Babcock-Macomb House
- Architect
- Arthur B. Heaton
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
The Babcock-Macomb House at 3415 Massachusetts Avenue NW was built for Kate Woodman Babcock, widow of Wisconsin Representative Joseph W. Babcock, who made a fortune in lumber and later in Washington real estate while chairing the House Committee on the District of Columbia. In 1911 Kate Babcock bought two lots in the newly platted Massachusetts Heights subdivision for $14,529, and the resulting house, designed by Arthur B. Heaton in the Renaissance Revival style, was the first built in the neighborhood.
the building
First house on the block. The house was the first constructed in the Massachusetts Heights subdivision, laid out after Massachusetts Avenue was extended beyond Florida Avenue, a development the city's planning committee hoped would draw wealthy residents to the new stretch of avenue.
the style
The house is built in the Renaissance Revival style, one of the fashionable historicist idioms favored for large freestanding residences along Massachusetts Avenue's newly extended blocks in the early 1910s.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
The Babcock-Macomb House is a DC Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Saint Sophia Cathedral, Washington, DC
- British ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.
- Washington Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Saint Peter & Saint Paul & Close; National Cathedral)
- Tregaron Estate
- McCormick, Robert S., House (Brazilian Embassy)
- Cathedral Mansions