Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-01
WHEN REALT TWAS LOW
Prevailing Prices In Washing
ton Fifty Years Ago.
GREAT ADVANCE IN VALUE
Property Which Recently Brought
Over 100000
WAS REGARDED HIGH AT $12,250
Sales Made In What Are Now Popu-
lous Sections at Two Cents
Per Foot.
WAS REGARDED HIGH AT $12,250

The sum Of s12.25O was reckoned good
price in 1859 for property which, few
years since. brought nearly 100000 The
property is now the site of the Munsey
building. and had been up to 1859 used as
tho Office of the Union, the local demo-
cratic organ. The brick buildings upon 1t
covered the seventy feet front of the lot.
1t was situated next to the National
Theater, in the neighborhood of the hotels,
when A. Green, auctioneer, in January,
1859. offered 1t for sale. and 1t was looked
upon as one Of the best business properties
in the city. Mr.. J. T. Stevens was the
purchaser then.
In the heart Of the west end, in the same
year, a frame dwelling, steam mill and lot,
between Goth, 21st, X and M streets was
sold for s275 to James H Cox. jr On K
street between sth and 7th streets, three
story frame was bought by r. S. Wharton,
for S915; G. S. Whitney bought fer $115 a
house and lot on 7th street between G and
1 streets southeast; frame house and lot
on 4th street between NJ and N streets
southeast was bought by T. A. Scott for
$3.50, and he also bought for $1,000 house
and part of lot on N street east Of 4th
street.
A. 8. Hazelton bought the residence in
which he lived for about forty years on
west for $2,402, a two-story and attic
brick twenty-six feet front Colonel c. A.
Alexander purchased lots, with improve
ments, on D street between 10th and 18th
street between 9th and 10th streets went
to w. r. Riley for $3.50: Richard Broderck
bought for $605 house and lot, the ground
consisting Of 1880 feet, on AZ street be-
tween and G streets southwest; frame
house on C street and blacksmith shop on
Virginia avenue between 9th and 7th
streets southwest was bought by Joseph F.
Gedney for 81 ,625; John E. Kendall bought
house and lot on 18th street between M
and streets southeast for $Sl5. and for
$1,000 Charles Miller bought two lots. with
two-story frame house, situated on Penn
sylvania avenue between 9th and 7th
streets southeast; for $500 VIM. Blanchard
bought May 10 three-story brick resi-
dence on the west side of 10th street, north
Of D street northwest.
Prevailing Prices.
G, 8. Hepburn bought two-story frame
with lot on street between 9th and 10th
streets southwest for s71O; also a house and
lot on 18th street between B and C streets
for 81, 100. w. P Doniphan bought for
$500 house and lot on 18th street be-
tween and streets, and for 81 100 a
house on street between 18th and 18th
streets. Mahlon Falconer bought for 81 40
street between 7th and Sth streets. Mrs.
Hume bought for s.. 400 a three-story brick
house OF seven rooms on H street between
4th and 9Th streets.
The residence of ]. A. NJ. Duncanson, on
the north side of H street, west of 9TH was
sold to Mrs. Duncan for s80O1. Thomas
Boland bought for $225 and 1915 two houses
and lots on F street between I'd and Sd
streets southwest. John Holroyd bought
for $500 two-story and attic brick
n
southeast
For 5000 William H. Forrest bought a
lot and two-story brick house on 18th street
between H and I streets northwest Josenh
3. clark was the buyer OF a house and lot
on 9th street between Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and d street northwest for $3OO5; also
Tor 1850 house and lot on B street be-
tween 9th and 10th streets northwest
James Jones, for $780, bought a two
story frame with basement, partially de-
stroyed by fire, on 18th street between M
and streets southeast. Johnson & SUIT
ton paid S2,250 each for two houses on 9th
street between Pennsylvania avenue and
u street northwest William Spearing
bought lot, improved by a three-room
brick. on street between 4th and 9Th
streets for sos. the lot being over 30 by
loo Feet, q. + Polk purchased for IS. 500
a new fve-story brick house with eleven
rooms on 9th street adjoining the corner
OF e street northwest
The brick dwelling with store and ware
MUSE iIo1ltlNS on the south side of Penn
sylvanta avenue between 9th and 7ih
streets. running back to street. was sold
In July, 1859, to Thomas Davy for $1,000
This was long the china and glass store
OF Thomas Purcell. nearly new two
story brick house and lot on 18th stree.
between III and / streets northwest was
bought by w. II. Forrest for 81, OPS and DR.
Charles Allen purchased for $500 house
and lot on Az street between and g
streets southwest. Also unimproved lots In
the southeast were sold, one to C. S. Whit
ney on 18th street between South Carolina
avenue and street ct AZ cents and one
on c street between 18th and 18th streets
to John Wunderly for GU cents per foot
On Washington street between G, H 4th
and 9Th streets, north of Judiciary Square,
John Megin bought vacant ground at 20
cents per foot A. Heitmiler lots on Yer
mont avenue between NJ and streets for
Is cents per foot; Patrick Donnelly a lot
on Maryland avenue between Al and 9Th
streets southwest at Az cents; lot on
Sth street between L and NJ. streets north
west was bought by P. M. Dubant at 40
streets northwest at 10, IL and I21a cents
per foot Eighteen cents was paid for a lot
at nth and NJ streets northwest by p.
Donoho; Is cents per foot by Samuel Bying-
ton for a lot on 18th street between L and
NJ streets; 24i1 cents for lot between K
and L streets northwest by J. B. Harrison;
cents per foot was paid by William May
hew for a fifty-foot front lot on Sth street
northeast: William Marshall paid 14l: cents
per foot for a lot on e street east Of New
Jersey avenue northwest, and the adjoining
lot was bought for 11A cents by William
Redin.
Ninety Cents Per Foot.
A lot with an old frame house on the
north side of E street. west of 18th street,
was bought by Evan Hughes for 30 cents
per foot. Lots. including the northwest
corner OF Ohio avenue and 1915 street.
brought 80 and "a cents per foot A lot on
9th street between D and E streets south
west sold at 10 cents to James Carter, and
lots on 81 street Ga cents per foot to ]. NJ
Lloyd, and an adjoining lot with frame
house was bought by S. Norment for s5.o5.
T. A. Scott bought for sls cents lot on
Georgia avenue west of 4th street; also
ora at cents, another at cents and one
at South Capitol and Q streets at cents
per foot Joseph Forrest bought for sl6Q