There is a lot of background with this house, but I want this to be a more visual post.
This was a house that didn’t have a lot of interior space. I don’t think it had a basement. It did not have a 3rd floor.
Now it has a 3rd floor. Notice the difference in the rooftop. The pop up is very subtle. It is currently two condo units.
Everyso often people argue about the boundaries of the Shaw neighborhood. Here’s a map from 1971 from the National Capital Planning Commission. It also shows the 14th St Urban Renewal Area, but little matter.
I am not sure but I believe the billboards that were on the corner were down.
I believe I’ve posted this before. Not sure. These are the elementary schools of Shaw.
Slater and Langston seem to be joint schools.
This is not memory lane. It’s from the National Archives, RG 328, entry A1-13. It’s from after the riots, so I’ll say 1968.
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This man was arrested for larceny. According to the info on the other side of this card he was a painter. Looking in the city directory, a James T. Allen who was a painter who lived in Blagden Alley. The card also said he had brown hair and light blue eyes, and that he was a very light mulatto. Sure. Genes are funny things.
It also says he was born in Massachusetts. I can’t find other James T. Allens born in MA around the 1890s in DC. Plenty of James and James T Allens in DC, just not any from Massachusetts.
Please note the house has been renovated and improved since 2013.
Okay. One little break from the Washington Sanitary Improvement Co houses for Christmas. Merry Christmas/ Happy Festivus to my 3 readers.
