A Look Back: An Old Advertisement for 1201 Clifton St. NW in Columbia Heights, 1910

Here’s an old advertisement that we found in The Washington Times from Saturday, June 4th, 1910. It shows a row of homes on Clifton St. in Columbia Heights, recently finished, and for sale at $7,750.

Source: Library of Congress

Here’s the Street View on Google today.

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It looks like the house on the corner may have been divided into units at some point. It’s a rental now. </p> <p><a href="http://bit.ly/1MUKRtq" rel="nofollow ugc">http://bit.ly/1MUKRtq</a></p> </div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-7517" class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1"> <article class="comment-body" id="div-comment-7517" itemtype="https://schema.org/Comment" itemscope> <footer class="comment-meta" aria-label="Comment meta"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9b9f6357ca8869ae77ffcd42e560d2090e46a8731a74c1b549cfa85f38c79f2e?s=50&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9b9f6357ca8869ae77ffcd42e560d2090e46a8731a74c1b549cfa85f38c79f2e?s=100&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <div class="comment-author-info"> <div class="comment-author vcard" itemprop="author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope> <cite itemprop="name" class="fn">Popeye D. Saylorman</cite> </div> <div class="entry-meta comment-metadata"> <a href="https://ghostsofdc.org/2015/10/22/1910-ads-for-clifton-st-homes-in-columbia-heights/#comment-7517"> <time datetime="2015-10-24T20:21:00-04:00" itemprop="datePublished"> October 24, 2015 at 8:21 pm </time> </a> </div> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content" itemprop="text"> <p>I would like to have seen the interior pics from 1910.</p> </div> </article> </li> </ol> <p class="no-comments">Comments are closed.</p> </div> </div> </main> </div> </div> </div> <div class="site-footer"> <footer class="site-info" aria-label="Site" itemtype="https://schema.org/WPFooter" itemscope> <div class="inside-site-info grid-container"> <div class="copyright-bar"> <span class="copyright">© 2026 Ghosts of DC</span> • Built with <a href="https://generatepress.com" itemprop="url">GeneratePress</a> </div> </div> </footer> </div> <script type="speculationrules"> {"prefetch":[{"source":"document","where":{"and":[{"href_matches":"/*"},{"not":{"href_matches":["/wp-*.php","/wp-admin/*","/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/*","/wp-content/*","/wp-content/plugins/*","/wp-content/themes/generatepress/*","/*\\?(.+)"]}},{"not":{"selector_matches":"a[rel~=\"nofollow\"]"}},{"not":{"selector_matches":".no-prefetch, .no-prefetch a"}}]},"eagerness":"conservative"}]} </script> <script> /* GoDC -- Header Nav + Search + Related Posts + Load More */ document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(){ /* === HEADER NAV === */ var header = document.querySelector(".inside-header"); 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