Photo, Print, Drawing East Potomac Park Golf Course, Field House, 972 Ohio Drive Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC Drawings from Survey HABS DC-891-A

Title

• East Potomac Park Golf Course, Field House, 972 Ohio Drive Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Other Title

• National Mall & Memorial Parks Potomac Park Field House East and West Potomac Parks

Names

• Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Peaslee , Horace W.
• Earley, John J.
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of Public Buildings and Grounds
• Leoffler, Severine G.
• Golf Course Specialists, Inc.
• Harts, William W.
• U.S. Park Police
• District of Columbia Department of Parks
• Hughes Group
• Consys, Inc.
• A.C. Moses Construction Company
• Earley Studio
• Taylor, Basil
• U.S. Public Works Administration (PWA)
• District of Columbia Recreation Department
• Burnap, George
• Architects Advisory Committee
• Travis, Walter J.
• Harding, Warren G.
• Flynn, William S.
• Gordon, William F.
• Ickes, Harold L.
• U.S. National Park Service (NPS), National Capital Region, sponsor
• National Mall and Memorial Parks, sponsor
• McNatt, Jason W., delineator
• Arzola, Robert R., field team
• Stevens, Christopher M., project manager
• Babin, Patricia Kuhn, historian
• Stevens, Christopher M., editor
• Stevens, Christopher M., transmitter
• McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

• Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

• -  golf courses
• -  golf
• -  recreation
• -  sports & recreation facilities
• -  play (recreation)
• -  locker rooms
• -  concession
• -  Neo-Classical architectural elements
• -  concrete
• -  concrete cornices
• -  concrete parapets
• -  concrete columns
• -  concrete balustrades
• -  stucco
• -  terra cotta
• -  terraces
• -  concrete retaining walls
• -  porticoes (porches)
• -  Ionic order
• -  public comfort stations
• -  hyphens
• -  pavilions
• -  concrete piers
• -  loggias
• -  cafeterias
• -  swimming pools
• -  swimming
• -  lawns
• -  parking lots
• -  shrubs
• -  trees
• -  tile floors
• -  public works
• -  District Of Columbia--District Of Columbia--Washington

Latitude / Longitude

• 38.87487,-77.027025

Notes

• -  For additional documentation, see also East Potomac Park Golf Course (HALS DC-64)
• -  Significance: While never fully executed, the East Potomac Park Field House is architecturally significant as part of the collaborative effort of Public Buildings and Grounds architect Horace W. Peaslee and local sculptor John J. Earley. The design of the Field House illustrates Peaslee's balanced neoclassical design with details executed by Earley's decorative concrete and stucco with exposed aggregate. In particular, the building illustrates Earley's experimentation with the development of his "step gradation" process in concrete and stucco, which is also illustrated in Peaslee's masterpiece Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C., built concurrently with the Field House. In 1921, Earley patented his process and used East Potomac Park as an example produced by this “improved method” that allowed a greater variety of color and texture in stucco than any known process at that time. Few changes have been made to the exterior of the Field House since its construction, with the exception of the replacement of original windows and doors. Thus, the Field House retains sufficient integrity to convey its significant association as a work of Peaslee and Earley.
• -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2445
• -  Survey number: HABS DC-891-A
• -  Building/structure dates: 1936 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1917-1920 Initial Construction
• -  Building/structure dates: 1924-1925 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1930-1931 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1956 Subsequent Work
• -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000217

Medium

• Measured Drawing(s): 19
• Data Page(s): 32

Call Number/Physical Location

• HABS DC-891-A

Source Collection

• Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

• dc1210

Rights Advisory

• No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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