Ponce de Leon Apartment Building
- Style
- Spanish Colonial Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
Completed in 1928, the Ponce de Leon Apartment Building in North Cleveland Park was designed by David L. Stern in a mix of Mission Revival and Spanish Revival styles, part of a wave of 1920s exoticism along a prominent apartment corridor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
the building
Exterior ornament. The facade features diapered brickwork, a terra cotta tile roof, a limestone portico and trim, and Moorish arch motifs.
The lobby. The lobby survives intact, with a decorative plaster ceiling and a terrazzo floor.
the style
Stern combined Mission Revival and Spanish Revival vocabulary, part of a broader 1920s taste for exotic historical styles in Washington apartment buildings.
More on Spanish Colonial Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
nearby
- Intelsat headquarters
- Jesse Reno School
- Sedgwick Gardens
- Sears, Roebuck & Company Department Store
- Slayton, William L., House (and Interior)
- Uptown Theater