
14 (previously 2448) SNOWS COURT NW
YEAR BUILT:
1884
HISTORY
The facade of this two story house has an unusual placement of windows. The upper level double hung window is centered. The cluster of houses at 8-20 Snows Court were designed and built in 1884 by Oliver Cox for developer Edwin Greer. Nos. 10-20 are simple two story rowhouses, with doors at ground level. The buildings end without a cornice. The houses were renumbered in the 1950s. This house was extensively updated in 2003, but features original brick walls and hardwood beams.
RESIDENT(S)/ OWNER(S)
1935 - John Van Horn (colored), age 42, suffered a fractured skull when a heavy boiler he was installing broke from its fastenings and fell on him. 2431 I St. resident Thomas Brooks (colored), age 26, was also injured in the accident, suffering a crushed foot. (Washington Herald, Aug. 8, 1935, p. 17)
1958 - Elinor Goodspeed
RECOLLECTIONS
SOURCE MATERIAL
A History Project, FB Historic District Walking Tour. "Snows Court Row Houses ." https://theclio.com/tour/2098/6
Foggy Bottom Association News, Feb. 1961;
Rhea Radin, "From the Bottom Up," Foggy Bottom News, June 1959; and June 1958
George Beveridge, "City's Foggy Bottom See Test Ground of Urban Renewal," Evening Star, Oct. 23, 1955;
EHT Traceries, historic area building survey, Nov. 1983
