Zion Baptist Church, 1234 Kenilworth Avenue NE
This file appears in: Mid-Century Eastland Gardens
Architect Robert Madison moved back to his home town of Cleveland, Ohio and established the firm of Madison & Madison in the late 1950s. However, Madison retained a presence in Eastland Gardens when his firm designed Zion Baptist Church here in 1966.
This file appears in: Mid-Century Eastland Gardens
Mid-Century Eastland Gardens
East of the Anacostia River near the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, sits Eastland Gardens, a neighborhood built by and for African Americans. Carved from the site of a former racetrack in 1927 and far removed from the urbanized city, the platted…