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918 25TH STREET NW

YEAR BUILT:

1885

HISTORY

Danenhower & Son built, designed, and owned Nos. 916-922 in 1885. The houses are brick, two stories, and two bays with brick arches over the windows and a continuous cornice of brick stepped with a bracket appearance. This house has a side entry.

The narrow arched passageway between Nos. 918 and 920 has a brick pavement. It allows access to the back yards of residents of these houses and borders the back yards of the houses on Hughes Mews alley.

RESIDENT(S)/ OWNER(S)

1921 - Frank Wayne, mechanic, and Frank Wayne, age 5, b. 1916, DC, Ishmael Wayne, age 10, b. 1911, DC
1955 - Bob Keith

RECOLLECTIONS

SOURCE MATERIAL

FBA History Project, Foggy Bottom Historic District Walking Tour, "The Historic District's Longest Row." https://theclio.com/entry/144546
Foggy Bottom News, "From the Bottom Up," by Rhea Radin, June 1959
EHT Traceries Photo Nov 1983
Sumner School Archives, DC, Briggs School student register, 1921-22

GALLERY

DOCUMENTS

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