Evening star., 1926-04-24
REAL ESTATE
MODEL ROW-HOUSE
BUILT FOR BEAUTY
Series on West Virginia Ave-
nue. Northeast Have Many
Attractive Features.

Because of the tremendous devel
opment In the National Capital o1
the row-house type Of residence, The
Star in it's model homes demonstra
tiOn, has taken a particular interest
in encouraging the architects and
builders who are assisting in the
demonstration to work out architec
tural and construction improvements
in this class of house.
This group of seven houses shown
herewith, designed by ]. Wilmer
Smith and to be erected by c. NJ
Small at West Virginia avenue near
Queen street northeast, is one of two
row-house projects sponsored by The
Star. The other group, being erected
in the northwest section, was de
scribed April 3.
Planned for Locality.
These houses have been planned to
fit into the surrounding neighborhood
II was not intended that duplication
of these houses by builders should be
impractical, or purchase by the gen
eral public impossible.
Rather the endeaVor has been to
improve the beauty, structural devel-
opments and the practicability of
these houses. keeping in mind at the
same time that these are, after all,
moderate priced homes.
The houses are composed of six
rooms, etc, and a garage. the gen
eral motif of the elevation is colonial.
The chief feature is a red sand-fin-
ished colonial brick. manufactured as
near as possible to replicas of the or
iginal colonial brick used in early
American homes. The woodwork on the
- lSerINk Nt+ifh he
exception of the shutters which will
he green. Tis coloring again en-
phasizes the colonial motif. Much
has been accomplished to enhance the
architectural design and to promote in
dividuality in each row house by plac-
ing the front porches Of the two end
houses on the side streets. By group
ing the porcheS on the central houses,
the monotony of long rows Of same
ness has been avoided.
All have Garages.
The frontage Of the five central
houses is eighteen feet, the usual row.
house width. The two end houses,
however, are on 50-foot lots, wich give
an attractive set-off to the general
effect of the combined group. The
central houses have open back
porches upstairs and downstairs, and
the two end houses have glassed-in
porches. Individual garages are at the
rear of each house and are beautified
by lattice fence work. A retaining
wall of colonial brick sets off the en-
tire terrace and the white concrete
steps leading up to the houses.
The available space in the interior
of the houses is increased by the use
Of double door leading from the din
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larging the vista and bringing the
than as an adjunct to the kitchen.
Three Distinct Types.
Three distinct types of plan have
been used. House Number l Is a
corner house with the entrance on
Queen street. '"h plan is of the
center hall tyre. which makes pos
sible a large living room II feet 8
inches by IL feet. A feature
in this type of house is the built-in
book shelves provided in the living
room.
The breakfast porch as we'll as the
sleeping porch above are built of
brick and have been glazed and plas-
tered so that two full rooms have
been added to the house. In addition
room house in place of a six-room
house, this arrangement will tend to
hide the rear porches of the other
houses in the row as seen from Queen
street.
The second floor of this house has
a bath with a window in place of
the usual skylight and three large
rooms and a glazed sleeping porch.
Each of the two smaller bedrooms
have a closet and the larger bedroom
has two closets. House Number z,
the other end of the row, Is to be the
same as house Number 1, reversed.
Plans of Floors.
The first-f1oor plan of house Num-
ber has an entrance hall which
opens to the living room through a
trimmed opening, thus giving a con-
iderable amount Of privacy. The sec
ond-fioor plan OF this house has a
large front bedroom extending the
full width of the house, the two small
bedrooms communicating with the
sleeping porch. Houses Number 4
and are to have the same plan as
house Number 2.
The first floor plan Of house Num-
Der 3 has no entrance hall, but, as a
compensating advantage it has a
large living room extending the full
width of the house. The second-floor
plan of this house is similar to that Of
house Number / except that large
open sleeping porch is substituted for
the smaller glazed sleeping porch of
house Number l.
All Of the kitchens are ample in
size for a house of this type and, in
addition to the usual equipment of
range sink refrigerator and dresser
they will have built-in tables and
seats.
These houses may be reached by
going east on K street to Eighth
street northeast, north on Eighth
street to Florida avenue, thence one
block southeast on Florida avenue to
West Virginia avenue, proceed on
West virginia avenue six blocks to the
site on Queen street