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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…
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company, Cleveland-Emerson Exchange: The Cleveland-Emerson Exchange represents a period of suburbanization in the former 19th-century village of Tenleytown.
The Cleveland-Emerson Exchange is an impressive and notable Stripped Classical building with Art Deco detailing located on a prominent corner in DC's Tenleytown neighborhood. The limstone-clad…
Washington Railway and Electric Company (WRECO) Garage: The WRECO Garage is Washington DC’s first purpose-built garage for servicing and storing transit buses.
The Washington Railway and Electric Company (WRECO) Garage contributed to the development of mass transit systems in the District and surrounding commercial development of the area around the…
Sedgwick Gardens (and Interiors): This early Art Deco-style apartment building offered luxury living to Washingtonians in the 1930s.
Designed by Mihran Mesrobian in 1931 for Max Gorin, the president of the Southern Construction Company, Sedgwick Gardens is a significant Art Deco building. Mesrobian designed many significant…
Milton Hall Apartments: Milton Hall, constructed in 1938, was built to meet increased demand for middle-class housing in DC after World War I.
The Milton Hall Apartment Building is one of three brick, Art Deco-style former apartment buildings that are now owned and operated by The George Washington University as residence halls. Constructed…
The Bulletin Building: The Bulletin Building is a recognizable symbol of the printing and publishing trade.
Erected in 1928, the Bulletin Building housed the offices and printing press of the United Publishing Company, publisher of The Bulletin. The Bulletin, founded in 1894 by Thomas C. Noyes (1868-1912),…
Brookland Bowling Alley: The Brookland Bowling Alley, with its distinctive Art Deco style, is a rare surviving bowling alley in the city.
The Brookland Bowling Alley was constructed in 1938-1939 for the Brookland Recreation Center, Inc. to accommodate lanes for duckpin bowling. The building’s designer was William Edward St. Cyr…
Brownley Confectionery Building: The Brownley Confectionery Building is one of DC's finest extant examples of Art Deco style commercial architecture.
Constructed in 1932 as Brownley's Confectionery, the building was designed by the locally prominent architectural firm of Porter & Lockie, notable for its use of Art Deco design motifs in…
Metropolitan Apartments: Constructed between 1936 and 1937, the Metropolitan’s Elizabethan-inflected Art Deco design was the work of George T. Santmyers.
Built between 1936 and 1937, the Metropolitan Apartment Building was designed by George T. Santmyers, one of the most prolific architects of apartment buildings in the District of Columbia. Built…
General Baking Company Bakery (Bond Bread Factory): Located on Georgia Avenue, the Bond Bread Factory is an impressive Art Deco style industrial building constructed in 1929.
The General Baking Company's Bond Bread Factory is an Art Deco style industrial building facing Georgia Avenue NW. Constructed in 1929 to the designs of architect Corry B. Comstock, the building's…