You are here

Washington, D.C. » Capitol Hill Neighborhood » Row Houses

Row Houses

-A A +A
before 1887. 512–516 and 602–608 East Capitol St. NE

The growing sense of East Capitol Street's monumental character during the 1880s, a result of its great width and the deep “parking,” or front gardens (actually city rights of way) of its houses, was expressed by increased building heights. Two sets of anonymous undated row houses in the 500 and 600 blocks demonstrate how imposing sheer size and repetition of elements can be. Tautly stretched brick walls are merely overlaid with cast-iron and wood stock parts, perhaps ordered from the catalogs of ironmongers in Baltimore or New York.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee
×

Data

What's Nearby

Sarah McC. Spofford House
S. W. Tullock House
House
Thomas Healy House
Row Houses

Citation

Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee, "Row Houses", [Washington, District of Columbia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DC-01-CN16.

Print Source

Buildings of the District of Columbia, Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 254-255.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,