156 Q St, SW, Washington, D.C., District Of Columbia. County/parish: District of Columbia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 02, 2010. NRIS 10000880.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
James C. Dent House is a historic home at 156 Q Street, Southwest, Washington, D.C., in the Buzzard Point neighborhood.
James C. Dent was born a slave in 1855, in southern Maryland. He was a laborer, and married Mary, a seamstress; in 1885, they helped found the Mount Moriah Baptist Church.
It served as a Community Assistance Center. Pepco owns the property. Living Classrooms Foundation began operating the facility in 2019 as a community center to deliver hands-on education and workforce development programming serving residents of all ages living in the surrounding public housing communities of DC's Ward 6.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117692081