Woodson, Carter G. House
- Year
- 1890
- Style
- Victorian Terrace
- City
- Washington, DC
The Carter G. Woodson Home at 1538 9th Street NW is a three-story Victorian rowhouse built in 1890 in the Shaw neighborhood. Carter G. Woodson, founder of Black History Month, bought the house from Ida J. Heiberger in 1922 and lived and worked there until his death in 1950, running his historical association and publishing operation out of the building. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
the building
Headquarters behind a rowhouse door. From this house Woodson managed the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and published the Negro History Bulletin and the Journal of Negro History. In 1923 he installed a sign reading THE ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS, INC. beside the front door, and the house hosted nine consecutive annual ASNLH meetings.
the style
The house is a straightforward three-story Victorian rowhouse, notable less for its architectural detail than for functioning simultaneously as home, publishing house, and research office for over two decades.
More on Victorian Terracesignificance
Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the DC Inventory of Historic Sites, the house became vacant in the 1990s after serving for decades as the operational center of Woodson's work in Black history.
nearby
- The Lafayette
- Lincoln Congregational Temple United Church of Christ
- Immaculate Conception Church (Washington, D.C.)
- Church of the Advent
- O Street Market
- Frelinghuysen University (Edward Goodwin House)