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  1. History

  2. Notable tenants

  3. References

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}}Tilden Gardens is an apartment complex which fills the (roughly triangular) block between Connecticut Avenue, Tilden Street and Sedgwick Street in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, DC.[1] As physical structures the complex includes six buildings. All six center on a large (three-acre) multilevel garden[2] which has been described as the best of its kind in Washington, DC.[3] Until the Watergate was built in the 1960s Tilden Gardens was the largest luxury apartment complex in the city.[4]

History

Originally planned in 1927, as cooperatives (co-ops),[5] most of the buildings were completed only after the Depression had set in and the housing market had collapsed. The four later buildings' apartments were rented out through the 1930s (in 1935-36 and again in 1939, one apartment was rented to then Senator and Mrs. Harry Truman[6].) The first two buildings became legally separate cooperatives. By 1939, it became possible to sell apartments again, and the later four buildings were incorporated as a single "Tilden Gardens" co-op. Counting all six buildings, the total of apartments is 210, of which 170 are in the "Tilden Gardens" co-op as such. Not all the buildings have the same mix of apartment sizes, because the later buildings were modified to include fewer large and more one-bedroom apartments, in recognition of Depression economics.

Three of the original six buildings have an X shape. But the other three have an H shape, in one case because after the designs had already been approved, the decision was made to rotate the F and G building plans and thus combine the buildings. The resulting structure (still known as the F/G building) ended up with the oddity of two identical front doors a few feet apart. The buildings have many other unusual details as well, including custom-made brick with limestone trim, and architecture that has been described in some places as Tudor Revival and in others as Art Deco (perhaps because the building complex looks quite different from different sides.) All apartments have at least two exposures, and many have three.[7]

Notable tenants

  • Harry S. Truman
  • Lucius D. Clay[8]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.tildengardens.org/|title=Welcome to Tilden Gardens|website=www.tildengardens.org|access-date=2018-11-14}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.tildengardens.org/html/gardens.html|title=The Gardens at Tilden Gardens|website=www.tildengardens.org|access-date=2018-11-14}}
3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17650523|title=Best addresses : a century of Washington's distinguished apartment houses|last=M.|first=Goode, James|date=1988|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|isbn=0874744768|location=Washington, D.C.|oclc=17650523}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39186-2004Aug27.html|title=Tilden Gardens Embraces Anachronism|last=Cavanaugh|first=Stephanie|date=August 28, 2004 |website=The Washington Post|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
5. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OkBx8NE5Vj4C&pg=PA117&dq=%22tilden+gardens%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB043EyNbeAhUm2IMKHe_mCGEQ6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=%22tilden%20gardens%22&f=false|title=Cleveland Park|last=Williams|first=Paul K.|last2=Higgins|first2=Kelton C.|date=2003|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738515212|language=en}}
6. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZlvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT187&dq=%22tilden+gardens%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB043EyNbeAhUm2IMKHe_mCGEQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22tilden%20gardens%22&f=false|title=1945: Year of Decision|last=Truman|first=Harry S.|date=2018-01-17|publisher=New Word City|isbn=9781612308074|language=en}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.tildengardens.org/html/history.html|title=Tilden Gardens - Our History|website=www.tildengardens.org|access-date=2018-11-14}}
8. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HVmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA154&dq=%22tilden+gardens%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB043EyNbeAhUm2IMKHe_mCGEQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=%22tilden%20gardens%22&f=false|title=Lucius D. Clay: An American Life|last=Smith|first=Jean Edward|date=1990|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780805009996|language=en}}
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2 : 1927 establishments in Washington, D.C.|Apartment buildings in Washington, D.C.

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