Evening star., 1934-04-14
REVIVAL Of HOME
BUILDING DUE HERE
Construction Work Will Fol-
low Economic Recovery,
Weaver Says.
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revival in the construction of ex-
quisite, moderately priced homes in
our suburban areas is certain"
The only danger Mr.. Weaver dis
Germs in the immediate future is to
be found in the "unreasoning pound
ing of drums which inevitably attends
the beginning of new era of pros
perity, brir ging with it dangerous in
creases in housing construction costs :"
THE lessons of the immediate past
have been sufficiently grim to fix in
the minds of most of us warning
against all forms of extravaganza, and
the thousands of old residents as we'll
as the thousands who recently have
come here to take up permanent resi-
dence will doubtless demand more for
their money in housing as well as in
food, clothing and the other necessi-
ties. They will buy only within their
means and it is up to the builders to
provide homes at costs they can meet.
Unless we are mistaken, the demand
for frills and front will for a long
time to come be subordinated to de-
mandS in home construction which
offer the utmost in comfort and
utility. The housewife of the future
will scarcely BE- content to slave to
keep an ill-planned home in order.
She has learned during the last few
difficult years multitude of methods
whereby small but important sums of
money can be earned to supplant the
earnings of the head of the family,
assuring her added comforts and even
small luXuries. She will not readily
return to the inept ar6 costly home
construction and home upkeep i'm
posed upon her in the past
"The home which indubitably will
be developed for the family Of mod
crate means in the Washington area,
however, will not be one merely of
Geld efficiency or one lacking the in
dividuality demanded by housewives.
1t will be attractive as well as con-
venient and comfortable, since the de-
sire to perpetuate the best traditions
of home life has been enhanced rather
than diminished since 1929. Those
who have been forced to forego their
own homes and move in with other
families will be found in the fore
front in the ranks of new home buy
ers. They, moreover, will demand
homes in which not alone the family
investment can be safeguarded against
all eventualities. but homes with en-
vironment which can be handed down
to successive generations, enriched by
the passage of time"
There are, according to Mr.. Weaver,
still numerous small communities
within the metropolitan area suitable
for the construction of homes for the
forgotten families, which go to make
up at least 70 per cent of the Dis
trict's family population"
AS a tangible expression of faith in
the early revival of the demand for
new individual homes, the Weaver Or
ganization. although primarily brok-
erage company, is lending its support
to the District corporation. which has
just begun construction of housing
project on the last parcel of unde-
veloped land which once went to make
up part of the Langhorn estate at
Clarendon. Va. This property. orig
inany a part of the holdings con-
veyed by grant of the King of Eng
land to Lord Fairfax was divided into
three parcels by authority of the
courts three years ago. Weaver Bros.
at that time acquired a third of the
remaining holdings but, according to
Martin R. West, vice president of the
company, conditions for the develop
ment of it have not heretofore been
favorable. A second share was at the
same time taken over by the Claren-
don NJ E. Church for its own uses,
while the other third was purchased
by Lawrence Manning. Clarendon,
who has recently indicated he like
wise will shortly begin the construc-
ton of moderately priced homes on
his tract.