The Capital Traction Company Car Barn, at 4615 14th St., NW. in
Washington, D.C.
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, was built in 1906. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2013.
[ Also known as the Decatur Street Car Barn and the Northern Bus Garage, it was built to serve the ]Capital Traction Company
The Capital Traction Company was the smaller of the two major street railway companies in Washington, D.C., in the early 20th century. It was formed in 1895 through a merger of the Rock Creek Railway and the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Com ...
.[
It is a two-story brick streetcar car barn designed by local architects Wood, Donn & Deming in ]Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the trans ...
style.[
It is located at the end of the Fourteenth Street streetcar line. It included two ]turntables
A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...
. It was built by construction contractors Richardson and Burgess in 1906 and was then in plan.[
It was converted to a bus garage in 1959; the Washington Rapid Transit had leased part of its space for use as a bus garage starting in 1926.][ With accompanying 13 photos from 2013]
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Capital Traction Company Car Barn
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Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Renaissance Revival architecture in Washington, D.C.
Transport infrastructure completed in 1906
1906 establishments in Washington, D.C.
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