Lydia English Female Seminary (Colonial Apartments) Front Facade

ID: 5770 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of DC Preservation League ~ Creator: Image Taken by Zachary Burt ~ Date: January 2024
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Lydia English Female Seminary (Colonial Apartments) Front Facade

This image shows the front façade of the former seminary. The building showcases the Federal style characteristic of symmetry, as well as the decorative half-circle fanlights.

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Built in the 1820s, this large Federal style complex would become Lydia English’s Female Seminary, a school for “fashionable” women. In 1861, during the Civil War, it would be commandeered and converted into a hospital, and shortly thereafter, in…