Augusta & Louisa Apartment Buildings

Architect: Arthur B. Heaton
Style: Tudor Revival
City: Washington, DC

The Augusta and Louisa Apartment Buildings are two of Washington architect Arthur B. Heaton's earliest commissions, built a year apart in 1900 and 1901 in the Tudor Revival style. Their facades were designed to evoke the mansions of the late Victorian age, translating an English domestic vocabulary into a pair of Washington apartment blocks.

the building

Flemish bond and tapestry brick. The exterior combines Flemish bond brickwork with tapestry brick and decorative motifs worked in tile and limestone, giving the buildings a textured, hand-worked surface unusual for apartment construction of the period.

the style

The Tudor Revival facades borrow the massing and materials of English late-Victorian mansions, recast here as multi-unit apartment buildings rather than single-family estates.

the architect

Arthur B. Heaton was a Washington architect; the Augusta and Louisa buildings, designed in 1900 and 1901, are among his earliest known commissions.

significance

Both buildings are designated DC Historic Landmark #L_1371 and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

nearby

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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse 0.3 mi · Art Deco
Luzon Apartment Building 0.4 mi · Romanesque Revival · 1896
Saint Aloysius Catholic Church 0.4 mi · Renaissance Revival · 1859
O Street Market 0.4 mi · Gothic Revival · 1881

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