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Mount Pleasant 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, 10 single-family homes were for sale in Mount Pleasant, and 10 were under contract. In the third quarter of 2008, 18 homes sold. In the first half of 2008, 31 single-family homes sold in Mount Pleasant. In 2007, there were 75 sales, while 88 homes sold in 2006. The average sale price in the first half of 2008 was $706,973. This compares to $749,083 and $737,280 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $715,731 in the first half of 2008, $744,772 in 2007, and $739,220 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 43, with 16 under contract. There were 55 condos and coops for sale as of September 30, 2008. For the first half of 2008, 67 condos/coops sold, 162 for the year 2007, and 164 in 2006. The average sales price was $390,989 in the first half of 2008, $417,491 in 2007, and $414,983 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
As diverse as its culture, so are the residences in Mount Pleasant. The homes from the turn of the century, both the palatial detached houses and townhouses, reflect the classical styles. Several of the larger buildings provide a grand presence to Mount Pleasant. Many of these homes have dormer windows, columned porches, and patterned rooflines. Residences built between 1900 and 1925 were small apartment houses and townhouses, most retaining a classical revival style. The larger apartment buildings were restricted to 16th Street. While a revival of the neighborhood was started in the late 1980s and 1990s, it was not until the last few years that the value of homes rose dramatically. Mount Pleasant is a culturally diverse neighborhood. It is also diverse in the amenities it has to offer its residents. The commercial center of the neighborhood is Mount Pleasant Street that reflects its origin as a turn of the century development on a streetcar line. There are numerous historic and architecturally significant churches in the neighborhood, giving 16th Street the nicknames Church Hill or Avenue of Churches. The influence of Adams Morgan (see highlights of Adams Morgan) in the southern part of Mount Pleasant with its restaurants and nightclubs provide even more flavor to Mount Pleasant's offerings to its residents. The neighborhood has a library branch which was constructed in 1925 and designed by New York architect Edward Tilton in the Italian Renaissance Style. Bancroft and HD Cooke Elementary Schools are located in Mount Pleasant. Its northwestern boundary is the National Zoological Park. The Mount Pleasant Farmers Market is held every Saturday morning from May through December at 17th and Lamont Streets. In the mid 1700s, Robert Peter owned an estate he called Pleasant Plains which stretched from 7th Street going west to Georgetown and north into Maryland. In 1850, William Selden, who was the US Treasurer from 1839 until 1850, purchased a parcel of the estate. Just before the Civil War, he moved out of Washington back to his home state of Virginia. In 1861, Samuel P. Brown of Maine bought Selden's property and enlarged his house into a 30-room mansion. Ingleside was another grand house in what is now Mount Pleasant. It was the home of John Ingle, a friend of George Washington. After the Civil War, Brown subdivided the estate and named his development, Mount Pleasant. In 1865 the demand for housing was not high and only five acre lots were sold at $650 each. A group of government workers, largely from New England, pooled their money to buy a tract of land which they subdivided into rowhouses. So many federal employees moved into the neighborhood the community was dubbed "Clerksville." By the 1870s, the price per acre rose to $2,000-$4,000. Because of the inordinate number of New Englanders and the neighborhood's isolation from the city, the character of the community was that of a New England village. Transportation was greatly improved with the introduction of electric trolleys in the early 1900s and the widening of 16th Street. In the 1930s and 40s, apartment buildings constructed on 16th Street brought more traffic and short-term residents to the neighborhood. The large rowhouses were subdivided into several residences, especially during the DC housing shortage of World War II. Property declined in the 1960s. Beginning in the 1980s, the neighborhood has had an influx of young professionals looking for bargains and ready to renovate.
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