Providence Hospital opened just six weeks after the start of the Civil War, and was one of the longest running hospitals in the city, operating from 1861 to 1961. Opening on the corner of Second and D streets SE, the hospital’s mission of serving…

Anacostia Park’s history is steeped in the relationship between the land and the people that shape it. From the Native peoples, such as the Nacotchtanks who lived for more than 10,000 years along the Anacostia River and adjacent to the land that…

These eight houses, built in 1964 at the height of the steep incline of Hillcrest Drive SE, have exceptional views northeast to a ring of hills that once supported several of the city's Civil War defenses. Hillcrest Drive, more of a meandering…

Unlike other neighborhoods along the Connecticut Avenue corridor (e.g. Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase) that were planned and developed by one or more large-scale developers, Forest Hills was not. The winding roads and undulating topography of the…

Leon Brown and Thomas W.D. Wright were both accomplished architects when they established their partnership together in 1952. In 1947, while maintaining a solo practice, Brown began teaching at Howard University School of Architecture, becoming the…

This group of eleven Modern Chevy Chase houses, each on its own separate lot, are clustered together around a block-long stretch of 28th Street NW between Nebraska Avenue and Rittenhouse Street NW. Although the houses are all based upon a similar…

Eastern High School, located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on the 1700 block of East Capitol Street NE, was constructed between 1921 and 1923 and designed by Municipal Architect Snowden Ashford in the Collegiate Gothic style. Albert Harris,…

Custom-designed Modern houses in the District can often be found clustered in areas of the city that were hard to access before the automobile age. Early 20th century developers who built the city's residential suburbs and filled the lots with…

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…

The ten houses forming Timberwood of Washington are located on either side of a heavily wooded pipe stem on the north side of the 5300 block of MacArthur Boulevard NW in the Palisades (5341-5359 MacArthur Blvd). All of the houses, adhering to a…