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Logan Circle Logan Circle is not a legal neighborhood but lies in the middle of the Old City 2 neighborhood. 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, two single-family homes was for sale in Logan Circle, and only one was under contract. In the third quarter of 2008, three homes sold. In the first half of 2008, 16 single-family homes sold in Logan Circle. In 2007, there were 29 sales, while 28 homes sold in 2006. The average sale price in the first half of 2008 was $815,809. This compares to $936,781 and $917,136 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $859,466 in the first half of 2008, $959,110 in 2007, and $937,093 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
The number of condominiums and cooperatives that sold in the third quarter of 2008 totaled 66, with 31 under contract. There were 85 condos and coops for sale as of September 30, 2008. For the first half of 2008, 113 condos/coops sold, 246 for the year 2007, and 244 in 2006. The average sales price was $486,519 in the first half of 2008, $546,012 in 2007, and $492,794 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
The renovated Victorian townhouses of Logan Circle date from the 25 year period between 1875 and 1900. Being on a circle and radial streets, the lots and fronts are irregularly shaped. The buildings are three to five stories and the architectural styles represented include Late Victorian, Richardsonian, Second Empire, Romanesque Revival, and New Orleans. Construction materials were usually brick, pressed brick, or stone and several are embellished with extraordinary ornamental ironwork. Most of the luxury homes have been renovated to their original grandeur in recent years. Turn of the century coops and condominium buildings are located in the area and several of the townhouses have been renovated into luxury condominiums. Logan Circle is the only circle in the original L'Enfant Plan that remains a residential circle. The historic district encompasses eight blocks and looks much as it did in the late 19th Century. Without cars on the street, a voyage through an elegant long-past era would not seem impossible. During the holidays, a house tour is scheduled of the historic homes. Also of historic significance in the neighborhood is the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, a museum and archive run by the National Park Service. Not only is the neighborhood close to downtown, but the commercial sector of 14th Street has been revitalized with numerous shops and new restaurants. One of the first to come to the neighborhood on P Street was Whole Foods. The Studio Theater, one of the city's independent theater groups, is located at 14th and P. Logan Circle was named by Washingtonian magazine in 2005 as one of the top neighborhoods for singles on the move. It, however, has appeal for families as well with two elementary schools nearby, Garrison and Seaton, and Shaw Junior High School off Rhode Island Avenue. In L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the city, there was to be an inverted triangle formed by two avenues (Connecticut and Vermont) with the White House as the base and two circles at the other angles, which were to become DuPont Circle and Logan Circle. The area around Iowa Circle, the original name of the circle, was called Blodget's Wilderness (see history of Shaw/U-Street Corridor) and was still pastureland by the Civil War. During the 1860s, it could be described as a slum with vagrants, drifters, and freed slaves who lived in wooden shacks. The field that is now the circle was an executioner's square where spies and deserters from the war were hanged. In 1864 a horse trolley service began running on 14th Street, and when the Territorial Government made more road improvements and started providing services north and west of downtown, development followed. Logan Circle became a fashionable and desirable neighborhood when grand townhouses were built in the 1870s until the turn of the century. The circle itself was landscaped in 1874 and a small fountain placed in its center. Fourteenth Street became the neighborhood's commercial district. In 1901 the circle was renamed for John Logan, a Civil War General and Senator from Illinois who briefly lived at #4 Logan Circle in 1885. The base of his statue was designed by Richard Morris Hunt who also designed the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. The sculpture was created by Franklin Simmons and is the only entirely bronze statue and base in the city. By the end of the century, the first of many car showrooms and garages opened. Many of the more wealthy residences began to move to even larger residences to the west in Dupont Circle, Kalorama and further west on Massachusetts Avenue. Over the first four decades of the new century the area became a center of intellectual and socially prominent blacks. Among the new residents were Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of the National Council of Negro Women; Belford Lawson, a famed civil rights attorney; and Judge Marjorie Lawson, the first black woman appointed to a judgeship by a US president; Congressman Adam Clayton Powell; John Lankford, the city's first African-American professional architect; and Mary Jane Patterson, the first African-American woman to earn a college degree. The neighborhood began to decline in the 1950s. Many homes became bawdy rooming houses or were boarded up. In the next decades the houses were bought up for renovation, but it wasn't until the late 1990s that the neighborhood's value was realized. The Logan Circle Historic District was recognized in 1972.
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