page_title: Snows Court (Washington, D.C.)
section_title: Origin and early history (1850-1880)
hierarchical_section_title: Snows Court (Washington, D.C.) / Origin and early history (1850-1880)
caption_attribution_description: English: Zoomed in section of Hopkin's Plat Map of Washington, DC, 1887, depicting the location of Snow's property in Square 28 (Lot 1).
context_page_description: Snow's Court is an alley of historic dwellings located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood in Washington D.C.
context_section_description: Formerly known as "Snow's Alley," this historical dwelling was founded on Lot 1 of Square 28 within Foggy Bottom's primarily industrial district in the year 1858 - the lot itself being situated between 24th and 25th streets and I and K streets (NW; intersecting with New Hampshire Avenue) as indicated by the empty lot in the bottom right hand corner of the square as indicated in Boschke's map of Washington City in 1857.
  
  Snow's Court was originally constructed by C.A. Snow, a private landowner and long-time resident of Foggy Bottom, as well as the publisher of one of Washington, D.C.'s foremost news publications, The National Intelligencer. Snow subdivided his lot into several, smaller installations as exampled in G.M. Hopkins's map of Snow's Court in 1887. 
   These include construction of a greenhouse (relatively larger in comparison than standard alley home plot) and an additional four frame-houses from which he derived a source of profit by renting these subdivided plots to a contingent of four Irish immigrants, one of whom Snow was reported to have personally employed at the greenhouse to tend to its upkeep while Snow himself most likely followed the common trend of residing off-site from his development.
caption: Zoomed in section of Hopkin's Plat Map of Washington, DC, 1887, depicting the location of Snow's property in Square 28 (Lot 1).
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