![Fort Lincoln Heights advertisement in the Sunday Herald - August 23rd, 1891](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/05/fort-lincoln-heights-1891.jpg?w=604&h=835)
I want to branch out a little more and represent more neighborhoods. This is a great old real estate advertisement — I’ve been finding a ton of these lately — highlighting Fort Lincoln Heights in NE Washington. Yes, I know that Barbadoes is actually spelled Barbados. But this is a blog that remains true and authentic, so we don’t rewrite history.
The best part is “a twenty minutes’ trot from the city boundary (two miles).” Seven-room homes sold for $2,000 which would be around $51,000 today (based on the CPI).