North front - Edward Simon Lewis House, 456 N Street Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

ID: 2500 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Date: 1974

This file appears in: Edward Simon Lewis House: This house was one of the few buildings spared during the Southwest urban renewal efforts of the 1950s and 1960s.

This file appears in: Edward Simon Lewis House: This house was one of the few buildings spared during the Southwest urban renewal efforts of the 1950s and 1960s.

Edward Simon Lewis House: This house was one of the few buildings spared during the Southwest urban renewal efforts of the 1950s and 1960s.

By The DC Historic Sites team

The Edward Simon Lewis House, probably erected in 1817, is an early nineteenth-century Federal style house in Southwest. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, urban renewal efforts in Southwest DC led to…