The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-17
FAST development
! OF SUBURBS SEEN
: IN SUBDIVISIONS
Big Sale of Lots Made in
Massachusetts Avenue
Heights.
FOURTEENTH STREET
TERRACE BUILDING
Detached Houses, Some of Them
of The Bungalow Type, Are
Being Constructed.

The rapid suburban development Of
the city is nowhere more strikingly IL
Illustrated than in two subdivisions,
Massachusetts Avenue Heights and
Fourteenth Street Terrace. Each has
distinctive features, but both show the
tendency to push the confines Of the
city outward. Both show the tendency,
in every part of suburban Washington,
away from blocks of houses and toward
individual homes.
In Massachusetts, Avenue Heights
Thomas J. Fisher & Co. today report
sales of a total of 147 lots since the
opening Of the subdivision on April g.
There are 533 building sites in the en-
tire subdivision.
Rapid Progress in Grading.
Rapid progress is being made by the
grading contractor in leveling and fill
ing, and in cutting streets. This is
huge work, and 1t is estimated that
the amount of dirt which will have
been moved when the job is finished
would be equal to a pile $50 feet deep,
covering the entire area of Franklin
Park. 400 by 600 feet in dimensions A
street has been cut through from Mas
lowing the lines of Thirtieth street.
Park drive and Thirty-second street,
and Woodland drive has been cut al
most entirely through. Cleveland ave-
sion Of the Columbia Poad line Of the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany, is fast being graded.
All OF these streets wind through some
Of the most picturesque scenery in the
District They are fianked on either
eida hV tall md NHind thrOr1Oh ho
woods like country roads. Wooded hills
are numerous and are of such contours
as to enable landscape architects to
plain ideal villas The whole tract
wild, untouched forest is now taking
on definite form, and becoming part of
the city.
Plans Pretentious Residence.
DR.. James J. Richardson has pur-
chased three lots with combined 'front.'
age Of 304 feet on Massachusetts ave-
nue. and Thirtieth street, and is hav-
ling plans drawn for a pretentious res
tdence. Ell Fabre will build two houses
On two lots which he has just purchased
on Wisconsin avenue. south of Davis
street. Other recent purchasers are H.
Harrison Ham, c. R Denmark, F. R
Wheater. and Ella N. Ray.
In Fourteenth Street Terrace. quite
division, an interesting building devel-
opment is proceeding This property is
located near the end of the Fourteenth
street car line.
Building Detached Houses.
It is beginning to be built up with
detached frame houses Of moderate cost,
similar TO the adjoining subdivision TO
the south, Sauls Addition, but with a
eomewhat different type Of house. E.
Z. Vroonaa is building q $500 house
of unique style, combining some features
of the bungalow type. on Fourteenth
street, near the Piney Branch loop. Two
other frame houses are being built on
the same street about two squares to
the south to cost about IS, $50 each. J.
Carey King, who has a 81, 900 house of
his own al the corner of Fourteenth
and Gallatin streets, is building three
bungalows, which Robert Z. Heater is
offering for sale.
One Of these bungalows is on Gala
tin street, near Thirteenth, and the 9TH
ers are on the west side of Thirteenth
street, between Farragut and Gallatin.
They are six and seven-room bungalows
of q type not often seen in this sec
ton, and are designed to cost about
81, 900.
In this subdivision, too, the new school
house in Farragut street, near Four
1eenth, is up to the second floor poists,
and the foundations for the John Dick
son Memorial Home for Aged Men have
been laid, and work is progressing upon
the superstructure. Both buildings are
are expected to be finished by the fall.