Bachelor Apartment House

The Bachelor Apartment House is an historic structure located in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. The architectural firm of Wood, Donn & Deming designed the building. The building architecture offers an fascinating approach to a specific project, achieving an elegant and intimate residential standard in a multi-unit commercial structure.

Bachelor Apartment House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1737 H St., NW Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°54′1″N 77°2′30″W
Built	1905
Architect	Wood, Donn & Deming
Architectural style	Tudor Revival
MPS	Apartment Buildings in Washington, DC, MPS
NRHP reference No.	78003052[1]
Added to NRHP	December 8, 1978

It is believed to be the only example of a luxury apartment building built for single men still standing in the city.[2] It is also one of the first apartment buildings in Washington with a Tudor Revival façade.[2] The building, which now contains offices, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Drawing of the building

Residents

• Hubbard Bowyer McDonald (1850-1907).[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites". DC Preservation. Archived from the original on 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
3. "H. B. McDonald Dead" (PDF). The Evening Star. March 3, 1907. Retrieved 2015-01-10. Hubbard Bowyer McDonald, chief clerk and parliamentarian of the United States Senate, died at the Bachelor Apartment House, 17th and H streets northwest, at 6 o'clock last night of cancer of the liver. ...