Exploring Columbia Heights: A Look at the Old Advertisement from 1905

This is awesome. Maybe you’re going to hit up a few open houses today? Well, check this old advertisement out.

13th and Harvard St. NW advertisement (1905)
13th and Harvard St. NW advertisement (1905)

This part is great, advertising your potential new neighbors in Columbia Heights:

Elegant residences of Congressmen Prince, Gardner, Hermann, Hogg, Miller, Roberts and Hon. Wm. T. Harris, Commissioner West, Assessor Darneille, Justice Harlan, Mr. Droop, Mrs. John A. Logan, Judge Bundy, Mr. Ailes, Vice President Riggs Bank, and homes of many other prominent, well-known citizens surround these houses.

Anybody know which homes these are? I was checking out Google Street View, but couldn’t narrow down which set of row houses this would have been. The closest I could get was this one.

3 thoughts on “Exploring Columbia Heights: A Look at the Old Advertisement from 1905”

  1. To Eric–
    Yep, it could definitely be the north half of 2821 13th and the south half of 2823 13th. Good catch!

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