834 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE NW
Year Built
1886
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D. Vogt, 2022
Documents
History
828-838 and 842-44 New Hampshire Ave. (as well as 2400-2416 I St.) were designed and built in 1886 by James H. Grant, for speculator Samuel Norments. The houses are two bays wide and two stories high and feature decorated cornices and segmental arches over the windows and doors. As noted in the the Historic District Nomination, "they are simple buildings, but pleasant in scale and proportion." This house has a transom window over the front entry door.
No. 838 borders a passageway to a small alley behind the houses. It recently had its side brick retaining wall restored.
Ownership History
1950 - Clarence Blango, Harold Mason (nephew), Albertine Mason and four unrelated lodgers
Recollections
Source Material
FBA History Project, Foggy Bottom Historic District Walking Tour, "Architectural Variety on New Hampshire Avenue." https://theclio.com/tour/2098/14
EHT Traceries photo Nov 1983
US Census, 1950
The sidewalk view shows cement steps to front entry and a black metal fence. (D. Vogt, May 2022)
A streetscape view of New Hampshire Avenue rows in the 1950s. (Source unknown)
A 1983 streetscape view of the rows on New Hampshire Avenue in the winter. (EHT Traceries, Nov. 1983)