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Hebrew Home for the Aged and Jewish Social Service Agency: The Hebrew Home for the Aged was built to serve DC's growing Jewish community in the early 20th century.
The Hebrew Home for the Aged was constructed in 1925 to provide social support for destitute Jews, many of whom were immigrants who neither spoke nor understood English. The Hebrew Home, located in…
John Fox Slater School: This building illustrates DC school design in the 1880s and 1890s.
Completed in 1891 for African American students by the city's Office of the Building Inspector, the John Fox Slater School was designed in a Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival style. The former school…
Daniel Webster School: This 12-room schoolhouse typifies the city’s post-Civil War public schools and is one of the last such buildings downtown.
Typical of DC's post-Civil War red brick schoolhouses, the Daniel Webster School shows how mass-production and technology influenced the design of civic buildings in an era of great public works. It…
Washington Loan and Trust Company: This 1890s office building is one of DC's most impressive Romanesque Revival buildings.
The Washington Loan and Trust Company Building is prominently situated across from the Old Patent Office. It was home to the city's first trust company, originally organized in 1889 by Brainerd H.…
Charles Sumner School: Named for the famed abolitionist, the Sumner School was one of DC's first buildings dedicated to Black public education.
The Sumner School is one of three post-Civil War Black schools in DC and is named in honor of Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts Senator and ardent abolitionist who attempted, unsuccessfully, to ban…
Soldiers’ Home National Historic Site (United States Military Asylum): This historic site contains the country residence now known as Lincoln's Cottage.
The site, which contains Lincoln Cottage (President Lincoln and Soldiers’ Home National Monument), was built as a private country residence known as Corn Rigs between 1842 and 1843. Subsequently, the…
Soldier’s Home, Main Building (Sherman Building)
In December 1851, the U.S. government purchased the Riggs estate, along with a neighboring estate, to serve as the site of the first permanent retirement home for enlisted soldiers. In 1852, retired…
Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian Castle): Built between 1847 and 1855, this building represents the early history of the Smithsonian Institution.
The Smithsonian Institution Building was designed by prominent New York architect James Renwick, Jr. and erected between 1847 and 1855 on the Mall. It was built to house the Smithsonian Institution,…
Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School: From vocational training to junior high school to senior housing, this building demonstrates adaptive reuse.
Originally the William McKinley Manual Training School, this 1902 building served as the white counterpart to Armstrong Manual Training School, which offered vocational training for Black students.…
Second Baptist Church: Second Baptist Church is the home of the city’s second oldest African American Baptist congregation, founded in 1848.
Second Baptist Church sprang from the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church and is noted in the Baptist movement as the mother church for many other area congregations. The church was first located on this…