Southwest Washington, Urban Renewal Area, Bounded by Independence Avenue, Washington Avenue,, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

15 b&w photos
159 data pages
2 photo caption pages

TITLE:
Southwest Washington, Urban Renewal Area, Bounded by Independence Avenue, Washington Avenue,, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

CALL NUMBER:
HABS DC-856

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 15 (5 x 7)
Data Page(s): 158 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS DC-856

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N993).

Building/structure dates: 1945 initial construction

Significance: Southwest Washington, D.C., was the site of one of the earliest urban renewal efforts in the United States, and the first such renewal effort in the Nation's Capitol. While not the largest urban renewal project ever pursued in the District, it was the city's only full-scale and most comprehensive attempt to redevelop an entire neighborhood. ... Despite the national and international significance of the practices and site, as well as the prominence of the architects and planners involved, the realized New Southwest did not live up to the grand vision its developers had in mind. Consequently, today, many of the hallmark sites of the urban renewal plan - including L'Enfant Plaza, the Waterside Mall, and the waterfront - are marked for redevelopment. These plans, along with other smaller-scale developer initiatives, threaten to significantly alter, or even destroy, some of the urban renewal era buildings and sites. However, at the same time, they also offer hope of remedying some of the failures of urban renewal planning and execution and of improving the neighborhood's shortcomings for today's residents, workers, and visitors.

SUBJECTS:
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--District of Columbia--Washington

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.dc1017

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
GENERAL VIEW ALONG WATERFRONT TO SHOW ONE OF THE FIVE WATERSIDE PARKS DESIGNED BY SASAKI, DAWSON & DEMAY BETWEEN 1968 AND 1972
CLOSE VIEW ALONG WATERFRONT TO SHOW BULKHEAD
VIEW OF WATERSIDE MALL SHOPPING CENTER (M STREET SIDE) DESIGNED BY CHLOETHIEL WOODARD SMITH & ASSOCIATES AND BUILT IN 1972
INTERIOR VIEW, WATERSIDE MALL
VIEW OF THE REAR OF WATERSIDE MALL
VIEW OF TOWN CENTER, MARINA VIEW TOWERS SOUTH BUILDING (ORIGINALLY TOWN CENTER PLAZA WEST) AT 1000-1100 SIXTH STREET; TOWN CENTER PLAZA WEST WAS DESIGNED BY I.M. PEI & PARTNERS AND BUILT IN 1962 BY WEBB & KNAPP
VIEW OF THE ARENA STAGE/KREEGER THEATER AT 1101 SIXTH STREET; HARRY WEESE & ASSOCIATES DESIGNED THE ARENA STAGE IN 1961 AND THE KREEGER THEATER IN 1970
GENERAL VIEW ALONG L'ENFANT PROMENADE OR TENTH STREET MALL DESIGNED BY I.M. PEI & PARTNERS LOOKING SOUTH; VIEW INCLUDES THE L'ENFANT PLAZA WEST BUILDING (USPS) AT 475 L'ENFANT PLAZA WAS DESIGNED BY VLASTIMIL KOUBEK AND COMPLETED IN 1971 AND, TO THE EAST, THE NASA BUILDING AS WELL AS THE ASTRAL BUILDING AND COMSAT BUILDING, BOTH OF WHICH WERE DESIGNED BY ARALDO A. COSSUTTA, OF I.M. PEI & PARTNERS, IN 1968
VIEW OF THE FOUNTAIN IN THE BANNEKER OVERLOOK DESIGNED BY DAN URBAN KILEY AND COMPLETED AROUND 1968
VIEW LOOKING SOUTHWEST FROM THE BANNEKER OVERLOOK ACROSS THE FREEWAY TO HUD, LOEWS L'ENFANT PLAZA HOTEL AND COMSAT BUILDING GENERALLY; THE HUD BUILDING, OR ROBERT C. WEAVER FEDERAL BUILDING, AT 451 SEVENTH STREET WAS DESIGNED BY MARCEL BREUER AND COMPLETED IN 1968 AND THE (1973) HOTEL BY VLASTIMIL KOUBEK
VIEW LOOKING NORTH ON THE TENTH STREET MALL (L'ENFANT PROMENADE) TOWARD THE JAMES FORRESTAL BUILDING (FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING NO. 5) AT 1000 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE; THE FORRESTAL BUILDING WAS DESIGNED BY CURTIS & DAVIS AND COMPLETED IN 1969
CLOSER VIEW ALONG TENTH STREET MALL LOOKING TO FORRESTAL BUILDING
VIEW AT GROUND LEVEL LOOKING THROUGH PILOTIS OF THE FORRESTAL BUILDING ACROSS INDEPENDENCE AVENUE TO THE NATIONAL MALL AND SMITHSONIAN CASTLE BEYOND
VIEW FROM BENEATH THE FORRESTAL BUILDING LOOKING TO THE NATIONAL MALL AND SMITHSONIAN CASTLE
VIEW LOOKING WEST ALONG FACADE OF FORRESTAL BUILDING AND ACROSS PLAZA

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DC1017

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