2433 H STREET NW
Year Built
1890
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D. Vogt, 2022
Documents
History
The only house with an H St. address (2433), like the houses on either side, was built in 1890 by Frank N. Carver, designed by Chas. E. Burden, and owned by Chas. Early and J.P. Jones. (The same team responsible for houses on 25th St. and New Hampshire Ave.) The house is brick, two bays wide and three stories high. It has a Mansard roof pierced by two gable windows. It is less elaborate than the turreted and square towers of the houses that book-end it. It has been merged with 800 New Hampshire Avenue.
Resident/Owner
1890 - One building permit issues to Chas. Early and J.P. Jones for this house, 800-810 New Hampshire and 807-817 25th St. (Evening Star, Feb. 14, 1890, p. 5)
In 1891, the house is listed for rent for $20 and/$25 month (Evening Star, July 27, 1891; Wash. Post, Feb. 3, 1891)
1894 - Schofield family, Robert E. , George W. , clerk, Edith G., and Andrew B. (City Directory)
1896- The house is listed for rent, $20, for six rooms by Thos. E. Waggaman (Evening Star, Dec. 31, 1896, p.4)
1900 - The house is listed for sale by the same realtor in 1900 for $2,250 (Times Herald, Apr. 17, 1900, p. 7).i In the same year, residents place an ad for a laundry work to do at home or out by the day (Times, Oct. 9, 1900, p. 7).
1903 - The house is listed in an auction sale (Evening Star, Jan 26, 1903, p. 13).
1905 - Residents advertise for two colored girls to work as a cook and chambermaid (Wash. Post, Nov. 17, p. 8)
1906 - A Help Wanted placed by" a light-colored boy", age 17, seeks general work of any kind, (Wash. Post, Feb. 4, 1906, p. 73). Another resident, a "refined colored girl," wishes to learn the Marcel hair waving technique (a classic "S" shape hair wave created with a heated curling iron) in exchange for other work (Wash. Post, Feb. 4, 1906, p. 124).
1914 - An ad is placed for a nurse or chambermaid (Wash. Post, Oct. 31, 1914, p. 12).
1923 - Daniel Gibbons, age 40, colored, drowns in the massive flood in D.C., April 1923 (Wash. Post, May 7, 1923, p. 3)
1924 - William Walter Scott, colored, dies at age 42 of natural causes (Wash. Daily News, Aug. 18, 1934, p. 31) (mother, Julia Scott)
1928 - Henry Johnson resident, age 29, marries Ellen Bush, 19 (Wash, Daily News, Sept. 7, 1928, p. 12)
1950 - Resident Helen Satterwhite, infant age 2, dies May 26. (Wash. Post, May 31, 1950, p. 1)
1958 - DC native and GWU medical school graduate Forrest K Harris and his wife Carol hold a "Shingle-Hanging party" in their yard (Foggy Bottom News 1958)
Recollections
Source Material
2433 H St (Edmund Barrett, July 1965, DC History Center)
Halloween at the house, (D. Vogt, 2021)