Slowe-Burrill House
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Slowe-Burrill House - Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill were a same-sex couple who bought this house in 1922 and lived here until Slowe's death in 1937. Both women were prominent educators in the city so they had to keep their relationship hidden. It was the third property listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, DC that represented LGBTQ history.
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Slowe-Burrill House
This cross-gabled Queen Anne frame house at 1256 Kearny Street NE was built for prosperous Irish immigrants James T. and Hannah Ward. The house was probably completed in 1893, and the couple remained there until selling the property in 1918 to…