Gothic All Souls Church to Rise Beside Scottish Rite Temple
All Souls Church plans call for a pure Gothic white stone building with a tall central tower adjoining the Scottish Rite Temple on Sixteenth Street NW. The new parish includes the church proper and the Edward Everett Hale Memorial Parish House, fronting 140 feet with a 196 foot depth, an open cloister garden, and a rear hall with stage and mezzanine balcony. Construction budget around 180000, funded by old church sale projected at 120000, with bids from Norcross Bros. and others and plans by Wood Down Demtia architects. The design prioritizes interior and exterior Gothic unity and features an open timber ceiling in the church auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixteenth Street
Church Proper
Edward Everett Hale
Streets
Fourteenth and I Streets
James A Sample
Wood Down & Dem Tia
Norcross Broa
Edward Everett Hale Memorial
Bilding
All Souls Church
Washington
Unitarian
American Lnitarian Association of
Boston
Harry A Willard
Unitarian Organizule
Tsaac PoMurn
West Virginia
Durham Bank Builds Fireproof Eight-Story Office Block
First National Bank of Durham NC selects Milburn Holster & Me as architects to prepare plans for a $9000 bank building to be erected in Durham. George A. Fuller Company awarded the construction contract. The eight story structure will be fireproof with modern improvements and a typical banking design.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
Bankera
Washington
United States
First National Bank of
Milburn Holster & Me
George A. Fuller Company
Bank and Mico
Bond issues and trust recordings dominate week’s finance
Chesapeake and Potomac Steamship Company issues a 100000 bond repayable in 1911 securing the bonds with all property conveyed to Continental Trust. A parallel deal records a 2000 trust on property owned by John Thaley and Willoughby S Chesley on New York avenue near Fourteenth Street. Funds were advanced by Lewis E B Smo and are repayable in five years with interest at 8 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesapeake and Potomac
Continental Trust
Chesapeake and Potomac Steam
Continental Trust Commans
John Thaley
Willoughby S Chesley
New York Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Lewis Ebsmo
Prof Gore Buys Halstead Residence
Prof James H Gore formerly of George Washington University recently purchased the residence at 2208 Massachusetts avenue northwest the property of Aone Haland. The three story brick home has fifteen large rooms and is described as one of the most attractive and commodious on Massachusetts avenue in first class condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gore
Halstead
James H Gore
George Washington University
Massachusetts Avenue
Aone Haland
Reed Hospital Addition Bids Sought for Walter Reed General
Contractors and builders are invited to bid for an addition to Walter Reed Army General Hospital in Georgia. The two story brick structure with limestone trim and tin roof will include wards for the insane, sick wards, dormitories, kitchens, mess room, and double deck outdoor sleeping porches. Estimated cost is £10,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Reed Army General Hospital
Georgia Ary 1
Building Plans Boom Five Apartments in the List
Architect plans list multiple apartment projects across Champlain Belmont and Sixth Street corridors with costs from 5,000 to 100,000. New Navy Yard warehouse slated for brick fireproof construction at about 100,000, plus two-story residences at Bradley Heights and Mt Pleasant Street with costs around 4,000 to 8,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Yard
Navy
Gregg & Leisenring
Mt Pleasant Siest
Plans for Limestone Faced Liberty Baptist Church
Liberty Baptist Church plans a $25,000 limestone faced edifice at Twenty third and between H and I streets NW. Milburn Helster & Co designed a colonial style building resembling Independence Hall with a steeple over the auditorium, large small pane windows, brick columns, and bronze lamp posts. Interior features include reinforced concrete floors, terra cotta partitions, slag roof, boiler room in the basement, and a movable partition linking the auditorium to Sunday School and other rooms. Building frontage is on Street with depth 109 feet, to be completed by year’s start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twentythird
H and I
Liberty Baptist Church
Milburn Helster & Co
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
MANY REALTY DEALS CLOSED IN FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST
Real estate activity in the first week of August rose 10 percent versus last year. Sales totaled 206 lots and parcels across Wan day to Saturday, with 7 suburbs and 6 near urban lots. Suburban areas led, while the northwest district accounted for 42 lots and the northeast 16, the southeast 3 and other regions.'"
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanday
Maine Maine Monument Planned at Arlington
Arlington National Cemetery will receive a new mausoleum type monument honoring officers and enlisted men who died when the battleship Maine exploded in Habana harbor Cuba on February 15 1898. The circular granite building will be 30 feet by 15 feet with name tablets and ranks on the exterior wall a granite balustrade entrada doors bronze and inscribed inscription above the entrance. The Maine mast will rise from a granite foundation at the center and be visible from afar. The project cost about 50000 dollars with Norcross Bros Co of this city the contractor and work to begin in ten days with completion by November 1 next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington National Cemetery
Habana Harbor
Cuba
Bose
Norcross Bros. Company
Maine
Habana
Novelty Residences Planned by Local Architect
Reginald Wyckliffe Geare sketches five three story brick homes at Twentieth and Ashmead NW. The Spanish style designs include basements with garages and lattice breakfast porches. total cost around 00000, Geare built fourteen similar houses nearby for investment purposes.
Fine Home for Mr Fisher Planned on Wyoming Avenue
Plans by Appleton P Clark jr show a three story residence for A A Fisher on Wyoming avenue between Columbia road and Connecticut avenue northwest. Estimated cost is 1500 dollars with dimensions 37 12 front by 8 feet depth. Brick colonial design with Indiana limestone trim and slate roof features include a large paneled entrance into a spacious living room and sleeping porches on the second floor with five bedrooms overall. Lighting heating and plumbing will use the latest patterns and materials are described as first class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming Avenue
A A. Fisher
Columbia
Connecticut Avenue
Appleton P Clark, Jr
Palais Royal Expands With 42,000 Sq Ft Addition
Abraham Lisner, Palais Royal owner, adds six story brick extension on Eleventh Street between G and H, costing about 100000 dollars. The fireproof building, 60 by 300 feet, will open in about a month with brown stone trim, galvanized iron cornice, era roof, fire sprinkler system and two elevators to meet growing business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bualnesa
Abraham Lisner
Palais Royal
Plhint
Eleventh Street
H Streets
P. J. Gormley Company
Ethics Rules for Realty Men Arbitration Emphasized
Real estate board of New York adopts ethics guiding members to avoid bad faith and courts. Infractions may lead to reprimand or suspension. arbitration encouraged. written consent and owner terms required. no signing without written orders. information sharing restricted. penalties set by the board with possible expulsion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Real Estate Board of New York
Jn N
Board of Governors
Governora
Thia Board
G Office
Williams Buys Three Dwellings On Lamont Street
Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi purchases three houses on Lamont Street near Sherman Avenue from David J Dunigan Asher Hinds, with no price disclosed. Other listings include multiple repairs and new builds across numerous DC addresses, costs ranging from 100 to 15,000 dollars, and various buyers and architects named for projects at 1706 Twenty-first Street NW through 101 W017 Maryland Avenue NE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sharp Williams
Lamont Street
Sherman Avenue
Mississippi
David J Dunigan Asher
Hinds
Maine
Clifbourne Street
Biltmore Place
Charles Hi
J Clarissa Hi
Mabel E Crissey
Twenty-first Street
George Worthington
Natreat Northwest
Carl A
Gladys A. Hellman
Ontario Road
Katharine
Helen L. Summer
Twentieth Street
Frederick de Peyster Foster
B Street
Roberta
Tenth Street
F Lynch
Seventh Street
A B Mullett & Co
SJ Brinckley
John Shugrue
Hi Street
J. 5 Bunch
S J Brackley
J Ward
Eleventh Street Southwest
H S Ward
B E Ward
JH Collins
G_street
Northwest
Washington Gas Light Company
Twenty Sixth
New Hampshire Avenue
John A Magruder
Eighteenth
Lawrence Streets
Heh Clements
Connecticut Avenue
WS Pinger
Ninth Street
wWwoc &A N Miller
Buila
Third Street
Jewell Hotel Plans Complete for 80 000 Project
Jewell Hotel Company has completed plans for a four story and basement hotel near Union Station at 713 715 717 North Capitol street. The $80,000 structure will be fireproof with Spanish style brick Indiana limestone and stucco trim, featuring sixty bedrooms with private baths, a lobby cafe banquet hall and basement bowling alleys. Reinforced concrete will form the frame and the project invites bids from contractors in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewell Company
Union Station
Jewell Hotel Company
C. Edgar Webb
North Capitol Street
Nvlte
Real estate agents urge early home ownership for youth
The National Real Estate Journal argues the public gains from agents persuading young people to buy homes. Ownership helps individuals meet payments, builds frugality, and drives city growth by encouraging investment, taxes, and property development. The practice benefits both buyers and the broader community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Real Estate Journal In Realty
Music and Musicians At Covenant Tent Concerts
Richard FP will back the soloist at Church of the Covenant tent tonight with How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings and The Lord Is My Shepherd. Mr Blanchard presences as precentor with Mrs Hamilton Bayly on piano. Mme Hise Kutscherra the noted singer is engaged for 1914 15 season for a U S Canada tour and California appearances during the Panama Pacific exposition period. Mrs A M Blair praises the W C A Choral Club album after a Canter bury trip. Mise William Gatchell spends August at Waynesville and Francis Macmillen violinist plans an October 1 return to America for another U S Canada tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard FP
Lyddle
Vander Water
Kielne
Blanchard
William Hamilton Bayly
Mme
Hise Kutscherra
United States
Canada
Mme Kutscherra
California
Mise William Gatchell
Waynesville
NCI
Francis Macmillen
Wil
America
Bradley Hills Homes A Real Estate Trust Plan Three Bungalows
The Real Estate Trust Company engages Speiden Speiden to draft plans and specifications for three Bradley Hills bungalow residences. Estimated total cost is 12000 dollars. Buildings measure 48 by 39 feet, two stories, native stone tile roof with shingles dormers and porches. First floor includes dining room living room bath kitchen pantry. attic contains spare rooms storage and servants quarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Real Estate Trust Company
Speiden & Speiden Architects
Bradley Hills
Building Renovations Mentioned In Last Week’s Notice
Finished during last week were a two story and basement brick residence and store at Four and a half street and Virginia avenue southwest for J J Madden by E J DeLacey from plans by Edger Webb at about 800 dollars. A Gaskins and Son remodel house No 406 H street northeast for Thomas Raftery from Jones and Bubb plans, about 5000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Avenue
J J Madden
E J DeLacey
Edger Webb
A Gaskins & Son
H Street
Thomas Raftery
Jones & Bubb
Weekly real estate loans total six eighty six thousand five hundred ten
The week's loan market shows real estate loans of 686 510 50 secured by 168 lots at 57 percent. Straight loans aggregate 6 769. Building associations lent members 2950. Deferred purchase money notes total 2957550. Northwest property leads loan security with 48182. Country property encumbered 7303550. Other city sections records show Northeast 1800 Southeast 33 Southwest 1945.
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Southeast
Will Build Six New Homes on Eleventh Street
Plans by architect Edgar Webb for six new two story homes with basements on Eleventh street and Maryland avenue northeast. William Murphy to construct with brick and limestone trim, slag and slate roof, 21 by 22 foot frontage and depth, about 24000 dollars, finished throughout with hot water heat and electric lighting. Also transfers recorded: Randolph T Warwick home at 187 Park road sold from Harry Wardman to Robert NW Page with a 1400 dollar trust, 13 rooms in Park road house on a 50 by 194 foot lot. Columbia road house has twelve rooms.
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Herbert F Wester
Charles 2 Weser
Champlain Street
Kalorama Road
Talbott
Champlain and
Buiid Streets
Simmons & Saunders
HE Webb
Eleventh Street
Maryland Avenue
William, Murphy
Ninth Street
Julius Wentz
Thomas © Brien
Theodore Michael
New York Avenue
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Tenth
Thomas H Carter
Sixteenth Street
John Dunn
Pouplass Street
Scott
Fifteenth
F Streets
Kessler Berman
Julian James
Twentieth Street
Mary A Reagan
H Street
J Germiller
Henry Wahl
LE ‘Breuninger
Hobart Street
H WS Breuninger
L. E. Breuninger
R F Pettit
Dahlia Street
Alvin J Scott
B Street
John Keady
Thirty Fourth Street
Floyd EF Davis
Seventh
Streets
Wolf Schlosbers
Seventh Street Northwest
IV Rocco
Ninth Atrest Northwest
Ji Harman
Wisconsin Avenue Northwest
M $ Burk
Washington Circle
Margaret C Miller
Thirteenth Street Northwest
John Ready
M Street Northwest
William Murphy
Edgar Webb
Randolph T Warwick
Park Road
Harry Wardman
Robert NW Page
Columbia Road
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All Souls’ Church
Ity
Megin
Woolatha Inn Street
Robert Little
Lincolnshire
England
Nts
Charles Bulfineh
Capitol
Paul Severe
John Quincy Adams
John C Cauthein
Wspaper Radhye
Reed Hospital
J Yrs Powell
Brookvile
B OF Meyers
James 1 Jennings
W E Nichols
George T Santmeyer
Sixth Street
Hast Capitol Street
Sixteenth Street Heights
George T Santmayer
F_Fukier
E Wagar
B F Meyers
Fifth and
Sixth Streets
Liberty Baptist
Arlington
U. S
Geare
Twentieth
Ashmead
Reginald Wyckliffe Geare
Geare Ia
MR. Fisher
Lisner
New York
Steward’s Business
Gregg
Frank C. Steward
Prescient Steward’s Business College
12Th and
Washington, D.C
A. M Blair
Canterbury
Italy
NEW Bradley Hills Homes
Southwest
J. J. Madden
Twelfth
OQ. J. de Moll Company
Saks & Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Potomac
The
Washington Post
Lquther
National Law School
Berlitz School of Languages
Redlci
Emerson Institute
Seiversitien
Navy Pay Corps Diplomatic and Consular Services
Patent Office
Randolph
Crawford
United States College Veterinary Surgeons
US Civil Service Commission
Dept of Agriculture
American Veterinary Association
Eta Courte
Hulbert Young
Ber
C Street
Church St
Strayer
Business
M. Hei
Cassatty Hospital
Tucsos
Marcula S
Lincoln
Washington Business and Civil Service School
Bethool
Wesy Virginia
Berkeley Springs
W.va
Dominion Academy Ideal School
MANLY
Beth Ad
Eeneff
Maraland
Charlotte Hall
St Marys County
Thomas A. M
Randle Highlands
Capitol OF US
Aeta
National Electrical Supply CO
Kok Ave
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