Best New Listings: A Speakeasy In The Basement

• March 28th 2025

by UrbanTurf Staff

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This week’s Best New Listings includes a Brookland home with a secret in the basement and a skinny condo alternative off U Street. 

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A Speakeasy In The Basement In Brookland

This four-bedroom in Brookland has tremendous curb appeal and an intriguing secret in the basement. The striking home has the original 1920 pine floors, and the beams that line the ceiling on the first level are all reclaimed wood. The listing agent tells UrbanTurf that a fully outfitted carriage house would make a great income unit, guest suite or creative workspace. But perhaps the coolest nugget is that the basement housed a speakeasy during Prohibition, and that there was a little door into an area where liquor bottles could be concealed in the wall. 

• Full Listing: 2807 13th Street NE (map) 
• Price: $925,000
• Bedrooms: Four
• Bathrooms: Three
• Square Feet: 2,556
• Year Built: 1920
• Listing Agent: Homaira Karimi, TTR Sotheby's International Realty

Photo by HDBros. 

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A Condo Alternative On U Street

This two-bedroom rowhouse is a nice little alternative to a condo in the U Street Corridor. Exposed brick lines the first floor, and out back there is a deck, flagstone patio and a convenient parking pad. Upstairs, there are two equally spacious bedrooms, two skylights, a renovated bathroom and a newly renovated laundry room. 

• Full Listing: 2024 10th Street NW (map) 
• Price: $899,000
• Bedrooms: Two
• Bathrooms: 1.5
• Square Feet: 1,127
• Year Built: 1880
• Listing Agent: Kevin Hughes, Compass

Photo by Derek and Vee. 

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/best_new_listings_a_speakeasy_in_the_basement/23340.