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2225 N Street: Built between 1924 and 1925, this low-rise apartment building was designed with Rock Creek Park views in mind.
The apartment building at 2225 N Street was designed by Eugene Waggaman in an Early 20th Century Vernacular style, with brick masonry walls and a terra-cotta tile roof. This four-story, 32-unit…
5922 13th Street NW (Valencia Apartments): This apartment building in D.C.’s Brightwood neighborhood is reflective of residential construction patterns that became popular following World War I.
Designed by local D.C. architect Joseph G. Herbert, the Valencia Apartments are representative of interwar urban development in the 1930s. The conventional, low-rise apartment building stands at three…
Bachelor Apartment House: The Bachelor Apartment House is DC's only known surviving example of an early luxury apartment house for single men.
The Bachelor Apartment House is one of the last apartment buildings remaining in what was once a unique residential neighborhood of luxurious single-family homes, apartment buildings, hotels and…
Capitol Park Apartments: Capitol Park Apartments, completed in 1959, was the first building finished under the Southwest Urban Renewal Plan.
Capitol Park Apartments was built on the site of Dixon’s Court, long considered a notorious alley slum. Photographs of impoverished conditions in the alley with the Capitol dome in the background were…
Chilchester Arms Apartments (Vizcaya Apartments): This 1936 apartment building was constructed to suit DC’s growing population in the interwar years.
Vizcaya Apartments, formerly known as the Chilchester Arms, is a conventional low-rise apartment building, built in 1936. Designed with Moderne stylistic elements, such as geometric brick and stone…
Clifton Terrace/ Wardman Courts: Inspired by the garden city movement, Clifton Terrace is a large complex of Classical Revival buildings sited on one of the city’s most important streetcar thoroughfares.
The Clifton Terrace Apartment Complex, originally known as Wardman Courts, was constructed between 1914 and 1915, during an era of explosive residential growth in DC. The complex was erected on the…
Duvall Manor Apartments: Following World War II, apartments like Duvall Manor provided housing opportunities in accessible parts of the city.
Duvall Manor was designed and built specifically to function as a multifamily residence of at least two and no more than four stories in height with no elevator. Although the type most often has a…
Glade Apartments: Influenced by transportation improvements, a new zoning ordinance, and Depression-era population growth, The Glade Apartments embody the physical and social developments of the Brightwood neighborhood during the interwar period.
Up until the early twentieth century, the Brightwood area was mostly rural. In the 1820s, Brightwood contained important transportation routes until the road network changed during the Civil War for a…
Glenn Arms Apartments: Like The Fulford, this apartment building illustrates middle-class emulation of the acceptance of apartments by the rich.
The Glenn Arms Apartments was constructed in 1916 by J.E. Fox for owner and architect George N. Bell (of the firm Hunter & Bell). It was not known by a name until it and its next-door neighbor, The…
Homestead Apartments: The Homestead Apartments housed DC’s growing working and middle-class in the Brightwood Park neighborhood.
The Homestead Apartments were constructed in 1939, one of many multi-unit buildings erected to house working-class and middle-class Washingtonians during the interwar period. Much of this development…