Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-28
BUILDING
HERE IMPRESSIVE
Total Cost of Construction in
1929 Is Estimated at
S36,O78,345.
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! Germ was taken over by United Realities,
Inc. The properties in the deal were
valued in negotiations at about $685.
100000.
The situation underlying the Wash
ington Building. costly 10-story struc-
ture at Fifteenth street and New York
avenue, which failed under ITS original
financing, was clarified with the pur-
chase of the property at auction by
Boston interests, at a price Of S4005,-
600. Clearing of the title aided rent
ing of the building.
The old Huyler's Building, northeast
corner of Twelfth and F streets, was
leased for long period of years, and
the building Is to be torn down 10 make
way for new structure.
New construction this year has been
of wide variety.
Outstanding among projects COM
pleted, erected or started during 1929
are:
The new large home of julius Gar
flnckel 6E Co., Fourteenth and F. streets.
costing $l,700,000; Ambassador Hotel,
Morris Cafrttz, owner, Fourteenth and
K streets. Tower Building. owned by
syndicate headed by Maj w. L. Brown
ing, Fourteenth and K streets; new
Southern Railway Building, monument
tai huge structure at Fifteenth and K
streets: Shoreham Building maximum
size structure at Fifteenth and H
streets; Bellevue Hotel, II E street,
$3.50, 900; apartment erected by Cafritz
Construction Co. at 1900 F street, 81
100000; apartment for William S.
Phillips, 1860 Harvard street, $l,10O.-
600; apartment for Tomlinson Realty
Co, 1889 Park road. 100000; school
for Protestant Episcopal Cathedral
Foundation, 1928 Massachusetts, avenue,
$4,000; plant for General Baking Co.,
2146 Georgia avenue, $500, 900; group of
buildings for st. Augustine's parish,
IT'S Fifteenth street; apartment for
Goldsmith & Keller, 5425 Connecticut
avenue, S750,000; apartment for Ell g.
Kay Investment Co., at 29O1 Devon
shire place, 81 100000; medical build
ing for Georgetown University, Reser-
vo1r road at Thirty-ninth street, $780,
600; st. Joseph'S Seminary, 44O0 Sar-
gent road northeast, 100000; Sears
Roebuck Building. oil Bladensburg road
northeast, $3.50, 900.
An additional building in the Tilden
Gardens development of M. & r. B.
Warren, Connecticut avenue and Tilden
street, 100000; apartment for A. j.
Howar, 2l15 Pennsylvania avenue,
$500 600; crypt for Washington Cathe-
oral, 1925 Massachusetts, avenue, $685.
900: apartment for H. p. Giddines Co.
29ol CORTLAND place. 100000; SUBJ
station for Potomac Electric Power Co.,
926 street. $4,000; AlmaS Temple,
1913 K street, 100000; Tilden Towers
Apartments, 4007 Connecticut avenue.
$500, 700; apartment for Mintwood Cor
poration, 1845 Columbia road, $7OO. 900:
apartment for Frank TomlinSon, 1851
Park road, 1915, 900; addition to apart
ment for Baer g. Schloz, 300 Massa-
chusetts avenue, 100000; apartment
for Morris Cafritz, 1901 Fifteenth street. |
$150,000; Catholic Church, Is Grant |
Circle, $250.00O; apartment for David |
L. Stern, 1920 Sixteenth street, $500
600; National City Christian Church, S |
Thomas Circle, $780, 900; portion of |
north tranSept, Washington Cathedral, |
$350,000; Holy Name College, Sixteenth |
and Shepherd streets northeast, $780, |
900; hotel for syndicate headed by |
Harry r. LoveleSS. IS z street, $3.50 600: |
Episcopal Home for Children, Nebraska |
and Utah avenues, $250,0OO, and |
Shakespearean Library, to be erected at
2O1 East Capitol street by foundation |
created by Henry c. Folger, 81 ,45O. 900.
Construction now is well advanced
also on the million dollar" market CEN |
ter for wholesale merchants and COM |
men in the Patterson tract |
Fifth street and Florida avenue north |
east. The project is sponsored and |
owned by the Union Terminal Mar |
ket Co.
Building operations this year. by |
were as follows: