Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-29

on 10th street. In 1902 5000 Improvement
was charged to Mr.. Lenox and one at
So. 600 to Mr.. Kirk. Mrs Mary hewitt was
on the Snaliwood lot in 1913, paying on
81, 500 Improvement. Lot 3 on e street
was in the name of p. D. Moore in 1862
taxed for 500 improvement, an In 1913
John King appeared as the owner and IN
1916 n. 2. Thomas as the lessee. In ls2o
King was charged on $50 and Moore
heirs on $500 for improvements. Crulksnaak
q Thompson owned part of lot on. uth
street in 1900, and tax on an $50 oulld-
ing was recorded in 1862. In $50 Moore
heirs were charged S150, G.. Moore having
bought in 1911, and G. \. Smoot 5000. D.
Bussard, T. Hughes, David Applcr, L
Clephane and William Arme were connect
ed with this lot Mr.. Appler in 1924 and
Mr.. Orme in 1926. Mr., Appler paid on
81, roo that property previously assessed
to Mr.. Snoot In 1850 the nam, of Joseph
Dove attached to the lot at the southeast
corner of 18th and F streets, as also the
name of William Brown, who was assessed
for $500. Phineas Bradley, j. Barnes and
the Washington Building Company. the lat
Henry Smith, leading builder, who erect
ed the city hall, bought in this lot~in ISL
Mr.. Smith by 1920 owned the corner half
of lot and two lots south, on which he
erected row of three-story and basement
brick dwellings, long known as Henry
Smiths row. Here the Proctor, McGonigle
and Smith families lived for half CEN
fury or more. last of Mr.. Boyie,s mouse,
on F street, was the house built by Jacob
Hines, a baker and patriarch of the numer-
Gus family of that name This building
was valued at S400. Mr.. Hines moved to
the western part of the city, and about 1870
1t was purchased by Col Jos phi Nourse.
In whose name 1t was assessed at 81, 200
Subsequently Col. Nourse bough. from CT.
Andrews the ground east to 10th street
The late W. d. Crampsey halter, long
employed in the treasury. lived most of his
eighty-four years on the Hines site. The
IF
improved in the late thirties y the resi-
dence of Darius C1agett, a leading dry
goods merchant, first of Georgetown, then
and for many years after at the northeast
coroner of Pennsylvania avenue and 9Th
street.
Walls Still Standing.
Thomas NJ. Kirk became the owner of a
lot next that on the corner of 10th and
F streets south of the latter street in 1893,
and his house valued a. $1,000 in 1902, was
appraised at $1,000 In 1907, and at but
81 $50 twenty years later 1t was during
the cholera epidemic seventy-five years ago
used hospital, and some of the origi-
nal walls stand today. Nathaniel Carusi
owned the lot adjoining in 1880, and Mrs.
Mary A. Randolph bought that lot south
in 1925. and was assessed $500 for he
property.
The square north Of F street bore val
uation of to cents per foot one hundred
years ago and had but one Improvement
that belonging to Peter Lenox, whose val
uation was raised from $3.50 to $500. TO
show that it has improved 1t Is only neces-
sary to say that the Boston House now
covers the larger portion of the square.
BY 1920 the ground valuation had reached
10 to 20 cents per foot, and there We're over
81, 600 worth of improvements. The corner
OF 10th and F streets was then vacant, but
adjoining on the west was the residence
of Thomas H. ellis, valued at $1,000. On
18th street Gen. Van Ness had d $500
f,r1iJ ornd MpT n tro d.
ings north, each valued at $500. The
southwestern corner of 10th and streets
was in the name of Rev. VIM. Matthews
of ST.. Patricks Church, and the lot con-
tanned a building valued at s., 500. In 1927,
with leasehold from Mr.. Mcleod, Father
Mathews had half the square. on which
was another improvement, valued at 5000.
In 1920 Berry &sg Forbes were taxed on a
So coo building on 10th street, and Joseph
Bryan was taxed 5000 The property held
by Father Mathews was for St. Vincents
orphan Asylum and 1t was so decided IN
1888. In the '40s DIR. Flodoardo Howard,
long a west-end druggist, located at the
northeast corner of 18th and F streets and
practiced medicine for years. DR.. Howard
was a local Methodist minister, "A Jealous
temperance advocate, who erected small
hall for lectures and meetings to aid the
cause. Equal Division Sons of Temperance
long met here.
Land at Cents Per Foot
The square between G and FL streets
which Sluice run coursed from
Franklin Square springs belonged to
Robert Morris prior to 1890, when some
four lots were sold. The original valuation
of the ground was cents per foot, but it
was reduced to 2 cents, to be raised in
twenty years to IA cents. By 1896
G. Crandall had taken a lease en- 18th
street lot and Mary Barrow had bought
an adjoining one, on which 500 house
was built. Christopher Andrews in 1915
bought ground at the corner of 10th and q
streets and erected residence of $1,000
valuation, and the lots at 10th and G streets
had passed to Chauncey Bestor, Drake &
Barron, carpenters, and others, on which
property $1,000 worth OF improvements
were placed By 1880 Samuel 81 e1 y. Small, Small
Ulysses Ward, a 81 400 Improvement; Gen.
Van Ness $500; NJ. Crandall, 1900, and
Charles Lengdon, $780, on nth street; w.
Wallach, 500; ]. w. Semmes, $1,000, and
Van Ness, 500. on 10th street.
Lewis Johnson. who founded the bank
ing house bearing his name at l0th and the
avenue, owned afterward the northeast cor
ner of 18th and G streets and had a sub
served in the war of 1872 at its close
leased a lot on 10th street above street,
on which he erected comfortable frame
residence and bought the fee simple in
1922 The late Josephus Waters, a son,
died here few years since at a ripe age.
In the 30's Benjamin Williamson erected
row of twO-StOry and basement frames, Tor
the latter nature having made excavation
and Williamson's row was as
Unknown as was the grocery of Michael
Sardo, erected at the southeast corner of
10th and H streets. Daniel Stewart was
keeping a grocery about the same time at
the corner of 18th and II streets.
Back IN the Forties.
In the forties there were two Phladel-
phia shoe houses, one located below the
National Hotel, of which William Mann
was the proprietor. Mr. Mann gave quite
boom to the real estate market when the
original valuation OF one cent a foot on
the ground had been reduced one-half, TO
again rise and in 1920 reach six cents and
about double in twenty more years. Mr.. |
Mann erected on the north side OF. H street |
row of three-storied dwellings of pressed |
brick and Undetermined fronts, which |
were soon occupied by desirable residents. |
Little had been done in the way of build /
Ing up this square. Late in the thirties |
John Warden, well remembered for his con- |
nection with the Columbian Museum at 4h |
and d streets, from which he went to the |
National Museum, had a fine frame resi- |
dence on 10th street above H street. And |
at the corner of street In a two-storied |
building resided T. She'd. a timer. At the |
southeast corner of 18th and I streets |
Henry Hastrip had a wood and coal yard.
On the square north of New York ave. /
nue. and street a half cent per foot was |
The ground valuation till well in the thir- |
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