2000 Pennsylvania Avenue
- Year
- 1831
- Style
- Italianate
- City
- Washington, DC
2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, now known as Western Market, began as thirteen row houses built between 1831 and 1896 on a block bordered by H, I, 20th, and 21st Streets, NW — merchant homes with small shops built into them, facing the old Western Market founded in 1803. Named a DC Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as the '2000 Block of Eye Street, NW,' the block was later redeveloped into an eight-story office and retail complex that today forms a gateway into the George Washington University campus, which owns the property.
the building
The corner shop. The largest of the original row houses stood at the corner, 832 20th Street and 2004 I Street — a three-story building with a flat roof, a metal cornice, and a facade covered in imitation stone. It began life as two separate shops before being combined into one structure.
the style
The surviving row houses combine Italianate and Federal architecture typical of Washington's early-to-mid-19th-century merchant blocks.
More on Italianatesignificance
Designated a DC Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and included in the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites.
nearby
- Arts Club of Washington (Caldwell-Monroe; Cleveland Abbe House)
- Lisner Auditorium (George Washington University)
- George Washington University, President's Office
- H.B. Burns Memorial Building
- Engine Company No. 23 (Foggy Bottom Firehouse)
- Earley, John J., Office and Studio