page_title: Appleton P. Clark Jr.
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Appleton P. Clark Jr. / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Owl's Nest, also known as the Crounse House, located at 3031 Gates Road NW in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The house was added to the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 2001.
context_page_description: Appleton Prentiss Clark Jr. was an American architect from Washington, D.C. During his 60-year career, Clark was responsible for designing hundreds of buildings in the Washington area, including homes, hotels, churches, apartments and commercial properties. He is considered one of the city's most prominent and influential architects from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of his designs are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_section_description: Clark originally designed buildings in the Romanesque Revival style, influenced by his time working with Mullett.  Examples include Eastern Presbyterian Church (now Imani Temple) at 609 Maryland Avenue NE (built 1891) and the Washington Post Building at 1337 E Street NW (built 1893, razed 1954).  Like other architects, his design preferences changed throughout his career.  His works include buildings designed in the Colonial Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Shingle and Spanish Colonial Revival styles.  Many of his house designs used the Georgian Revival style, including the Thomas Gales House (now the Embassy of Myanmar) at 2300 S Street NW, and the J. Philip Herrmann House (now the Embassy of Syria) at 2215 Wyoming Avenue NW.  One of his house designs, built in 1900 for The Washington Post editor Beriah Wilkins, was a 35-room French Colonial mansion at 1711 Massachusetts Avenue NW (demolished) that was one of the largest residences in the city at the time of its construction.
  Clark's residential designs were not limited to houses.  He designed 27 apartment buildings in Washington, D.C., including The Presidential at 1026 16th Street NW, The Rockingham at 1317 Rhode Island Ave NW and The Roosevelt at 2101 16th Street NW.  Clark also specialized in designing commercial and public properties, including fifteen banks and five schools.  The only known federal property designed by Clark is the U.S. Civil Service Commission Building.
  Clark was active with several professional and business organizations.  He was "very active in civic affairs and viewed architecture as a vehicle for civic betterment."  He was a member of the Washington Board of Trade and American Institute of Architects (AIA), serving as president of the AIA's local chapter.  He also served on the board of directors of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, the Terminal Refrigerating and Warehousing Company, the Washington Hotel Company and the Washington Sanitary Housing Company.  Clark was also an author, writing the "History of Architecture in Washington" for Volume II of John Clagett Proctor’s Washington: Past and Present, and Institutional Homes for Children, a book advocating for improved residential facilities for orphans.  He was a strong advocate for these improved facilities and designed three children's homes in the Washington area.
caption: Owl's Nest, designed by Clark in 1897.
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