19 (previously 935/938) SNOWS COURT NW

YEAR BUILT:

1884

HISTORY

This house's entrance is on the narrow walkway. 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.

RESIDENT(S)/ OWNER(S)

1958 - James F. Fees, Earl S. Godfrey

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

GALLERY

This row with the entry off the narrow passageway is attached to an outward facing row. (D. Vogt, Dec. 2022)

DOCUMENTS

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