For Sale: Original 1919 Baist Neighborhood Map $350

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.

Sq. 519 and the Glorius family 1922-1944

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.

  • 7/10/1922 Mary C. Glorius transferred/sold lot 47 to Phillip I. Glorius.
  • 11/19/1923 Mary C. Glorius sold lot 46 to Harry and Nannie E. Smallwood.
  • 10/1931 Phillip and wife Katherine Glorius transferred/sold lot 47 back to Mary C. Glorius.
  • 04/1937 the executors of Mary C. Glorius’ estate sold lot 47 to Barrington and O Mae Henry.
  • 03/1940 Leo and wife Louise F. Glorius sold/transferred lots 9, 26, 45, 67 and 68 to Louise Townsend, who immediately sold/transferred the properties to Minnie Louise C. Glorius.
  • 06/1942 Bernard(Mabel E.), George T(Mabel S.), Minnie Louise C. Glorius, Margaret/Marguerite C. Klugh/Kluh, Elizabeth Gertrude Yetter, and Mary R. O’Meara sold lot 68 to Eleanore and William N. Thompkins.
  • 12/1942 devisees under George Glorius Jr’s will Bernard(Mabel E.), George T(Mabel S.), Minnie Louise C. Glorius, Margaret/Marguerite C. Klugh/Kluh, Elizabeth Gertrude Yetter, and Mary R. O’Meara sold lot 67 to Alice C. Harris.
  • 10/1944 heirs in-law of Frances Josephine Glorius, Bernard A.(Mabel E.), George T.(Mabel S.), Minnie Louise C. (Leo V.-divorced 1926) Glorius, Marguerite C. Kluh, Elizabeth Gertrude Yetter, and Mary R. O’Meara sold lot 26 to Jacob and Sadie B. Feldman.

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.

 

Memory Lane: 210 P St NW

210 P St NW. Taken June 20, 2016

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. Taken June 16, 2018

210 P St NW obviously ate the neighboring house in order to get the lovely interior.

Eloyce Gist Talk Rescheduled to November 6th

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.

Random Eloyce Gist thing- 1953

Sometimes the problem with catalog searches will point you in the direction of a haystack and say, ‘it’s over there.’ I plugged Eloyce Gist on the Library of Congress and got a big haystack. But then I looked back and found that it did pinpoint it to the image of hundreds.

From Image 45 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Miscellany, 1851-1954; Clippings; Unarranged; 1 of 1

Eloyce Gist attended the Bloomingdale function in 1952.

Revisiting Shiloh Fighting Liquor Licenses

So while I do other things, like prepare for the presentation on former Truxton Circle filmmaker Eloyce Gist, on October 2nd, I’m fishing through my old posts.

September 26, 2005 I posted about a Washington City Paper article (link in post is dead) about Shiloh Baptist Church‘s opposition to a business across the street getting a liquor license. It could have been “Shaw’s Main Drag” by Arthur Delaney written September 23, 2005. Yes, 20 years ago, now making this about Shaw History. You whippersnappers have no idea how much fighting went into making Shaw what it is today.

Anyway, the business Shiloh was fighting was the Queen of Sheba Ethiopian restaurant. It appears that QoS has closed and has been replaced by the Silk Lounge. Eventually, QoS won and got its liquor license as reported in the 2007 WCP article Queen of Sheba Toasts End of Liquor License Battle.

I understand the issue with QoS as it was right across the street from the church’s entrance and was near the church’s child care center. But Shiloh also opposed the liquor license for an upscale and very nice vegan restaurant Vegetate up on the next block.

As I mentioned in a previous post this month, Shiloh fought against the development along 9th instead of leaning into it. I wonder if the church had figured out a way to remain true to its principles and partner with local business if the church would have been flourishing instead of floundering?

Memory Lane- 1031 7th St NW in 2004

This isn’t from Flickr but my own old posts from September 24, 2004. I just posted a photo.

It’s simple street art/ graffiti on what I think is still an empty storefront. It’s near the Compass Coffee at 1023 7th St NW.

Property Taxes and Assessments

Everyso often I wander away from history and treat this as a personal blog. Sometimes I like to fight with strangers on the internet. There is a fool who believes that an increasing assessed value does not increase your taxes. As someone who has paid property taxes in 4 jurisdictions, and has looked at the tax assessment sent (trying to figure out how to argue against it), this was a lie.

I’ll touch on property taxes and I will attempt to throw in some history. Let’s go back to 2007. In my post Tax Assessments, I noted that DC was up to some assessment black magic, by inflating the land assessment compared to the structure (aka the house) on the property. To me, this appeared to be away for DC to squeeze more money out of the most run down houses in good/up & coming neighborhoods.

Prior to that, in 2005, it appeared that DC was just increasing the value of our homes by $60K for poops and giggles.

Lastly, in 2010 I wrote about how different neighbors on the block pay different taxes even if their properties are roughly assessed around the same amount. It depends on when they bought or got the property, if they are a resident owner, if they qualify for some sweet deal like the Senior Citizen Tax Relief and other factors.