1806 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. (center) – Built in 1901, the Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque property currently serves as headquarters for the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Previous occupants include George Evan Roberts (director of the
U.S. Mint, president of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago, and author), John Kerfoot Souther (an artist and member of the
Cosmos Club), Mary A. Kirkup (an artist), the Persian National Association of America (headquarters), the Arab States Delegation (headquarters), Charles E. Miller (
CPA, banker, and
U.S. ambassador to
Liberia), and the Embassy of
Somalia.
1808 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. (right) – Built in 1883 for Walter Paris, an architect and artist, the Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque property has operated as the Swann House
bed and breakfast since 1996; the
innkeepers are Mary Lotto Ross and Rick Verkler. In addition to the original and current owners, previous occupants include
Colonel Theodore W. Tyrer, Eva Roberts Cromwell (the widow of Oliver Eaton Cromwell; her marriage to
Edward T. Stotesbury in 1912 took place at the New Hampshire Avenue property; wedding guests included
U.S. PresidentWilliam Howard Taft,
First LadyHelen Herron Taft, and
J. P. Morgan),
David F. Houston, Edward Philip Farley (chairman of the
U.S. Shipping Board),
Edith Cummings,
George A. Garrett, and a large number of residents when the property operated as a
boarding house from the 1940s–1990s.
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