Arts Club of Washington (Caldwell-Monroe; Cleveland Abbe House)
- Year
- 1802
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- federal washington
The Arts Club of Washington occupies the Cleveland Abbe House at 2017 I Street NW, a Federal-period rowhouse built in 1802. Its residents included James Monroe, who lived here as Secretary of War and then as President while the White House was being rebuilt after the War of 1812, and historian Henry Adams. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975 for a later resident, meteorologist Cleveland Abbe, founder of the National Weather Service, who lived here from 1877 until his death in 1916.
the building
Federal rowhouse form. The house is a three-story brick rowhouse four bays wide, capped by a dormered gable roof, with its entrance set in the leftmost bay and rectangular sash windows fitted with stone sills — a textbook Federal-period Washington townhouse.
the style
Built in 1802, the house is considered an excellent example of Federal period architecture: red brick construction, restrained classical proportions, and a dormered gable roof rather than showy ornament.
More on Federalsignificance
The building carries two DC Historic Landmark designations along with National Historic Landmark and National Register of Historic Places status, the NHL designation given specifically in 1975 for its connection to Cleveland Abbe. It now serves as home to the Arts Club of Washington.
nearby
- 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue
- H.B. Burns Memorial Building
- Lisner Auditorium (George Washington University)
- George Washington University, President's Office
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Hall
- Engine Company No. 23 (Foggy Bottom Firehouse)