Augusta Apartment Building, Main Entrance

ID: 3276 ~ Source: National Register Nomination Form ~ Creator: EHT Traceries Inc. ~ Date: April 1989

This file appears in: The Augusta Apartment Building: The mansion-like Augusta was an early attempt to improve the stature of apartment living for DC's middle class.

Photograph: A person stands in the glass doorway of the main entrance, which sits below a stone plaque containing the building's name.

This file appears in: The Augusta Apartment Building: The mansion-like Augusta was an early attempt to improve the stature of apartment living for DC's middle class.

The Augusta Apartment Building: The mansion-like Augusta was an early attempt to improve the stature of apartment living for DC's middle class.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Built in 1900, The Augusta Apartment Building was a part of DC's first wave of construction for apartment buildings, with Arthur B. Heaton as its main architect. Its mansion-like appearance allowed it…