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Greenway Apartments - Section 106 Documentation

SECTION 106 DOCUMENTATION AND
DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY
WASHINGTON, D.C.

Architect's Plan by Harry L. Edwards, 1940: Evening Star, November 16, 1940

The Greenway Apartments is a complex of 72 apartment buildings located on a thirty-acre site in the southeast quadrant of the District of Columbia.

This mammoth low-income housing project was conceived by The Cafritz Company as a home for Navy workers.

The Cafritz Company built the complex following the designs of the skilled architect, Harry Edwards.

Begun in 1940, the buildings are delineated in a simple, economical manner, alluding to a modern sensibility while maintaining the scale and forms usually associated with detached house design.

EHT Traceries prepared the documentation and evaluation necessary to comply with the Determination of Eligibility requirements related to the Federal Housing Authority re-financing.

The report evaluated the architectural and historical significance of the Greenway Apartments in relation to the individual criteria of the National Register of Historic Places.

The study focused on archival research, documentation, and on-site survey, placing the complex in the context of private and public low-income housing in the United States.