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.

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

Alma Thomas was 15 years old in 1907 when she and her family left Columbus, Georgia for Washington, D.C. They were part of the Great Migration, when many African American families left the South to…

Flora Rollins Molton took up music as a young child in rural Louisa County, Virginia. Her father was a preacher, and it was in his church that she learned to sing and play the organ and accordion. The…