Evening star., 1946-04-27
|FPHA Offers 10 Sell
Church, 'Hoehouse'
And Plane HANGAR
Want tn h,,v a ch1,rch9

Want to buy church?
Or perhaps you're in the market
for a "hoghouse," which, if you
have no porcine interests, would
serve admirably as an diversified
home for a Great Dane.
What about an airplane hangar?
But if you have ambitions to be-
come an executive there Is avail
able to you an administration build
ing from which you can admins
trate."
These items are among % struc-
lures which today are being offered
for sale by the Federal Public Hous-
ing Authority as leftovers from its
Washington War Housing Refuse
Exposition held early this year at
New Hampshire avenue extended
and University lane.
Thirty Buildings Shifted.
Thirty other buildings which were
on display at the exposition now
are being dismantled and trans
ferred to Sligo Creek Parkway in
Silver Spring where they will furnish
96 of the 125 veterans housing units
for Montgomery County. Every
thing that could be employed for
the purpose, including a library and
schoolhouse, is being shifted to
meet the housing need, but the %
items remaining and now offered
for sale cannot conceivably be
adapted to house or apartment use
that is unless one could live in a
corn crib, one of the structures on
sale.
To get an early offer in for these
offerings one has to have priorities.
A Government agency, for example,
will have top consideration. Next,
in order, are State or local govern
ment units, nonprofit organizations
and war veterans. If no takers are
forthcoming from any of these
categories, then the public gets its
chance
The law says veterans who pur-
chase surplus properties must use
them for owner-operated small busi-
ness or commercial purposes.
Clearing Away Process.
This does not mean in the case
Of the church, however, that the
veteran who has $400 in his pocket
must be an ex-chaplain now return
ing to the civilian pulpit, the FPHA
explains. Purchasers will be required
to dismantle the structures they
buy, clear off the tract and what
they do with them after they haul
them away is their own affair.
In the case Of most of the struc-
lures, the clearing-away process
will be a simple matter, but the
person who pays $3.50 for the air.
plane hangar had better bring
compressed air drill along with him,
for the building covers $40 square
feet of concrete. Only a few of the
other buildings stand on concrete
foundations, however, as wooden
pilings are most commonly en-
ployed.
The FPHA has established prices
for each item offered for sale. The
sale prices conform to OPA ceilings
and take into account the possible
salvage value to the new owner and
the expense to which he will be put
for dismantling, labor and trans
portation.
From SO to $1,000.
Prices range from $40, asked for
a children's playhouse $50 square
feet), to $1,000 for the modernistic
administration building containing
1852 square feet of floor space.
A garage and repair shop of 300
square feet is offered for 5000 and
a prospective gasoline service station
operator may purchase a ready-made
structure containing 230 square feet
for $100. Other examples of prices
asked are $50 for the corn crib con-
tanning $50 square feet (no cubical
content quoted, $25 for the ''hog-
house" Of 108 square feet and $3.50
for roadside market of $40 square
feet.
The list Of items also includes a
one-car garage, implement shed, hay
storage building, beef cattle shed,
poultry range shelter, poultry house,
brooder house, barn, milk house,
roadside stand, tourist camp office,
refreshment stand and a park
shelter.
All of the structures are of frame
and wood shingle construction.
Priority holders may submit offers
and obtain further particulars at
room 408 of the FPHA in the Long
fellow Building until May "a, after
which date the property will be
advertised for competitive bids on
the open market. Oliver c. Winston,
director, general field office, is in
charge of disposing of the property.
The tract on which the buildings
stand contains 20 acres but the units
being transferred to Sligo Creek
Park could not remain there because
the site has no sewer or other utility
facilities. Montgomery County is
providing these facilities at the new
location and the FPHA is transport
ing and erecting the structures to
be used by veterans and their
families.