Named after Marquis de Lafayette, this building is noted as an example of the “extensible” school of the late 1920s and mid-1940s, opened in 1931 during a time when several schools in the city were constructed in order to relieve overcrowding. The structure has been modernized over the years with interior renovations and the conversion of the auditorium/gymnasium into offices and classroom space. The property is currently used as a Chevy Chase community center.

The architect behind this school is Albert L. Harris, the second Municipal Architect.

Constructed in 1940, this substation was built to meet the demand for electricity for residents and businesses in the neighborhood, according to the Historic Preservation Review Board application. With an Art Moderne style, this limestone-covered building was designed to blend in with the surrounding commercial buildings.

Despite succeeding in becoming a historic landmark, Founder and President of Greater Greater Washington David Alpert writes, “Maybe some substations in the city should be designated, maybe not. This one especially just does not seem to be that significant.”

In Brightwood Park, his H-shape, four-story building was constructed in 1939 for working-class and middle-class residents. It was designed by Quebec-born architect Louis de LaDurantaye for builder W. Charles Heitmuller. The design is that of a “conventional low-rise apartment building” with Gothic, Romanesque, and Moorish exterior decorations.

In Forest Hills, this historic landmark was once occupied by Polish Ambassador Romuald Spasowski before his defection to the U.S. in 1981. According to this Historic Preservation Review Board document, this two-story, Colonial Revival-style single-family home was constructed in 1926 for owners Howard and Katie Fulmer.

By 1979, the Polish government purchased the property after Spasowski arrived in D.C. that year. After living in a “cramped suburban apartment,” he insisted in obtaining an official residence, especially a “safe house.” After his defection, the house was vacant from 1981 to 1988. Afterwards, it once again served as the official Polish Ambassador’s residence.

Since July 2017, there have been plans to construct five townhouses and one detached single-family home on the grounds of this property. Groundbreaking on this project is expected by January or February of 2018.

This nearly 10,000-square-foot site features community gardens, a one-and-a-half-story, Colonial Revival-style field house built in 1934, and a green house built in 1970. There is also a non-contributing cinderblock storage building and a non-contributing shade structure north of the field house.

What makes this site historic is its association with a local movement that had the goal to end segregation in the city’s public playgrounds, a movement that lasted from 1947 to 1954. The Historic Preservation Review Board reports that after Twin Oaks was integrated in 1953, all of D.C.’s playgrounds quickly integrated after Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

The Twin Oaks Garden Demonstration Center was also a key component of the Youth Gardens Project, which was inaugurated in 1962 in order to provide a training center and demonstration area for volunteers for garden projects.

This building is considered significant for its “association with the expansion of the insurance and mortgage industries after World War II, and ... for its embodiment of Georgian Revival Style during an era that idealized Colonial Revival aesthetics,” as written by D.C. Preservation League Executive Director Rebecca Miller in a letter to the Historic Preservation Review Board.

The Fannie Mae headquarters are divided into these parts: a main building, built in 1956; two side wings, built in 1963; and a rear addition, built in 1978. Influenced by the Governor’s Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia, architect Leon Chatelain, Jr. designed the structure in the colonial revival style.

Not everyone is pleased with this historic designation. Washington City Paper argued that the building “possesses little architectural merit,” further describing the property as having “wrong” proportions and “bulky” projecting wings. Over 260 Curbed DC readers also responded to a poll, with the majority describing the historic designation as “ridiculous.”

The Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle established this Brookland college campus with the first building constructed in 1914 and expanded in 1935, 1941, 1956, and 1957. The purpose of this school is to educate priests to perform the evangelical work of the Roman Catholic order. The architects behind the first building were Frederick V. Murphy and Walter B. Olmsted of the firm Murphy and Olmsted.

The Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle was founded in 1858.

This Adams Morgan apartment building dates all the way back to 1916, designed by master architects Hunter and Bell in the Italian Renaissance and Craftsman styles. This property is deemed historically significant for reflecting the first phase of apartment construction that shaped the neighborhood in the beginning of the twentieth century.

There have been few alterations to the building, though its original windows have been replaced.

Just down the street from the previous historic landmark is this building, also known as The Glenn Arms Apartments. Constructed in circa 1911 by Carroll Beale, this building has the same reasons for being deemed a landmark as the building, located at 2524 17th Street NW. It represents the first phase of apartment construction in Adams Morgan and embodies the characteristics of the Italian Renaissance style.

In the mid-1950s, baking was D.C.’s largest processing industry with up to 3,000 employees. According to the Historic Preservation Review Board, this bakery is D.C.’s earliest existent industrial baking facilities. Over several decades, from 1891 to 1930, this property, owned by Michael Holzbeierlein, was integrated with several structures. Holzbeierlein was a Bavarian-born immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in 1887. Holzbeierlein Bakery officially declared bankruptcy in 1953, unable to compete with larger corporations.

Designed by German-born architect Julius Wenig, the architecture that makes up the property is utilitarian and representative of the typical factory of the era.

The surrounding neighborhood is also home to other historic baking facilities, including Dorsch’s White Cross Bakery at 641 S Street NW and the Bond Bread Factory at 2146 Georgia Avenue NW.

Bisnow reports that there are plans to redevelop this structure into a 56,000-square-foot mixed-use project with office, residential, and retail space.

This six-story building was originally constructed to supplement the Central Heating Plant at 13th and C streets SW. Designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster, the Georgetown structure was approved in order to provide steam heat to the increasing number of federal buildings in the city.

In the D.C. Preservation League’s historic designation application, they praised the industrial building for its “understated,” streamlined facades of buff-colored brick.

In a Washington Post article published in November 1948, the building was also described as the “most modern heating plant of its kind in the country.”

Also known as the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building, this 1961-constructed structure spans seven stories, designed by D.C.-based architecture firms of Faulker, Kingsbury, and Sternhouse and Chatelain, Gauger, and Nolan. This limestone and concrete building was the first federal office building constructed specifically as part of the Southwest Urban Renewal Plan. Its modernist design also marks a stylistic shift in federal government buildings.

The building has undergone alterations over the years with original windows replaced and limestone panels repaired or replaced.

In the application to the Historic Preservation Review Board, this 49-unit apartment building is historically significant for being a “new model” of residences at the time it was built as well as having a distinctive Art Deco style.

In 1944, this building was constructed with a T-shaped main block with three large projections. It is approximately 190 feet long by 100 feet wide and is 40 feet tall. The interior has had few alterations. The units range from studios to one- and two-bedrooms.