Real Estate Boom Shows Large Washington Deals
The Washington market posts major sales as Potomac Realty buys a west side sixteenth street lot from Charles T. Fiske and plans three new residences. Montgomery apartment house at North Capitol and M streets sells for 126000. a 114 Sixteenth Street home sells for 8500 to Mrs Mary F Hoppin. Building permits include a $40000 residence at 2109 Eighteenth Street Northwest. April to May value of structures dips slightly. Census hints at accelerating activity with more homes and business residences planned across Columbia Heights, Gleba Highlands, and surrounding suburbs.
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Eighteenth Street
Washington
Montgomery
Capitol
M Streets
Potomac Realty Company
Sixteenth Street
Charles T. Fiske
Boston
Comany
Massachusetts Avenue
Shellian Circle
King
Stone & Fair- Tin
Girard Steat
Ois Hor
Agm
Kunels Hay
Carmody
Joseph M Carmody
Forth
Fourteenth Street
Columbia Road
George Cooper
Stone & Fairfax
Craig & Evans
Gleba Highlands
Creat Falls
Old Dominion Railway
Maryland
Peachy & Hagner
Local Real Estate Trades Reported on Northwest Areas
The Baker estate at 1739 Nineteenth street NW sells to a private investor. Murray A Cobb handles sale of 1914 Sunderland Place NW for Mrs. Murray Addison on behalf of John L. Warren. James J Lamp ton Company lists multiple Northwest deals including 19th and L streets corner sale to Robert Harrover for 8500 and other parcels at Fourth and L, 174 P Street, 938 Street NW, and 905 8 Street NW with various buyers and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Nineteenth Street
W. Woodward
Murray A. Cobb
Murray Addison
John L. Warren
Sunderland Place
King, Milburn & Coltiere
James J. Lampton Company (Incorporated
Robert Harrover
Charles Davidson
Harrover
P Street
Teu Prof. Randolph
Burks
Dr Looks
William Adams
Boss & Phelps
Property Sells Readily in Washington Real Estate Deals
In recent Washington deals Thomas H Pickford sold the Montgomery apartment house at North Capitol and M streets to Clarence Pettit of Pittsburg for 17000. Earlier Pickford disposed of the Naples apartment house on Nineteenth Street NW for 135,000 and acquired the Hexhall tract of sixty acres in Georgetown in part trade, later selling it for 100,000 to Representative Kerls A Hayes. Pickford’s deals included other exchanges and unimproved ground, with plans to build a large apartment house at Twenty and P streets overlooking Dupont Circle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas H Pickford
Montgomery
North Capitol
M Streets
Clarence Pettit
Pittsburg
Pickford
Naples
Nineteenth Street
Old
Hexhall
Georgetown
Kerls A Hayes
California
Nineteents Street
Pat]cade
M_ streets
Pichfard
Twentieth and
P Streets
Dupont Circle
Forty Years in Shoe Trade Expands Seventh Street Store
Robert Berberich's Sons expands its Seventh Street shoe firm from a nine foot front to a 60 foot frontage and 100 foot depth. The north side addition, designed by Julius Wong, will add 1156 1122 Seventh Street and is expected to finish by June 1. The upgrade increases floor space to about 5750 square feet with elaborate show windows and marble bases to display a larger shoe line.
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Robert Berberich
Seventh Street
Julius Wong
Fim
Nime
Wealy
Julian Wenig
Berberich
Glass Bricks For Beechhurst House And Ceramic Pavement
Plans call for a Beechhurst house built with compressed opalescent glass bricks. Des Moines style small office buildings inspire the material choice. Lyons pavement uses ceramo crystal glass blocks that resist water, cold, and microbes and lay like a checkerboard. Glass water pipes with asphalt coverings in Germany protect against moisture and chemical attack.
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Plang
Beechhurst
Saya Bulding
Des Moines
Iowa
Gaass
Lyons
France
Lt Fe
Germany
Guthrie Hall Country House Near Pine Knot in Virginia
Historic estate near Pine Knot Virginia, designed by Stanford White, has 38 rooms and cement construction. The 332 acre property, near President Roosevelt’s summer residence, was bought by Mrs J Futte of Pennsylvania for 105000, with Grant Parish as broker. The house includes a gym on the attic level, extensive grass and forest land, and a limestone cement exterior and interior.
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Virginia
Pine Knot
Roosevelt
John Burroughs
Ruthrie Hall
Stanford White
Houe
Guthrie Hall
Gibraltar
Usre
Berberich firm plans decor upgrades for fortieth anniversary
The Berberich firm, started in 1888 by Robert Berberich, will expand its store with two window sections separated by five feet and a heavy metal ceiling. A wide archway will connect new and old areas, followed by a grand opening for the 40th anniversary. Current partners are Robert and Joseph A. Berberich, offering Patrician, Le France, Buster Brown, Selz, Burt and Packard shoes, with Washington sole agent for Dr A Reeds cushion-sale shoes and plans to extend Bull & Packard leather lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Berberich
Joseph A. Berberich
Fellowing Shoes
le France
Buster Brown
Selz
Burt & Packard
Washington
Bull & Packard
World’s priciest underground booth at Hudson Terminal leased
A long term lease secures a 1 by 4 by 9 foot glass booth beneath Hudson Terminal’s 95 000 square foot concourse in New York for a cigar stand near Cortlandt and Dey streets. Yearly rent about 7 10 per foot with high foot traffic. Owner A Schulte, operator of a Pulitzer Building entrance store, expects to sell 183 000 cigars or 3 700 boxes, with profits likely only after a quarter million two for five. Booth near ticket office on the runways of travel, facing vast daily crowds. space commands premium as transit improvements lift terminal rents. Main corridor Singer Building will hold six booths with varying prices. a 99 square foot stand rent $1 60.
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Hudson Terminal
New York
Cortlandt Street
Dey Street
Fulton Street
Cigar Stand
Schulte
Pulitzer
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central
Singer
Five Chicago men fund own flats in new apartment bloc
Five Chicago men including James Petit J B Terbell Benjamin Marshall and Charles E Fox subscribe to $100000 to erect a columnar style apartment building. Each will own a flat and cover operating costs with a common valet room on the first floor. The twelve room flats feature a float floor statue holding room for five machines and modern refrigeration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
James Petit
J.B. Terbell
Benjamin Marshall
Charles E. Fox
Rock Island Railroad
Steel ceilings promise fire resistance in buildings
A salesman credits steel ceilings with halting fire spread, citing Minneapolis stairway fire that rose toward the roof but was checked by steel. A new Mexico City opera house, estimated at 8 million dollars, is planned to feature exceptional architecture. Architect Adam Boari, once with Burnham and Hoist, leads the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Mexico City
Adam Boari
Messrs Burnham and
Hoot
Chicago
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Potomac Company
Ehteenth Street
Wien
Wits
Harris Ewing
Thomas H. Pickford
Pennganian
J. C. Jutte
Ces
Will Fay
Union Station
Jessee
A. F.german & Co
G Street
N. W
Cleveland Park
Connecticut Avenue
Moore & Hill, Inc
G St. N. W
Columbia Heights
14Th Street
Washington City
Shepherd
Shannon & Luchs
13Th Street
Cemient
Collins-Guerry Company
Monroe
Sample
Joh. Nolan
Simpson-Sullivan Co., Inc
The
Post
Randolph St
Petworth
H. R. Howenstein Co
F Street
Globe
Highlands
City
Great Falls and Old Dominion
Capital Traction Cd
Hibbs Building
Euclid Street
Washington Heights
Gonnea- Hout Avenue
Capital Traction
F Street N. W
State War and Navy Departments
Carling
24Th Street N.W
Mass
Isabel Flats
St. N. E
Lincoln Park
H.R. Howenstein
St. N.W
Kilbourne St
Pament Bt
Conn Ave
Randle Highlands Caritol
U.S
U Y Company
Sali
Villa Eiteen
Central National Bank
Cecal Bank
Tthst
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