unimproved
property in the Heights section.
A committee Of the Washington Heights
Citizens Association. headed by Rear
Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge, appeared
before the Commissioners and asked that
the property of Col. George Truesdell,
bounded by Columbia road, Kalorama
road, Nineteenth and Twentieth streets,
be taken over by the District for a park.
on the ground that that section Of the
city has become ''congested district" "
and park necessity.
New Homes Being Built.
An apartment house and eleven resi-
dences are under way or just completed
in two short blocks of Wyoming avenue
west Of Connecticut avenue. They are all
pretentious residences. ranging in cost
from s25,0oO to $4,000 each. One of the
most important houses building is that
now nearly completed by Louis H. En-
inert, for Mrs. James ]. hampton. 1t is
situated on q lot 5Ox162 feet. on the north
side Of Wyoming avenue. just south Of
the Dresden apartment house. While it
is being erected for Mrs. Lampton's oc-
cupancy, 1t has attracted considerable
attention, and an offer of $4,000 has Just
been refused. 1t is a three-story light
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lecture. after plans by A. H. Beers. 1t
has fifteen rooms and four bath rooms.
On the south side of Wyoming avenue
further down the street are seven houses
in three units. The middle unit Of three
houses has been finished These are
three-story colonial dwellings, after plans
by Hill & Kendall, and were built by
John H. Nolan. They have fifteen rooms
and three baths each All are twenty
eight-foot fronts, but the first house, at
2140 Wyoming avenue. has a lot Of fifty
feet, and the last one Of thirty-five Both
of these have just been sold, the first to
G. C. Cornwell and the last to Mrs. J.
B. Kendall for $3.50 each.
Next to these houses, on the west are
two others in a unit, both of colonial
style and built also by Mr.. Nolan. after
the same architects plans, at a cost Of
about $4,000.
Attractive Homes Under Way.
To the east Charles A. Langley is
building for Mrs. Anna Jenness Miller
two attractive residences. Half block
further to the west, on the same side of
Wyoming avenue, three pretentious resi-
dences in one unit are being finished by
Mr.. Nolan. They are three-story houses
after plans by Wood. Dom & Deming.
There is a central house forty feet in
width. with a central doorway Of highly
carved stone. The two on
either side of the central house are
thirty feet wide, with entrances to the
sides. These entrances, too. are richly
with stone. brick, terra Gotta.
and wrought iron. Each house has nine
bedrooms and four baths.
On the north side Of the street, at 2139.
Leo Simons is building a four-story
apartment house, with suites of seven
and eight rooms and two baths each.
Upon the north side Of LIE Roy place.
two squares to the south of Wyoming
avenue, Howard NJ. Etchison is complet-
ing four s25, 900 houses Just off Connecticut
avenue. He is also planning to erect
others in that street, which will practi-
caIly complete its upbuilding. The four
now approaching completion are four
story houses with twenty-dve-foot fronts.
and contain fourteen rooms and four