Luzon Apartment Building

Year: 1896
Style: Romanesque Revival
City: Washington, DC
Collection: romanesque revival

The Luzon Apartment Building, also known as The Westover, is a Romanesque Revival apartment house in Washington's West End, designed by Nicholas T. Haller and completed in 1896. It is one of the last surviving structures from the formative period of apartment-building construction in the city.

the building

Early apartment building. The Luzon is one of the last surviving structures from the formative period of apartment-building construction in Washington, D.C., a rare physical record of the city's earliest apartment blocks.

the style

Romanesque Revival (c. 1840–1900): Round arches revived in heavy rough-cut stone: squat columns, cave-like entrances, and deep-set windows.

the architect

Nicholas T. Haller designed the Luzon Apartment Building, completed in 1896.

significance

The Luzon Apartment Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

nearby

Germuiller Row 260 ft · Victorian Terrace
Wiley, Emily, House 450 ft · Renaissance Revival
Moran Building 0.2 mi · Second Empire · 1889
Bulletin Building 0.2 mi · Art Deco
National Building Museum 0.2 mi · Art Nouveau · 1887
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue 0.2 mi · Moorish / Mudéjar · 1908

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