Evening star., 1941-07-19
Shop Talk
News About Builders
And ReuI Estate
Personalities

Home builders within the WASH
ington Real Estate Board will join
with the Operative Builders Asso-
citation of the District and hold a
luncheon meeting at the Ambassa-
dor Hotel on Monday, July 20.
Henry Grant Atkinson, director of
activities of the National Associa-
ton of Real Estate Boards, will
speak.
Mr.. Atkinson will outline plans
for the course in home building
which will be held next month in
Philadelphia under the joint spon-
sorship OF the new Home Builders
Institute of the N. A. r. E. B. and
the Wharton School of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. The study
course, to be held August l8 to 30,
Is open to any qualified person. De-
tails may be obtained at the WASH
ington Board Office on X street.
So many Washingtonians have
been named to serve on important
committees OF the United States
Savings and Loan League that We
have space here for just the names
They are:
F. Wilson Camp Carl H. Elling-
eon, Carl J. Bergman, Chaplin B
Bauman, E. L. McAleer, O. r.
Kreutz, r. w Santelmann, Clarence
E. Kefauver, Edward K Jones, Will
liam N. Payne. jr.; William H. Dyer
Wilfred H. Blanz, E. j. Carlson and
s. S. Symons. Mr.. Camp was named
to two committees, those dealing
with membership and economic
policies for 194l.
In the middle of hot summer
weather one does a lot of thinking
about r-conditioning, what a Won
derful thing 1t Is, and whether one
can afford to install it in the office
So 1t may prove interesting to know
where the first air-cooled house In
the country was. 1t was in New
York City, at Lexington avenue and
Twenty second street. The house
was built in the 1S60s by Edward
Cooper, son Of the founder of Cooper
Union.
Mr.. Cooper designed his house
with an Ice chamber in the base
ment. Cold air ducts led from the
chamber to the floors above and
kept the living room and sleeping
rooms cool in summer.
The new Parkhill apartments at !
1E10 pork rnad
petion. The building contains 100 |
units and is five stories high The |
Lenken Construction Co. Is erecting |
the building for the Parkhill Corp, |
owners.
A permit was issued this week |
for erection of an apartment hotel |
at 1880 Wisconsin avenue. opposite
the National Cathedral. The build |
ing is being built by Jerry Maiatico !
from plans drawn by Matthew Lep-
ley architect. Mr.. Lepley and MI. |
Maiatico designed and built Rock !
Greek Gardens at 250l @ street |
NV, which was taken over by the
Government.
The new building will contain 225
units and will be air. conditioned.
The whole project will cost more
than $l,000000. There will be a
garage for 100 cars. The brick front
Of the structure will be trimmed
with Virginia greensboro.
Coinciding with the completion
Of a second group of contemporary
style homes on Arkansas avenue
NV. j. B. Tiffey g. Son this week
found themselves featured in the
Architectural Forum, national pub
lication in the architectural and
building fields, for their group Of
modern homes built and sold at
the beginning of the year.
Pointing to the increasing mo-
mentum with which this style of
architecture is capturing public
Tiffey operation as follows:
Situated one block off Six
teenth street, address of many of
Washington's swankiest embassies,
churches and residences, the site |
of this modern row house project |
Ideally faces a public park and is
only one block away from shopping
facilities and two transportation !
lines connecting it with the down |
town area in fiat Is minutes. |
Only disadvantage which builders
John B. Tiffey and son. Robert P.
rndt1d thcU rliIrpha cod tho
property was the steep grade-a 20 |
foot climb from the street to the
rear alley. But their architect,
Joseph H. Abel. used his imagina- |
ton. converted it into an advantage.
Conventional planning would have
called for a long, unSlightly flight
of steps leading to first-f1oor en-
trance, so Architect Abel moved the
entrance down into the basement
planned part of IL as foyer and
reception living room. Then after
he had submitted several exterior
design studies aiming unsuccess-
fully to disguise the houses three
story height, he convinced Builders
Tiffey that modern with its hori-
zontals would best fill the bill.
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The corner apartment building at
$500 Colorado avenue NV. has been
sold to an undiscloSed investor by
Frank H. Wurzbacher through the
office of A. S. Gardiner & Co.
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Mr. and Mrs. F. Moran McConihe
are vacationing at Narragansett,