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Adams Morgan ADAMS MORGAN is not a legal neighborhood of Washington DC but a community within Kalorama, Mt. Pleasant, and Columbia Heights. If you have questions about the following data or want more information, contact us at 202-965-3715. If you would like to be included in periodic e-mail updates on this or other neighborhoods, send your name and e-mail address to info@hananhomes.com. As of September 30, 2008, 19 single-family homes were for sale in Adams Morgan, with four listed for over $l million. Twelve were under contract, all of which were listed for under $1 million. In the third quarter of 2008, 12 homes sold with only two over $1 million. In the first half of 2008, 21 single-family homes sold in Adams Morgan. In 2007, there were 64 sales, while 67 homes sold in 2006. The average sale price in the first half of 2008 was $778,298. This compares to $818,055 and $766,437 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $830,110 in the first half of 2008, $836,316 in 2007, and $793,170 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range. Be advised that since Adams Morgan is not a legal subdivision of Washington, boundaries are estimates.
The number of condominiums and cooperatives that sold in the third quarter of 2008 totaled 70, with 47 under contract. There were 107 condos and coops for sale as of September 30, 2008. For the first half of 2008, 103 condos/coops were sold, 282 for the year 2007, and 298 in 2006. The average sales price was $447,311 in the first half of 2008, $471,512 in 2007, and $476,116 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
For well over two decades, real estate property values rose markedly in Adams Morgan. Residences range from modest units in rowhouses to new loft condos that are built over stores or redesigned warehouses to refurbished turn-of-the-century jewels. The styles from which to choose are as eclectic as the neighborhood - Federals, Victorians, contemporaries, Beaux Arts, and Art Deco. So too are the types of residences which include detached and semi-detached homes, townhouses, and low-rise and mid-rise condos and coops. Adams Morgan is considered the most multi-ethnic and culturally diverse neighborhood in Washington DC. The cuisine of the local restaurants exemplifies the diversity and makes Adams Morgan an exciting place to live. The nightclub life abounds as do colorful building murals. Adams Morgan has been described as vibrant, eclectic, and funky and is often compared to New York City's Greenwich Village and SoHo and San Francisco's Haight Asbury. Eighteenth Street is the main commercial corridor. In addition to restaurants, there are numerous shops, galleries, clothiers, and book stores that reflect the neighborhood. Every September for over 20 years, the Adams Morgan Day Festival closes down 18th Street to celebrate the neighborhood's diversity. The Adams Morgan Farmers Market located at Columbia Road and 18th Street is open every Saturday from May through December. The expansive Meridian Hill Park is located on 16th Street. Also known as Malcolm X Park, it is of neoclassical park design and used as a park for the performing arts. The Friends of Meridian Hill Park were one of the first neighborhood groups to help restore and renovate local parks. There are two public elementary schools in Adams Morgan, H.D. Cooke and John Quincy Adams. Cardozo Senior High School is also located in Adams Morgan. The public charter school for preschool and kindergarten, Academy for the Arts, is on New Hampshire Avenue. By the late 1800s, Adams Morgan was divided into four subdivisions - Washington Heights, Lanier Heights, Meridian Hill, and Cliffbourne. Lanier Heights, the most elite and well-known of the subdivisions, was started by George Brown Good, Director of the Smithsonian, who bought tracts of land, put in streets, and sold lots to his friends. The neighborhood was the home of the famous landmark, the Knickerbocker Theater which roof collapsed from a heavy snowstorm in January 1922. The bucolic nature of the neighborhood was changed by the introduction of a streetcar line on 18th Street in 1892, soon followed by another line in 1897 on Columbia Road. By the turn of the century the mansions that overlooked the city were surrounded by apartment buildings and rowhouses. Adams Morgan had many notable residents in buildings like the Ontario, the Norwood, and the Wyoming including General Douglas Macarthur, Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, and Admiral Robert E. Peary. With the large influx of government workers during World War II, many of the neighborhood's palatial homes were converted into boarding houses, and by the1950s Adams Morgan began to decline. Brown vs. the Board of Education put Adams Morgan in the history books. In 1955, two segregated elementary schools, Thomas P. Morgan for African-Americans and the all-white John Quincy Adams were peacefully integrated. This event made Washington the first major city to successfully integrate schools. The neighborhood was renamed for the two schools to commemorate the event. The early 1960s saw an influx of Cubans, who joined the small group of Spanish-speaking residents who worked at nearby embassies. They were soon followed by immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. In the late 1980s, so-called yuppies began to move into the neighborhood.
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