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Latino Heritage Tour: El Centro De Arte: For twenty years, El Centro de Arte operated as a community space for Latin -American artistic expression through music, photography, acting, poetry, and performance.
“Art is culture, Art is education, Art is the conscience of the people.” Centro De Arte’s Motto
Kenesaw Apartment House Co.: Constructed in 1905, the Kenesaw Apartment House (now known as the Renaissance) stands as the second apartment building built in Washington and remains a symbol of activism against poverty in Mount Pleasant.
"It's [Mount Pleasant] like an island. I think of this building as a ship. Sort of the flagship of Mount Pleasant." Kenesaw Resident, 1978
Washington Yacht Club: The Washington Yacht Club serves as a steward of the Anacostia community and proudly welcomes all.
The Washington Yacht Club (WYC) was founded in 1910 by a group of white Washingtonian boaters, looking to establish affordable facilities along the Anacostia River in proximity to their homes on the…
Tabard Inn: Tabard Inn is the oldest inn in the city to be continuously owned and operated by women.
The Tabard Inn was established at 1739 N Street in 1922 by entrepreneur Marie Willoughby Rogers. At the time she was recently widowed; her husband, a prominent geologist, had died unexpectedly while…
Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill House: Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Powell Burrill lived here as a couple for 15 years.
This cross-gabled Queen Anne frame house at 1256 Kearny Street NE was built for prosperous Irish immigrants James T. and Hannah Ward. The house was probably completed in 1893, and the couple remained…
Mitchell Park Field House: Despite the playground’s equipment and paving having been replaced, the property remains one of the earliest extant city playgrounds and park buildings in DC.
Before 1930, some DC parks contained sheds to store equipment. The extant facilities from that era, however, include only buildings that were later repurposed for recreation use. But park…
Chevy Chase Playground and Field House: Despite the playground's equipment and paving having been replaced, the property remains one of the earliest extant city playgrounds and park buildings in DC, considered in its time a model for other Depression-era parks.
In 1921, a United Citizens Playground Committee completed a study and recommended that the District Commissioners adopt a system of equitable distribution of playgrounds around the city, urging the…
Homestead Apartments: The Homestead Apartments housed DC’s growing working and middle-class in the Brightwood Park neighborhood.
The Homestead Apartments were constructed in 1939, one of many multi-unit buildings erected to house working-class and middle-class Washingtonians during the interwar period. Much of this development…
Harewood Lodge: Harewood Lodge is the last standing structure from the four DC farms or estates of prominent Washington banker and philanthropist, William Wilson Corcoran, and one of a few remaining from his considerable real estate holdings throughout the District.
Constructed in 1857, Harewood Lodge was the porter’s lodge for the country estate and farm of American banker, William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888) in rural Washington County. The building served a…
Glenn Arms Apartments: Like The Fulford, this apartment building illustrates middle-class emulation of the acceptance of apartments by the rich.
The Glenn Arms Apartments was constructed in 1916 by J.E. Fox for owner and architect George N. Bell (of the firm Hunter & Bell). It was not known by a name until it and its next-door neighbor, The…