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operate the bar, serving beer

brewed down the street at the

National Brewing Co. When pro-

hibition arrived, they used the

bathtub upstairs for brewing. Ru-

bin’s son Abe later went into

partnership with his father-in-

law, Max Schneider, and opened

Schneider’s, a liquor store that’s

operated on Capitol Hill for more

than 60 years.

Samuel and Bertha Wertleb

bought the house in 1920. Samuel

ran the bar, and Bertha taught

piano lessons. The Wertleb family

remained in the house for more

than 60 years.

Before the Carrolls bought the

house in 1998, the previous own-

ers had converted the space that

had housed the bar into an apart-

ment. But the room retained

many of its original features in-

cluding the tin ceiling, tiled floor

and light fixture.

The Carrolls preserved those

features and took advantage of

other usual aspects when creat-

ing a living space. An opening in

the floor that once led to the

basement, where ice was kept,

now goes to a wine cellar.

Someone had saved the marble

from the bar, but it had broken

into pieces. The Carrolls had their

contractor cut it and use it for the

floor in the wine cellar. Other

pieces were used around the fire-

place in the dining room.

“I really wanted to put it back

into the house,” Michelle said.

The door that leads from the

wine cellar to the rest of the

basement is original. One of the

containers that held beer is still

attached to a wall.

The Carrolls turned the apart-

ment’s kitchen into a wet bar, a

nod to its history. The bathroom

became a sauna.

The three-bedroom, three-

bathroom, 3,012-square-foot

house is listed at $1.4 million. An

open house is scheduled for Sun-

day from 1 to 3 p.m.

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BY KATHY ORTON

Dennis and Michelle Carroll

knew the moment they walked

through the front door that this

Capitol Hill house was for them.

“We were standing in the hall-

way, and we both looked at each

other and went, ‘We’re buying

this house,’ ” Michelle said.

“It was just so open and spa-

cious,” Dennis added. “We’d been

looking at a lot of houses. This

one just immediately resonated.”

The house, which had been a

rental, needed significant work,

but the Carrolls saw potential in

its high ceilings and period fea-

tures. As they renovated, they

sought to preserve its unusual

history.

Irish immigrants, Michael and

Kathrine Barry and Michael’s

brother Phillip, built the semide-

tached rowhouse in 1888 with

two entrances — one for their

living quarters and one for a bar

that they ran in the house.

The next owners, Rubin and

Medda Genderson, continued to

house of the Week

This renovated

C apitol Hill rowhouse

remembers its history

by HomeVisit

The semidetached rowhouse at 1001 C St. SE in the District’s Capitol Hill neighborhood was built as a

residence and a bar in 1888. The bar is now the living room, but it still has some original features.

10 01 C st. sE, Washington

$1.4 million

Features: the 1888 semidetached

rowhouse was built to be a bar with

living quarters. the room that once

housed the bar retains some of its

original features, including a tin

ceiling, a tiled floor and a light

fixture. the marble from the bar

was used for the wine cellar floor.

the house has a large roof deck.

Bedrooms/bathrooms: 3 /3

approximate square-footage:

3,012

open house: sunday, 1 to 3 p.m.

Listing agents: Delia mcCormick,

John Gregory and James Gregory,

Washington Fine Properties

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