The Washington times., 1912-08-24
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
APARTMENTS ARE
NEAR COMPLETION
Two Houses = and New
Normal School Almost
Finished.
CARLISLE CONTAINS
SEVENTY-EIGHT SUITES
Old Oaks Are Preserved and Made
Feature of Central
Court.

Three notable improvements in Column
bia Heights are nearing completion this
week-two large apartments and the
new normal school, to be known as the
James Ormond Wilson building. The
apartments are the Carlisle, at Column
bio road and Fourteenth street, and the
Fairmont. at Fairmont and Fourteenth
streets. Both are being erected by
Harry Wardman.
The Carlisle is to be one Of the largest
apartment houses in the city. and has
seventy-eight suites In the four stories.
with,a row of stores on the Fourteenth
street frontage. The suites are three to
five rooms each. 1t will be completed in
about two weeks. The building is To-
Gated on the former site of the Mt.
Pleasant playground, which was sought
to be preserved, on account OF the old
oaks shading 1t; permanently for play
Moses. president of the Washington
Playground Association, was unavailing,
and the property was bought in by Mr..
Wardman L for building purposes;
have been preserved by the builder and
form a pleasing feature of the large
central court between the two main
wings of the building. This court forms
a part of the Columbia road frontage.
Bought Site Cheaply.
The Fairmont, three squares to the
south, Is also one of the citys largest
apartment houses. Mr.. Wardman ex-
poets to finish this next week. 1t is a
five-story structure, with three wings,
and contains sixty apartments of from
three to six rooms each. The building
Is being erected on a large piece OF
property bought in last spring by Mr..
Wardman at 50 cents square foot The
low figure was due largely to the build
ing restriction, which imposed the ne
cessity of building we'll back from both
streets.
The Normal School building at the
corner of Eleventh and Harvard streets
Is also near completion. For the first
time in its existence of forty years the
Normal School Is to have home of
its own. The Franklin building has
been used up to this time.
The building is designed by Municipal
Architect Snowden Ashford, and is ad-
mirably adapted to the needs of the
would-be teachers. 1t is two stories
high and built of red brick and granite,
carrying out an adaptation of the old
English style.
The main entrance to the building is
on Harvard street, with a private en-
trance in the west wing. The east
wing, or that fronting on Eleventh
street, is designed for critic
school," in which actual teaching is to
be done -
Includes Gymnasium.
Every modern convenience and
facility are included in the building.
There are to be a well-equipped gym
nasium with shower baths, lockers,
and dressing rooms; a kitchen and
lunchroem, manual training room,
physical chemical, and botanical
laboratories, reception rooms, and as
sembly hall, with a well-appointed
stage and other features.
Music and drawing rooms, teachers
| rooms, and study halls are also pro-
| vided The third floor over one part
Of the building is to be devoted to a
| museum.
The contract time for finishing the
| school building Is October %, but it
will take at least a month after COM
pletion to install the equipment. Mr..
| Ashford said today that the school
would probably be ready for use by
the Christmas holidays.