Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-09
D. c. CONSTRUCTION
PROMISES RELIEF
New Apartment Houses and
Family Homes Expected to
Help Situation.
BUILDING IN ALL SECTIONS

The housing situation in Washing
ton is expected to be somewhat re-
lieved in the near future by the com
pletion of a number of new apart
ment buildings. now in course of
construction, together with the erec-
ton Of homes. WHICH are under way
in various parts of the District.
Several of the large builders are
now engaged in the erection Of apart
ment houses which will accommodate
many families. These large structures,
however. are not expected to be
ready for occupancy until early fall.
There are several smaller ones, how
ever. which are rapidly going up and
are being occupied as rapidly as they
are completed.
Homes are being erected on a large
scale by many of the builders. who
have been successful in obtaining the
materials. Development is being push
ed in this line throughout the Pet
worth section. where in the past year
many homes have been erected. In
Fourteenth Street Terrace section
several homes have been completed
and many more now are in course of
erection. In the Chevy Chase. D. C.,
section there is considerable devel-
l.
has been much construction of smaller
homes is the southeast, while in the
northeast rows of homes have been
erected and others are about COM
pleted
In Suburban Sections.
In the suburban sections of the
city and across the District line in
Maryland many homes have been re-
Gently completed and scores of others
are now being constructed by Wash
ington owners builders. These
will greatly relieve the housing sit
uation in the city. it is believed
The War Department. which occu-
pied several apartment houses for
office purposes during the war, has
turned all of them back to the own
homes. The apartment building at
18th and NJ streets. which was occu-
pied by the War Department and,
later by the French high commission,
is now being remodeled. and VIII
soon be ready for residence purposes.
About the largest apartment building
that is still used for offices is that at
18th and p streets-the quarters Of
the alien property custodian.
Despite the high cost of materials
and labor, there has been much build
ing activity in the District during the
that period there had been Alb brick
dwellings, licensed to be erected at
an estimated cost of S2.062.95O, and
nineteen brick apartments at an es-
timated cost of S1,457.O0o.
There have been licenses issued for
the erection of eleven hollow tile
dwellings at an estimated cost of
$4,000
Two concrete apartments We're
licensed to he erected at an estimated
cost of 100000.
One license was issued for the
erection of a stone dwelling at an
estimated cost of $4,000.
Licenses were issued for eighty -one
frame dwellings at an estimated cost
of $404,S00.
Licenses by Months.
The building licenses issued for
dwelling and apartments in the vari-
Gus sections were:
Northeast-July. s5.Os5; August.
$4,000; November. $41.l0O; December
$500; January. $500: February,
s2.o5o: March. $4,000; April, S46''oo;
May. s16.6s5. and June $5l.15O-
Southeast-July. s11.S5o: August.
sas.o5o; September. $40; October
$2O.250; November. $4,000; December.
s1.5Oo: January, $11.s75; February,
ss7.75O: March. ss.s25; April. sa5,SS5;
May, $4S,oUU anu June, $of,oVo.
Northwest-July, $117.045: August,
s25S,300. September. $4,000; October.
s2s.3se; November. $4,000; December,
$2.22s; January. s31.950: February,
$500; March, s175.630; April, $685. !
712: May, $3l1,625. and June, !
'$1.221.345.
Southw .st-July. 500; October.
$3.50; November. $500; December. +,
s1eO.oOO February. $3.50: March;
$4,000; April. $3.50; May. s4.25o. and i,
June. $66.700.
$264.370; September. $50.975; october, !
s74,770: November, $97.440; December. |,
S6S.600: January. $32,615: February, !
s3220s2; March, s469,635: April. !
s1,O75.S79; May. $9Ss,440. and June,
$l.109.632.
The construction now under way |
is indicated by the estimated costs of |
homes and apartments for which |
licenses were issued last month. The |,
highest total for the northwest sec |
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