This is a Washington Sanitary Improvement Company home, so I’ve written about it before. It’s one of the few that has kept the two flat set up. Many WSIC homes, when eventually coming under the ownership of one household, was renovated into one residence.
There are things I wish I had done. Like write a date on my paper “Ethnic Divides in an 1880 DC Neighborhood“. Apparently, I wrote in in 2005.
I was looking around my October 2005 posts and spotted the ‘Come and listen to the world’s most boring history paper‘ where I was going to present at the DC History Conference.
I seriously did not know when I wrote this paper. I had copies of copies and different versions on my computer, so I did not know when I wrote it.
Now I know, and you know.
I’m doing some cleaning around the house and I have this map.
It’s from 1919. I believe it has a cloth backing. It’s been professionally framed and I just can’t find a wall in my current house to hang it. I’m an archivist, and I can’t put it anywhere that I think will harm this 126 year old map. I have too many windows in the house. But this might be great in your townhouse.
The detail is amazing and I have used it to look for lots when the Library of Congress website has been uncooperative. This map is the same as the LC’s 1919 map.
Accepting that I’m not going to hang it up, I figured I should sell this bit of history. Free shipping (I’d just put it in an Uber) for anyone between Beltsville, MD and Logan Circle, DC.
If interested, submit a comment.
I was curious, and wondered when the Glorius family disappeared from Truxton Circle. At one point, the patriarch, George Glorius owned the whole block that was the 1700 block of 4th and 3td Streets.
The first question is who are all the Glori. Let’s start with George (1824-1909) and his wife Margaret/Mary (1823-1917), they had eight children, George Glorius Jr., Sophia Glorius, Mary C. Glorius, Andrew Glorius, Andrew G. Glorius, Barbara E. Glorius, Ignatius Glorius, and Ignatius George Glorius. When you see a double name, the first died young. And several of those children had children who were Bernard A. Glorious; George T. Glorious; Edwin G. Glorius; Frederick C. Glorius; Phillip J. Glorius; Bernard J. Glorius; Harry Andrew Glorius; Annie M. Glorius; Blance M. Glorius Torrillo; Ellanora R Glorius; Margerite E. Glorius; Francis J. Glorius; Mary R. Glorius O’Meara; and Gertrude Glorius.
Around the time George Glorius Sr. died their property was being developed by Harry Wardman. The DC Recorder of Deeds online records don’t really start until 1921, so that’s where I’ll start.
And that’s the end of the Glorius.
Lot 9 might have been 309 R St NW
Lot 26 might’ve been 316 FL Ave NW
Lot 45 was 315 R St NW
Lot 47 is 319 R St NW
Lot 67 is 312 Florida Ave NW
Lot 68 is 310 Florida Ave NW
Looking at the census, the Glorius seemed to have left by the 1930 census. I don’t have anyone in 319 R St in 1930. 315 R St NW in 1930 had Black renters and someone claiming to be an owner. 310 & 312 FL Ave NW also had Black renters.
In 2008 the house caught fire and then was vacant for a good long while.
It was fixed up and turned into condos.
So the above house no longer exists. It was replaced by a modern home. And that was a miracle when you realize how flippin’ skinny this place is comes when you look at the Redfin site and see room dimensions. It’s 903 sq. ft.
So this house got renovated and updated.
I posted about the open house of the new and improved 210 P St NW back in 2018. I’m going to throw a few of the photos from that post below.
210 P St NW obviously ate the neighboring house in order to get the lovely interior.
Whelp.
The Federal Government closed today due to the shutdown. So the National Archives Assembly who was hosting the event, has rescheduled it to November 6th….. even if the US government miraculously opens tomorrow morning.
If you emailed the NAA for an invite link, then you should have gotten an email about the new date.
So just to recap it, October 2nd is off and the new date is November 6th.
