Lafayette Apartment Building

ID: 4687 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons ~ Date: August 11, 2008
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Lafayette Apartment Building

The Lafayette Apartment Building located at 1605-1607 7th Street, NW in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Queen Anne building was designed by local architect George S. Cooper and built in 1898. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

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In the final years of the 19th century, the construction of the Lafayette in 1898 marked a shift in Washingtonians' housing needs. While it only held twelve units, comparatively small to future apartment buildings, the Lafayette's conventional…