Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-19

space for the windows to peek through
In Mozart street, of Columbia road, over
n row of brick homes Is a frame cottage
screened with vines. and in the northeast
angle of Quarry road and Lanier place,
also under the shadow of a great apart
ment building. is a handsome home with
deep and hospitable porches. and having
a glorious view Of the valley of Rock
creek, that is green with a dense vine
mat. On 18th street west of the crossing
Of Columbia road is a Queen Ann cottage
deep-set in vines. If you travel out that
way YOU will probably notice the three
story and- basement brick house on the
east side of Mount Pleasant street be-
tween Irving and kilbourne. All its walls
are hung with ivy. 1t covers the bricks
and creeps along the cornice. The south
wall Of the Douglas house, on Columbia
road above the Mcclellan statue, is green
with ivy.
At the junction of Pennsylvania avenue.
I'd and B streets east one can see a hne
growth of vines on the group of yellow
painted houses that have stood there for
generations. One should also not over
look the walls of Garfield Hospital. which
present one of the most expansive YER
teal fields of ivy growth to be found in
Washington.
A whey house is that of brick and shin
gle in a shady garden on the north side
OF Kalorama road between 10Th and
Goth streets 4 net OF vines incloses the
porches and makes tangle OF the ter
race at the front. There are some vine-
fronted houses on Kaloraula road from
10th street on to Connecticut avenue. The
broad house and thanking garden walls
2i25 street. are hung with ivy, and
house 211O 8 street, just west OF Con-
necticut avenue. is a good example of
vine and brick architecture A dense
mat of English ivy has woven itself over
the big and handsome house at Decatur
place and Goth street. No. 2l3l K street.
which Is really several numbers wide, is
as closely webbed over with green vine
as the Tracy house on l street, or the
Louise Home formerly were. One or the
Massachusetts, avenue vine houses Is that
of red brick and red shingles at the
northwest corner of the avenue and
10th street Vines have climbed very
nearly to the top of the chimney on the
Massachusetts avenue front. Houses 1864
and 1865 Belmont street are also entitied
to classification as vine houses.
A conspicuous display of vines is on the
time grimed brick walls of an old house
at the corner Of Goth and + streets The
house rests on low green terrace ana
at the street corner of the terrace grows
a large bay tree. Diagonally opposite is
another vine house which stands at the
southeast corner of 10th and f, or close
to that corner, for the southeast angle or
the intersection of the streets named Is
lawn OrlRutcIcO Will hoHcTS'
There are two red brick houses on the
north side of III street-lI2A and 1I31-
which have their front walls laced over
with the red foliage of autumn-touched
vines.
Some Washington houses are nearly
covered with wistaria vines. The ancient
Octagon house on New York avenue has
long had fine specimen of that vine.
One of the largest of these vines grows
on a big red brick house on the east
side of 18th street just north of K street.
and there Is also handsome specimen
on the white frame house at the north
west corner of Massachusetts avenue and
nth street.
Government buildings also have their
vines Ivy has woven its green web
over the Smithsonian, the front of the
office Of the depot quartermaster on
18th street. the stone terrace Of the
Department Of Agriculture and the
walls Of the sunken plaza at the north
front of the State War and Navy
building. Ivy Is sweeping over the mar
BILE terrace of the Capitol and chang
ing to green the pallid marble entrance
at the north wing.
This is not an attempt at a complete
census of the vine houses of Washing
ton. and without doubt there are many
magnificent specimens which the Rambler
has not noted.
Many of the churches of the city are
partly or wholly yelled with vines ST.
Dominic's, on 9th street southwest, is