Elliott Coues House
Description and history
The Elliott Coues House is located in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood, on the south side of N Street, west of Scott Circle between 17th and 18th Streets. It is the left one of two similar painted brick row houses, which were probably built around 1880. Coues' house is the simpler of the two; it is 3+1⁄2 stories in height with a dormered gable roof and a tall basement. Its facade is three bays wide, the left two taken up by a projecting rectangular bay. The entrance is in the right bay of the basement level, framed by pilasters and entablature that rise to also enclose the first-floor window. The building is not architecturally distinguished.
Elliott Coues moved into this house in about 1887, and it remained his principal residence for the rest of his life. A native of New Hampshire, Coues served in the United States Army from 1862 until 1881, pursuing a scientific interest in birds as an avocation. From 1873 to 1876 he served in the Pacific Northwest as a surveyor and naturalist for the U.S. Northern Boundary Commission, and in 1880 he became secretary and naturalist for the predecessor to the United States Geological Survey. In the latter role he edited and published a great deal of material documenting the days of the "Old West". In 1883 he helped found the American Ornithologists' Union, also holding a chair in the anatomy department at Columbia University.
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
- National Register of Historic Places listings in the upper NW Quadrant of Washington, D.C.
- Mary Emily Bates Coues
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "Elliott Coues House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ James Sheire (March 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Elliott Coues House" (pdf). National Park Service.
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External links
- Media related to Elliott Coues House at Wikimedia Commons