The 1950s development of North Portal Estates in upper northwest, DC initially catered to a largely Jewish home buyer, but within its first decade of development, it became attractive to African…

Along a stretch of a very steep Hillcrest Drive in the Hillcrest neighborhood of southeast DC rise eight tall and striking two-story Mid-Century houses. The houses, with their rigid geometric forms…

In a city that was generally apprehensive about Modern design, the Forest Hills neighborhood on upper Connecticut Avenue came to embrace it. Well over fifty Mid-Century houses were built there during…

In a two-block area sandwiched between Bunker Hill Road, Michigan Avenue, 19th and 20th Streets NE, sits a cluster of Mid-Century Modern ranch houses all designed by the architecture firm of Brown &…

In 1954-56, in an unusual speculative development scheme, developers, Waggaman & Brawner commissioned the architecture firm of Corning & Moore to design a collection of similar, but unique modern…

Beginning in the 1940s, Chain Bridge Road and University Terrace in the Palisades became a hot bed of Modern residential design. The difficult terrain with its steep inclines, expansive views and…

For the first quarter century of its life as a residential neighborhood, Eastland Gardens was defined by its Revival-style dwellings. In the early to mid-1950s, Black architects and builders moved…

Timberwood of Washington is a small enclave of ten, detached three-story wooden A-frame townhomes distinguished for their rustic quality and Mid-Century character.

Beginning in 1950, when Black Washingtonians began moving into Crestwood--formerly an all-White, racially restricted neighborhood--they not only altered its socio-racial character, but they also…

“I would prefer to sell to the colored man because he has a so much harder time getting a house.”