The garden apartments were built between 1942 and 1946 and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Mayfair Mansions were the project of radio evangelist Lightfoot Solomon Michaux.

Albert I. Cassell, one of Washington's first professionally trained African American architects, designed the three-story buildings in the Colonial Revival style.

Mayfair Mansions III underwent a major renovation in 2011 and the other property was rehabilitated for $48 million in 2009.

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