Slowe-Burrill House

ID: 4660 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons ~ Date: October 20, 2020
This file appears in: Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill House: Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Powell Burrill lived here as a couple for 15 years.

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.

This file appears in: Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill House: Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Powell Burrill lived here as a couple for 15 years.