
D. Vogt, 2022
2410 I STREET NW
YEAR BUILT:
1886
HISTORY
2400 to 2416 are part of a 16 unit group of row houses on I St. and New Hampshire Ave. (anchored by the corner yellow Fitzgerald House at 844 New Hampshire Ave.). The houses were built by J.H. Grant for developer Samuel Norment in 1886. The houses are brick, two bays wide, and two and half stories high. The houses share architectural motifs - a decorated cornice and segmental arches with beaded moldings over the openings. The houses have small fenced-in gardens or patios in the back.
No. 2410 is the end unit next to an small alley with no outlet. It has a side entry, with a transom over front door, dentilled cornice and arched brick and ball brick over two bay windows.
RESIDENT(S)/ OWNER(S)
1870 - Joseph Sparrow, (CD)
1900 - Charles W. Parker, (B. 1858, DC) worked as a trimmer, His children Addie (b.1886, DC,) Effell (b. 1890, DC) were joined in the house by housekeeper, Julia Baxter (b. 1872, MD) and her son, Wilson (b. 1891, MD) (Census)
1910 - Charles E. Biggs, painter (b. 1858, DC) and his wife Ellen (b. 1860, Ireland). Their children, Charles T. (b, 1884, DC) was a laborer, Joseph A. (b. 1889, DC) was a tinner and daughter Anna A. (b. 1887, DC) worked as a saleslady. (CD)
1914 - Vacant
1919 - Monroe Spriggs, porter, and Estelle Spriggs, age 13, (b. 1906, DC)
1920 - Maury/Murray (?) Barker, laborer and porter (b. 1875, MD) and wife Louise (b. 1876, DC) (Census). Daughter Edith Green (b. 1895, DC) worked as a maid, Sons James Barker (b. 1904, DC) was a machinist, son Robert (b. 1906, DC) was a newsboy, with other brothers Richard, Thomas, Lewis and Fred all born in DC. Chester Green, son-in-law (b. 1896, DC) was a porter.
1930 -Charles Young (b. 1894, VA) was a laborer and his wife Hallie (b. 1894, VA). Daughter Lucille (b. 1920, VA) and son Junior (b. 1930, VA)
1940 - Julia Barner (b. 1899, VA) was an ironer. Lodgers Wilbur Carter (b. 1905, DC) Clyde Bullard (b. 1909, DC) were both laborers. (Census 1940)
1950 - Bertha Riley (b. 1915, OK) was a laundress. Her son James Jackson (b. 1930, DC) was a laborer and daughter Bertha Jr. (b. 1933, OK) was a housekeeper. Her mother Julie Stewart (b. 1898, VA) was a housekeeper and her father-in-law, Phillip Steward (b. 1890, VA) was a furnace fireman. Joining the family was cousin, Edward Burke (b. 1930, DC)
1960 - Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wellborn (FBNews membership roster)
RECOLLECTIONS
SOURCE MATERIAL
Boyds City Directory, 1914
EHT Traceries photo Nov 1983
FBA History Project, "Working-Class Row Houses." Clio: Your Guide to History. https://theclio.com/tour/2098/3
Sumner School Archives, DC, student register Briggs School, 1919-1922
Census
GALLERY
DOCUMENTS
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