21 SNOWS COURT NW

This is one of a cluster of three row houses built by E. Pitcher for Eugene Bettes in 1888. No. 21 is a two story brick row house with a door on its left side that opens onto a courtyard it shares with No. 22. Its right side has no fenestration. It has simple brick arches over the windows, but a more elaborate bracketed cornice along the front of the house.

The Foggy Bottom Association succeeded the Foggy Bottom Restoration Association, founded in March 1955, at 21 Snows Court. By the mid-1950s, the industries that made Foggy Bottom foggy had shut down and the area became attractive to new development. The new development would either demolish or renovate the historic row houses, many of which were substandard. Either way, the remaining low-income residents, mostly African American, would be displaced. The FBRA fought for the preservation of the historic houses and blocked the enforcement of the City's ban on alley dwellings. Some of the historic neighborhood survived, but citizens were not able to prevent the construction of several new high-rise apartment buildings.

Paul Flint, was the "past president of the Foggy Bottom Restoration Association."
The renovated house has three beds, one bath and about 1,000 sq.ft. One of the bedrooms is only 9 ft. x 7 ft.