National Register of Historic Places

Mansion at 2401 15th St., NW.

Washington, District of Columbia County, District of Columbia
Listed
January 28, 1991
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
90002147

About this property

Meridian Hall is an historic house in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It has been listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites since 1990 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as the Mansion at 2401 15th Street, NW. Today, it is headquarters of the Art of Living Foundation. The house was commissioned by Mary Foote Henderson who led the movement to make Sixteenth Street NW and the Meridian Hill area of Washington and enclave of mansions and embassies. This structure did serve as an embassy, as it was intended, for a brief period of time, serving the Egyptian government. George Oakley Totten Jr., who was known as Washington's leading Beaux-Arts architect, designed this house in the Tudor Revival style. It was completed in 1923. The exterior features a scored stucco façade which is reminiscent of an English manor house. The front sports a large arched entrance portal and the building has panels of casement windows and cast stone quatrefoil ornamentation. The interior features a large central staircase, salons, ballroom, and a dining hall that is ornamented in the Tudor classical style. Media related to Meridian Hall (Washington, D.C.) at Wikimedia Commons

Location

2401 15th St., NW.
Washington, District of Columbia County, District of Columbia
38.92182, -77.03475

Categories

COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTARCHITECTURE
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Sources

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When was Mansion at 2401 15th St., NW. listed on the National Register?

Mansion at 2401 15th St., NW. was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 1991.

What type of historic resource is Mansion at 2401 15th St., NW.?

Mansion at 2401 15th St., NW. is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Mansion at 2401 15th St., NW. is recorded as the industrial era.

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