Evening star., 1935-04-06
0ne.Fa Family Dwellings Lead
List of Residential Units
for Month.
$1,393,410 VALUATION
TO s2e8,775 PREVIOUSLY
Modernization Shows Valuation
Increase With $162,S73, Com.
pared to $141, $50 in 1884.
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The wave of home building which is
making itself felt in Washington pro-
vided 418 residential units during
March, almost 10 times the number
provided in the same month last year,
official figures made public today by
Col. John w. Oehmann, District build
ing inspector, indicate.
Col. Oehmann'S monthly report
shows that permits were issued in
March for 146 onefamily dwellings
and IS small apartments, capable of
housing 272 families. In March, 1884.
permits we're issued for AZ one-family
dwellings and no apartments.
A comparison of the valuation of
residential construction in March
with that for the month in 1884 is
equally as impressive. Official figures
show that this type of construction last
month was valued at Sl,393,410, while
the same type in March, last year, was
valued at S298,775. All types of con-
Struction, including new building and
repairs or modernization work, reached
a total of 81 ,668,373 last month.
Although modernization work in
March showed valuation increase it
was not comparable in size to the in
crease in valuation of other conStruc-
tion types. Modernization work last
month was valued at S162,S73, as COM
pared with Sal, $50 for March, 1884.
Unemployment Figures.
Despite this great increase in Wash
1ngton construction, and the near
boom taking place in the residential
communities of nearby Arlington
County. Va. and Montgomery County.
Md, officials of local building trades
unions declared that the percentage
of unemployment among the various
affiliated labor groups is nearly as
great as last year.
John Locher, official of building
trades and the Washington Central
Labor Union, stated that while there
has been a slight decrease in the
number of unemployed in some build
ing groups, this improvement for all
groups of building tradesmen has been
negligible. He attributed this to "em-
ployment of cheap non-union labor"
IN number of home building projects
here.
Building construction in the CITY
during the last week totaled $332.248,
according to the list of permits. The
right to build "a one-family dwellings
and II small apartments and flats
was granted by the building inspec-
tors office.
The largest permit of the week was
Issued to Boss &, Phelps for construc-
f1on OF six 2-story brick fats in
the $500 block of First place, at an ap-
proximate cost of $4,000.
r. L. Davis, $3.50 Twenty-ninth
street, obtained permit to build seven
brick dwellings in the 300 block of
Eighteenth street northeast, at a cost
Of $4,000 each. Fulton r. Gruver was
named designer and Clarence r. Cos
nell builder
Permits of the Week.
More important permits of the
week are as follows:
Boss and Phelps, l4l7 X street,
owners and builders; Harvey P. Bax-
ter, architect; to erect six 2-story
brick fats, 56l0-l4-l8 and 561l-l5-l9
First place: to cost $4,000.
r. L. Davis. $3.50 Twenty-ninth
street, owner; Fulton R. Gruver, de-
slgner; Clarence r. Gosnell. 1414
Monroe street, builder; to erect seven
2-story brick dwellings, 3l1 to 1923
Eighteenth street northeast; to cost
$4,000 each.
Henry Klein. 1882 Fifth street
northeast, owner; S. " Wells, de-
signer;; Clarence w. GoSnell, Inc.
1414 Monroe street, builders; to erect
three 2-stoy brick and concrete flats,
2214-18-22 Nicholson street south
east; to cost $4,000.
John M. Beane, HOO Fifth street
northeast, owner; George T. SAINT
myers, architect; c. H. Small Co., $50
New York avenue, builders; to erect
one 2-story brick fiat, 1921 and 1928
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