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Adams Morgan
18th Street, and the Row Houses Off It.
Quick Answer
Adams Morgan centers on 18th Street NW and Columbia Road, a restaurant and bar district. The housing is apartment buildings, condos and row houses. DC lists about 190 row houses here, and about 70 of them are recorded as converted to two units. There is no Metro station in the neighborhood. Woodley Park, Columbia Heights and Dupont Circle are each a walk.
Row House Market
Fee simple & rowhouse condo · Closed sales, last 12 months
Median Sale Price
$812K
▼ -39.9% YoY
Median Days on Market
34 days
▲ +20d YoY
List-to-Sale Ratio
96.8%
Slight Discount
Median $/sqft
$788
Fee Simple
$675
Condo
Row Houses in Adams Morgan
192
69 recorded as two units
2 currently for sale
How We Calculate $/sqft
$/sqft is calculated on above-grade finished square footage, the standard used by DC appraisers, MLS systems, and most market participants. Properties with finished below-grade space (English basements, rental units) carry that square footage as additive value, but appraisers typically apply a discount of 50 to 75 cents on the dollar relative to above-grade space. Blending the two into a single $/sqft figure would make a home with a finished basement look cheaper than it is and obscure the real comparison. When a property has significant finished below-grade square footage, both metrics are presented in context so you understand the full picture before the appraiser does.
Row homes only (fee simple & rowhouse condo) · Source: BrightMLS via Compass · 9 closed sales · 12-month rolling period · Median figures · Updated periodically
Brian's Take
"Adams Morgan is a neighborhood you pick for the street, not the house. 18th Street is the reason you are here. It is also why I walk a block at night before I let anyone offer. Seventy of the row houses here have been split into two units, so the documents matter as much as the kitchen. If you want a whole house, I will show you which sales match yours on size and stories, because the median here describes almost none of them."
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The Neighborhood
Adams Morgan, Washington DC: What You Are Buying Into
Adams Morgan is bounded by Florida Avenue to the south, 16th Street to the east, and Harvard Street to the north. Connecticut Avenue, the Duke Ellington Bridge and Rock Creek Park sit on the west. Its commercial life runs along 18th Street NW and Columbia Road. About 100 establishments on those streets hold liquor licenses.
The housing is row houses, early 20th century apartment buildings and condos. Nine in ten single-family row houses went up between 1901 and 1939. Rock Creek Park runs along the western edge. Meridian Hill Park sits just across 16th Street. Woodley Park station (Red Line) is across the Duke Ellington Bridge to the west. Columbia Heights station (Green Line) is to the northeast. The southern blocks are closer to Dupont Circle station (Red Line). Several Metrobus lines cross the neighborhood.
Before You Offer
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18th Street NW is a restaurant and bar corridor. Living on or near it means evening activity, foot traffic and delivery trucks. Walk the specific block at 10pm on a Friday before you offer.
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Adams Morgan has no Metro station of its own. Woodley Park (Red Line) is across the Duke Ellington Bridge to the west. Columbia Heights (Green Line) is to the northeast. The median row house sale here is $812K, against $1.9M in Dupont Circle.
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DC records about 70 Adams Morgan row houses as converted to two units. Know whether you are buying a condo unit with shared exterior responsibility or a whole house you own outright.
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Meridian Hill Park runs along the east side of 16th Street between W and Euclid Streets. It is a National Park Service park and a National Historic Landmark, also known as Malcolm X Park.
Market Position
What Drives Adams Morgan Prices
Two kinds of property trade here: condo units, many of them inside converted row houses, and whole row houses. DC records about 120 single-family row houses and about 70 converted to two units. Single-family sales are few, so one sale can move the median.
The trade-off is Metro. No station sits inside the neighborhood, and Woodley Park, Columbia Heights and Dupont Circle are each a walk. The median row house sale here is $812K, against $1.9M in Dupont Circle and $1.6M in Kalorama Triangle.
Row houses come to market rarely here: about 16 single-family houses sold in the last two years. The median days on market is 34. With a sample that small, I read each sale before I read the median.
Streets + Pockets
Best Streets and Blocks in Adams Morgan
Not all blocks price the same. Street by street, what sets each one apart.
18th Street NW
The neighborhood's main restaurant and bar corridor. Evening activity, foot traffic and delivery trucks come with living on it. Walk the street at night before you offer.
Columbia Road NW
The second commercial corridor, running from 16th Street to Connecticut Avenue at the Kalorama Triangle edge. Shops, coffee houses and restaurants.
Ontario Road NW
The street with the most row houses in Adams Morgan, about 40 in the record. It runs north from Columbia Road, east of 18th Street.
16th Street NW (Florida Avenue to Harvard Street)
The eastern edge. Meridian Hill Park sits across the street between W and Euclid Streets.
Kalorama Road NW
Runs east and west through the middle of the neighborhood, not along its edge. The second-largest count of row houses in the record, about 25.
Row Houses
Adams Morgan Row Houses: How Many There Are, and How Many Are for Sale
How to read a DC row house →Total Row Houses
192
in Adams Morgan, 69 of them recorded as two units
Currently for Sale
2
active listings
Housing stock: DC public property records, two-unit conversions included · Active listings: BrightMLS via Compass
The Houses
Know which Adams Morgan sales actually describe your house
Adams Morgan row houses come in two sizes, and the median describes neither.
DC lists about 190 row houses in Adams Morgan. About 120 are single-family houses, and the figures here are for them; the other 70 are recorded as converted to two units. Nine in ten went up between 1901 and 1939, more than half of them in the 1910s. About one in three has under 1,500 square feet in total, and about one in three has more than 3,000. About one in three rises three stories or more. Six in ten have a basement, and fewer than half have finished one.
The converted houses run taller: three in four rise three stories or more.
Sales are thin: about 16 single-family houses sold in two years. The median of a small two-story house and a large three-story one is a number no house matches.
Here is what I do with that. I sort the sales by stories and total size before I look at a price. I reach into Mount Pleasant and Kalorama Triangle for a close match before I accept a loose one next door. I ask the seller in writing whether the house was ever split into units, and when it went back to one.
Match the house first, then the street.
Housing stock: DC public property records and BrightMLS closed sales, fee simple row houses
From the Record
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The name comes from two elementary schools: the John Quincy Adams School and the Thomas P. Morgan School. DC schools desegregated in 1955, and in 1958 the Adams-Morgan Community Council formed around both schools and took the combined name.
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Meridian Hill Park, on 16th Street between W and Euclid Streets, was bought by the federal government in 1910. Construction began in 1914 and the formal park was finished in 1936. Its cascading fountain is one of the longest in North America.
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In 1975 the neighborhood had eight restaurants. It now has more than 100.
Frequently Asked
Adams Morgan Real Estate: Your Questions, Answered First
What is the median home price in Adams Morgan?
The median row house sale in Adams Morgan is $812K over the last 12 months, from BrightMLS closed sales. The sample is small, so one sale can move it. The figure is for whole row houses. Condo units in converted houses trade separately.
Which Metro station is closest to Adams Morgan?
It depends on the block. Woodley Park (Red Line) is across the Duke Ellington Bridge to the west, and its signs still carry Adams Morgan as a subtitle. Columbia Heights (Green Line) is closest to the northeastern blocks. Dupont Circle (Red Line) is closest to the southern blocks.
How fast do homes sell in Adams Morgan?
The median row house took 34 days to sell over the last 12 months, against 14 the year before. Single-family sales are few here, so one house can move that figure. Condition and price against the comps decide the rest.
What should I know about living on 18th Street in Adams Morgan?
Expect foot traffic, delivery trucks and weekend evening noise on 18th Street, and a street that stays busy late. Walk the specific block at 8pm and again at 11pm on a Friday. Watch where delivery trucks park. Columbia Road is a commercial street too, so check the side streets off both.
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Also Consider
Neighborhoods Near Adams Morgan, DC
Mount Pleasant
North across Harvard Street. Mostly row houses and apartment buildings. Median row house sale $1.5M.
Median Price
$1.5M
Median DOM
6 days
Woodley Park
West across the Duke Ellington Bridge on Calvert Street. Home of the nearest Red Line station.
Median Price
$1.7M
Median DOM
7 days
Kalorama Triangle
West of Columbia Road, bounded by Connecticut Avenue and Calvert Street. A historic district since 1987. Median row house sale $1.6M.
Median Price
$1.6M
Median DOM
69 days
Next Step
Before you decide on Adams Morgan, one conversation.
The median and the days on market are the start. The specific blocks, the condition range, and what the numbers leave out are the conversation. 20 minutes. No commitment.