16 (previously 2444) SNOWS COURT NW
Year Built
1884
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D. Vogt, 2022
Documents
History
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 windows have shutters. The buildings end without a cornice. The houses were renumbered in the 1950s.
No. 16 has a lot size of 450 sq. ft. and about 700 sq. ft. of living space for one bed and one bath.
Resident/Owner
1921 - Nellie Mahoney, laundress and William Mahoney, age 7. b. 1914, DC
Recollections
Source Material
FBA History Project, FB Historic District Walking Tour. "Snows Court Row Houses ." https://theclio.com/tour/2098/6
Sumner School Archives, DC, Briggs School student register, 1921-22
Foggy Bottom Association News, Feb. 1961;
Rhea Radin, "From the Bottom Up," Foggy Bottom News, June 1959;
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
15 and 16 Snows Court, Street view (F. Leone, March 2023)
Once alll red brick, the painted facades help define the width of the houses. (D. Vogt, June 2025)