Our Historic Site
Yuma Center is located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C.
The building was designed by architect Maurice F. Moore in the Italianate style, and built in 1927 by James J. Galvin, for the Sisters of Bon Secours, a nursing order founded in France.
The building was sold to the French Embassy in the late 1960's; at that time it became home to the French International School in Washington, D.C.
Oakcrest School for girls occupied the building from 1975 to 2000.
The site was added to the DC Inventory of the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Yuma Study Center, Inc., acquired title to the building in 2008. Since then it has served as a meeting place and thriving center for hundreds of women and girls in the Metro D.C. area.
Due to the fine collaborative work done by Quinn Evans Architects, Forrester Construction, At-Site, Inc. and the Tenleytown Historical Society, Yuma Study Center has received the following awards:
2014 Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation, DC Preservation League and the District of Columbia
2013 Award of Excellence Associate Builders and Contractors, Metro Washington Chapter
Craftsmanship Award, Washington Building Council
LEED Gold Rating US Green Building Council
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