Whittemore, Sarah Adams, House (Weeks House; Woman's National Democratic Club)
- Style
- Shingle Style
- City
- Washington, DC
Whittemore House at 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW was designed by local architect Harvey L. Page in 1892 and completed in 1894 for opera singer Sarah Adams Whittemore, daughter of Reverend Henry Adams and a descendant of President John Adams. Since 1927 it has served as headquarters of the Woman's National Democratic Club.
the building
A house of senators and explorers. After Whittemore, occupants included Senator John F. Dryden in 1903, railroad executive Theodore P. Shonts in 1906-1907, and Representative John W. Weeks from 1907-1911. Canadian Rockies explorer Walter Wilcox inherited the house in 1907 and lived there from 1911 to 1926, the year before the WNDC purchased it.
A 1967 ballroom addition. In 1967 a concrete Modernist ballroom was added on the Q Street side of the historic Shingle style house, a deliberate contrast between the original 1890s residence and its later expansion.
the style
The Shingle style residence uses continuous wood shingle surfaces typical of the style's informal, textured domestic architecture of the 1880s-90s.
More on Shingle Stylethe architect
Harvey L. Page was a local Washington architect who designed the house in 1892 for its original owner, Sarah Adams Whittemore.
significance
An individual DC Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building now operates as a historic house museum and the headquarters of the Woman's National Democratic Club.
nearby
- Patterson House (Washington Club)
- Wadsworth, Herbert House (Sulgrave Club)
- Belmont, Perry House (International Eastern Star Temple)
- Andrew Mellon Building
- Thomas T. Gaff House
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