Capital Traction Company Car Barn: This building is one of the most architecturally impressive of the seven remaining streetcar barns in DC.

Also known as the Decatur Street Car Barn and the Northern Bus Garage, the Capital Traction Company Car Barn, built in 1906 and designed by prominent local firm Wood, Donn and Deming, is one of only seven remaning (of the original thirty) streetcar barns in the city.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, the Capital Traction Company began to improve streetcar service along 14th Street NW by extending its 14th Street line from the Park Road terminus northward to Colorado Avenue. The extension opened up previously undeveloped portions of the city, particularly north of Piney Branch Parkway. At the “new” end of the line, the company constructed this Italian Renaissance Revival style car barn building to promote the expanded service, as well as to attract new residents to the area.

DC Inventory: September 27, 2012

National Register: May 22, 2013