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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. 1. Name of Property Historic name: Slowe-Burrill House___________________________ Other names/site number: Slowe-Burrill House___________________________ Name of related multiple property listing : N/A________________________________________________________ (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Location Street & number: 1256 Kearny St, NE_________________ City or town: __Washington, D.C.__________ State: ____________ County: _U.S._______ Not For Publication: N/A Vicinity: N/A ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property ___ meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: ___national ___statewide _ __local Applicable National Register Criteria: _ __A ___B ___C ___D Signature of certifying official/Title: Date ______________________________________________ State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Slowe-Burrill House Washington, DC Name of Property County and State In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official: Date Title : State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: X Public – Local Public – State Public – Federal Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) X District Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Slowe-Burrill House Washington, DC Name of Property County and State Site Structure Object Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing ______1____ ____________ buildings _____________ _____________ sites _____________ _____________ structures _____________ _____________ objects _____________ ______________ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register __0_______ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) Domestic/single dwelling = House ___________________ ___________________ Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) Domestic/single dwelling = House ___________________ ___________________ Sections 1-6 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Slowe-Burrill House Washington, DC Name of Property County and State ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) Queen Anne ________ ___________________ ___________________ Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: Wood______________ ___________________ ___________________ Narrative Description ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph The Slowe-Burrill House is located at 1256 Kearny Street NE in Washington D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood. Sited on square 3930, lot 3, the 7,500 square-foot rectangular parcel fronts Kearny Street and abuts neighboring properties at 1250 Kearny Street to the west and 1260 Kearny Street to the east. The block is bound by 12th Street NE to the west, Lawrence Street NE to the north, 13 th Street NE to the east, and Kearny Street NE to the south. The house sits atop a small knoll set back set back from the street. Notable site features include the terraced front yard with stone-lined planting beds, flagstone steps, and an iron gate. The narrow side yards and the large, fully-fenced, grassy back yard are landscaped with mature trees and low shrubs. The two-story dwelling was constructed in 1890 for original owner James Ward. 1 Designed in the Queen Anne style, the two-and-a-half story house features a side-gabled main volume with a second-story front-gabled projecting bay extending over the front porch. The house has a bay window located within the second-story projecting bay and an oriel window at the east elevation. ______________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Description The house at 1256 Kearny Street NE represents an example of Queen Anne architecture. The two-and-a-half story, wood-frame dwelling rests on a brick and concrete foundation. It is 1 Building Permit #0358 (14 August 1890). Note that History Quest incorrectly cites August 13; the microfiche permit held at National Archives is dated August 14, 1890. Also note that the permit includes a notation: “Joliet St. Frankfort,” referring to street names used prior to Kearny Street. The 1894 Hopkins map depicts Joliet Street, and Baist maps as late at 1954 depict Frankfort Street. See section titled “Additional Documentation.” Section 7 page 4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Slowe-Burrill House Washington, DC Name of Property County and State primarily clad with wood clapboard siding and is topped with a composite shingle-clad side- gable and lean-to roof. Unless otherwise noted, the original windows were replaced with the current, one-over-one, double-hung replacement vinyl windows. Typical exterior doors are replacement wood-paneled doors with glazing. The south (front) elevation of 1256 Kearny Street NE consists of two bays. It has a full-width front porch supported by simple Tuscan columns. The porch, which can only be accessed from the building interior, is supported by brick piers and features wood flooring and a beadboard ceiling and is bound by a simple wood railing. A set of one-light wood French doors at the west end of the porch open to the interior living room. A multi-lite fixed window is located east of the French doors.2 A projecting second-story front-gabled bay extends above the porch. It features a bay window with aluminum flashing. Fish scale shingles clad the gabled end of the projecting bay. The dwelling’s current main entrance is located within a side porch at the west elevation. It consists of a single-leaf paneled wood door with a fan light and infilled rectangular transom. Accessed by three wood steps, the side porch is supported by brick piers and has a simple wood railing. A second-story projecting bay supported by two square wood columns extends over the porch and features south, west, and north-facing single-hung windows. South of the side porch, the west elevation features two inward-opening awning windows, situated high near the top of the first story. North of the side porch, the west elevation features a narrow casement window (situated mid-façade, between the first and second stories); a first-story single-hung window (within an altered opening that appears to have been taller, historically); a second-story single- hung window; and one second-story window opening containing two sets of paired, wood-frame, eight-lite casement windows. A two-story lean-to bay extends from the (rear) north elevation. A one-story addition constructed in 2017 has been constructed onto the north end of the lean-to bay. According to the current owners, the addition replaced a previously existing coop/shed structure. 3 The addition features fully-glazed wood-frame French doors and paired, six-lite, aluminum-frame casement windows with faux muntins. The second story of the lean-to bay above the addition features two window openings, each containing two sets of paired, eight-lite, wood-frame
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