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Burleith 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, eight single-family homes were for sale in Burleith, six of which were in Hillandale, with two homes under contract. In the third quarter of 2008, 11 homes sold. In the first half of 2008, 10 single-family homes sold in Burleith. In 2007, there were 36 sales, while 30 homes sold in 2006. The average sale price in the first half of 2008 was $1,055,000. This compares to $911,222 and $903,103 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $l,089,500 in the first half of 2008, $930,878 in 2007, and $909,193 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
There are more than 500 two-to-four bedroom properties in Burleith with rowhouses as the predominant style. The rowhouses built by Shannon and Luchs in the 1920s were architecturally different although basically Dutch Colonials and Georgian adaptations with varying brick colors with stone, wood and/or plaster and varying roof lines, generally slate. There are also Tudor, Victorian and Federal rowhouses and a few detached farmhouses. Homes usually are backed with an alley with parking and garages available for most. Many have front and backyard, sleeping porches and established trees and shrubbery. Their original cost were between $8,950 and $13,500. Today these homes sell in the range of $650,000 to slightly over $1,000,000. Most of the houses have been refurbished, but their character and facade remain true to the original design. A few houses have recently been razed and replaced with more contemporary designs. Hillandale is a gated community with a guard on duty. Tennis courts and swimming pool are just a few of the community's amenities. Residential pluses include garages, elevators, and high ceilings. While the majority of Hillandale homes are contemporary and Federal red-bricked townhouses, there are also several detached homes with magnificent views. Burleith is often referred to as Upper Georgetown because of its convenient location just north of the residences and shopping of Georgetown. It, however, is secluded from much of the traffic that commutes through or travels into Georgetown. It is home to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts where the John Threlkeld manor and Western High School once stood. Hardy Middle School and the Fillmore Art Center are on the border of Burleith and occupy the space of the Fillmore Elementary School built in 1892. The elementary school of the Washington International School now occupies the previous home of the House of Good Shepherd, a home for women and girls. The French Embassy and Chancery are also located on Reservoir Road in Burleith. The neighborhood is bordered on two sides by parkland, Glover-Archbold Park and Whitehaven Parkway. It lies just north of Georgetown Hospital. While the development planned by Shannon and Luchs was to include shopping, none materialized. The so-called Social Safeway to the west of Burleith replaced the need for the smaller corner stores that had once dotted the community. Henry Threlkeld was an early settler who in the early 1700s bought an estate of 1,000 acres, known as Berleith, which extended from the Potomac and included the grounds of the future Georgetown University, Visitation Convent, Duke Elllington School, and today's Burleith. His son, John, was mayor of Georgetown in 1793 who conveyed almost 12 acres to his son-in-law, John Cox, who also served as Georgetown's mayor. In order for John Cox to serve, however, the city limits of Georgetown were expanded to include his estate. His manor home, The Cedars, was destroyed by fire in 1847 but rebuilt by his son, Richard. Because of Richard's sympathies to the South, The Cedars was confiscated during the Civil War and used by the Home for Destitute Colored Women and Children. After the war, it was returned to Richard Cox. It was later converted into Misses Earles' Seminary. In 1892, Western High School replaced the Seminary. The area was known as Cox's Woods. In 1886, Frederick W. Huidekoper purchased Berleith hoping to build larger homes on the site, but in 1923 he sold his holdings to the Shannon & Luchs real estate firm. The company built over 400 rowhouses between 1923 and 1928. Another development company added Tudor-style rowhouses at the end of the decade. In 1922, Anne Archbold, an heiress to the Standard Oil of New Jersey fortune, bought 70 acres in the western section of what is now Burleith. She hired architect, Josephine Chapman, to design a Tuscan villa/farmhouse which resulted in the 34-room Hillandale Mansion. Mrs. Archbold and Riggs Bank executive, Charles Glover, donated almost 200 acres to create Glover-Archbold Park. Mrs. Archbold's property was eventually sold and in the 1980s and 90s, Hillandale, a gated community of almost 300 properties, was built.
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