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2412 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.

RESIDENT(S)/ OWNER(S)

1914 - Phillip McCormick
1920- Herman Branum, watchman/janitor, son Thomas Branum, age 9, b. 1912, DC, daughter Mildred Branum, b.1914, DC, Barbara Branum, age 5, b. 1916, DC
1958 - Francis B. Ingle

RECOLLECTIONS

SOURCE MATERIAL

Boyds City Directory, 1914
Foggy Bottom News, June 1958
FBA History Project, "Working-Class Row Houses." Clio: Your Guide to History. https://theclio.com/tour/2098/3
Sumner School Archives, DC, Briggs Elementary School, student register 1921

GALLERY

DOCUMENTS

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