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First Aid
for the
Ailing House
By ROGER B. WHITMAN.
Question: I have a five-story brick
building that I am thinking of cov
ering with cement stucco. What
kind of cement stucco should be
used and where can I get it?
Answer: You can get full informa
tion on stucco from the Portland
Cement Association. 347 Madison
avenue. New York City, and from
the Chicago office at 33 West Grand
avenue. You should, however, put
your job in the hands of a competent
mason. To attempt it yourself or to
have it done by some one who is not
thoroughly familiar with the process
is likely to result in failure and fu
ture repairs.
Dried-Out Shingles.
Question: Our wood-shingled house
has not been painted for 15 years,
and the wood is very dry, besides
being nearly paintless. I have been
told that it should have a coat of
linseed oil before painting. It this
true?
Answer: Wood that has not been
painted in 15 years must be excep
tionally dry, and it would certainly
be advisable to give it a coat of raw
linseed oil. Mix it in the propor
tion of three parts linseed oil and
one part turpentine. Then put on
a coat of aluminum paint of good
quality as a primer. Allow at least
a week between coats. Apply top
quality outside paint for the finish
ing coats.
I recommend brushing on the lin
*eed oil and turpentine and also the
aluminum primer. The finishing
coats can be sprayed on.
Septic Tank Problem.
Question: We have a well at the
rear of our house, and we now wish
to install a septic tank and disposal
field. The ground for this slopes
away from the well. It seems to me
that the well would be safe even if
rather nearer than is customary to
the septic tank, because of the slop
ing ground. Am I right?
Answer: In building your septic
tank and disposal field, you cannot
be too careful in .protecting the well.
Although the surface of the field
may slope away from the well, there
Is the possibility that a slope under
ground may be in the other direc
tion.
You can get good information on
the design and layout of a septic
tank system from one of the very
large mail order houses, and I
recommend that you ask them for
their instructions. These will in
clude all of the necessary details.
This subject is also fairly well
covered in a pamphlet published by
the Government. Write to the
Superintendent of Documents. Wash
ington. inclosing 5 cents in coin and
ask for . Farmers’ Bulletin 1227.
"Sewage of Farm Houses."
Canvas Tent.
Question: What is the best way to
fix the roof of a tent that consists
of canvas material? There is a
hole in the canvas. I should like
to repair it without sewing.
Answer: Lay the canvas face dowm
on a flat surface. Cut a patch of
canvas, coat the patch and the
apace on the tent that it will cover
with rubber cement; the kind used
for patching an inner tube. When
the cement has dried enough to be
strongly tacky, lay the patch in po
sition and force into tight contact
by hammering. A special cement
for this purpose can be had from
most tent dealers.
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Washington Doorways
The doorway of 1600 I street N.W. This old home. a gift to
l the Smithsonian Institution this year from Annie-May Hegeman,
recalls the Washington scene of the Gay Nineties.
By ANNABEL PAXTON.
In the doorway of 1600 I street
N.W. Is to be seen one of the few
remaining masonry documents of
the Rechardsonian period of archi
tecture in Washington. Its detail
and composition are of Romanesque
origin, adapted to a more modern
use in the western world. The door
way is part of an asymetrical com
position forming the lower portion
of the central dominating feature of
the I street facadi, a feature w'hich
extends through the roof cornice.
The door is of massive construc
tion. nearly 5 feet wide and about
8 feet high. There are three hori
zontal panels with raised center sur
faces. and egg and dart mouldings
forming their frame. The massive
door swings on four hand-forged
ornamental strap hinges having a
length nearly equal to the width
of the door itself. The doorknob is
of hammered iron, oval in shape,
of ample size to be firmly grasped
by the hand. The escutcheon, or
key plate, also of iron, is of pierced
... - -.
design and secured by spike-headed
bolts or studs. To the right of the
door and inserted in the heavy
wooden frame is an iron bell-pull.
Just to the left of the door open
ing there is a* small window set In
deep stone jambs with a steep, slop
ing sill. The window opening is
protected by a wrought iron grille
composed of a series of 32 scrolls
arranged in units of four, eight unite
to a section, and four sections. The
design of the grille is executed with
precision, but with the subtle varia
tions found in handcraft. Above the
doorway and the window a glass and
metal marquis shelters the door and
steps, and, with other features of
the design, tie the elements of the
composition together as one unit.
The principal central feature of
the house and the masonry sur
rounding the doorway is built of
hammer dressed red standstone
which, in color and texture, affords
a harmonious contrast with the
rockfaced masonry which forms the
high base of the facade and with the
dull red face brick of the walls above
the base. The lines of the door and
window jambs are softened by gent
ly rounded comers. The design of
the doorway motif is such that the
masonry around and between the
door and window have the effect of
being stone piers having caps which,
in decorative detail and form, are
decidedly Romanesque. Corbels,
bosses and moldings above the door
way are ornamented with the same
type of entweined leaf forms.
The house was built for Lucius
Tuckerman, in 1886. Before the
erection of the Hay-Adams House,
a modem hotel, the Tuckerman
house was separated from the John
Hay House, which had been built
in 1885, only by a garden inclosed in
high brick walls. H. H. Richardson,
a famous architect of Boston, had
designed for Hay a house located on j
Sixteenth street, across from old St. I
John’s Church. At the same time I
he also designed a house, adjoining
the Hay house, on H street, for
Henry Adams. Both Hay and Adams
were literary and political figures of
their day and their homes were the
center of cultural and political life
in Washington. The houses of Hay
and Anams were of a style based
upon the Romanesque developed by
Richardson, an architect who was
seeking to break away from the
mid-Victorian period in which he
had grown up as a youngster.
Richardson's break with the archi
tectural taste of the day had a
profound effect on the development
of architecture in America. Being
a capable and talented architect, he
met with considerable success In
Boston, and elsewhere. As a result
he had many followers and ad
mirers. In 1600 I street one sees a
house of the Richardsonian period
of architecture In America which
was designed by Homblower 6c Mar
shall, architects, contemporary with
Richardson. Without question they
had been inspired by the houses
which he had designed in 1885 foi
Hay and Adams and that of H. H
Warder, on K street, near Sixteenth,
No one who sees the house at 1600
I street can fail to be impressed by
the fact that it must have been de
signed. supervised and built by men
thoroughly versed in the principles
of good construction. Among fea
tures of the house that are worth
observing are the copper comic*
formed by the facing of the built-in
roof gutter, the rain-water leaders
of copper and their ornamental
heads and decorative spiral lines,
the massive brick chimney, and the
architectural treatment of the bay
windows on the Sixteenth street
side. On the I street side a beautifui
and large ginkgo tree, brought from
Japan as a seedling many years ago.
extends its branches well beyond
the garden wall, and to it clings a
tenacious wistaria vine, in the spring
heavy with blossoms and delicate
perfume.
The house, which in January of
this year Annie-May Hegeman, step
daughter of the late Representative
Henry Kirke Porter, who had pur
chased the house in 1907, gave to
the Smithsonian Institution, is now
vacant.
fGARDEN CITYl
ARLINGTON, VA.
B '/* mile* from Key Bridge
on Lee Highway.
Four more new homes now ready
for inspection and others near
ing completion. Cape Cod and
English Cottage design. These
are all-brick construction, slate
roof, screened living oorches.
detached homea on large lots.
Modern and complete In every
resDect.
The trend la toward Arlington
and today’s preference values
are In Garden City.
Prica Ranga From
$6,000 to $7,250
A. E. LANDVOIGT,
917 15th St. N.W.
Ditt. 7686
RepreaenUtivea Phone. C'H. 26i»
LEXINGTON
HEIGHTS
ARLINGTON, VA.
First Showing—A group of
soma forty detached homes
being built in the Washing
ton Country Club Hills sec
tion.
We invite you out to see
something so different in a
home that you would be a
home owner today if you had
ever been offered something
like this.
A Home
That Has
Everything
Built of brick trimmed with
stone. You have never seen so s
much for your money, fi rooms— j
1 bedroom and tiled bath on 1st
floor. 2 bedrooms, tiled bath on
second floor Knotty nine halls. !
open fireplace. THAT KITCHEN
well—you will never want to
leave it—spacious, with burnt
pine breakfast nook openina
onto screened porch. Also that
summer . kitchen In the yard.
Oaras*. raree fenced-in (rounds.
They are so new, individual
and appealing, and for less
than 88,MB on terms. |
Come out to see them and
you will be our neighbors
Sample House Open Daily
to 9:00 P.M.
To Reach: Cross Kev Bridpc,
rteht on Lee. Hiphteav to Jtobert
S. Lee School tabovt i miles).
ri.Pht on Lexington Street tiro
blocks to property.
PRICE & GROGAN
| Owner-Bn H4er
2601 N. Lexington St.
_ _
The Ideal Home for a
Couple or Small Family
Exhibit Home
1951 39th St. N.W.
Surrounded by Government Porks
8 SOLD—Only 4 LEFT
Tli» finest construction nlus indi
vidual design in the true Colonial
motif and many unusual features
assure the soundest value for your
Investment. Everything you have hoped
to attain In a home has been In
cluded—at a nrtce and on terms that
will reduce your rent bill substantially.
Minimum Down Payment—Low
Maintenance Coat
$8,750 $51 %,;•
Other Utual Typer of Financing
Available
Dtsittied bn Arthur L. Anderson
Butlf bv Muhleman and Kavhoe
nut Wisconsin Arc. to Reservoir
Road to Shth St. and north to houses.
OPEN DAILY and SUNDAY
J. WESLEY BUCHANAN
Realtor
1732 K St. N.W. ME. 1143
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Exclusive—Yet Inexpensive
PRESENTING 9 NEW 3-BEDROOM
HOMES—SOME WITH 2 BATHS
$T TEA ||n The PERFECT Community
I jfwU Up where homes are designed for
featuring-exceptionally LI VAB I LITY—Complete, with
&roo^hmr^rn°eS!n0 extras to buy ... A carefully
.‘cr°eened'porches-.u«'chre8d restr'cted community, bounded
"r‘l"pTn"n"enlaces-ne,r- Cn |hree SldeS bV educational
matSc w»teVrUheater~—Uf'u)i 0 " d, government properties
basements — roo m y land- which protect it against COfTI
scaped lots. These are the . , . 3
Iareest homes we have ever merCIOl encroachment,
built In AVondale.
Sensible prices, easily within the
TO REACH: budget of the family of average
I ET SmJT’SUS income, with financing arranged
| over new bruiae to istti through insurance companies,
street, turn utt two block* building associations and trust
to Avondales landscaped . 1
j entrance. COmponiGS.
D. C. DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
! 1512 K strict N.W. District 3830
SIMM ■■■■ Mil HU Mil Min MM I nm Hill HIM IMI lilli UiM UiH Hill lllil ll'» »■»
14 Distinguished New Homes
_ Built by Muhlcman A Kay hoc 3j
Im a Bemti
fully Developed B
Nearby Virginia g
Section
$5,490
$5,590 I
$5,990 J
F. H. A. 1
APPROVED I
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Mtadiw Lan* ■
rh BiUdert who specialise in the constriction of better-class homes hare hr
m all their skill and knowledge. PLUS highest grade materials and equip- ^
KJ «eent. into a low-price nearby Virginia group. You will be amased and n
Zg delighted at the quality of these homes. Beautiful liring room with RJ
5 fireplace. S large bedrooms, model kitchen, tiled bath, full attic, full base- gQ
0 ment, copper plumbing fixtures, air-conditioned oil heat. Space fir recrea- 3
W tion room in basement. M
S Drive overMemorial Bridge and out Lee Boulevard to HILL- 3
IF Straight out on HiUwood Ave. to Meadow Lane, left on Meadow Lane 1 Kj
fa Mock to houses. Watch lonour large sign at Hillwood Ave. and Lea Boulevard. B
1 J. WESLEY BUCHANAN REALTOR
jjj| 1501 Columbia Pik« VIRGINIA OFFICE CH. 1341—OX. 2798 ]§
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QUALITY BUILT
NEW HOMES
*8,750
6 Rooms
2 Baths
Exhibit Horn•
5122 No. Capitol St.
OWEN DAILY AND SUNDAY
TO REACH Out New Hampshire
Are. to Hamilton St., riaht on
Hamilton St to North Capitol
St. and homes.
D. J. DUNIGAN, Inc.
Tawar Bid* Nat. 1265
First Presentation
RUTLEDGE
(a planned community)
Just West of Chevy Chase Circle
at 41st Place and Livingston St.
5430 41st Place N.W.
One of the two remaining homes in this delightful section, where the
homes ore different ond the wide lots ore carefully landscoped both with
shrubbery ond full-grown apple trees, to insure privacy ond beauty.
Six rooms, 2 boths, Ist-floor lavatory; many unusual features.
A trip will well repoy you.
Open All Day Sunday—Week Daye 1 to 9 PM.
Realtor EDWARD R. CARR a,/. m»
Braider 2659 Conn. Ave. Em‘ 53,0
During the hot, humid weother that has re- •
cently been experienced in the city, Kenwood
residents have felt more fortunate than ever
because they live where the elevation is higher,
the temperature lower, and the environment
more unusual and pleasing.
The Kenwood swimming pool, golf course and
! tennis courts have afforded joy to both the
young and old.
You are cordially invited to closely inspect this
outstanding community and to visit our exhibit
home at
710 DORSET AVENUE
Hemes and hemesites sold only to approved purchasers.
Kennedy-Chamberlain Dev. Co.
OFFICE, 50 KENNEDY DRIVE—WIS. 4425
i X)rire out Connecticut Avenue to Chew Chase Circle, west on
Grafton Street, through Somerset to Kenwood, or out Wiscon
sin Avenue to Dorset Avenue, west on Dorset Avenue through
1 Somerset to Kenwood, or out Connecticut or Wisconsin
Avenue to Bredlev Lane and west on Bredlev Lena to Kenwood.
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Delightful Chevy Chase,
New and Outstanding
Just east of Conn. Ave.—a few minutes' walk to
junior and senior high schools—quick, clean
transportation to downtown.
Regency Homes
I 5238 Nebraska Avenue
6 Rms.—2 B.—Recreation Rm.—Garage
i Southern exposure, a tew squares from Rock Creek Pork; 3 large bed
, rooms, two colored tiled baths, knotty pine recreation room with bar
and built-in bookcases; model kitchen with every conceivable con
venience; air conditioned <gos fired); screened, weather stripped, 1
caulked and insulated for economy.
Popular Prices—Trades Invited
Open Daily and Sunday Until 9 P.M.
L. T. Gravatte
729 15th St. N.W. Realtor NAtiaiel 0753
MUST
BE SOLD
4 BEDROOM, CENTER HALL
Owner will uerllen H wll Mn,
6507 Ridgewood Ave.
Chavy Chase, Md.
Brand-new condition, detached
brick, 4 bedrooms and maid's
room, 3 baths: garage, yard,
many large trees.
Opan Saturday and Sunday
OWNER
H 1C H WOOD
CHIVY CHAU,
A Community of Fine Detached Hornet n
PP’JM’IJT- * □Bia
A
LOCATION
HARD
TO BEAT!
42nd Street
at
Wisconsin Ave. N.W.
Right in the heart of EVERY
THING looking across a nark to
Wisconsin Ave. Stores, schools and
transportation at your door SUPER
QUALITY homes that outclass any
you have ever seen In their price
range.
*8,950 »■>
Attention, Doctor or
Dentist!
Featuring an end home with
haaement office ideally suitable
for DOCTOR or DENTIST, with
A rooms. * baths, paneled rec
reation room In basement, laun
dry trays, maid's toilet. AIR
CONDITIONED.
Ouf Wiac. Ava. N.W. to
Emory St. anal Homaa
•w<in3Q£a%iS'‘
3309 Stephenson N.W. I
Open Doily ond Sundoy |
Spacious center hall—living room 13x24 Vi opening onto large |
screened porch—unusually equipped kitchen—4 bedrooms lone jf
finished os deni—2 baths on second floor—finished ond heated
j Qft|£—air conditioned. Pretty landscaped lot enclosed with rustic
fence.
Moderately Priced
Other Homes of 3 and 4 Bedrooms
Drive out Connecticut Ate. to Chetv Chase Circle, turn |
right on Western Ate 4 squares to Broad Branch Road j|
turn right l square to Stephenson St., then left to property. jjj
owners 0. F. Mikkelson & Son j
MILTON F. SCHWAB. Sales
.
A BEAUTIFUL 5-BEDROOM HOME IN LYON VILLAGE, VA.
'{ 3160 North 20th Street
* This fine new home contains living ream 14'x25'4", recreation room with open fireplace, mold's bath in basement;
4 bedrooms, 2 baths on 2nd floor and bedroom with half both on 1st floor. Situated on a nicely land
scaped lot, it also has 2-eor detached garage, oir-con ditioned oil heat and is fully screened and insulated.
Copper flashings ond gutters; slate roof. 10-cent bus. Reasonable price and terms.
OPEN FOR INSPECTION DAILY
To Reach: Cross Key Briefer, turn right on Lee Highway. I VftW I KIP
1 i to miles to intersection of Z"th and Highland Streets with L. I 1/14, 1HL.
Lee Highway isust past office of tuon. Inc.): turn left on Ihth . , u ,
street, up the hill to house. 19th & Lee Highwoy Chestnut 7070
Luxurious Town and Country Homes
In Barnaby Woods *
A* Sturdy
Pennsylvania
Dutch
Farm House
i
3269 Worthington St. N.W., Chevy Chose, D. C.
A DAPTED from the rolling Pennsyl- Only Vi block from the bus.
vania countryside. Open Dai|y and Evenings.
It has a beautiful, wide, old-time en- At Chevy Chase Circle turn right on
trance hall. Large first floor den and Western Ave., drive straight to Pine
. _ , hurst Circle, halfway around the circle
lavatory. Recreation room and flag- turn right 0H Worthington St., to
stone terraqs. Maid's room and bath, "OPEN” sign.
Owner Builder
EACH BEDROOM HAS A BATH. Qaildc G. JohnSOtl
An unsuol combination of old-timo Field Off*. en 32nd St.
design and every modern convenience. Bomaby Woods—wOodley 3238
Mr. Boothby oumh Mr. Child
Sales Arents
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