The Washington herald., 1914-06-07
BIG BOOM BEGINS
in real ESTATE
Psychological" Depression
Gone, and Despairing
Brokers Cheering Up.
WEEK IS A LIVELY ONE
Wednesday Sets High Marx for This
Year. with Fify-nine Impor-
tant Transactions.
WEEK IS A LIVELY ONE

The real estate business, which for
months was the despair OF brokers,
seems to have recovered from psyche
losical' depression. New homes are
being built and sold and old homes are
changing hands.
A high mark for transactions In 1914
was set Wednesday, when fifty-nine
transactions were recorded by real es-
tate brokers. The outlook at present is
encouraging.
Among the new homes sold were six In
Rock Creek Church road. sold last week
by the A. C. Moses Construction Com
pany to private homeseekers. The houses
are part Of lot of twenty-six In the
square bounded by Rock Creek Church
road, Fifth, Quincy. and Randolph
streets northwest The entire block is
owned by the Moses Company, which ex-
poets to have the homes completed by
October.
The homes sold for s4.5oo They contain
eight rooms and bath. and fine exterior
and interior arrangements. Rough text.
ure brick is used. Each home has a
front porch of 40 square feet. Sleeping
poiShcs nave tlSHty-Onc SQu6T6 ISeI- Fly
screens in instantaneous water heaters
have been installed.
Harlan Home SOLD.
DR.. A. T. Ramsay was among the pur-
chasers of higher priced homes Dr.
Ramsay, who is principal Of Fairmont
Seminary. has purchased the home of the
late Justice Harlan, of the United States
Supreme Court, at Fourteenth and Euclid
streets northwest. for $4,000.
Harry V. Bouic has sold to Senator
Sterling, OF South Dakota, the residence
at z7o2 Thirty-second street northwest.
In Massachusetts, Avenue Heights. and
a fifty-foot lot adjoining, for $ll5oo
Other sales recorded by the Bouic Com
pany were: Residence at 27A Thirty
second street, to DR.. A. ID. Weakley, for
$500; residence at 1sa5 / street north
west. to Mr.. ST. Clair, for $4,000, and
for DIR. Weakley. lot in Bradley lane,
Chevy Chase, Nd, for $1.05O
home for First Assistant Postmaster
General Roper is being completed in Six
teenth Street Heights from plans pre-
pared by W. c. Nichols. The home is of
hollow tile construction. and is situated
at the intersection of Alaska avenue and
stucco finish. 1t has eight rooms and
finished attic. There Is q large Sleep
ing porch
Other homes in Sixteenth Street
Heights that have been built or are near
ly completed are those OF Willard y.
Holmes on Holly street and Burton
Ewers on Fern street, and the one which
II. II. Herman is erecting in Fern
street just west OF Georgia avenue.
kayhoe New Manager.
Frederick @. Kayhoe is the new man.
ager Of the rent department of the Real
Estate Trust Company. 1t was announced
yesterday. Mr.. Kayhoe formerly was in
charge Of rents for Shannon & Luchs.
George Oakley Totten. jr.. has COM
pleted plans for home for Mrs John B.
Henderson in Sixteenth street between
Lamont and Irving streets northwest
1t will be a double residence. which will
have something Of the appearance of a
single home. The style Of architecture
Is French gothic The building will be
four stories high. with a slopinR roof
There will be twenty rooms In each part
Of the building, and the cost will ap-
proximate $4,000. exclusive Of the ground
cost.
DR.. F. L. PleadweIrs new home at 1878
street northwest has been completed
1t is a three-story brick. designed by
Clarke Waggaman, OF Colonial design
The Colonial home of DIR. s. H. Greene
jr., at 1850 Rhode Island avenue north
west, Is just finished. The home is Of
tapestry brick. three stories high. An
other Washington physician. who is hav-
ing a home built is A. Rhett Stuart
A home Of three stories, with white mar
BILE front, Is being erected for him at
$40 Connecticut avenue northwest.
Just across r street from the home of
DR.. Pleadwell is a residence being erected
FOR H. F. Meserve at a cost of $75,e00.
slum Now . Garden.
Willow Tree alley. which for many
years was the boon OF Congressman who
wanted to talk about the worst slum in
he country" is rapidly becoming a gar
len. Since the occupants of the shanties
n the alley were forced to vacate. the
Department of Public Buildings and
Grounds has been busy. Ninety-eight
OF them Lombardy
been planted in the alley.
rhe poplars surround the alley, and there
S a grove of sycamores on the west
,ide. There are plenty Of shade trees on
Ill four sides.