Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-13
GROWTH WAS SLOW
City Section Known as
Squares 700, 7O1 and 743.
EARLY-DAY VALUES GIVEN
Daniel Carroll Secures Title Under
Division by Commissioners.
BRICKMAKING CHIEF BUSINESS
Eighty-Seven Building Lots Laid
Out About the Year 1896.
Few Sold.
EARLY-DAY VALUES GIVEN
BRICKMAKING CHIEF BUSINESS

| Eighty-seven building lots were laid out
on the original plan OF Washington east
| ward Of the section described in The Star
| OF the 9Th instant which were tardily
developed, and, indeed, as late as forty
years ago a number were not utilized
other than In the brickmaking business,
furnishing the clay. These were in
squares 700. 7O1 and TAB. lying between
| South Capitol, NJ and N streets and New
| Jersey avenue southeast, and being near
| the border of Carrollsburg, and in the
vicinity of the improvements Of Thomas
Law and others southwark, speedy up
| building was expected
| The original proprietor, Daniel Carroll
of Duddington, was. in the division made
by the Commissioners September IA,
1876, vested with title to all, and had
parted with but few of them prior to
1929, when he conveyed his interests to
Moses Tabbs, r. C.. Weightman and
Richard Wallach, in trust, to SELL But
there followed no real estate boom.
Building material in the shape of the clay
was more sought for than were choice
sites for the location of homes, and for
| three-fourths' of century it was the
region of brickyards and kilns, the only
municipal improvements being seen on
New Jersey avenue, which was graded in
Capitol to the sugarhouse. the wharves,
| etc, south. A roadway was on M street
connecting Greenleafs point with the
Navy Yard section and on South Capt.
toll street, cut through about 1853
There We're thirty-two lots fronting
South Capitol. Half. NJ and N streets. in
square ivJ, and 1t appears that the first
Improvement was made on the north side
of n street near South Capitol street
James Knight leased in 1900 of Mr.. Car
roll half of lot for ninety-nine years,
and two years later the lease was as
signed to r. Frazier, the rental being ST. 90
per front foot and the purchase price be-
ing $3.50.
Listed at Three Cents a Foot.
The ground was listed for taxation at 3
| cents in 1902. but on the second appraise-
ment in 1906 reduction to 2 cents was
made and the house was listed for $500
ON lot to Samuel n. Smallwood.
A small one on lot IL, South Capitol
street, was taxed at $500 in the name of
]. Heath. MIR. Smallwood was then and
afterward carpenter and builder. a
member of the city councils and also
mayor Of Washington in 1921 He
lived there until about 1911, when he re-
moved to Virginia avenue between Sd and
4th streets southeast and engaged In the
lumber business, having wharf and yard
| near the mouth of the canal.
Capt. George Travers bought and lived
in the Smallwood house from 1911 for
| many years. In 1913 Mary hewitt owned
part of the lot. In 1880 the value of the
ground had changed but little, az cents
being the maximum and the assessed
value of Capt. Travers' house being re-
duced to 500. In 1884 George Adams
bought lots and on N street and Jo-
seph Radcliffe owned lot 5. In 1910 Ia
dock Williams bought the Adams lots ?
and Al.
In the square east, 7O1, composed OF
thirty-two lots on Half, LIST, NJ and N
streets, Samuel Cook owned parts OF
lots 81 and 80, In 1900. on LIST street The
same property in 1909 went to John
Cook. The corporation first assessed
the ground at 3 cents a foot, then at 1
cent In 1922 ]. A. Cook, lieutenant
in the navy, owned lots 81 and 80 and
resided there, the house being listed for
taxation at 5000. Barton Milstead, who
for many years engaged in brickmaking.
with kilns In the neighborhood, bought
lot /, corner N and 1st streets, in 1923,
where he erected his home, which was
listed at 81, 800 value and the ground at
11s cents per foot. Mr.. Milstead was
prominent in municipal affairs and a
member Of the councils for several
terms.