Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-30
BUSINESS ROMANCE
HIDDEN. IN BUILDING.
Meteoric Rises to Fame and
Wealth Are Represented
in Big Operations.

Back Of the large-scale business Of
apartment house construction in the
National Capital lies romance of the
meteoric rise to prominence and wealth
OF the builders.
Fortunes have been made from the
construction and operation OF apart
ment houses in Washington, for which
more than $l3l 100000 has been ex-
pended for construction work alone
during the past 20 years. Men with lit
tie else besides ability to plan and build
have attained success in this field.
though others with wealth or strong f.
nancial backing also are found in the
list Of outstanding operators.
Ability to obtain financial support,
whether the builder be wealthy or poor.
personally, however, has been a test for
the reason that virtually no large apart
ment operations are built from the
builders personal capital. but rather are
financed through the fioatation Of bond
issues.
Wardman Held Niche.
Harry Wardman. during the past 20
years, has been the outstanding figure
in the apartment house construction in
dustry Of Washington. Because of the
long list of structures he has erected
and the extent of his holdings acquired
as investments. his name for a period
Of wears overshadowed all others.
He has built more than 400 apart
ment houses in addition to more than
5000 dwellings and office buildings,
hotels and other business properties.
Among the more important apart
ment projects are the huge Cathedral
| Mansions group on Connecticut avenue
If htIil
| the Brighton and Dresden Apartments;
the Chastleton; 2700 Connecticut ave-
nue.: group on calvert street north 81
Connecticut avenue; group of large
apartments at Connecticut avenue and
Davenport street: the La Sale. Con-
necticut avenue and L street. and the
Hay Adams House. The full list OF
course, Is much longer and does not
include the Wardman Park Hotel
Roosevelt Hotel nor the. Carlton Hotel
Wardman, while having the most un-
usual career, is not the only large
scale builder of apartments.
Warren Brothers Prominent.
Monroe and R. Bates Warren, lead
| ing operators in the cooperative apart
! ment field here, have done much to fur
ther the private development Of Wash.
ington by the construction Of apart
| now completed, Is the $4,000, 900 Tilder
Gardens development in the tract lying
between Connecticut avenue, Tilden anc
| SedgWick streets. Earlier they con-
structed the Crescent Place Cooperative
| Apartments, to the west of Meridian
| Hill Park, and the Army and Navy
Apartments. 2540 Massachusetts avenue
Harry M. Bralove in recent years also
has taken a leading place in apart
1ekr
some Of the largest single structures In
this field of construction. These in
clude the huge Broadmoor Apartments
! 1901 Connecticut avenue; the large and
exclusive structure known as 210l Con.
necticut avenue: the New Shorehan
Apartment Hotel, development of two
buildings on the south side of Calvert
street between Woodley road anc
Twenty-eighth street; large building
at 47o7 Connecticut avenue, and 3
number Of smaller structures.
Mount Pleasant Section.
William S. Phillips and associate,
have made important changes in tn,
skyline Of the Mount Pleasant section
with the construction of a number O.
apartment buildings of major size, in.
GLIDING the Argonne, on Columbia roaC
west of Sixteenth street: Harvard Hall
1850 Harvard street: Phillips Terrace
now known as the Chalfonte, 1901 Ar.
gonne place, and the Valley Vista, Bel.
mont road and Ashmead place.
Morris CafritZ, aside from DWELLING
and hotel construction, has erected thu
huge Hilltop Manor, now known as the
Cavalier, $500 Fourteenth street: tn,
Park Central. 1900 F street; Park Lane
Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty-firs
street, and the Miramar, his --latest
project, at the corner of Fifteenth
street and Rhode Island avenue.
Kennedy Bros, old Washington Arm
developed the large structure knowr
as 2400 Sixteenth street. opposite
Meridian Hill Park: a group on thu
northeast corner Of Cathedral and Con.
necticut avenues, and a number o.
others.
The Ell & Kay Building g. Invest.
ment Co. was the builder of the huge
| Woodley Park Towers, 2737 Devonshirt
place, just OF Connecticut avenue, anc
the structure at $500 Connecticut ave.
nue..
Goldsmith 81 Keller are the builder.
| of Park Towers, 2440 Sixteenth street
the Schuyler Arms, 1854 Columbis
road; La RENE, 5425 Connecticut ave.
nue.; two buildings on Wisconsin ave.
nue. near Van Ness street, new build
ing at 1887 Rhode Island avenue ant