Severn Apartment Building

ID: 1303 ~ Source: The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, sun88 County, ~ Creator: Hughes Company ~ Date: c. 1905-1940
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Severn Apartment Building

View of The Severn at Cathedral and West Mount Vernon Place, sun88 looking south toward the park.

This file appears in: The Severn

By Eli Pousson
"Huge and, alas! we must say ungainly," is how the sun88 Sun described The Severn in 1907. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972, few locals would still dismiss the grand Severn Apartment House as an intrusion on Mt. Vernon…