Building Activity Soars Despite Winter Weather
District builders report record activity with many bids and contracts in progress. Architects revise bids on the Owen office building at 0 F street and the H W Howard apartment house near Eastern Market. Also planned are three pair two story dwellings on Georgia Avenue and a three story Aged Man's Home on Fourteenth Street extended. Fort Reno garage project and Oliver Products store bids underway while a Hamilton monument committee forms and funds are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Hoffmans
H. W. Howard
Real estate sales and new building permits in Washington
The Iikley apartments on U street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth sold to O T Martin for around 45 000 as an investment with annual rents about 4600. Permits issued for a Columbia Hotel Company twelve story steel brick hotel on Twelfth and Pennsylvania and several brick stores and dwellings across downtown districts. Plans show four story stores and apartments for 933 T street northwest and bottling works on Tenth street southeast with cost estimates from 800 000 to 100 000. Construction will include new sewers on Fourteenth Street and a home for the aged costing about 100 000 and two two story brick dwellings at Rhode Island avenue northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Mattern Hag
Hunter & Bell
D. B. Nichol
Georgia Avenue
Arthur B. Heaton
Dickson Estate
Teenth Street
Boyle Robertson Construction Company
Oliver Products Company
Atore and Fattery
Thirteenth Street
F. G. Pierson
W. J. Simmons
Washington Amusement Hall
David McCarraher
Pulider
Alexander Hamilton
Congress
Louis A. Alexander
Francis S. Lane
Pittieth Street
Maple Street
Stone & Walrfax
Iikley
U Street
Thirteenth
Fourteenth Streets
O. T. Martin
Altean Apartments
Harry Cheney
Columbia Hotel Company
Satons Steel
Twelfth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
H. J. Hardenberah
George A. Fuller
John G. Slater
Seventh Street
W.T. Jett
W. T. Shane
Third Street
William P. Shane
F Street
Henryh. Mlazen
T Street
Fourteenth Street
O and F Streets
Morrison Street
Connecticut Avenue
Bottling Works
BE. Webb
Tenth Street
Herrmann Bottling Works
C Street
Eigh Ninth Street
Joseph M. Camnody
H. E. van Horn
Arthur B. Teaton
Washington Loan and Trust Company
No. Binneon
Rhode Island Avenue
Real estate trade climbs as Cavendish sale tops $200000
Week of activity shows a 90 percent rise from the prior period with 133 transactions and a 16 percent year on year gain. The year’s first large deal is the Cavendish apartments sale near Columbia road and Messmore place for about $200,000 to Albert C. Reinhold, with Harry Wardman involved in related holdings. Moses Goldenberg purchases additional property at Seventh and K streets near his store, while suburban sales stay light with 38 lots sold outside the city core.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavendish
Albert C. Reinhold
Moses Goldenberg
Ilness
Harry Wardman
Columbia Road
Messmore Place
Wardman
High View
Lincoln Avenue
U and V Streets
Moore & Barbour
Mr. Wardman
Thomas P. Bones
Seventh
K Ostreet
Ninth
Louis Auerbach
Plan Costly Apartments on Connecticut Avenue Sale
Million dollars will be spent on a new one thousand thousand dollar apartment house in upper Connecticut avenue if negotiations succeed. Drawings are complete and exhibited by a local financier. Half the required funds in Washington would secure the project with an option on a nearby site near the Connecticut avenue bridge. The building promises a new Washington design combining European architecture with a metropolitan hotel feel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper- Connecticut Avenue
Washington
Connecticut Avenue
Connecticut Avenue Bridge
Washington Financial
Activity in Chevy Chase sales rise for early summer occupancy
Fisher Co reports multiple transactions in Chevy Chase real estate. Purchasers plan immediate building to have homes ready for occupancy by early summer. Notable sales include a 69 foot lot on Kanawha Street with West starting plans for a home and a 60 foot frontage on Kanawha Street bought by Mary W. Whandler for investment. In Section 4 Fisher Co sold 100 feet on Meadow Lane to Annabel O Page near the new Columbia Country Club overlooking Connecticut Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chevy Chase
Ofice
Thomas J. Fisher. & Co
Nattles
Kanawha
Kevy’ Chase Heights
West
Nother
Mary W. Whandler
Fisher Company
Meadow Lane
Annabel O. Page
New Columbia Country Club
Connecticut Avenue
Market Loan Totals Soar With 575000 Week Highs
Great activity in the loan market last week with total loans reaching 910,748.52, the strongest week since early December. 164 lots were pledged to secure repayment, average interest 5 percent, down from early January and returning to last fall levels. New loans dominated week, 443,565.40 in new lending, deferred notes 91,683.12, building society advances 40,500. Regional totals include Northwest 286,012.92 and county owners 226,685.60, plus area splits: Northeast 36,450, Southeast 17,90, Southwest 8,700. Post Want Ads are free in The Post classifieds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
Joana
Northeast
Five Realty Deals Made by Boss & Phelps Inc
Boss and Phelps Inc announced five recent sales. Henry Sheely’s large brick building at Eleventh and V streets and a rear brick stable were sold to a local businessman. 27 Lamont Street residence sold to a government official. 1006 Eighth Street sold to Dennis Hickling. 1229 3rd Street brick residence sold to H. J. Maddn e g l y. 393 New Hampshire Avenue brick residence sold to John H. Lakin for occupancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Matdnegly
George W. Cook
New Hampshire Avenue
John H. Lakin
Business Building Leased At Thirteenth And F Streets
Joseph Schenker will remodel the northwest corner building at Thirteenth and F streets NW. A ten year lease at 5600 annually. over 8000 in improvements. The Louvre manager to occupy after renovations with a women garment shop planned for March 1. R J Beall Construction Co doing the work. Julius Wenig the architect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Schenker
Thirteenth
F Streets
Thirteenth and
F Street
Louvre
Schenker
R. J. Beall Construction Company
Julius Wenig
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. P. Clark, Jr
Owen
H. Willett
Flint Street
Florida Avenue
Winfield Preston
E. ‘. Vrooman
Fourteenth
Hamilton
Distet
Fort Rkone
Architects
Wood, Dong & Deming
Tleley
Buffalo Capitalist
Harris-Ewing
Mary R. Wilcox
Corcoran Street
Archer M. Hazard
Darby Printing Company
Capt. Mulligan
Sixteenth
R Streets
Oki
Realty Trade
Harris Ewing
United States Supreme Court
William van Devanter
Power
Catholic University
Tarris Ewing
Woodbury
Ye FB
Fisher & Co
1St and
R”sts
Florida
Wake Capital Traction
Thos. J. Fisher & Co., Inc
15Th Street
N. W
Boss & Phelps Report
Aviva
Park Road
H. R. Howenstein CO
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