Beauty from a Bygone Era

With its four story turret, fortress-like stone walls, and decorative arches, Warder Mansion takes one back to another age and time. A time when America's wealthiest built castles on the scale of European nobility. Now fully restored to its original grandeur, every detail of today's Warder Mansion celebrates its storied past.

Warder Mansion was designed by H.H. Richardson in 1888. It was built at 1515 K Street for Benjamin Warder, the owner of the company that later became International Harvester. In 1925, in an effort to save the mansion from demolition, George Oakley Totten purchased and moved the house, piece by piece in his Model T Ford, to its current 16th Street location.

Despite the Warder-Totten house being listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972,the vacant building slowly deteriorated. In 1996, the D.C. Preservation League declared Warder Mansion as a Most Endangered Place.

No longer neglected, this architectural treasure has been transformed into 38 luxury apartment homes, thanks to the efforts of Main Street Realty. Throughout the mansion, you will find traces of its past--details dating back to 1885. To believe the remarkable beauty and unparalleled restoration, you must see this mansion for yourself.