836 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE NW
Year Built
1886
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."
No. 836 borders a passageway to a small alley behind the houses. It has a door that has been changed and now has a semi-circular hood mold.
Ownership History
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, historic area building survey, Nov. 1983
The alley and sidewalk view with a parged block retaining wall, cement steps and black iron fence. (D. Vogt, May 2022)
A streetscape view of the rows. (Evening Star, Aug. 1972)