72-010 Van Horn-Mitchell House 4706 Mann Street Deanwood
72-014 D.C. Boundary Marker NE 8 4200 Andalusia Lane Capitol Heights
Built c. 1803 for the family of Archibald Van Horn, a state legislator and U.S. Congressman, the Van Horn-Mitchell House is a two-and-one-half-story, side-gabled, brick plantation house executed in the Federal style. Since 1940 it has been the home of the Mitchell family, local leaders in the Muslim faith, who had come to Washington from the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The home has been a gathering place for such prominent black individuals as Portia Washington Pittman, Mohammed Ali, Elijah Mohammed, Malcolm X, and Anwar Sadat.
Laid in 1792, this is one of 40 stone boundary markers surveyed by Major Andrew Ellicott and delineating the boundary of the District of Columbia in Maryland and Virginia. The protective iron fence was installed by the Little John Boyden Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) on June 30, 1926. Northeast Mile Marker 8 lies in a difficult-tofind wooded area off Kenilworth Avenue. The marker appears to have been damaged by gunfire. Photo by Mark Zimmerman.
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