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Brookland 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, 79 single-family homes were for sale in Brookland with 18 homes under contract. In the third quarter of 2008, 17 homes sold. In the first half of 2008, 50 single-family homes sold in Brookland. In 2007, there were 136 sales, while 162 homes sold in 2006. The average sale price in the first half of 2008 was $361,294. This compares to $383,921 and $382,367 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $376,846 in the first half of 2008, $390,721 in 2007, and $388,864 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
The early 20th century development of Brookland consisted of several architectural styles including Queen Anne, Victorian, Colonial Revival, bungalows, Craftsman, and Sears and Roebuck catalog houses. Most of the homes still remain, and over the last few years many have been refurbished. Renovations are underway or recently completed on at least one or more houses or apartments on most Brookland blocks. To save the veterans retirement home, its administrators have proposed a master plan allowing nine million square feet, more than half of its property, to be developed into condos, retail space, a hotel, embassies, and medical and office buildings. Brookland is one of the largest, if not the largest neighborhood in the city. While there are many residences there, much of the land is occupied by some of the city's finest institutions. The neighborhood was once called "Little Rome" because the grouping of Catholic institutions was the largest outside of Rome. In addition to Catholic University and its many colleges, libraries, and study houses are the magnificent Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Franciscan Monastery, and the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center. Brookland is also the home of the Washington Hospital Center, Childrens Hospital, the National Rehabilitation Center, Veterans Hospital, and the US Soldiers and Airmens Home. Public recreation areas abound in the neighborhood including the Taft Recreation Center, Fort Totten Park, and Fort Barker Hill Park. Archbishop Carroll High School, Moore Academy Senior High School, and Burroughs and Noyes Elementary Schools are located in Brookland. The Fort Totten and Brookland/CUA Metro lines serve the neighborhood. The Historic Brookland Farmers Market is held at 10th and Otis every Tuesday evening and Sundays between June and October. In 2005 the Washington Post reported that Brookland has been a relatively strong-knit neighborhood, generally has higher home ownership rates and median household incomes than the city average. While shopping was limited in the past, several major chains have begun to enter the neighborhood. In the early 1700s, Richard Marsham owned 1,500 acres in Maryland. His descendant, Nicholas Queen, inherited the property, which was then in DC, in the early 1800s. His daughter married Colonel Jehiel Brooks, an officer in the War of 1812, and in the 1830s they inherited 150 acres of Queen's estate. In 1840 Brooks built a Greek-revival mansion and called it Bellair after the area's reputation for clean, fresh air. Brookland was named after Jehiel Brooks. George W. Riggs, the founder of Riggs National Bank (now PNC) had an estate where the Old Soldiers Home is now located. In 1851, Congress bought the estate and its mansion for the veterans' retirement home. It is on its grounds that Abraham Lincoln wrote the final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. In the early 1870s the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened its western branch line in the area. In 1887, Catholic University was established just north of Brooks farm. From that time and through 1910 the farm and surrounding area was dispersed into ten subdivisions. The new suburbs were later divided into streets and building lots. The neighborhood was inhabited by government workers, scientists, immigrant craftsmen, and those associated with the university. Important residents included Marjorie Kinhan Rawlings (author of the Yearling), poet Sterling Brown, singer Pearl Bailey, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Ralph J. Bunche, and the first black cabinet member Robert Weaver.
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