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Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Substation No. 13: This electrical substation’s design suited the neighborhood of Columbia Heights.
Founded in 1891, the Potomac Electric Company merged with the Washington Railway and Electric Company to become the Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) in 1902. In 1907, PEPCO established a new…
MacFarland Junior High School: This middle school accommodated the rapid growth of Petworth.
The rapid development of Petworth in the three decades after 1900 meant that it needed new schools. Until the early 1920s, there was only a single elementary school in the neighborhood. Addressing…
Kingman Park Historic District: Kingman Park fostered an African American community in Northeast DC, while engendering the further growth of segregated residential, educational, and recreational institutions.
The Kingman Park Historic District, located at the northeastern end of today’s Capitol Hill, was principally developed during the late 1920s through 1940s as a residential neighborhood for African…
Wardman Flats: The Wardman Flats accommodated the growing number of DC’s white and blue-collar workers through this grouping of rental flats.
The Wardman Flats are the first large-scale development project of DC's most notable developer, Harry Wardman (1872-1938). Throughout the 1890s, Wardman transitioned from carpenter to builder, largely…
Union Market Historic District: Union Market continues to be a commercial, as well as historic district.
Union Market Terminal is a large complex of wholesale warehouse buildings occupying an approximately forty-acre tract of land located east of Union Station between Florida and New York Avenues…
US Department of State Building: This administrative building demonstrates governmental growth following World War II.
Like the Department of War, the Department of State experienced rapid growth due to World War II, requiring it to seek quarters outside of the old State, War and Navy Building. In 1947, the Department…
Twin Oaks Playground and Field House: Twin Oaks Playground has provided a space for Petworth children to play for decades.
Twin Oaks Playground was established in 1920 to serve the rapidly growing rowhouse community of Petworth. Originally, Twin Oaks was little more than fenced lawns, with a clay tennis court on the…
Ambassador Romuald Spasowski House: This house hosted the Polish Ambassador and his family, until the Spasowskis defected to the United States.
Built in 1926, this stately two-story, Colonial Revival style, stone house can be found in the suburban neighborhood of Forest Hills. In 1979, the Polish government purchased the house at the…
Smithsonian Quadrangle Historic District: The Smithsonian Quadrangle adapted to urban renewal and the development of the National Mall.
The Smithsonian Quadrangle features four buildings in a campus-like setting on the south side of the National Mall: the Smithsonian Castle (1847-55), the Arts and Industries Building (1879-81), the…
Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - The Hundleys and Racially Restrictive Covenants
In 1942, the rowhouse at 2530 13th Street was at the center of a successful legal battle to open this section of Columbia Heights to Black residence.