NORTHEAST WASHINGTON, DC

From stately Colonial Revivals to sleek Mid-Century Moderns, the Washington DC Metro area offers an incredible range of residential architecture. This guide breaks down fifteen of the most common home styles across the DMV, from Ramblers and Cape Cods to Craftsmans, Victorians, and Modern Farmhouses, so you can recognize each one and find the home that fits how you want to live.

Hollin Hills gets all the attention, but it was never the only one. From a modernist colony inside a national park to five rare Hugh Newell Jacobsen pod houses hiding in Annandale, here are six DMV mid-century modern communities worth knowing.

Chloethiel Woodard Smith planned half of Southwest DC, ran the largest woman-owned architecture firm in America, and designed mid-century communities from Falls Church to Reston. Here is her work, her influence, and the contested ground it stands on.

Charles Goodman put walls of glass on modest houses across Northern Virginia and Montgomery County, and seventy years later those windows are the best and worst thing about them. Here is what actually applies in our climate, which neighborhoods require review board approval before you touch a frame, and how the wrong replacement window quietly costs you at resale.