Agreement (May 16, 1926)

ID: 3625 ~ Source: DC Recorder of Deeds
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

By Prologue DC
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…