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REAL ESTATE
Home-Owning and Building Section for Washington and Suburbs
CONSTRUCTION PROFITEERING'
CHARGES WILL BE PROBED
Industrial Leaders, at Youngstown Con
ference, Will Seek to Learn If Home
Builder Is Exploited.
The construction industry of the
country is in revolt against charges of
“profiteering” leveled now and again
at it by the public.
Leaders in the construction field are
completing plans to place the industry
on “trial” at a great gathering at
Youngstown. Ohio, February 11-14 of
delegates from agencies interested or
related to the industry, it is announced
by the National Association of Builders’
Exchanges at its headquarters here.
If any serious charges against any
elements in the industry are found
true, leaders of the industry propose to
take steps to “clean their own house.”
And if charges are found not warrant
ed. then public information ought to
be made available so as to discredit and
quiet accusing public gossip, the ex
change headquarters declares.
Exploiting Repeatedly Charged.
“Conspiracy within the construction j
industry to exploit the home builder j
and the home owner is the charge in j
an indictment repeatedly returned by j
the public,” the announcement of the !
association states.
“The construction industry, which
prospers only when building is active,
is charged with profiteering, and, after
that, with all the crimes in the cate
gory—collusion in bidding, cheating on
materials, agreeing on prices, brigand
age by the device of the ‘cost plus’ con
tract. etc.
“But the charges never go to trial;
the defendants never have their
day in court. Public gossip can be re
futed only by public information.
“Are the charges true? If they are,
then the construction industry must
clean house and reorganize on a basis
that will reflect its economic justifica
tion. If the charges are not true, then
public information ought to b? made
available so as to discredit and quiet
accusing public gossip.
“Determined no longer to rest under
these charges, certain elements in the
construction industry, under the lead
ership of the National Association of
VIRGINIA REALTORS
WILL PUBLISH CODE
Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax
Board to Circulate Book
of Ethics.
Wide publicity is to be given the
realtor code of ethics, as set forth by
the National Association of Real Estate
Boards, and to which all members of
the association must subscribe, by the
Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax Real
Estate Board.
At a recent meeting of the board of
suburban realtors at the Washington
Golf and Country Club, it was decided
to publish a pamphlet listing the ethical
standards of the national association
and its members.
The board also plans to broadcast the
meaning of the word “realtor,” which,
under law, can be applied only to a
member of the national association or
its affiliated boards. It was explained
that many persons take for granted
that a realtor is any one operating
under a real estate license.
Plans for advertising Northern Vir
ginia during the ensuing year also
were discussed and Guy N. Church was
named chairman of a committee on
publicity, to co-operate with Chambers
of Commerce in the territory of the
board.
C. A. Keefer, executive director of the
Northern Virginia Bureau, reported on
activities of the bureau and outlined
plans for 1929. A plan to admit sales
men to associate membership in the
board was adopted.
Washington & Kane of Alexandria,
and C. W. Clever of Clarendon were
admitted to membership.
ALLISON APARTMENT
SOLD TO WARDMAN
W. P. Cullinane Secures Seven
Dwellings in Transaction
Involving Trade.
The Allison Apartments, 4425 Four
teenth street, has been acquired by
the Wardman Corporation from Wil
liam P. Cullinane, in a transaction in
volving the exchange of other property,
It was announced today.
The Allison Apartments, which con
tains 30 apartment units, and on which
a value of $200,000 was placed in the
transaction, was purchased by the
Wardman company, which gave as
part payment seven dwelling properties I
on which a value of SIOO,OOO was placed. *
it is reported.
>3lr. Cullinane was represented by the
ojjce of C. W. Simpson in the trans
p/.ion, with Harry Wardman and
r homas P. Bones of the Wardman of
fice.
Candy Consumption.
The United States is the greatest
candy manufacturing and at the same
time the neatest candy consuming
country in the world. The consumption
of candy in the United States has
reached 11.84 pounds per capita, and
seems to be increasing. Nevada comes
first, with a per capita consumption of
17.44 pounds, while Squth Carolina is
lowest in the list with a total of only
4.61 pounds per person. New York
leads all the States in the manufacture
of candy, having a normal production
rating of $100.000,000 a year.
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Colonial Brick Homes /
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WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Builders’ Exchanges, propose to force a
' hearing on them. They are insisting on
a trial that will develop the facts and
a verdict based on those facts.”
Purposes Are Threefold.
“The purpose of this national confer
ence in Youngstown,” according to Rob
ert. L. Reisinger, president of the Na
tional Association of Builders’ Ex
changes. “is to discover, first, if all ele
ments of the construction industry are
willing to submit to a thorough and
impartial investigation of their services
and charges; second, how the investiga
tion shall proceed and by whom it shall
be made, and, third, hew the results of
such an investigation best can be made
public property.”
Earl F. Stokes, executive secretary of
the association, today stated he had
received word from most of the affected
national organizations that they would
have a representative at the Youngs
| town conference.
j The following organizations have
I been invited to participate:
American Bankers' Association, Amer
ican Construction Council, American
Engineering Council, Associated Gen
eral Contractors, American Institute of
Architects, American Institute of Steel
Construction. American Paint and Var
nish Manufacturers, Contracting Plas
ters' Association, the Division of Build
ing and Housing of the United States
Department of Commerce, the Hollow
Building Tile Association, Tile and
Mantel Contractors’ Association, United
States League of Local Building and
Loan Associations, United States Cham
ber of Commerce, and the following na
tional associations:
Building Owners and Managers, Build
ing Trades Employers’ Association,
Building Supply Dealers, Lumber Man
ufacturers, Common Brick Manufac
turers, Master Plumbers, Housing Asso
ciation. Home Modernizing Bureau,
Real Estate Boards. Sheet Metal Con
tractors. Retail Credit Association, and
National Association of Women’s Clubs.
Realty Head Plans
Trips by Airplane
To 633 City Groups
To accomplish contact with the
633 member boards of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards, of
which he has been elected president
for 1929, Harry H. Culver of Culver
City and Los Angeles, Calif., will
make five airplane tours of the
United States and Canada to visit
several hundred cities.
While he is president of the assoc
iation he will “maintain his office in
his airplane,” in order to carry on
, his work as president while on these
extended tours, he has announced.
Mr. Culver at his induction as presi
dent at the annual business meeting
of the association at Birmingham,
Ala., this week, urged realtors of the
Nation to be alive to the growing in
fluence commercial aviation is hav
ing in real estate busines..
The plane, w'hich Mr. Culver has
bought especially for the association
office, is a 6-passepger inclosed
monoplane with 320-horsepower en
gine. Its average speed is from 125
to 150 miles an hour. Lieut. James
B. Dickson, who will be Mr. Culver’s
pilot, was fomerly an Army aviator.
$80,000,000 A YEAR BID
IN FEES TO ARCHITECTS
Waste Is Alleged Through Neglect
and Failure to Apply Sound
Business Methods.
Architects in the United States are,
receiving fees of not less than $80,000,-
000 a year, it is estimated by Edwin
Bergstrom, treasurer of the American
Institute of Architects.
“I have not the slightest doubt,” Mr.
Bergstrom declares, “that more than
10 per cent of this sum is wasted an
nually by the architect in his own
offices through neglect and failure to
apply sound business methods.”
Discussing the architect’s budget, he
calls standardization of architecture an
abomination, but urges standardization
of procedure and accounting of the
business and architecture as very help
ful to success.
"Orderliness in design,” Mr. Berg
strom says, “is axiomatic with the
architect: orderliness in his business
and in his time is not so fixed a
virtue.”
EXPANSION PROGRAM SET.
Two New Service Stations Will Be
Constructed at Once.
The Crew Levick Co., subsidiary of
the Cities Service Co., which on Jan
uary 3 took over the property of the
Republic Oil Co. in Washington, will
start at once an expansion program
with the construction of two new serv
ice stations, one at Rhode Island ave
nue and Newton street and the other
at Benning road and Twenty-fourth
street northeast, it is announced.
John H. Nicholson, head of the
Standard Accessories Co., has been
made special representative of the Crew
Levick Co. here and Gerry Mildon of
Washington, construction engineer.
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Water Front Being Developed.
BALTIMORE, January 26.—A new
water-front development of 340 acres at
Annapolis Roads, on the Chesapeake,
near the mouth of the Severn River,
is being financed by the Munsey Trust
Co. of Washington.
Simplicity and Dignity Mark Colonial Home
Dr. W. N. Sparhawk
Uses Rubble Stone and
Brick for Age Effect.
VIEW OVER VALLEY
IS SEEN FROM REAR
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House of Center Hall De
sign in Keeping With
Architectural Plan.
Homes of Colonial architectural de
sign, or those having authentic Colonial
influence, since the early days of the
Nation have held a prominent place
in the esteem of residents of the East
ern section of the country.
Houses of this style and others of
English or Georgia influence have
proved popular in Washington, where
en.phasis has been placed on dignity
and simplicity in the architecture of
governmental buildings.
One of the newer homes in the Dis- j
trict falling into this catagory is that 1
of Dr. William N. Sparhawk. economist
of the United Siat.es Forest Service,
completed in September, at 3315 Row
land place.
Here is a home of “New England Co
lonial” architectural design which af
fords a vista from the rear over a :
wooded valley, a branch of Klingle Ford
Valley, a part of the proposed extension
of Rock Creek Park.
Rubble Stone and Brick.
The house is a combination of rubble
stone, of gray and iron colors, laid up
in random style for the exterior of the
front portion of the first story, and of
reclaimed brick, also of variegated col
ors, some dark and some Jight in color,
in the second story, which lend variety
to the quiet appeal of the facades.
Use of the reclaimed brick and the
rubble stone work served to give to the
exterior of the house something of the
rustic effect desired, though the build
ing is but a few months old.
Three dormer windows project from
the front side of the roof, while at
either side of the ridge of the roof rises
a brick chimney.
The Colonial entrance is typical in its
design and white furnishing, while
white woodwork serves as the base of
windows in the front wall of the first
story, which have full-length blinds.
Front windows in the second story also
are fitted with -shutters. The garage
is on the ground floor of the wing at the
right of the house, the second story
of which is employed as a part of the
second-floor space. The garage has easy
access from the street.
Center Ilall Design.
The house is of the center hall plan,
in keeping with its architectural design.
To the left of the hall is a living room
14 feet 3 inches wide and running the
full depth of the house, 26 feet 6 inches.
There is a great fireplace with Colonial
wood mantel and black slate hearth
and facings on the exterior wall and a
door opening onto the open porch or
terrace.
The dining room, 14 feet 3 inches by
15 feet, is to the right front. There i»
a fireplace on the side wall, which adds
to the homelike appeal of the room.
Back of this room are the kitchen, 8
feet by II feet; a breakfast room and
space providing for modern kitchen
equipment. Back of the staircase in the
center hall is a toilet and cupboard
space.
On the second floor are four bed
rooms. The master bedroom, at the
right front. 14 feet 3 inches by 15 feet,
connects with a small hall, large bath,
closet of unusual size and two smaller
cupboards, which are provided for in
the space over the garage in a wing
at the right of the building.
There is a second bedroom, 11 feet by
14 feet 3 inches, at the right rear, hav
ing access into the hall and bath in the
right wing.
At the left of the second floor are
two bedrooms, one at the front, 12 feet
by 14 feet 3 inches, which has an ad
joining sewing room, and another at
the rear, 9 feet 6 inches by 14 feet 3
inches. A bath is between the two
rooms, with entrance into each.
On the third floor are two additional
bedrooms and bath, a large cedar closet
and storage space. There is a double
decked porch at the rear of the build
ing.
An open stair hall runs from the first
through the third story, fitted with ma
hogany rail and ivory balusters. The
house is situated on a lot 75 feet by 120
leet. It was built by W. D. Sterrett
from plans by W. R. Lamar.
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DWELLING PLANS 0. K.’D.
Jury of Architects’ Advisory Coun
cil Holds Meeting.
Plans for two dwellings were ap
proved at a recent meeting of a jury
of the Architects’ Advisory Council
consisting of Edward E. Donn, E. B.
Corning and P. C. Adams.
The design of the dwelling for 5411
Chevy Chase Parkway, by John W.
Kearney, and having a cost of $8,500,
and for a dwelling for 4428 Hunt place
northeast, by Lewis W. Giles, costing
$4,000, were approved.
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First offering.
New dignified English type home in exclusive residential com
munity. Six delightful rooms, open fireplace, tiled bath with shower
bronze screens and garage. Unusually large side porch with southern
exposure. Lot completely sodded and attractively landscaped. On
paved street.
THERE IS A REASON FOR THIS AMAZINGLY LOW PRICE!
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REALTY LOAN TOTAL
REACHES $217,737,094
Sum Advanced last Year Exceed
ed by $11,000,000 Similar Bor
rowings in 1927.
Real estate mortgage loans amount
ing to $217,737,094 were advanced in
1928 by the Prudential Insurance Co.
of America, this total being about sll.-
000,000 in excess of similar loans made
by the company during 1927, according
to a statement from the company made
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public here today by the H. L. Rust
Co., local loan correspondents of the
insurance company.
The totai loaned on dwellings and
apartment houses was $164,883,947.
There were 23,155 dwelling loans and
1,346 on apartments, for the accommo
dation of 44,669 families. This sum ex
ceeds by nearly $6,000,000 that loaned
in 1927 for these purposes, when the
total was $159,112,896.
On city properties other than those
used for dwelling purposes the loans for
1928 were $40,085,850, while those for
the same purpose in 1927 were $27,115,-
172, a gain of $12,970,678.
Farm loans decreased during the
year, but whether this was due to a
new prosperity in the agricultural dis
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•'{“OUILDING statistics show that most Warren Management continues to relieve
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conveniences, and freedom from petty tail. to?
§? cares and detail of apartment residence. This explains why it is possible for you
But when a builder erects an apartment to purchase a co-operative apartment Stf
house and sells it (w ith a profit added) to home in Tilden Gardens for a reasonable tv*
an operator, who rents it and in turn sells first payment and monthly payments suh - S?
r&L it (again with a profit added) to an in- stantially less than the rental for such an
Vj vestor, naturally the rentals must be fixed apartment in a similar location and in sim
to pay a handsome profit on the final sell- ilar surroundings.
f v iu£ price. \ou will be pleasantly astonished when
At Tilden Gardens these two steps are you learn the real facts about the many
eliminated, to the profit of the ultimate advantageous features of a co-operative krj
Uj consumer, the tenant-owner. The 5 acres apartment home in Tilden Gardens. Plan
laud comprising Tilden Gardens were today to inspect the model home charming- W
W, purchased at a figure which shows a sub- ly furnished through the courtesy of W. B.
W stantial increase in appraised value even Moses & Sons,* and the other styles and
today. The buildings are built by our own sizes of apartments still available. Permit
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property sold by us direct to the group data about this remarkable new plan of
owners, the actual tenants, at one profit, home ownership.
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tricts was not disclosed in the com
pany's statements.
The company’s total outstanding real
estate mortgage loans, including those
in force as of December 31, amounted
to $975,635,641.26.
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True Nordic School.
AUGUSTA, Ga. OP).—Sticklers for
preserving the pure Anglo-Saxon strain
find a spur to their ambitions in the
D'Antignac Grammar School here.
All of the 400 pupils bear Anglo-Saxcn
names and a high percentage of them
are of the purest Nordic type.
Several new railway lines are being
built in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
THIRTY HOUSES HEAD LIST
OF WEEK'S BUILDING PERMITS
Sixth Presbyterian Cburcb to Erect Stone
and Brick Edifice at 5425 Sixteenth
Street, to Cost SBO,OOO.
Construction of 30 dwellings, a
hurch building and other projects are
provided for in permits Issued this week
>y the building inspector. Col. John W.
Jchmann, the total cost of which was
stimated to be $403,148.
The largest Item in the new list of
vork approved calls for the construction
of 11 three-story brick dwellings, hav
ng a total- estimated cost of $93,500,
at 4101 Q street, 1602-18 Forty-fourth
street and 4400 Greenwich parkway,
in Foxhall Village. Permit was issued
also for the construction of a onp-story
tone and brick church building for the
Sixth Presbyterian Church at 5425 Six
teenth street, having a cost estimated
, at SBO,OOO.
Permits were Lssued as follows:
Boss & Phelps, owners and builders;
J. E. Cooper, architect; to erect eleven
3-storv brick dwellings, 4101 Q street.
1602 to 1618 Forty-fourth street and
4400 Greenwich parkway (lots 218 to
208, square 1351); to cost $93,500.
Boss & Phelps, owners and builders;
to erect nine concrete block garages,
1618 to 1602 Forty-fourth street (lots
209 to 217, square 1351); to cost $2,700. 1
New Church Gets Permit.
Sixth Presbyterian Church, owner;
Joseph Younger, architect: J. L. Par
sons, builder; to erect one 1-story stone
and brick church, 5425 Sixteenth street
(lots 17 and 18, square 2719); to cost
SBO,OOO.
Charles D. Sager, owner and builder:
George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect
six 2-story brick dwellings, 2403 to 2413
E street northeast (lots 2 to 7, square
4522); to cost $30,000.
W. C. & A. N. Miller, owners and
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Massachusetts
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The Triangle of Increasing Values
—between Massachusetts and Connecticut Avenues and
Woodley Road. Over 250 homes built and under construc
tion. Actual improvements and home values exceed
$10,500,000. Wooded villa sites, lots, central and side hall
homes, with lots from 75 to 300 feet front.
Call for Literature and List of Over 300 Purchasers
Middaugh & Shannon, Inc.
ESTABLISHED 1899
1435 K St. N.W. Main 8685
HOME & CARDEN
builders: Gordon E. Mac Neil. architect;
to erect one 2-story frame dwelling.
4831 Indian lane (lot 5, square 1517);
to cost $22,500.
Allan J. McLaughlin, owner; H. W.
Peaslee, architect; A. C. Warthen Sons,
builders; to erect one 2* 2 -story cinder
block and stucco dwelling, 2510 Upton
street (parcels 58-158 and 58-157, square
2239'; to cost SIB,OOO.
L. E. Breuninger & Sons, owners and
builders: H. L. Breuninger, architect;
to erect one 2-story brick dwelling. 1341
Hemlock street (lot 26, square W-2774);
to cost SIO,OOO.
The Smoot Sand & Gravel Corpora
tion. owner: to erect one 2-story con
crete storage bin, rear 3020 K street
(lot 802, square 1173); to cost $60,000.
M. Ehrhardt, owner; A. B. Mullett &
Co., architects: Warren Spencer, build
er; to erect two 1-story brick additions,
1726 Columbia road (lot 51, square
2565); to cost $7,500.
George E. Pruett, owner and builder;
G. Raymond Pruett, designer; to erect
one 2 1 2-story brick dwelling, 4514
Forty-ninth street (lots 27 and 28,
square 1496); to cost $7,500.
Plan Grocery Store.
Sanitary Grocery Co., owners; Warren
Spencer, designer and builder; to erect
one 1-story brick store. 826 Upshur
street (lot 50, square 3025); to cost
$6,500.
W. C. & A. N. Miller, owners and
builders; Gordon E. Mac Neil, architect;
to erect one 3-story brick and frame
dwelling, 4355 Klingle street < lots 1 and
2, square 1625); to cost $12,248.
W. C. & A. N. Miller, owners and
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