James C. Dent House

	James C. Dent House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	North side of James C. Dent House as of 2011.
Location	156 Q Street, SW.; Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°52′14″N 77°0′48″W / 38.87056°N 77.01333°W
Built	1906
Architect	William James Palmer
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	10000880
Added to NRHP	November 2, 2010

James C. Dent House is a historic home at 156 Q Street, Southwest, Washington, D.C., in the Buzzard Point neighborhood.

James C. Dent was born a slave in 1855, in southern Maryland. He was a laborer, and married Mary, a seamstress; in 1885, they helped found the Mount Moriah Baptist Church.

It served as a Community Assistance Center. Pepco owns the property.^[2] Living Classrooms Foundation began operating the facility in 2019 as a community center to deliver hands-on education and workforce development programming serving residents of all ages living in the surrounding public housing communities of DC's Ward 6.^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". nps.gov. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
^ "Community Planning Assistance Team: Buzzard Point, Washington, D.C." Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
^ "The Dent House".

External links[edit]

http://dcmud.blogspot.com/2010/07/recognition-from-hprb-long-time-coming.html

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[weeklyactions-1] "National Register of Historic Places Listings". nps.gov. Retrieved 28 May 2015.

[2] "Community Planning Assistance Team: Buzzard Point, Washington, D.C." Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-08-15.

[3] "The Dent House".

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