In my last post about the Washington Sanitary Improvement Company I noticed that the WSIC owned Sq 615 but not 552, yet. By 1909, it looked like they took 552 over, with a few holdouts. In 1903, there were 32 lots.
In the 1880 census there were about 11 households on the whole block. Then in 1900 there were about 25 households, nine of those were home owners.
Lot Owners
1 William R. Riley
2 William R. Riley
3 Jos. E & Sallie B. Roach
4 William R. Riley
5 William R. Riley
6 William R. Riley
7 Mary E. Hess
8 Baptist Home of D.C.
9 Louise Eustis Hitchcock
10 Louise Eustis Hitchcock
11 Louise Eustis Hitchcock
12 Louise Eustis Hitchcock
13 Louise Eustis Hitchcock
14 Louise Eustis Hitchcock
15 Marie Clarice Eustis
16 Marie Clarice Eustis
17 Marie Clarice Eustis
18 Marie Clarice Eustis
19 Marie Clarice Eustis
20 Marie Clarice Eustis
21 Marie Clarice Eustis
22 Marie Clarice Eustis
23 Marie Clarice Eustis
24 Louise Eustis Hitchcock
25 Revere R. Gurley/DeWitt C. Chadwick/ Mollie Phillips/ Alice L. Wyckoff Trust/ Phoebe Hamilton
26 Lycurgus & Sally Adams/ George Adams/ Levi Adams/ Edmund G. Hines
27 Frederick B. Jones/ Jas. B. Nourse & C.M. Jones Trustees
28 Robert A. Golden
29 William R. Riley
30 William R. Riley
31 William R. Riley
32 William R. Riley
It appears the main owners were William R. Riley, Louise Eustis Hitchcock, Marie Clarice Eustis, and the Adams family. Other owners of interest are the owners of lots 3 and 28, the last lots to be divided and developed. We’ll look at these people and see if there is any connection with the Washington Sanitary Improvement Company, the organization that will eventually own their land.