Evening star., 1943-11-20
District Plans 10 Build
New Wafer Reservoir
In Southeast Section

A building permit has been Is.
sued by Robert H. Davis, District
inspector, for the District govern.
ment to erect a water reservoir ir
Fort Stanton Park at Twenty-f -fiftl,
street and Alabama avenue Sc. al
an estimated cost of $4,000.
Bids for the construction will
be opened by the District Commits
sioners at 2 pm. December Z, ii
was learned, and a contract prob
ably will be let within about IA
days thereafter. The new reser-
voir was financed by special appro-
priation and is designed to supply
extra water storage space for the
rapidly developing Southeast Sec
ton, where there is now water stor-
age capacity of only about 5000, 900
gallons.
The new reservoir is to have
100000 gallons capacity and is to
be erected in what is called the
first high area" in Anacostia
about 258 feet above the Potomac
River. Requard & Smith of Balti-
more are architects for the job.
Permits Total S467, 300.
The reservoir permit was the
largest among many permits issued
this week for total of $467 300. This
compares with only $27,384 in per-
mltS issued last week.
The next largest was for erection
OF two 2 and story brick and con-
crete apartments for a total of 46
units, at 317-319 Anacostia road
Sc, to cost $150,OO0. The permit
was issued to Minnesota Gardens,
Inc. Tivoli Building, owner-builder
with Matthew G. Lepley, $3.50 Ma
braska avenue NV, architect.
The United States News Publish
ing Corp. Twenty-second and M
streets NV, was issued two permits
Tor construction at 1889 TWENTY
fourth street NV, by Davis, Wick.
Rosengarten Co., 613 Fifteenth
street NV, builder, and Porter g.
Locke, architects. One permit is
Tor erection of new concrete floors
on first floor, new floor and roof
over the east half of an L-shaped
building, new exit towers and new
heating and plumbing systems at
cost OF S50,000. The other was for
erection of one 2-story concrete and
orlck offlce building at the same ad-
oreSs at a cost of $4,000.
Other building permits issued for
construction jobs of $500 or over
include:
owner; Victor Eberhard, Sos SseSe seSenteeDtb; SW;
street Street NV. builder; E H, Threadgii, s434
I, :nH 5nSh Nineteenth street NV: to cost cost
1909 Girard street Me- owner and and buId dnG.,
er; e. u, George T.. santmyers, I41o H Street
cnder boef K easf sfs two 4s ssery brsk
street NE; to cost $1,000 500 ID Grant
Pa oRSe4 sle5s RsilT9ad Co. Philadephia
Maryland avenue Baltimore. ENC Nd, of buiider:
Gnon station BatmosSe Ma afshiteed Rs[resd
vest sreet bePWeen 9rlee cfbfr TbTeqb sqbdng
twenty -eigh1h streets Sc: to cost 81, 600.
vsnus aw leas oWher 1ps Norman a9o Nsx York
Ebs5hssd hOusiqse staset yes?r NW
cnder Block sfeft edton one fdr brick and
81 sSoI 300 New York avenue NV: to cos, cost
Lillian K: Kennamer. "a R street NE.
owner; CoWles e. Griffin, R. F. D. No y
!Aiexandria. Va, builder; Harvey p. Bax
yer, lloS Sixteenth street NV, architect:
70 remodel building for two apartments,
lf3h Lincoln road NE; to cost So 900
Vlola B. 1nkalls, 400 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. E.: owner: Winfield Preston, Wood
Ward Building, builder; Leon Chateiain. jr.,
80 street NV, architect to convert
evening INTO two apartments, 1854 High
street Sc: to cost $4,000
Ernest and Louise Fenwick. 124S Co.
Iumbia L pini, road NV. owners; Tuckman &
H. Able: 1885 Connecticut avenue NV
archltect; to convert dwelling into FIVE
. spartments; 124s Columbia road NV: to
Isaac Salmon, 4e14 Bass place Sc,
owner and builder: R. M Pollard archi-
tect: to erect one STORY frame dwelling,
fal2 Bass place Sc: to cost 81 600.
E. H: Hohanson. 261A Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV; owner and builder; A. S. J. At
klnson, 2s0l Macomb street NV, archi-
cost $1,000. w
Louis Courenbis. 1742 Pennsylvania ave
nue. N W., owner and builder and archi-
tect; to erect one 1-story addition to
restaurant. 1031 Seventeenth street NV;
to cost $500.
Metropolitan National Bank, trustees.