Clifton Terrace
- Architect
- Albert Schneider
- Year
- 1915
- Style
- Colonial Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
Clifton Terrace is a three-building apartment complex in Columbia Heights that developer Harry Wardman built between 1914 and 1915 along the 14th Street streetcar line, to designs by Frank Russell White and Albert Moreland Schneider in the Colonial Revival style. The architects drew on the garden city movement's ideas about layout and greenery for the complex.
the building
A landmark tenant-rights case. Clifton Terrace was the real-world backdrop for Javins v. First National Realty Corp., 428 F.2d 1071 (D.C. Cir. 1970), the federal appeals case that established the implied warranty of habitability in landlord-tenant law -- a ruling still cited in housing law today.
the style
The complex's Colonial Revival design was shaped by the garden city movement, which pushed architects to treat apartment buildings as a planned grouping rather than isolated blocks -- visible in how White and Schneider organized Clifton Terrace's three buildings together.
More on Colonial Revivalsignificance
Clifton Terrace is an individually designated DC Historic Landmark and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, recognized both for its architecture and for its role in Javins v. First National Realty Corp.
nearby
- Meridian Hall
- Lincoln Theatre
- Josephine Butler Parks Center
- Congressional Club
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary House
- Warder Mansion