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REAL ESTATE

     In 2011, 19 single-family homes sold in Foxhall for an average sale price of $800,316. The average list price was $814,047.  This represents a 14% decrease in the number of sales and a 1% decrease in the average sale price from 2010. Homes were on the market in 2011 for an average of 30 days.

     Listed below are the number of sales of single-family homes by price range for the past six years.

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     Two- and three-story Tudor-style townhouses with their manicured front lawns, cherry and crab apple trees, and quaint narrow streets dominate Foxhall Village. On the exteriors are leaded windows, curved chimney pots, stone globes on pediments and stone crests affixed to facades. A few Federal-style townhouses and detached homes are also located in the Village.  In the 1990s, a row of townhouses was built on the southeast corner of Reservoir Road and Foxhall.

HIGHLIGHTS

     Foxhall Village is like a small European village. With few through streets, the neighborhood feels secluded even though it is bordered by Reservoir and Foxhall Roads. A small shopping center on Foxhall Road serves the community, but the neighborhood's location provides an easy walk to Georgetown. Georgetown University and its hospital are directly to the East.

HISTORY

      The name Foxhall comes from one of the area's early residents, Henry Foxall, an English gentleman and friend of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Foxall lived in a large home called Spring Hill Farm which was located at what is now 44th and P Street. In 1799 he built the Columbia Foundry, producing cannons and munitions from 1803 until 1854 in today's Glover-Archbold Park. During the War of 1812 the foundry was the intended target of British troops, but as they marched from the burning White House toward the foundry, a thunderstorm drove them back. Henry Foxall built the Foundry United Methodist Church in thanks.

    Construction on Foxhall Village began in the 1920s when Harry Boss returned from a trip to Bath, England. He was determined to replicate the stuccoed Tudor-style houses he had seen. His construction company, Boss & Phelps, built their first homes on Greenwich Park and Reservoir Road. By 1927 almost 150 homes were completed. Waverly Taylor, former vice president and general manager of Shannon and Luchs' construction division, formed his own company and completed Foxhall Village after Boss & Phelps developed the first section.

ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS

NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARIES

NEIGHBORHOOD LINKS

Foxhall Community Citizens Association
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Map of Foxhall

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