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Senator Theater (Entrance Pavilion): The entrance pavilion is the only remaining piece of this cherished neighborhood theater.
Designed by architect John J. Zink, K-B Theatres opened the Senator Theater on February 19, 1942 with 946 available seats. The first film shown in the communal space was Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion.…
Senate Office Building (Russell Senate Office Building): Built to relieve the overcrowded Capitol without distracting from its beauty, the Russell Senate Office Building remains a dignified exemplar of Beaux-Arts architecture.
Along with its counterpart, the Cannon House Office Building, the Russell Senate Office Building was one of the first office buildings constructed to house Congress outside of the U.S. Capitol.As new…
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…
Second National Bank: This classically-inspired bank building is located within the Financial Historic District.
The Second National Bank stands among a group of banks in the vicinity of the Treasury Department that contribute to DC's financial district. It is one of the last of the classically inspired…
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…
Sears, Roebuck & Company Department Store: This former department store building exemplifies shifting retail needs in suburban DC.
In the 1880s, Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck began a mail-order business for watches. The mail-order business brought products to people that did not have the financial means or time to travel to…
Seafarers Yacht Club: This 1945 yacht club is the oldest operational Black boating club in the United States.
Established in 1945 by mariner Lewis Thomas Green, the Seafarers Yacht Club became one of the first community spaces for black boaters in Washington, DC. Green began building his own boats around the…
Scottish Rite Temple: This monumental building was modeled on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Built in 1915, the House of the Temple is the headquarters of the Supreme Council of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Thirty-Third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Freemasonry. One of the…
Scott-Grant House: This historic home in Georgetown is best known as the residence of General Ulysses S. Grant after the Civil War.
Built in the mid-19th century, the Scott-Grant House's main historical significance derives from its New Deal occupants and its earlier rentals by Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Halleck. It is…
Schneider Triangle: The rowhouses of Schneider Triangle were built to meet the increasing demand for middle-class residential housing in DC.
In the years after the Civil War, Washington experienced a population and building boom, and as more and more people poured into the city, the need for housing increased. Development moved west and…