Cathedral Mansions

Style: Neoclassical
City: Washington, DC
Collection: the city beautiful

Cathedral Mansions is a trio of apartment buildings at 2900, 3000, and 3100 Connecticut Avenue NW, built from 1922 to 1924 by architect Eugene Waggaman for developer Harry Wardman in the Classical Revival style. Architect Mihran Mesrobian's initials appear on a drawing for one of the three buildings. The complex was added to the DC Inventory of Historic Sites in 1989 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

the style

Waggaman designed the buildings in the Classical Revival style, a formal, symmetrical treatment typical of Wardman's upscale Connecticut Avenue apartment developments of the era.

significance

Added to the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites on May 17, 1989, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 1994.

nearby

The Kennedy-Warren 0.1 mi · Art Deco · 1931
Tregaron Estate 0.3 mi · Georgian
Uptown Theater 0.4 mi · 1936
Sedgwick Gardens 0.7 mi · Art Deco · 1931
British ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. 0.7 mi · Queen Anne
Babcock-Macomb House 0.7 mi · Renaissance Revival

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