Town Center East

Town Center East
Town Center East
General information
Location	1001 and 1101 3rd Street, SW,; Washington, D.C., United States
Coordinates	38°52′39″N 77°00′57″W / 38.877449°N 77.015699°W
	Town Center East
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.	13001071
Added to NRHP	January 15, 2014

Town Center East is an apartment complex in the Southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., built in 1960–1961. The twin apartment buildings are across the street from Town Center West; both developments are part of the Town Center Plaza mixed-use development. Town Center East, as well as the plaza as a whole, was designed by I.M. Pei on behalf of William Zeckendorf, who worked with the firm Webb and Knapp.^[1]

The development of Town Center East was part of a broader redevelopment of Southwest Washington, D.C. that included the construction of L'Enfant Plaza. The city's Redevelopment Land Agency had awarded Zeckendorf an exclusive-rights agreement to redevelop Southwest in 1954, and in 1956 the original plans were developed. The plan changed significantly in the following years, due in part to operational difficulties at Webb and Knapp, and the plan for a more grandiose development was scaled back to the two apartment complexes and one building of the retail center, the retail center not being built until the early 1970s.^[1]

Town Center East was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 15, 2014.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b DC Historic Preservation Review Board – Landmark Case No. 13-16. June 27, 2013.
^ National Registration of Historic Places Registration Form

This article about a property in the District of Columbia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[landmarkcase-1] DC Historic Preservation Review Board – Landmark Case No. 13-16. June 27, 2013.

[NRHPPDF-2] National Registration of Historic Places Registration Form

[1]

[2]

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Topics	Architectural style categories Contributing property Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places Keeper of the Register National Park Service Property types
Lists by state	List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Lists by insular areas	American Samoa Guam Minor Outlying Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands
Lists by associated state	Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau
Other areas	District of Columbia American Legation, Morocco
Related	National Historic Preservation Act Historic Preservation Fund List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places portal Category