60. Hillcrest Architecture: Hidden Gems of SE

Hillcrest Architecture: Hidden Gems of SE

Tour description:

Challenging popular assumptions about "East of the River” neighborhoods, this highly-rated tour offers lessons on the area’s history and its stunning houses. Many of the homes were designed by such legendary architects as Wilfred V. Worland, A.H. Stoneman, Leon Chatelain and pioneering black architects R.C. Archer, Jr., Lewis W. Giles, and Yettikov Wilson. Also experience an interior tour of architect John Joseph Earley's Art Deco house. The tour will conclude with a stop at the Skyland Town Center, the first major retail development in Southeast DC in over three decades.

Tour Guide: Jim Byers; Neighborhood historian, host of WPFW 89.3 FM’s "Latin Flavor", featured guest on WETA's "If You Lived Here" segment that highlighted the Hillcrest neighborhood and renowed guide celebrating his 22nd year offering this dynamic tour

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TOUR INFORMATION:

Tour Starting Location:

Camden Street Gate of the Hillcrest Recreation Center

32 Street and Denver Street, SE, Washington, DC 20020

Meet at the corner of 32 Street and Denver Street, SE (bordering the Hillcrest Recreation Center).

Parking Instructions:

Please use the plentiful FREE ON-STREET PARKING along 32nd, Denver, and/or Camden Streets. ***Please leave the limited spaces in the small parking lot for use by recreation center patrons. Thank You!

· Closest Metro or Bus Line: METRO - NAYLOR ROAD (Green Line – just across DC line):

a) Bus from Metro: #D1X (Penn Av. Ltd.) towards "Archives" = 6 minutes: One mile ride to CAMDEN ST. stop (beside the picket fence). Walk one block west along Camden to 32nd St.

**Note: DX1 Pennsylvania Ave Limited replaces the former #36/Friendship Heights bus.

· Tour Ending Location: The Official Tour ends at Skyland Town Center with refreshments. After closing statements and info, participants may leave of their own accord to attend other tours, OR follow the tour guide back to the starting location (with a few 'bonus' sites along th

· Tour Length: 2 hours

· Tour Distance: 2.3 miles

· Fitness Level: Rigorous level (power walking, hills)

· Audio Enhancer: No

· ASL: No

· Wheelchair Accessible: No

· Stroller Accessible: Yes

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