The Lafayette

Architect: George S. Cooper
Style: Queen Anne
City: Washington, DC

The Lafayette is one of the earliest apartment buildings built in Washington, D.C., completed in 1898 to designs by architect George S. Cooper. Standing in the Shaw neighborhood at 1605-1607 7th St NW, it applied Queen Anne detailing to an affordable, middle-class housing development rather than a fashionable one. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

the style

The building incorporates elements of the Queen Anne style, a decorative Victorian idiom more often associated with single-family houses, applied here to one of the city's first purpose-built apartment blocks.

significance

Individually designated a DC Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

nearby

Church of the Advent 0.1 mi · 1893
Woodson, Carter G. House 0.1 mi · Victorian Terrace · 1890
O Street Market 0.2 mi · Gothic Revival · 1881
Lincoln Congregational Temple United Church of Christ 0.3 mi
Immaculate Conception Church (Washington, D.C.) 0.3 mi · Renaissance Revival
Frelinghuysen University (Edward Goodwin House) 0.4 mi · Queen Anne · 1906

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