2400 I STREET NW

1889 - The C&O Canal suffered a major flood - Annie Wesbury and Winnie Costigan held an "entertainment" at this house and raised $5.50 for the flood victims, collected by the Star newspaper (Evening Star, June 18, 1889 p. 1)
1890 - Robert Gibb, stonecutter (City Directory)
1895 - Michael J. Barrett, gov. messenger (City Directory)
1897 - Bernard Shanaban, a young boy messenger was run down by a carriage while riding his bicycle, but not seriously injured (Wash. Post, Jan. 28, p. 3)
1900 - Maichel Baratt, born 1862 in Ireland as was his wife Mary; he worked as a steward in a hotel (1900 Census); the 1900 directory, however, lists him as Michael J. Barrett, working as a messinger.
1908 - McHugh sells house for $1,700 (Evening Star, Aug. 29, p.4)
1910 - Charles Wellner, 40 year old foreman-contractor, and his wife Catherine (white) (1910 Census)
1911 - Baby Claude C. Burwick dies at age six months (Wash. Post, Aug. 18, p. 3)
1914 - Walter Wallace, son Donald. Donald, age 12, made the news when he was "struck from his bicycle by a automobile." The driver of the car took him to the Emergency Room. (Wash. Herald, Sept. 8, 1914, p. 8)
1918 - Arthur Wallace was thrown from his motorcycle when he was hit by a car. He was taken to the Emergency Hospital (Times Herald, Wed. Nov. 20, 1918, p. 7)
1920 - Walter J. Wallace, age 51, identified as a laborer in the 1920 City Directory, but unemployed in the 1920 Census. His wife Cora worked as a clerk for the U.S. government, as did their three boys, aged 15-18. (1920 Census)
1920, Emil Tamagin, manager of the Emerald Athletic Club football team solicits for matches with 110 lb. elevens in the Evening Star (Oct. 26, 1920, p. 22)
1922 - Alan Phillips, age 20, was one of three boys who attempted to hike to NYC to see Babe Ruth in the World Series. They were arrested in Baltimore as runaways, but released and told to return to Washington. (Wash. Herald, Oct. 7, 1922, p. 8)
1926 - Donald (D.K.) Wallace is listed as a detained witness during a raid of a site where there was betting on horse races (Wash. Herald. Dec. 4, 1926, p. 4)
In 1920, Chester M. Wallace was in an accident when a car he was driving collided with a streetcar. He was unhurt (Evening Star, July 20, 1920, p. 26). Seven years later (in 1927), Chester M. Wallace, age 22, a Black and White taxicab driver, was killed in a car accident when his "roadster" was sideswiped and hurled over an embankment outside of Fredericksburg, Va. (Wash. Post, June 1, 1927, p. 2).
1927 - Mae Butler sells the house to Mrs. Malvina Kahn. Lot number 29 in Square 28 in Ethel M. Rutty subdivision of lots. (Deed recorded Aug. 23, 1927)
1932 - Henry I. and Elizabeth K. Coleman, buy the house from Malvina Kahn (Deed recorded Nov. 22, 1932). In the Deed transfers of 1927 and 1932, Henry Coleman is listed as the Notary Public and a close friend of Mae Butler and Malvina Kahn.
1935 - Marie Hicks marries at age 36 (Times Herald, Feb. 26, 1935, p. 16)
1941 - Callie Campfield marries at age 18 (Evening Star, Dec. 7, 1941 p. 69)
1945 - Robert R. Gregory, age 34, marries Virginia L. Lewis, age 23 (Wash. Afro American, June 2, 1945, p. 17) Robert Gregory is identified as a Navy STS (Stewards' Mate )1/C in Census (Herald Times, Dec. 14, 1945, p. 21)
1958 - Arthur Harris is a member of the School Patrol at Briggs-Montgomery Elementary School (FB News April 1958)
1961 - "Richard and John Treanor are keeping bachelor quarters;" Richard is an attorney with Internal Review Service and John is a member of President Kennedy's White House staff. (FB News Feb 1961)
2025 - House is owned by 2400 I St. LLC