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Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Clean and tight in original binding in near fine dustjacket. 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 by that of the 1920s. Through residents' personal recollections, original floor plans, and more than 690…
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Best Addresses: A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses Hardcover - 1988
by James M. Goode
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- Title Best Addresses: A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses
- Author James M. Goode
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 597
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Smithsonian Books (DC), Washington, D.C.
- Date 1988
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780874744781 / 0874744784
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88600058
- Dewey Decimal Code 728.314
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