The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-01-09
More Than $6,000,OO0 Is
Represented in Present
Construction.
REALTY MEN PUSH
EXTENSIVE PLANS
Confident Capital Will
Grow to Million Pop
ulatiOn.

Washington builders plan an un-
paralleled construction program for
1922. I
With building Investments total
ing approximately six million dol
lars at the present time. construc-
ton pending for the spring months
undoubtedly will bring this amount
up to the ten million mark.
| Allan L. Walker, Frank p. MIL
burn. the Riggs National Bank,
Charles II. Tompkins. Harry Ward
man. Smith Company and William
s. Phillips represent six million
dollars of building investments,
the work for which is either now
in progress or contemplated in ths
near future.
note in the light of these activi-
ties. No longer is the builder as
suming a waiting attitude. Gigan-
tic plans for a greater Washington
have been adopted. The city Is
rapidly expanding. out and beyond
the ten-mile district.
Predict Million Population. d.
Prominent realtors have been
asked to predict realty conditions
here for several years to come.
Invariably the answer has been:
why. this is the Capital Of the
United States" To state Il more
definitely the realty realm thinks
the population Of Washington will
inevitably reach the million mark
Proof of this belief can be found
in the extensive building program
now in progress here.
Nearly one million and a half
dollars are represented In the
building program of the Allan e.
Walker Investment Company. This
firm is extending its activities in
the Chevy Chase and Petworth Sec
tions. Residents of these neigh
borhoods look with no little COM
munity pride on the steady ex-
pansion of their respective sec
tions.
VIII Erect 70 Bungalows.
The Walker firm has Just begun
an operation costing over s2TS. o0e
in Chevy Chase. Twenty bunga.
lows will be erected on a triangu-
lar tract In the vicinity of Reno
road and Jenifer street. On the
Stellholm estste near Thirty-ninth
and Jocelyn streets in Chevy Chase.
an operation by the company rep
resenting 100000 Is in progress.
In the Petworth section a pro-
ject known as the Garden Apart
ment group. costing approximately
s+50.000. Is under way by the
Walker firm. The apartments will
be located on Webster street be-
tween Rock Creek road and Sec
ond street.
Plans for the erection Of a $780,
900 bank building at l107 Connecti-
I I'D TO
company. The bank will be known
as the Connecticut Avenue Bank.
Along with this project the COM
! pany Is working on huge gaso-
! line station to cost 100000.
VIII Erect once Building. p
The Riggs Bank interests ami
| Charles Fl. Tompkins Jointly rep
resent a building investment Of
nearly a million dollars. The Riggs
Bank, which recently acquired con-
troll OF the Hamilton Savings Bank
with offices at seventh and I streets
and Fourteenth street and = Park
road, is proceeding to erect a two
story. bank, store and ONCE bIild-
ing at the corner of Fourteenth
street and Park road.
Along with this same project
Charles Fl. Tompkins will erect on
the site of the old Stratford Hn 81
| at Fourteenth an6 Monroe strs1-S
northwest, a, freproof building to
be known as the Stratford Bald
ing. 1t will contain fourt. :n
stores.
Plans for Apartment Houses.
| Harry wardman will erect an
apartment house on the corEer Of
Cathedral and Connecticut avenues,
costing 100000 and containing .SU
apartments. Plans are well under
| way for the erection or sixty
room apartment which VIII be con-
structed as an annex 10 Wardrlan
Park Hotel. This. will cost $780,
600.
The wardman Company has also
purchased a twelve acre tract at
woodiey place and Thirty fourth
street. which will later be occupied
by an extensive building.
! Within the next few weeks tho
z. II. Smith Company will er:ct Il
new office building at sl2 and s14
Fifteenth street nothwest The
building will be occupied by the
company and will cost $1.100.000.
William S. Phillips Company. Bli
New York avenue northwest, is now
4
cinity of Ninth and Longfellow
streets. The operation represents
an investment OF s450,000. In the
Mount Pleasant section the 1em-
pany is progressing with plaes for
construction to cost Approximately
| $4,000.
A new apartment building in Six.
teenth street, between K and u
streets. 10 planned for Frans P
Milburn. The structure viii cost
$780, 600.
Records of the building inspector
indicate that 1922 will witness a
building boom. A large increase in
the number of permits issued from
July 1, 1921. to DeceAber. 1921. over
the same period of 1890, tends to
show that building in 1899 will be
far ahead of the preceding year.
For the last six months Of 1921,
4.773 permits were issued, repre-
senting an aggregate value Of $1i,-
517.4ol. During the same period OF
| 1920, 3.793 permits were issued, rep
rcsenting ss.lS9.Ss3. During the
last six months of 1921 permits were
taken out for the erection OF .s4s
dwellings and IL apartment houses,
while. for the same period OF 1890
only Is5 permits were issued for
dwellings and - for apartment