Looking for Blueprints of 1885 DC Row House

Dear Kevin Brand,

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The DC Public Library has a guide to Researching your District of Columbia Home in the People's Archive. We suggest that you begin your research by reviewing this page and by contacting the institutions listed there.

We searched the National Archives Catalog and located Card Indexes to Building Permits, 1877 - 1958 (digitized in full) and Building Permits, 2/17/1877 - 6/30/1915 (digitized in part)in the Records of the Government of the District of Columbia (Record Group 351). Cards concerning permits granted between 1877 and 1927 are arranged by square numbers which can be identified using "Square Boundaries" at Open Data DC. For more information about these records, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference (RR1R) via email at Archives1reference@nara.gov.

Next, we located Building Plans from the District of Columbia Building Permit Files, 3/19/1878 - 6/12/1915 in Record Group 351. This series consists of small and large format architectural and engineering plans removed from the building permit application files maintained by the District of Columbia Government, Office of Inspector of Buildings. Some of these plans have been digitized and are available online through the Catalog. For more information about these records, please contact the National Archives at College Park - Cartographic (RRSC) at carto@nara.gov.

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