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

Equitable Cooperative Building Association (and Interior)
915 F Street, NW
Longtime headquarters of one of the city's oldest and most successful savings and loans; embodies the
historical associations and architectural expression of these important institutions; exceptional example of
Classical Revival bank architecture; associated with the career and ideals of distinguished civic leader and
progressive reformer John Joy Edson; notable work of local architects Frederick B. Pyle and Arthur B. Heaton;
monumental design with colossal white marble Ionic columns, textured buff brick, classical mouldings; skylit
banking hall on Greek temple plan with shallow-arched, coffered ceiling; built 1911-12; alterations 1919; DC
designation 7/28/94 (includes banking hall interior), NR listing 12/29/94
Evans-Tibbs House
1910 Vermont Avenue, NW
Home of Lillian Evans Tibbs (1890-1967), known as Madame Evanti, the first internationally acclaimed
African-American opera singer; helped found the Negro National Opera Company; built 1894, R.E. Crump,
architect; purchased by family in 1904; DC designation 3/20/85; NR listing 9/8/87; within Greater U Street
HD
Evening Star Building
1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Built 1898 (Marsh & Peter, architects); 1918 addition demolished 1988; renovation and addition 1988-89; DC
listing 11/8/64; within Pennsylvania Avenue NHS
Evermay (Davidson House)
1623 28th Street, NW
Federal mansion built by Samuel Davidson, real estate speculator and owner with David Burns of land
occupied by the White House and Lafayette Park; 2-1/2 stories, gable roof, end chimneys, Flemish bond,
bracketed eaves, side & elliptical fanlight; extensive formal gardens; built 1801-04 (Nicholas King, architect),
remodeled 1811-18, Victorianized 1877, restored to Federal appearance 1923, additions 1961; DC listing
11/8/64, NR listing 4/3/73; within Georgetown HD
Executive Office Building: see State, War, and Navy Building
Exeter Apartments: see Oswego and Exeter Apartments
Export-Import Bank: see Properties Determined Eligible for the National Register
Eye Street, NW (2000 Block): see I Street
F Street, NW, South Side of 800 Block
800-10, 812, 814-16, and 818 F Street; 527 9th Street, NW
Group of five related commercial buildings representative of the earliest development of F Street as the city's
commercial core; built after the completion of the large-scale municipal improvements undertaken by the
Board of Public Works in 1871-74; illustrates renewed civic aspirations of post-Civil War era; rich, animated
facades introduce congenial human scale enhancing the monumentality of the L'Enfant Plan and nearby
General Post Office and Old Patent Office; includes one of the city's oldest office buildings and work by noted
local architects; built 1875-92; DC designation 8/28/73, NR listing 4/2/74; within Downtown HD and
Pennsylvania Avenue NHS
LeDroit Building (800-10 F Street): Commercial office building erected in 1875 by A.L. Barber & Co.,
builders of suburban LeDroit Park; rare example of pre-elevator office building design; major work of noted
local architect James McGill; housed McGill's office until 1882; corner site, 3 stories with raised basement of
shopfronts, three main entrances; exceptional facade design with fully glazed lower floors, colonnaded main
floor supporting brick upper facades with triple "Palladian" windows, rhythmic window surrounds; free
Italianate adaptation of classical detail; bracketed cornice with alternating triangular and curved pediments,
applied lettering; well-preserved interiors with original layout and finishes
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