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Alban Towers Apartment Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites
Alban Towers in 2008
Alban Towers is located in Washington, D.C.
Alban Towers
Location3700 Massachusetts Ave. NW., Washington, D.C., U.S.
Coordinates38°55′43″N 77°4′26″W / 38.92861°N 77.07389°W / 38.92861; -77.07389
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1928
Built byDavid A. Baer
ArchitectRobert O. Scholz
Architectural styleTudor Revival, Late Gothic Revival
MPSApartment Buildings in Washington, DC, MPS
NRHP reference No.94001040[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 9, 1994
Designated DCIHSMay 15, 1991

Alban Towers is an apartment building on Massachusetts Avenue in Northwest Washington, D.C. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and is considered to be one of the best examples of Gothic Revival architecture in Washington.[2]

It is located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue (Embassy Row) and Wisconsin Avenue, and occupies the 221,000 square foot (21,000 m²) block between those two avenues and Garfield Street, Cathedral Avenue, and 38th Street. Diagonally across the Massachusetts-Wisconsin intersection is the St. Albans School, which occupies the southwestern corner of the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Eva Barsoum, 1994, NRHP Nomination form

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