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2409 I STREET NW

Year Built

1909

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D. Vogt, 2022

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History

Nos. 2407-2411 have typical flat-fronts and simple ornamentation, but are distinguished by wide stone lintels accenting the windows and corbelled brick that decorates the dentilled cornices. They are two-stories high and three-bays wide with a flat façade. They are brick in a Flemish bond pattern.

This row was designed in 1909 by A.H. Beers for builder Simon Oppenheimer.

In May 1909, the renters in 2407-11 I Street were all African Americans: Charles Harper, a rigger for a granite company, William J. Davis, a messenger for the War Department; William T. Nolan, a serviceman at an auto supply store; and Jesse White, a cook in a lunch room. All of them had other members of the household who worked as well -- children, lodgers, a sister-in-law (A. Hoagland)

Resident/Owner

1914 - William J Davis
1920 - Virginia Davis, laundress/ William J. government employee and Raymond Davis, age 7, b. 1913, DC
1958 - 1963 (+) Elizabeth Harter
1983 - Charles M. Bruce

Recollections

Source Material 

EHT Traceries historic building survey, 1983
Foggy Bottom News, June 1958
Foggy Bottom News, June 1963, member directory
Boyds City Directory, 1914
FBA History Project, "Working-Class Row Houses." Clio: Your Guide to History. https://theclio.com/tour/2098/3
FBA History Project, "The Historic District's Longest Row." Clio: Your Guide to History. https://theclio.com/tour/2098/18
The Row House in Washington DC: A History, UVA Press, Alison Hoagland, 2023 (p. 244)
Sumner School Archives, DC, Briggs School student register, 1920-21

Street view (D. Vogt, May 2022)

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