With heavy influences from England’s Garden City movement in the early 20th century, Petworth Gardens was constructed as D.C.’s first garden-style apartment buildings, as well as one of the earliest in the United States. Its two sets of four…

The Northumberland, designed by Albert H. Beers and built between 1909 and 1910 by Harry Wardman, presents an eclectic classical facade that blends harmoniously with the buildings that surround it along New Hampshire Avenue. The building remains an…