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Whitehaven (Thomas Main House): On Reservoir Road stands this one-time manor house constructed in the early 19th-century.
Beautifully restored by Dr. and Mrs. E. Stuart Lyddane, it is believed that this house was built sometime around 1805. The Carberry family once lived here, and later built the original house of the…
White-Meyer House: Since its construction in 1910, the White-Meyer house has hosted many prominent figures from American history.
The White-Meyer House, located atop Meridian Hill, is an important element along Washington's famous Sixteenth Street, and is significant for its association with its occupants and the excellent…
Wheat Row: The four attached houses of Wheat Row were likely the first speculative housing built after DC became the federal city.
Wheat Row consists of four attached, three-story brick houses built as a unit in the late 18th century. They were built circa 1794 by the Greenleaf Syndicate and their design is attributed to…
Wetzell-Archbold Farmstead (Anne Archbold Cabin): This one-acre farmstead features the earliest known log dwelling in Washington.
Located on a wooded one-acre knoll above Glover-Archbold Park, the Wetzell-Archbold Farmstead contains a ca. 1843 log dwelling with log and frame additions, the earliest known such dwelling in the…
Westory Building: This Beaux-Arts style office building represents the transition of downtown from a residential to a commercial district.
For much of the 1800s, the area around the future Westory Building was a fashionable residential neighborhood. Beginning in the 1860s, however, commercial buildings began to replace residences as the…
Western Union Telegraph Company (Washington Radio Terminal): This seventy-three-foot-tall octagonal transmission tower was built from 1945 to 1947 near the city’s highest point of elevation.
The Western Union Telegraph Company Tenley Radio Terminal is a landmark in engineering history. Built between 1945 and 1947, it served as a transmission and receiving station in an experimental radio…
Western Market (1872 - circa 1966): This public market, since demolished, was one of three markets dating back to the early days of Washington.
Early on, three public markets were envisioned for the city: Center (Downtown), Eastern (Capitol Hill), and Western (Foggy Bottom/West End). Of these, only Capitol Hill's Eastern Market is still…
Western High School (Duke Ellington School of the Arts): This monumental hilltop school was one of DC's first buildings designed specifically for high school education.
Western High School is among the city’s grandest Classical Revival school buildings, poised like a temple of learning on the heights above Georgetown. Built in between 1897 and 1898, it is one of the…
West Heating Plant: The West Heating Plant, completed in 1948, was designed by W.M. Dewey Foster to generate steam for nearby federal buildings.
The West Heating Plant, originally known as the West Central Heating Plant, was designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958), working under successive Supervising Architects of…
Wesley Heights Community Club: This building was designed to be a community center for the suburban Wesley Heights neighborhood.
Discussed and developed in conjunction with the Spring Valley neighborhood, the Wesley Heights neighborhood in Northwest DC provided white, upper middle-class families a new suburban experience in the…