Big Deals Under Way in Washington Realty Market
Real estate activity heats up as whispers of at least three large apartment house deals circulate in Northwest suburbs and Virginia side areas. Money market loosening but still tight in Washington. few properties vacant, strong renter demand, and ongoing construction of apartment buildings.
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Chevy Chase
Virginia
Old Dominion
Falls Church
Washington
Ift
Civil Service
New Bureau of Standards laboratory planned on Pierce Mil Road
The Bureau of Standards plans a large electric or chemical laboratory on Pierce Mil Road, adjacent to its current facilities. Architects Wood Penn & Deming designed a three story brick building with an attic, 195 by 60 feet, fireproof construction, and brick interiors. Congress appropriated 175000 dollars for construction, aiming for a premier facility.
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Bureau of Standards
Pierce, Mil
Pierce Mil Road
Bureau
Wood, Penn & Deming
Congress
Physical Laboratory
Connecticut Avenue
Carnegie Institution
Woed, Denn & Deming
Auction sales this week list several properties
Auction sales schedule spans Monday August 10 to Friday August 14 listing frame dwellings at 506 Sixth and 485 and 018 Ft street southwest, two unimproved lots between D E and Ninth Tenth streets, improved business real estate at Pennsylvania avenues and Rock Creek, frame dwelling and store at 652 p.m, two story brick building on 8 street northwest, residence at Gondalt road and W street northwest with times ranging 4 30 to 5 p.m.
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At & Bom
Sixth Street
Ninth
Tenth
Pennsylvania Avenues
Rock Creek
Gondalt Road
White Star Line Moves To Build Large Southampton Dry Dock
London August 8 The White Star Steam Ship Company seeks a vast dry dock at Southampton through talks with the London and Southwestern Railway Company. The facility would service liners about 100 feet long, tied to Belfast shipbuilding for two near-size steamers for White Star.
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London
White Star Steamship Company
London and Southwestern Railway Company
Southampton
Belfast
Winte Star Company
Apartment House Sold on Twelfth Northwest Block
The Alamo apartment house in Twelfth northwest between Ms and N was sold through Moore & Hal to a local businessman, price around 375000. Built by Harry Wardman and completed since the first of the year, the four story building holds 24 baths-equipped apartments and sits on a 60 by 84 foot lot to an alley. The buyer plans to spend about 3000 on a Rhode Island avenue 10-room dwelling to enhance the neighborhood. Investors, including bankers, see national real estate investment appeal in the capital due to stable values and enduring local demand.
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Washington
Afteen
Moving-Picture Theater
Joe Travis
Baltimore
Brown & Bawn Amusement Company
Poperties
Questin
Penns
Thomas J Fisher Company
iMbie Pie
Amusement Company
Uacer
Daniel Clark
Georg Lemen
Ghiansh
EC Anime
Nantucket
Daniel ‘Igihe
Wardipan
Hers Woolfiman
Gosteen
Ark
AH Beers
Plinster
Warden
Kudu
Hunter Ami i
Triv
Wey
Thomas J Fisher & Co
Philp
Russel
Hinds
Massachusetts
Fisher & Co
Darig
Bo Howell
Fisher Campany
Lee
Truss
Tar Saive Fom
Noarse
Bik
A. M. Cooper
Sfleenth Street
Rhode Island Avenue
Ones
Alamo
Twelfth Northwest
Moore & Hal, Incorporated
Harry Wardman
Ing
Scott,cirere
Moose & Hull
Tennis Club to Move as Epiphany Church Rises on M Street
The Bachelors’ Lawn Tennis Club plans to relocate after fifteen years on M street as Epiphany Church Home progresses. The group weighs new sites near the city center, with a preferred option north of the Dean place offering about 6,000 square feet for eight to ten courts. A bond plan may fund the purchase, and access via Capital Traction and Washington Railway is noted.
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M Street
Epiphany Church
Connecticut Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Bachelors’ Lawn Tennis Club
Oiphany Church
H Street
Auditorium Company
Tenyis” Elu
Bachelors’ Club
Dean Place
Nineteenth Street
Lmit
Baltimore Country Club
Washington Railway and Electric
Treasury Pillar Imperfections Halt Monolith Placement
Officials find markings running through three Vermont quarry granite monoliths destined for the Treasury front. A Vermont quarry agent reports to determine if the flaw runs through the bed. Dr. Merrill of the geological survey will examine the marks to assess structural implications. Only one monolith is in place. others lie nearby or in transit as work continues with careful rigging.
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Vermort
Treasury Department
Washington
Vermont
Treasury
Merrill
George P.merril
Geological Survey
Gkili
Department
Stone Company
Washinngton
Architecture and Bruen Home Children Reflect Era Values
The piece argues that modern architecture suffers next to ancient styles if judged by today’s public sentiment. It notes Bruen Home at 3300 O Street caring for 120 children under Superintendent Mrs. Fleck, funded by donors and guardians, with board varying by need and a shared commitment to care and education.
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Greece
O Street
Waggamen Place
Gika Echo
Two New Residences Near Dupont Circle
Ground valued area offers two new, modern homes with reinforced steel, electric lights, parquet floors, hot water heat. Eleven rooms across three stories, large kitchen and dining, six bedrooms, two baths, 22x133 lot, priced at 11000 due to ground value and builder buying power. Inspect now. only two remain amid a rush of new costly houses near Dupont Circle.
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Ith
Cleveland Park
Connecticut Avenue
Columbia Heights
Wth
Mth Sts
Irving
Luxurious West of New Hampshire Avenue Residence Ad
Elegant four story red brick brownstone home with brownstone trim on a premier street. Lot features unusually wide 26 foot frontage, 19 rooms, four stories, two baths, cellar beneath, ample space, and high value. agent touts this as one of the best bargains among current listings.
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New Hampshire Avenue
FOR EXCHANGE Apartment Building Trade Offers in Heights and Downtown
A sequence of exchange notices offers properties for trade including a fireproof one story apartment near 1th and K streets NW rented at about 13000 and a block of 200000 square feet east of 13th Street on the Heights at 150 per square foot trade value. Also 520000 square feet west of llth Street north of Columbia Road and south of Park Road traded at 60 cents per square foot for houses or apartments. Opportunities include a nine story apartment north of Columbia Road 11th Street rented at 5700 monthly trade at 69000 and a splendid business corner off lith Street near F and H streets asking 75000.
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K Streets
Exchange Department
13Th Street
the Heights
Fairmont Street
Llth Street
Columbia Road
Park Road
Hill Street
Fox
Washington Heights
Connecticut Avenue
Sth
Massachusetts Avenue
R Street
Columbia Read
11Th Street
Lith Street
H Street
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Prospect
Tradex
Wardman
Tuaishert
Oak View
Cleveling Park
Grover Cleveland
Pariraume
Thomas J. Fisher Companies
Wosconsin Avenue
Mt. Wilcox
Itmaigo Seld
Lewis
Patterson Street
George J. Whitford
Newlands Street
Whitford
W. T. Domson
Kirke Street
Post
Down & Deming
Pierce Mill Road
Twelfth Street
Tennis Club
Martinsburg. We Va
Frank P. Milburn & Cow Archi
Twin Oakes
Gardiner Hubbard
Kent Roberts
Irving Street
N. W
Best, O’br Sole ‘Agents
IEN & CQ
Cine
G'N.w
Bruen Eome
Dupont Circle
Tor Sale
Léthst
Ashington Heights
Uis House
14Th .T
Maryland
Thos. J. Fisher & Co., Inc
15Th St
Chery Chase
D. C
Chevy Chase, D.C
Connecticut
Northampton
Thos. J. Fisher & Co. (Inc
45Th St
Maryon
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