1926Sun, Oct 31, 1926 · page 22 OCR
“All students were required to attend the program at the Washington Navy Yard and submit written reports on the results of their inspection of its facilities.”See page 22 at loc.gov ↗
Then
How Navy Yard was built, from DC's historic building permits, and what the newspaper said about it a hundred years ago this week.
When it was built
Buildings by decade of permit190historic building permit records, 1887 to 1958
Counts by decade
| Decade | Buildings |
|---|---|
| 1880s | 23 |
| 1890s | 9 |
| 1900s | 15 |
| 1910s | 10 |
| 1920s | 4 |
| 1930s | 5 |
| 1940s | 18 |
| 1950s | 5 |
At a glance
190
building records
1887–1958
years covered
1880s
busiest decade, 23 buildings
Each record is one building listed on a historic DC building permit; a single permit can cover many buildings. The busiest decade is highlighted in the chart.
Top architects
Buildings designedTop builders
Buildings builtFeatured block
One builder, one year1941Unit block of Q Street SW
11 buildings, one builder
In 1941, C. H. Marshall built 11 buildings on the Unit block of Q Street SW under 1 permit, designed by George T. Santmyers. The largest permit covered 11 buildings at an estimated $33,000 in total.
11
buildings
1
permits
11
buildings on the largest permit
$33K
its estimated cost, in 1941 dollars
Builder
C. H. Marshall
Architects
100 years ago this week
October 31 – November 6, 1926Mentions of Navy Yard in the Evening Star, October 31 – November 6, 1926. Searched for "Washington Navy Yard", "navy yard".
1926Sat, Nov 6, 1926 · page 2 OCR
“The force of buffers and polishers at the Washington Navy Yard will be increased soon, and the Navy Yard labor board is on the lookout for qualified persons and will furnish the necessary civil service application forms and information to …”See page 2 at loc.gov ↗
Clips are machine-read text (OCR) from scanned Evening Star pages on the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, lightly cleaned (line-break hyphens rejoined, stray symbols removed); misspellings are the scanner's. Newspapers this old are public domain. Each clip links to its page at loc.gov. Clips that mention race, covenants, deed restrictions or slurs are skipped automatically (keyword list: race, races, racial, colored, coloured, negro, negroes, white only, whites only, for whites, white people, white persons, white residents, caucasian, segregation, segregated, covenant, covenants, restricted, restriction, restrictions, plus a list of slurs), because they need an editor's context; legal notices and lists of private individuals are skipped too.
Neighborhood voices
Oral histories, held by the archivesWe haven't found a recorded oral history about Navy Yard in a public archive yet.
Search the archives yourself: The People's Archive, DC Public Library · Historic Chevy Chase DC Oral History Archive · Humanities Truck Community Archive, American University · Tenleytown Historical Society · Boundary Stones (WETA). Summaries are ours; the recordings and their rights stay with each archive.