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Massachusetts Avenue 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, eight single-family homes were for sale in Massachusetts Avenue Heights. Seven of the houses range from $1.125 million to $8.3 million. An almost 24,000 sq. ft. house on Benton Place was on the market for $18.5 million. No houses were under contract. In the third quarter of 2008, two homes sold, with one selling for $3.75 million and the other for $6 million. In the first half of 2008, two single-family homes sold in Massachusetts Avenue Heights. In 2007, there were seven sales, while six homes were sold in 2006. The average sale price in the first half of 2008 was $2,035,000. This compares to $4,513,571 and $4,664,167 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $2,172,000 in the first half of 2008, $4,855,714 in 2007, and $5,607,500 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
The luxury manor homes built along and near Massachusetts Avenue in the late 1880s and 1890s were brick or combinations of brick and brownstone. They were in the Queen Anne, Chateauesque, Richardsonian Romanesque and early Georgian Revival styles. Between 1900 and 1910, Mass. Avenue Heights residences had a Beaux Arts style added to the mix, as homes were built further north. These largely white limestone buildings were styled in the manner of Louis XV and XVI, Italian 16th century, Neo-classical, and 16th Century Northern European. The designs from the Cleveland Park neighborhoods could also be found in the northern sections of the area. Today the newer homes, usually stone or brick, follow many of the same styles. Several homes in the Normanstone Parkway area and off Woodland Road have several acres of rolling land. Massachusetts Avenue Heights is regal. The homes are grand and the lawns are manicured. Several of the streets wind through wooded areas, making it hard to believe the community is in the heart of a metropolitan city. Like Kalorama to its south, Massachusetts Avenue Heights has many embassies. From Dupont Circle and through Kalorama and Massachusetts Avenue Heights, the area surrounding Massachusetts Avenue is known as Embassy Row. While several of the older palatial buildings are embassies, many of the new grand homes are residences. Much of Massachusetts Avenue Heights has a tranquil, sylvan appearance with single lane bridges and narrow roads winding through the neighborhood. Within the Normanstone parkway is the Kahil Gibran Memorial Garden. Several of the streets also end in cul-de-sacs. Rock Creek Park forms the southeast border of the community. The impressive Washington National Cathedral, St. Albans School, the upper school of National Cathedral School, and Beauvoir Elementary are located in Massachusetts Avenue Heights. The northern section of Massachusetts Avenue Heights was part of the parcel of land granted to George Beall of Georgetown in 1723 and of a smaller parcel of that land purchased by Uriah Forrest, Benjamin Stoddart, and William Deakins in the early 1790s and called Pretty Prospects (see history of Cleveland Park). One of the estates that was carved out of Pretty Prospects was an Italianate mansion built in 1858 called both Belvoir and Beauvoir, which means beautiful view in French. The manor and its 13 acres were the summer residence of Dr. Samuel Busey. Upon his death in 1901, the property was given to Nevada Senator William Sharon. Mr. and Mrs. J. Townsend Russell, the last owners and the Residentary Canon of Washington, gave the property to the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation in 1922. The Beauvoir Elementary School was housed in the building until the early 1960s. The city designed by L'Enfant in 1791 was to include a national cathedral, but it was not until 1893 that Congress granted a charter to the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia. The National Cathedral School for girls was established in 1900 and St. Albans School for boys in 1905, and both preceded the Cathedral. Dr. Henry Yates Satterlee, the first bishop of Washington, helped secure Mount Saint Albans as the site. Mount Saint Albans was originally owned by Joseph Nourse who bought the land in 1813. His daughter, Phoebe, who died in 1850, left $40 in gold for the establishment of St. Albans Church. In 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt struck the foundation stone with the mallet used by George Washington to dedicate the Capitol Building. The final tower was completed in 1990. The southern section of Massachusetts Avenue Heights, particularly along Massachusetts Avenue, was much like its neighbor to the south (see history of Kalorama). Many fine residences were built along Massachusetts Avenue. Until the depression, some of Washington and the country's most influential citizens lived on or near the Avenue. When many lost their fortunes, the estate homes were bought by embassies and associations.
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