Best Addresses A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses

Name: Best Addresses A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses
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ISBN: 9780874744767

ISBN-10: 0874744768

ISBN-13: 9780874744767

Edition: 1988

Authors: James M. Goode

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A century ago, the popularity of early Washington landmarks like Stoneleigh Court and the controversial Cairo (which, at a soaring twelve stories, shocked District officials into enacting the city's height limit) made it clear that apartment living was here to stay. By the 1920s, Beaux Art and Art Deco palaces offered residents all the luxuries of a first-class hotel: barbershops, ballrooms, rooftop terraces, and indoor pools. Soon other innovations in apartment living—the garden complex, the cooperative, and the mixed-use building—put Washington at the forefront of urban planning. Today the resurgence of the historic heart of the nation's capital has created an apartment boom rivaled only…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 4/17/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 597
Size: 9.34" wide x 12.30" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 6.842
Language: English