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Lexington Apartments: The Lexington Apartments is an example of the buildings designed for DC's expanding middle class in the 1920s.
The Lexington is a conventional low-rise apartment building, erected in 1928 by developer Charles Sager to house a portion of the city's expanding middle class at the eastern edge of Capitol Hill. The…
Young, Browne, Phelps and Spingarn Educational Campus Historic District: This planned school campus includes four Colonial and Classical Revival style schools.
Spingarn Senior High School, Browne Junior High School, Charles Young Elementary School, and Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering (formerly Vocational) High School are located on…
Bowie-Sevier House
In the early 1800s, Washington Bowie, a merchant, real estate speculator, church vestryman, officer of the militia bank, and one of Georgetown's wealthiest men in the first decades of the 19th…
Armstrong Manual Training School: The Armstrong Manual Training School is illustrative of the national campaign for vocational training for African Americans promoted by Booker T. Washington.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Armstrong Manual Training School and M Street High School were the only two high schools in DC that admitted black students. From its founding, Armstrong…
B.F. Saul Building: The B.F. Saul Building is one of a collection of early 20th-century office buildings that surround McPherson Square.
The B.F. Saul Building, constructed in 1924 at 925 15th Street NW, is a five-story, Classical Revival style building designed by notable local architect George N. Ray for the B.F. Saul Company, a…
Kelsey Temple Church of God in Christ: Designed by Maurice Russel Rhoads in 1921 as the Columbia Heights Christian Church, this church has played a significant role in the development of Columbia Heights.
The years immediately after World War I were a period of intense development of neighboring residential and commercial blocks, capped by the opening of the nearby Tivoli Theatre in 1924. The influx of…
Peyser Building (Security Savings and Commercial Bank): This office/bank building illustrates a growing trend of banks in the 1920s to combine banking quarters with rentable space.
The Peyser Building/Security Savings and Commercial Bank is a five-story office/bank building constructed between 1928 and 1929. Designed by notable local architect George N. Ray, the Peyser Building…
Park Road Courts: This landmark was one of the earliest apartment buildings constructed in Columbia Heights.
The three-story Park Road Courts was completed in 1916, while the neighborhood was transitioning from a wealthy suburban enclave to an area of moderately-priced row houses and apartment buildings. The…
The Congressional Club: This club was built in 1914 for the spouses of high-ranking government figures.
The Congressional Club is a distinctive Beaux-Arts, Classical Revival style building with a prominent domed rotunda at the corner of 16th Street, U Street, and New Hampshire Avenue NW. Designed by…
The Flagler: The Flagler is reflective of the Classical Revival style popular in apartment building design during the late 1920s.
Built in 1926, The Flagler is a notable Classical Revival style design by Stern and Tomlinson. With the expansion of the federal workforce during World War I, thousands of workers arrived in…