The Somerset Historic District
Ough House - c. 1907
This 2-1/2 story standardized square suburban house has a front-gable with dropped hip roof. The wrap porch has turned porch posts and stick and rail balustrade and valance. There is a two-story hipped-roof tower at the northeast corner, and a flat-roof addition at the rear (built in the early 1970s). The wrap porch was recently extended along the east side of the house along with a ground-floor bay addition accommodating a new country kitchen.
The house was built around 1907 probably by William or Richard Ough -- who built the two similar houses at 4721 and 4723 -- for Mrs. Nora Fuller, widow of one of the five founders of the Town of Somerset. Mrs. Fuller sold the home to Dr. Thomas A. Griffin and his wife Gertrude sometime before 1910. By June 1924 the house belonged to Mr. Abner Conway and his wife, Margaret. Margaret Conway was a teacher in the D.C. schools. The Conways had two children, Wentworth and Isabelle. Between the early 1930s and 1960 the home belonged to a Mrs. Gantt and another lady, whose name we don't know. They were both lawyers. The house was owned by the Wrights, and Ms. Connie Healy before being sold to its present owner in the fall of 1973.
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