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Lucy Diggs Slowe Elementary School: Constructed during the fight for educational equality, the Lucy Diggs Slowe Elementary School stands as a symbol of civil rights activism in Brookland.
“Must we allow this nonsensical custom of segregation to deny our children adequate educational facilities while enrollment for schools of the other race is hardly sufficient for maintenance?” O.V.…
Hillcrest/National Presbyterian Church: Hillcrest/National Presbyterian Church is immensely valuable for its architectural significance, artistic elements, and historical legacy.
Hillcrest/National Presbyterian Church reflects the merging of two early 20th century Washington institutions into the current historic properties of The Washington City Orphan Asylum (Hillcrest…
INTELSAT Headquarter Building: Completed in 1984, the INTELSAT Headquarter Building evoked “the space-city imagery of Star Wars” through its Modernist architecture.
“[H]alf way to the Maryland line is a startling apparition: seemingly a huge jeweled fortress with gleaming turrets, set on a wooded hill.” Architecture magazine critic, 1985
Bazelon-McGovern House: Constructed in 1957, the Bazelon McGovern House is historically significant not only as a home to two notable politicians, but as a symbol of larger trends in American art and architecture in the post-World War II era.
“Japanese architecture is a thoughtful meandering along a keyboard. Each note struck is another column; the intervals of silence are the spaces they delimit. Crescendos are rare, the art of the fugue…
Texas Gardens: Texas Gardens represents the evolution of apartment building design in DC during the first half of the twentieth century, which was influenced by economic and demographic trends, zoning laws, and the Garden City Movement.
As an example of the purpose-built, low-rise apartment building, Texas Gardens was constructed to meet the challenges of housing the Washington region’s rapidly expanding population during the…
Federal Office Building No. 6: This International style federal building is also known as the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building.
Federal Office Building No. 6, now known as the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building, received its original moniker as one of fifteen new office buildings of the 1956 plan for…
Colonel William Robert Davis House: This avant-garde interpretation of the Mediterranean Revival style was one of the first houses constructed in Forest Hills.
The house at 3020 Albemarle Street, NW is located in the Forest Hills subdivision of Washington, DC, an early-20th-century close-in suburb. Built in 1924, it is of frame and stucco construction. The…
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (and Interior): Built in 1969-72, this library is DC's only work by the prominent twentieth century architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
The Martin Luther King Memorial Library (MLK Library) is a four-story steel and glass International-style building in downtown DC, designed by world-famous German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der…
Mid-Century Modernism in Southwest: Channel Square: 325 P Street, SW
Channel Square is also one of the very few apartment buildings in DC by noted architect, Harry Weese. Though he was trained under and appreciated the Modernist approach, Weese is often considered one…
Mid-Century Modernism in Southwest: River Park: 1301 Deleware Avenue SW
River Park was designed by Charles Goodman and constructed in 1962. The gated community includes nine-story apartment buildings and unusual barrel-roofed apartments. The distinctive use of aluminum…