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1925, unknown. 2507 Massachusetts Ave. NW
  • (Photo by Andrew Hope)

One of the finest works of the Wardman Construction Company is this house, where Federal Style elements (the round-headed windows on the principal story set in blind frames and the semicircular portico) have been used on a house of Beaux-Arts form and composition.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee
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Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee, "House", [Washington, District of Columbia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DC-01-SK30.

Print Source

Buildings of the District of Columbia, Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 349-349.

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