E. H. Alsop House
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Headquarters of the National Society, Daughters of the American Colonists
1920, Waddy B. Wood. 2205 Massachusetts Ave. NW
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(Photo by Andrew Hope)
Examples of Wood's Colonial Revival row houses abound in the general area, and the Alsop house exhibits many features common to them: limestone lintels above triple windows in a greatly swelling bay whose sunken corner blocks join to form distinctive continuous horizontal belt courses; the door set back beneath an elliptical arch; and pedimented Philadelphia-inspired scroll dormers with switch-back tracery set at the edge of the roof.
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