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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 extremely simple rowhouses, lacking any ornamental or architectural design.
The doors are at ground level, and generally lack ornamental features. 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)

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