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Mid-Century North Portal Estates: Mid-Century Neighborhoods Tour
The 1950s development of North Portal Estates in upper northwest, DC initially catered to a largely Jewish home buyer, but within its first decade of development, it became attractive to African…
Modern Hillcrest: Modern Hillcrest: Mid-Century Modern Neighborhoods Tour
Along a stretch of a very steep Hillcrest Drive in the Hillcrest neighborhood of southeast DC rise eight tall and striking two-story Mid-Century houses. The houses, with their rigid geometric forms…
Mid-Century Forest Hills: Mid-Century Neighborhoods Tour
In a city that was generally apprehensive about Modern design, the Forest Hills neighborhood on upper Connecticut Avenue came to embrace it. Well over fifty Mid-Century houses were built there during…
Michigan Park Modern: Mid-Century Neighborhoods Tour
In a two-block area sandwiched between Bunker Hill Road, Michigan Avenue, 19th and 20th Streets NE, sits a cluster of Mid-Century Modern ranch houses all designed by the architecture firm of Brown &…
Chevy Chase Cluster: Mid-Century Neighborhoods Tour
In 1954-56, in an unusual speculative development scheme, developers, Waggaman & Brawner commissioned the architecture firm of Corning & Moore to design a collection of similar, but unique modern…
Chain Bridge Road and University Terrace Modern Mecca: Mid-Century Neighborhoods Tour
Beginning in the 1940s, Chain Bridge Road and University Terrace in the Palisades became a hot bed of Modern residential design. The difficult terrain with its steep inclines, expansive views and…
Mid-Century Eastland Gardens: Mid-Century Neighborhoods Tour
For the first quarter century of its life as a residential neighborhood, Eastland Gardens was defined by its Revival-style dwellings. In the early to mid-1950s, Black architects and builders moved…
Timberwood of Washington: Mid-Century Neighborhoods Tour
Timberwood of Washington is a small enclave of ten, detached three-story wooden A-frame townhomes distinguished for their rustic quality and Mid-Century character.
Modern Crestwood: Mid-Century Neighborhoods Tour
Beginning in 1950, when Black Washingtonians began moving into Crestwood--formerly an all-White, racially restricted neighborhood--they not only altered its socio-racial character, but they also…
Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Lord and Taylor, Chevy Chase Branch Store: The New York-based store brought new styles to Washington, DC.
Samuel Lord and George Washington Taylor are credited with establishing one of the first department stores in the nation, opening their first store in 1825 in Manhattan. Their quick success in New…