American Peace Society house
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
This rowhouse at 734 Jackson Place NW, facing Lafayette Square, was built in 1878 for banker and philanthropist Charles Carroll Glover. From 1911 to 1948 it served as the national headquarters of the American Peace Society, one of the country's first pacifist organizations, founded in 1815. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.
the building
Rowhouse facade. Part of a row of brick houses with sandstone trim along Jackson Place, the three-story house has a two-bay front: the entrance in one bay, a two-story polygonal projecting bay in the other, with window hoods that shift from segmental arches at the first floor to shallow gables above.
the style
Built in the Renaissance Revival idiom common to Lafayette Square's row houses, with bracketed segmental-arch window hoods and a bracketed, pilaster-flanked entrance.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974, distinguished by its 37 years as headquarters of the American Peace Society rather than by its architecture alone.
nearby
- Decatur House
- Blair House (Blair-Lee House; President's Guest House)
- Renwick Gallery (Old Corcoran Gallery)
- Peter Parker House
- United States Chamber of Commerce
- Eisenhower Executive Office Building