Alma Thomas House
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The Alma Thomas House is an historic house, located at 1530 15th Street, N.W., in the Dupont Circle neighborhood.
row house, was the residence and studio of noted African-American artist Alma Thomas (1892–1978).
Rosa Douglass Sprague, lived at 1530 15th Street, before Alma Thomas's parents moved in, in 1907.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
, and is a contributing property to the Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District.
History
Built in 1875, by Thomas G. Allen, the ItalianateItalianate architecture
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...
row house, was the residence and studio of noted African-American artist Alma Thomas (1892–1978).
Rosa Douglass Sprague, lived at 1530 15th Street, before Alma Thomas's parents moved in, in 1907.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
, and is a contributing property to the Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District.