Agreement (May 16, 1926)
This file appears in: Bloomingdale Tour: 40 Randolph Place
Residents of Randolph Street's unit block filed this Agreement with the DC Recorder of Deeds, obligating themselves not to sell or rent to "negroes."
This file appears in: Bloomingdale Tour: 40 Randolph Place
Bloomingdale Tour: 40 Randolph Place
In 1924, a government clerk named Sereno Ivy attempted to buy this house. However, the developers Middaugh & Shannon had included a racial covenant in the property’s original 1902 deed. Despite the fact that African Americans already lived…