Restored
Millwork & plaster
Every original casing, plinth block, and picture rail retained or replicated from cast molds. Plaster keys re-anchored rather than skimmed over drywall.
Offered privately · Park View · Washington DC
The KenyonColonial
A 1915 brick rowhouse on a quiet, tree-canopied Park View block — an eight-minute walk to the Green and Yellow lines, Wonderland Ballroom straight down your own street, and literal minutes on foot to Hook Hall, Midlands, St. Vincent, Sonny's, Odd Provisions and the 11th Street corridor.
- Bedrooms
- 2
- Baths
- 2.5
- Built
- 1915
- Original footprint
- 12.5′ × 28′
- Square / Lot
- 2892 / 0088
- Neighborhood
- Park View
The walk-through
Walk it before youwalk it.
Eight films — facade to back gate — animated from photographs of the house itself.
I · The Facade
Pressed brick, black door, 1915 still holding the line.
II · The Galley, Looking Out
Down the galley, black French doors open onto the patio.
III · The Living Room
One unbroken run of oak, front window to back hall.
IV · The Kitchen
Slate tile to the ceiling, garden doors at the end of the galley.
V · The Range Wall
Stainless, stone, and a timber ledge of everyday things.
VI · The Threshold
Black steel doors, and the house keeps going.
VII · The Patio
Patterned tile, café lights, canopy overhead.
VIII · The Patio Lounge
A bench, a low table, the quiet end of the day.
Interactive
Every room, measured
3D capture pending
Dimensions are approximate, from the appraisal sketch. The Matterport 3D capture, floor plans, and permit history are shared on request — ask in your inquiry.
The Property
Some houses are renovated.This one was returned.
Raised in 1915 on permit No. 2461 — one of four brick dwellings put up together for M. D. Campbell — 749 Kenyon spent a century absorbing Washington — streetcars, rooming-house partitions, drop ceilings, four coats of latex over the crown. The restoration took two years and proceeded permit by permit.
Every original casing and plinth block was retained or replicated from cast molds. Twenty-eight sashes were rebuilt in place rather than replaced. Behind that, the house is entirely new.
A house that looks its age and performs like it doesn't.
Measured from the front door
2 min
St. Vincent Wine & Sonny's Pizza
3100 block Georgia Ave · ~0.1 mi, one block east
6 min
Wonderland Ballroom
1101 Kenyon St NW · ~0.3 mi, straight down your own street
7 min
El Chucho
3313 11th St NW · ~0.35 mi to the rooftop
11 min
Columbia Heights Metro
Green & Yellow at 14th & Irving · ~0.55 mi
11 min
Target, Lidl & Best Buy
DC USA, 3100 14th St NW · ~0.55 mi
12 min
Downtown by rail
Gallery Place / Metro Center
The block
St. Vincent is one block east. Wonderland is at the end of your own street.
~0.1 mi · 2 min on foot
St. Vincent Wine
3130 Georgia Ave NW
One block east. A wine garden and bottle shop with live jazz under string lights — the closest thing this house has to a front room away from home. Sonny's Pizza, square slices and natural wine, is next door at 3120.
~0.3 mi · 6 min on foot
Wonderland Ballroom
1101 Kenyon St NW
Walk out the front door, turn right, and keep going — Wonderland sits at the far end of Kenyon Street. Corner bar downstairs, dance floor and beer garden up. No turns required.
~0.35 mi · 7 min on foot
El Chucho
3313 11th St NW
Tacos and margaritas under the string lights of the rooftop, with all-night happy hour on Mondays. Queen's English, The Coupe and Odd Provisions are within two blocks of it.
~0.55 mi · 11 min on foot
Columbia Heights Metro
14th & Irving St NW
Green and Yellow lines, twelve minutes to Gallery Place. Georgia Ave–Petworth is the same two lines about 0.5 mi north, so the house has two stations inside a twelve-minute walk.
Neighborhood images are illustrative evening scenes of the corridor, not photographs of the named businesses. Walking distances are measured door-to-door along the sidewalk route and are approximate.
In close
The patio tile
Black-and-white encaustic-pattern cement tile, laid wall to wall.
Kitchen to patio
The rear doors open straight onto the lit terrace.
Kitchen to living
Open shelving, brick-shaped tile, and the run of oak beyond.
The front door
White painted brick, a covered porch, and warm wood at the entry — photographed at the house.
The Restoration Log
Elegant upgrades, itemized — because buyers of old houses buy the mechanicals too.
Restored
Windows
Twenty-eight original double-hung sashes rebuilt in place with new weight cords, weatherstripped, and paired with low-E interior storms.
New
Systems
Two-zone high-velocity HVAC, 200-amp service, whole-house water filtration, and a fully re-piped supply in copper and PEX-A.
New
Kitchen & baths
Full gut to the studs. Marble slabs book-matched on site; radiant floors underfoot.
New
Envelope
Closed-cell foam at the roof deck, repointed brick with historically matched lime mortar, new membrane roof with a 30-year warranty.
Character
What was left alone
The stair rail's worn spot. The 1915 iron coal grate. The slate stoop. Restoration is knowing when to stop.
The street, and what's off it
A quiet block, not a through street
Kenyon runs residential and tree-canopied between Georgia Avenue and Sherman — traffic-calmed, low-volume, and lined with the same 1920s brick rows. The protected bike lane network picks up at the corner and carries you downtown without touching a car lane; a Capital Bikeshare dock sits within a block.
Dinner without the car keys
Wonderland Ballroom is six minutes straight down Kenyon with no turns. Odd Provisions is six, El Chucho seven, Queen's English and The Coupe eight. Georgia Avenue — St. Vincent, Sonny's, Midlands, Hook Hall — starts at the corner. Close enough to walk home from dinner; far enough that you don't hear it from bed.
Beyond the block
Quiet street. Everything else within a mile.
Kenyon Street itself is residential and still — but Georgia Avenue is a three-minute walk, the 11th Street corridor is six, and Rock Creek Park is a short ride down the protected lane.
Mount Pleasant
~1.0 mi · Sunday farmers market, Lamont Street shops
Petworth
~0.5 mi · Upshur Street restaurants, Yes! Organic
Columbia Heights
~0.6 mi · DC USA, Tivoli, GALA Hispanic Theatre
Shaw / U Street
~1.2 mi · one Metro stop south
Bloomingdale
~1.0 mi · Big Bear Cafe, Red Hen
Rock Creek Park
~1.2 mi · trailheads at Piney Branch Parkway
Find it online — the public record
Everything a buyer can pull up on us, listed here first.
- Beds / baths
- 2 / 2.5
- Recorded neighborhood
- Park View
- Original permit
- No. 2461
- Square / Lot
- 2892 / 0088
current configuration
DC OTR designation, ZIP 20010
26 Nov 1915 · four brick dwellings
DC Master Address Repository
Record data is reproduced as published by the District and lags the current condition of the house. No pricing, assessment or tax figures are published here — pricing is discussed directly with qualified buyers and cooperating agents. Buyers should verify square footage and permits with DC OTR and DOB.
Provenance
A house is worth more when it can tell you where it's been.
Everything below comes from the District's own records — the 1915 building permit, the landmark file across the street, and the tax roll.
1888–1912
The block fills in, house by house
Square 2892 was never built by one developer. Permit records show it going up in small parcels over twenty-five years — C. H. Williams at 725 in 1888, Edgar Ball's four houses at 735–741 in 1894 designed by Calvin T. S. Brent, one of Washington's first Black architects, and A. N. Miller's pair at 757–759 in 1912.
DC HistoryQuest, Square 2892 permits
1915
Permit No. 2461
On 26 November 1915 the District issued a single permit to owner M. D. Campbell for four brick dwellings — 749, 751, 753 and 755 Kenyon Street NW. Each was recorded at 12.5 feet wide by 28 deep. The permit's architect and builder fields were left blank, as they often were on small speculative groups.
DC HPO HistoryQuest, permit 2461
1898 / 1927
The Bruce School, across the street
770 Kenyon Street NW — the view from the front windows — is the Blanche Kelso Bruce School, built in 1898 to William M. Poindexter's Renaissance Revival design, with a 1927 Colonial Revival annex by municipal architect Albert L. Harris. Named for the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, it served Black students through segregation and doubled as a community hall.
HPRB Case 13-21 staff report
2014–15
Landmarked
The Bruce School was added to the DC Inventory of Historic Sites on 20 November 2014 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 31 March 2015 — which is why the sightline across Kenyon Street is unlikely to change.
DC Office of Planning; National Register
Today
The restoration
A two-year, permit-by-permit restoration returning the house to its 1915 proportions with 21st-century systems beneath. The house sits on Square 2892, Lot 0088.
DC Master Address Repository
Permit, landmark, and tax figures are drawn from DC HistoryQuest (DC Historic Preservation Office), the HPRB staff report for Case 13-21, and the DC Office of Tax & Revenue. No architect or builder was recorded on the 1915 permit, and no notable resident is documented at this address — we make no such claim. Neighborhood history is offered as context only. All figures are approximate and should be independently verified.
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