Changing Hands by Don Denton

Changing Hands Changing hands is a list of most residential sales in the District of Columbia from the previous month. A feature of every issue, this list,based on the MRIs, is provided courtesy of Don Denton, manager of the Coldwell Banker office on Capitol Hill. The list includes address, sales price and number of bedrooms.

NEIGHBORHOOD PRICE BEDS

FEE SIMPLE ANACOSTIA

2262 High St SE $711,000 5 2006 Ridge Pl SE $545,000 3 2264 Mount View Pl SE $520,000 4 1328 Morris Rd SE $500,000 3 1624 Ridge Pl SE $430,000 2 1816 Minnesota Ave SE $345,000 2

BARRY FARMS

1420 Howard Rd SE $354,000 2

CARVER LANGSTON

812 21st St NE $429,500 2

CONGRESS HEIGHTS

562 Foxhall Pl SE $669,900 4 305 Atlantic St SE $498,000 3 3009 8th St SE $486,400 4 550 Foxhall Pl SE $445,000 3 608 Chesapeake St SE $440,000 2 227 Atlantic St SE $439,900 3 5 Danbury St SW $410,000 3 439 Newcomb St SE $328,000 3 316 Raleigh St SE $308,500 2 637 Brandywine St SE $307,500 4 1120 Barnaby Ter SE $278,500 3

DEANWOOD

5312 Central Ave SE $670,000 4 4945 Fitch Pl NE $562,000 4 4943 Fitch Pl NE $560,000 4 3944 Clay Pl NE $490,000 4 3943 Clay Pl NE $490,000 3 4334 Gault Pl NE $470,000 4 4320 Jay St NE $454,000 3 5118 Brooks St NE $450,000 3 209 62nd St NE $430,000 3 5501 Jay St NE $419,000 4 730 50th St NE $415,000 2 4215 Foote St NE $415,000 4 836 Division Ave NE $385,000 2 1104 49th St NE $380,000 2 4912 Minnesota Ave NE $375,000 2 802 52nd St NE $375,000 2 331 54th St NE $353,450 4 4217 Gault Pl NE $350,000 3 228 56th St NE $339,000 2 541 47th St NE $310,000 3 4500 Lee St NE $225,000 3

FORT DUPONT PARK

464 Burns St SE $485,000 4 409 Burbank St SE $480,000 3 3983 Alabama Ave SE $475,000 4 733 Adrian St SE $457,000 3 702 Ridge Rd SE $445,000 3 1527 Fort Dupont St SE $445,000 3 1629 Fort Dupont St SE $444,900 3 2956 M St SE $419,000 3 4211 Fort Dupont Ter SE $415,000 3 1655 Fort Dupont St SE $325,000 3 1231 44th Pl SE $280,000 2 742 Ridge Rd SE $290,000 3

HILL CREST

1210 34th St SE $600,000 4 1400 25th St SE $585,000 3

KINGMAN PARK

556 25th Pl NE $649,900 3

LILY PONDS

768 Water Lily Ln NE $407,900 3 3724 Roosevelt Pl NE $333,000 3 211 34th St NE $300,000 2

MARSHALL HEIGHTS

5215 1/2 E St SE $536,000 4 5309 B St SE $479,000 3 5551 B St SE $415,000 2 5121 H St SE $380,000 4 4825 Bass Pl SE $347,900 3

NAVY YARD

418 L St SE $1,300,000 4

RANDLE HEIGHTS

1828 18th St SE $525,000 4 1841 Bruce Pl SE $500,000 4 2416 18th St SE $500,000 3 3212 Buena Vista Ter SE $470,000 4 1403 Shippen Ln SE $455,000 4 3501 21st St SE $455,000 3 1837 T St SE $395,000 2 3437 24th St SE $300,000 2

RIVER TERRACE

3362 Blaine St NE $478,000 3

CONDO BARRY FARMS

2617 Douglass Pl SE #101 $255,000 2

CAPITOL RIVERFRONT

1211 Van St SE #PH1 $1,299,900 1

CONGRESS HEIGHTS

1112 Savannah St SE #24 $214,999 1 212 Oakwood St SE #B2 $195,000 1 625 Chesapeake St SE #204 $114,000 2

FAIRFAX VILLAGE

2124 Suitland Ter SE #202 $155,000 1

FT DUPONT PARK

3960-3960 Pennsylvania Ave SE #T5$200,000 2

KINGMAN PARK

1710 Gales St NE #2 $390,000 2 1605 E St NE #1 $380,000 1

MARSHALL HEIGHTS

5045 C St SE #201 $314,900 2 4820 C St SE #201 $165,000 2 4508 B St SE #3 $152,000 2

NAVY YARD

1300 4th St SE #915 $949,000 2 1300 4th St SE #603 $850,000 2 1025 1st St SE #412 $715,000 2 1300 4th St SE #211 $635,000 2 37 L St SE #607 $569,900 1

TRINIDAD

1105 Queen St NE #4 $664,000 2 1420 Staples St NE #PH3 $650,000 2 1654 W Virginia Ave NE #3 $639,000 2 1420 Staples St NE #2 $575,000 2 1105 Queen St NE #2 $565,000 2 1247 Holbrook Ter NE #UNIT 1 $550,000 4 1258 Holbrook Ter NE #1 $520,000 3 1028 Bladensburg NE #36 $495,000 2 1028 Bladensburg Rd NE #17 $490,000 3 1028 Bladensburg Rd NE #32 $487,000 2 1028 Bladensburg Rd NE #31 $485,000 3 1028 Bladensburg Rd NE #27 $465,000 3 1915 H St NE #3 $459,900 2 1028 Bladensburg Rd NE #42 $450,000 2 1104 Holbrook Ter NE #4 $394,500 2 804 21st St NE #2 $390,000 2 1102 Holbrook Ter NE #2 $327,500 2 1028 Bladensburg Rd NE #25 $33,500 1 u en Elementary (within the Anne Arundel County Public School system) in Severn, Maryland. That year in 2020 everything was virtual. I noticed that (Queenan) was very attentive. The kids gravitated toward him.”

Orakwue, who works as a civil engineer designer for Elite Engineering in Greenbelt, Maryland said her son, Jeremiah Riley, really excelled in Queenan’s class.

“He couldn’t wait to log in every morning. Mr. Queenan made his entire class and every subject fun. He incorporated a lot of interactive games that enhanced the learning process. Mr. Queenan is the first African American male teacher that Jeremiah ever encountered. Mr. Queenan connected with Jeremiah and the other students by teaching math and English on a sports level,” Orakwue said while hinting that both she and her son still miss Queenan as a teacher.

Van Bokkelen Elementary Principal Jan Haberlein honored Queenan by recognizing his outstanding work by using Queenan’s Student Learning Objectives (SLO) as a model for the school’s School Improvement Plan (SIP). At that time Queenan was able to move his fifth graders from the 50th percentile range to the 75th percentile range in one school year in two subjects, science, and social studies.

Queenan’s success in the classroom derives from his ability to make science relatable. While teaching a unit about cells, Queenan used the students as simulators to model the cells’ functions. The classroom was thus turned into a hospital or science laboratory and the elementary students transformed into medical students.

“The biggest continuous challenge I face is making sure that the students are always engaged. Everything nowadays is vying for their attention – cellphones, advertisements, the internet, TikTok. At least one time each quarter, I ask my students what they think science is and give them little surveys. They sometimes do not feel that scientists look like them. I try to change that narrative as a norm.”

Just as the potential for a towering redwood tree rests in a miniscule seed and a giant tortoise awaits in an egg, so too does untapped human capital dwell within the form of innocent children. That is the gift bestowed upon effective educators such as Ahmad Queenan. u