The Washington times., 1911-07-15
SPREAD Of CAPITAL
SHOWN IN GROWTH
Of WOODLEY PARK
Beautiful Homes Fast Being
Built in Attractive
Suburb.
SECTION LIES NEAR
ROCK CREEK VALLEY
Senators Bailey and Smoot Among
Those Having Homes
There.

One of the ways in which the city is
growing and building up in the suburbs,
pushing the borders of the city proper,
out into the country strikingly is IL
Illustrated Just now by the development
Of Woodhey Park.
Woodley Park is that section Of
Washington lying just north and west
. Of the Connecticut avenue and Calvert
street bridges over Rock Creek valley.
The completion Of the Connecticut ave
nue. bridge was followed almost i'm
mediately by extensive building opera
tions over the several squares of wood
land and meadow beyond, until today
most Of 1t is built up as solidly as any
part of the downtown residence sec
ton. The present rate Of building soon
will fill the tract entirely with homes.
Wardman's Operations.
Today some of the most attractive
homes in the city are being erected
there. Along Connecticut avenue several
operations are in progress. On the west
side of the avenue between Garfield
street and Cathedral avenue Harry
Wardman is building three SIS, 900 houses
In one unit. They are three stories in
height, of attractive designs in brick
and white stone, after plans by A. H.
, Beers. Each house is twenty-five feet
wide and contains ten rooms and three
baths. He is also building two detach-
ed houses at 235l and 1858 Woodley road.
On the east side of the avenue at the
intersection of Cathedral avenue, al
most opposite, James O'DonneII is build
ing two houses of unusual type. They
were designed by Frank G. Pierson,
and are happy combinations of urban
and suburban features. One contains
nine bedrooms and the other seven bed
rooms and each, four baths. The two
represent an investment of over $50, 900.
Also on the east side Of the avenue
\but nearer the bridge, numbered 2633,
2637. and 2641, are three houses which
Franklin T. Sanner and William A
Hill are now completing. Each is a
SS2,500 house, and contains fourteen
rooms and FIVE baths. The three are
In a unit, but the center house is of
pure colonial architecture, and the 9TH
ers are of French design. They are
thirty-eight feet wide, and the lots are
l20 feet deep.
Homes of Senators.
The same builders recently finished
two $4,000 houses directly opposite
these, one of which was purchased by
Senator Joseph w. Bailey Another
house. which they built at the end of
the bridge was purchased by Senator
Reed Smoot. They also are building a
detached colonial house on a fifty-foot
lot on Woodley road, which will con-
hain thirteen rooms and five baths
Turton Rogers & Co. also are build
ing a number of houses in this section
Four unusual houses are being built
on Woodley place just north of Calvert
street by Kennedy Brothers. They gen.
orally are Spanish in design and repre-
sent an outlay of about 10000 These
houses also are peculiar In their To-
cation being built on the edge of the
hill forming one side of Rock Creek
valley. The view from the back of
these houses is unrestricted over the
whole valley. To make the most of
this asset the builders have provided a
cdpacious porch on each of the three
floors of each house. These porches
are 13 by "a feet in dimension, built
OF concreted steel and especially adapt
ed for living purposes.
Sendstek Buys House.
The south house already has beer
sold to Theodore Sendstek. The houses
are thirty feet wide, with a 'flfty-two
foot lot for the north house, and a
forty-foot lot for the south.
Each house contains fourteen rooms.
Features OF their interiors are billiard
rooms in the easements. Garages also
are in the Easements, leaving the back
outlook entirely unobscructed by out
buildings.
These are some of the houses now
being constructed in this section. but
the development has by no means been
entirely of so expensive character.
Many houses of moderate cost have
been built and many more are building
Then, too, one Of the finest houses in
the city has been built there, the new
residence of Harry Wardman at Con-
necticut avenue and WoodIey road.
The territory is fast filling up, so that
II will not be long before the city will
be built out to Cleveland Park, still con-
sidered one of the suburbs Of the city.