The Washington times., 1911-05-20
MANY RESIDENCES
ARE BEING BUILT IN
HEIGHTS DISTRICT
Leroy Place and Wyoming
Avenue Show De-
velopment.
THEIR SUBURBAN
. APPEARANCE GONE
Homes Costing as High as Fifty
Thousand Are Being
- Erected.

A remarkable building development is
in progress in Washington Heights, par
tcularly in two short streets, Wyoming
avenue and lie Roy place. The compile
tion of the present building operations
will leave little unimproved property
in the vicinity.
Citizens Of that section of the city
have come to a realization of the fact
that washington Heights is no longer
q suburban subdivision, but is now "a
congested district" of the city proper.
This week they have so stated to the
Commissioners. committee of the
Washington Heights Citizens Associa-
tfon, headed by Rear Admiral Thomas
o. Selfridge, appeared before the Com
missioners and asked that the proper
ty of Col. George TTuesdell, bounded by
Columbia road, Kalorama road. Nine
teenth 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 a necessity.
House for Mrs. hampton.
Eleven residences and one apartment
house are now building, or have just
been completed, in two short squares or
Wyoming avenue west of Connecticut
avenue. They are all pretentious resi-
dences. ranging in cOsr from $4,000 to
S50,OoG each. One of the most important
houses building is that now nearly cont
plAted By Louis H. Emmert, for Mrs.
James ]. Lamrton. 1t is situated on a
lot 80 hv 162 feet. on the north side OF
Wyoming, Just south Of the Dresden
apartment house. While it is being
erected for Mrs. Lampton's occupancy,
it has attracted considerable attention
and an offer of $4,000 has just been re-
fused It is a three-story light brick
and stone structure of mixed architec'
ture, after plans BY A. H. Beers. 1t
has fifteen rooms and four baths.
Farther down the street, on the south
side, 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 A4O
and the last one of thirty-five. Eoth of
these have just been sold, the first to
G. c. Cornwell and the Iast TO Mrs. ].
B. Kendall for $37,500 each.
two others INA unit, both of another
colonial style, and built also by Mr..
Nolan, after the same architects plans.
at a cost of about $4,000
Wyoming Avenue Residence.
To the east of the unit of three
Charles A Langley is building for Mrs.
Anna Jenness Miller two attractive resi-
dences.
Half square further to the west, on
the same side of Wyoming avenue,
three pretentious residences in one unit
are benig finished by Mr.. Nolan. They
are three-story houses after plans by
Wood, Donn & Deming; There is
central house forty feet in width, with
a central doorway of highly ornament
ally 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 orna-
mented with stone, brick, terra Gotta,
and wrought iron. Eeach 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.
lie Roy Place Houses.
On the north side of LIE Roy place,
two squares TO the south of Wyoming
avenue, Howard NJ. Etchison is COM
pletinS four $4,000 houses just off Con-
necticut avenue. He is also planning
to erect others in that street, which will
practically complete its upbuilding The
four now approaching completion are
tour-story houses with twenty-five-foot
fronts and contain fourteen roms and
four baths., They are of mixed archi-
tectural style, the Colonial predominant
ing, and are ornate with wrought iron.
Mr.. Etchison has also practically COM
pleted the construction of two Spanish
Colonial houses of thirteen rooms and
three baths on the north side of Bilt-
more street, between Cliffbourne and
the loop.
There is other building in progress in
the vicinity, but a visit to the section
demonstrates that there is some basis
for the declaration of the citizens that
1t has become a "congested district"