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Frelinghuysen University (Edward P. Goodwin House): This early house in Shaw is best known as the main classroom building of Frelinghuysen University.
This building, known as the Edward P. Goodwin House, was constructed in 1879 as part of the first wave of speculative development to come to the Northern Shaw-Strivers area following the Civil War.…
Friends Meeting House (Friends Meeting of Washington): This meeting house provided services for the first Quaker elected President, Herbert Hoover.
Built in 1930 and designed by Walter F. Price, the Washington Friends Meeting House is a Colonial Revival building decorated with Georgian elements, such as quoins and keystones, and Federal elements,…
Friendship Baptist Church: This handsome late-19th-century church is a surviving building from the urban renewal of the 1950s and 1960s, and has since been repurposed for artistic and cultural use.
Friendship Baptist Church symbolizes the resistance to one of the most important—yet also most socially destructive—urban renewal projects in the nation, the Southwest Washington urban renewal…
Thomas Fuller House: The Fuller House shows the influence of the English Arts and Crafts movement on residential architecture in the U.S.
The Fuller House was designed in 1893 by noted Washington architect Thomas J.D. Fuller in Free Style, an architectural expression that enjoyed popularity in Great Britain from 1890 to the First World…
Nathaniel Parker Gage School: This former schoolhouse is named for Nathaniel Parker Gage, a key figure in the early D.C. Public School system.
The Nathaniel Parker Gage School was attended by students in the LeDroit Park, Bloomingdale, and Eckington neighborhoods and also came to serve as an important community meeting place and recreation…
Joseph Gales School: The twelve-room schoolhouse is one of few buildings to survive from Swampoodle, the old largely Irish and Italian working-class neighborhood around the Government Printing Office.
Named after Washington, DC’s 8th mayor and owner of the National Intelligencer newspaper, the Joseph Gales School has served many purposes throughout its lifetime. Originally built in 1881, the…
Gallaudet College Historic District: The Gallaudet College Historic District includes most of the original campus of the only university in the U.S. dedicated to the education of the deaf.
Gallaudet University, founded in 1864 as the National Deaf-Mute College, has been since its inception the only institution of higher learning in the United States devoted specifically to the education…
Gallaudet University, President’s House: This large, red brick high Victorian Gothic Revival house is located on a knoll on the Gallaudet campus.
The President's House, erected between 1867 and 1868 and designed by F.C. Withers, is separated from a row of three High Victorian Gothic Revival Professors' Houses by a circular drive and from the…
Gallaudet University, Chapel Hall: This original building on the Gallaudet campus was designed as an early symbol of the institution's national importance.
Built in 1870, Chapel Hall was once the main hub of Gallaudet University, serving as a chapel, auditorium, exhibit center, and dining hall. The landscape architecture firm, Olmsted, Vaux & Co.…
Gallinger Municipal Hospital Psychopathic Ward (ca.1920-ca.1990): Gallinger Municipal Hospital Psychopathic Ward illustrates the local expansion of psychiatry beyond institutional walls.
Prior to 1900, the administration and distribution of humanitarian aid in DC was largely dependent on private philanthropic organizations who received federal aid to provide these services. The…