Changing Hands Changing hands is a list of most residential sales in the District of Columbia from the previous month. A feature of every issue, this list,based on the MRIs, is provided courtesy of Don Denton, manager of the Coldwell Banker office on Capitol Hill. The list includes address, sales price and number of bedrooms. NEIGHBORHOOD
PRICE
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FEE SIMPLE ANACOSTIA 1436 Ridge Pl SE 1438 V St SE 1626 U St SE 2305 Elvans Rd SE
$430,000 $445,000 $549,000 $675,000
CAPITOL HILL EAST 1309 E St SE #25 1723 Independence Ave SE
$1,354,385 $818,000
CONGRESS HEIGHTS 156 Darrington St SW 19 Atlantic St SE 224 Malcolm X Ave SE 2904 7th St SE 4314 Wheeler Rd SE 456 Lebaum St SE 464 Lebaum St SE 502 Chesapeake St SE 541 Mellon St SE
$460,000 $320,000 $530,000 $380,000 $300,000 $365,000 $272,000 $290,000 $480,000
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DEANWOOD 108 54th St SE 147 48th Pl NE 205 55th St NE 251 56th St NE 39 54th St SE 3961 Clay Pl NE 4252 Dix St NE 4258 Edson Pl NE 4271 Brooks St NE 4522 Eads St NE 4736 Blaine St NE 4832 Jay St NE 5070 Central Ave SE 5327 Ames St NE 54 55th St SE 5501 Eads St NE 5705 Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave NE 63 55th St SE
$440,000 $450,000 $365,000 $389,000 $380,000 $439,000 $685,000 $505,000 $456,000 $430,000 $606,000 $500,000 $456,000 $390,000 $340,000 $440,000 $507,000 $497,000
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3337 Alden Pl NE 4227 Lane Pl NE
1903 D St NE 2022 C St NE 525 21st St NE 555 24th St NE
$725,000 $800,000 $798,500 $595,000
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3403 Summit Ct NE #3403
$484,900 $620,000
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civil rights leader and she was a sharp dresser. She was such a lady and so that gave me the opportunity to show her other self.” Comas also included a black rose as a reference to an essay Bethune wrote about the “universal garden of races.” In the finished statue, Bethune stands near a stack of books whose titles reference her last will and testament. The work has even more significance because of the statue it has replaced. Maceo Thomas expressed gratitude for the replacement of a confederate statue with Bethune’s important work and legacy. “I think it's phenomenal that the state of Florida made the decision to remove the Confederate statue that was in there,” Thomas said. “Then they went through this process [to put] Mary McLeod Bethune’s statue into Statuary Hall.”
Mary McLeod Bethune made this house on Vermont Avenue NW her primary residence from 1943 to 1955. It is now a National Historic Site. Photo: S. Payne/CCN.
hune Day Academy (1404 Jackson St NE) and a Howard University dor5537 B St SE $519,990 3 mitory, the Bethune Residence Complex (2225 Fourth St. NW) are named RANDLE HEIGHTS Bethune’s Legacy for her. At the Council House, Ranger 1632 T St SE $317,000 4 More than 67 years after her death, Bet1812 S St SE $476,500 2 Fowler emphasized that Bethune’s for1818 Valley Ter SE $440,000 4 hune continues to make history in Flortitude will continue to live on as well. 1824 S St SE $415,000 2 ida and in the District. Bethune-Cook1905 Naylor Rd SE $599,900 4 “The statue being unveiled and man University, located in Daytona 3109 24th St SE $360,000 2 dedicated in Statuary Hall is the first Beach, Florida, educates nearly 3,000 statue to represent a state specifically of undergraduate students. CONDO an African American person and it is inBethune’s legacy lives on in Washdicative of her life,” Fowler said. ANACOSTIA ington as well. Both Mary McLeod Bet“She was always looking to break 1416 22nd St SE #5 $275,000 1 FORT DUPONT PARK 1416 22nd St SE #8 $495,000 2 barriers and build coalitions 4201 Hildreth St SE $305,000 2 2518 Sayles Pl SE #8 $430,000 2 with people, so I think all 4542 Alabama Ave SE $415,000 3 The memorial to Mary McLeod Bethune was Americans can look at her CAPITOL HILL EAST erected at the east end of Lincoln Park on Capitol HILLCREST 1345 K St SE #401 $740,000 2 Hill in 1974. Sculpted by Robert Berks, it honors life and legacy and see that 2228 S St SE $395,000 2 333 2nd St NE #205 $241,500 0 her work as an educator and civil-rights activist. no matter the circumstances 2529 34th St SE $950,000 4 3139 M St SE $470,000 4 that you find yourself in you CONGRESS HEIGHTS 1113 Branch Ave SE $545,000 3 210 Oakwood SE #306 $240,900 2 can overcome them.” 2404 L’enfant Sq SE $240,000 2 3415 5th St SE #46 $140,500 2 The Mary McLeod Bet2435 33rd St SE $890,000 4 3150 M Pl SE $503,000 4 hune Council House is open DEANWOOD 3674 Southern Ave SE $890,000 4 612 Eastern Ave NE #C3 $133,000 2 to visitors Thursday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to IVY CITY FAIRFAX VILLAGE 1850 Capitol Ave NE $750,000 3 4:30 p.m. There is no entry 2008 37th St SE #B $235,000 2 fee or advanced registration KINGMAN PARK FORT LINCOLN required for visitors. 1638 Kramer St NE $545,000 2 3106 Cherry Rd NE #35 $405,000 3
LILY PONDS 302 36th St NE 3322 Clay Pl NE
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$320,000 $380,000
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E a s t o f t h e R i v er D C N e w s . c o m
MARSHALL HEIGHTS
$425,000
HILL EAST 1391 Pennsylvania Ave SE #353 1811 E Capitol St SE #1 u
$281,000 $525,000
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Sarah Payne is a general assignment reporter for Capital Community News. She can be reached at sarahp@hillrag.com. u
