District Of Columbia Inventory Of Historic Sites 2002 - H-Net

Dupont Circle: see L’Enfant Plan
Dupont Circle Historic District
Roughly bounded by Rhode Island Avenue, M, and N Streets on the south, Florida Avenue on the west, Swann
Street on the north, and the Sixteenth Street HD on the east
Among the city's most elegant historic residential neighborhoods, notable for superior examples of Victorian
rowhouse architecture in Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque styles, as well as some of the city's
finest turn-of-the-century mansions in Beaux Arts, Chateauesque, Renaissance, and Georgian Revival styles;
has served as the home of many prominent and affluent Washingtonians, as well as foreign legations;
prominent local and national architects are represented; unusually rich and varied streetscapes, many along the
diagonal L'Enfant avenues, with centerpiece at Dupont Circle; fine examples of early apartments, 1920s
commercial buildings along Connecticut Avenue; includes approximately 3100 buildings c. 1875-1940; DC
listing 11/8/64 (preliminary identification), designated 6/17/77, NR listing 7/21/78; DC designation expanded
6/30/83 (effective 1/4/85), NR listing expanded 2/6/85
Dupont Memorial Fountain: see Civil War Monuments
Duvall Foundry
1050 30th Street, NW
Canal era warehouse built and operated as a foundry by William T. Duvall until c. 1870; used as veterinary
hospital in early 20th century; 2 stories, gable roof, brick facade with piers; large arched opening on second
floor, canal side; built c. 1856, moved c. 1974; DC designation 1/23/73; within Georgetown HD
E Street Complex: see Properties Determined Eligible for the National Register
East and West Potomac Park: see Potomac Park
East Capitol Street Car Barn (Metropolitan Railroad Company Car Barn)
1400 East Capitol Street, NE
Built 1896 (Waddy B. Wood, architect); DC designation 3/27/73, NR listing 2/5/74
Eastern Market (and Interiors)
7th Street & North Carolina Avenue, SE
One of three remaining public markets, constructed on a model market plan developed by the city's premier
post-Civil War architect; important document of civic improvement during the prolific public works era of
Boss Shepherd; notable achievement in the development of modern, clean, and efficient public services;
spurred development of commercial and residential growth in the area; addition a notable work of the Office of
the Building Inspector; DC listing 11/8/64; DC designation of interiors 8/21/91 (includes North Hall, Center
Hall, and South Hall with stairhall, "apartments," Market Master's Office on mezzanine, and basement); NR
listing 5/27/71, supplemented 3/24/95; within Capitol Hill HD; DC ownership
South Hall: Built 1871-73, Adolph Cluss, architect; Italianate style, red brick, one story with hipped roof,
round and arched windows, deep corbels, robust expression; open-span interiors with exposed trusses,
utilitarian finishes; vaulted brick basement; cast iron structural elements, monitor skylights
North and Center Halls: Built 1908, Snowden Ashford, architect; similar design with more classical detail
Eastern Market Square: see L’Enfant Plan
Ebenezer United Methodist Church
4th & D Streets, SE
Third home of the oldest African-American congregation on Capitol Hill; founded as an integrated
congregation in 1805, built city's first Methodist church in 1811; separate African-American congregation
("Little Ebenezer") founded in 1827, and housed in a frame church; brick church built in 1870 on the same
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