Vizcaya Apartments, formerly known as the Chilchester Arms, is a conventional low-rise apartment building, built in 1936. Designed with Moderne stylistic elements, such as geometric brick and stone ornamentation and Deco-inspired setbacks, these…

The Palisades Playground, established in 1922, is historically designated for the archaeologically documented evidence of prehistoric Native American occupation over thousands of years, as well as for its significance as a 1930s park design,…

The 38.6-acre Mount Vernon Seminary for Girls campus includes 16 buildings, generally brick with Georgian Revival or simple Colonial Revival detailing. Six of these date to the period between 1916 to 1942, when the complex was first developed and…

The Greater U Street Historic District is a Victorian-era neighborhood, developed largely between 1862 and 1900. The area consists of a coherent group of row houses constructed overwhelmingly by speculative builders and real estate developers along…

The five-story, Colonial Revival-style Tilden Hall apartment building was designed by noted architect Frederic B. Pyle (1867-1934) and constructed between 1922 and 1924 by the P.F. Gormley Company as a “high-class” apartment hotel.As such, Tilden…

Located at 3400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, the Heurich-Parks House is a detached, two-story, compound-plan residence that was initially constructed in 1925, and is characteristic of both the Mission and Spanish Revival architectural styles. The house…

The Cleveland-Emerson Exchange is an impressive and notable Stripped Classical building with Art Deco detailing located on a prominent corner in DC's Tenleytown neighborhood. The limstone-clad building, constructed as a telephone exchange for the…

This row house is notable for its significance as the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and as the DC residence of Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), educator and civil rights leader. The row house transitioned from a…

The Denrike Building was completed in 1926 and designed by local architect Appleton P. Clark, Jr. Although part of a collection of office buildings in the Financial Historic District, the building’s exterior stands out for its Tudor Gothic Revival…

The Pierce Springhouse, located in Rock Creek Park on the green median strip between the dual lanes of Tilden Street, NW, is constructed of blue granite that was quarried locally at a nearby Broad Branch Quarry. The structure has two stories, with a…