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Glade Apartments: Influenced by transportation improvements, a new zoning ordinance, and Depression-era population growth, The Glade Apartments embody the physical and social developments of the Brightwood neighborhood during the interwar period.
Up until the early twentieth century, the Brightwood area was mostly rural. In the 1820s, Brightwood contained important transportation routes until the road network changed during the Civil War for a…
Lexington Apartments: The Lexington Apartments is an example of the buildings designed for DC's expanding middle class in the 1920s.
The Lexington is a conventional low-rise apartment building, erected in 1928 by developer Charles Sager to house a portion of the city's expanding middle class at the eastern edge of Capitol Hill. The…
Park Vista and Pine Manor (Concord Apartments): The Concord Apartments represent DC’s increasing population in the 1930s and its impact on the city’s architecture.
Built in 1936, 1937, and 1938, respectively, these four low-rise buildings in Brightwood are representative of the modest apartment buildings constructed to address the city’s explosive population…
Chilchester Arms Apartments (Vizcaya Apartments): This 1936 apartment building was constructed to suit DC’s growing population in the interwar years.
Vizcaya Apartments, formerly known as the Chilchester Arms, is a conventional low-rise apartment building, built in 1936. Designed with Moderne stylistic elements, such as geometric brick and stone…
Metropolitan Apartments: Constructed between 1936 and 1937, the Metropolitan’s Elizabethan-inflected Art Deco design was the work of George T. Santmyers.
Built between 1936 and 1937, the Metropolitan Apartment Building was designed by George T. Santmyers, one of the most prolific architects of apartment buildings in the District of Columbia. Built…
Fort View Apartments: Fort View Apartments, also known as Fort Stevens Place, is an example of an Art Deco/Moderne apartment building.
Designed by renowned Washington architect George T. Santmyers, the Fort View Apartments complex, also known as Fort Stevens Place, is comprised of two three-story brick and cinder block buildings…
Dahlgreen Courts: Dahlgreen Courts is comprised of two apartment buildings constructed side-by-side between 1927 and 1929.
Both buildings of Dahlgreen Courts reflect architect George T. Santmyers' preference for the Classical Revival style, although the building at 2520 10th Street is less ornate than its counterpart at…