Leon E. Dessez

Leon Emil Dessez
Born(1858-04-12)April 12, 1858
Washington, D.C.
DiedDecember 25, 1918(1918-12-25) (aged 60)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchitect
Known forArchitect, First resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland
Normal School for Colored Girls (which became Miners Teachers College), a Colonial Revival Architecture style building

Leon Emil Dessez (April 12, 1858 – December 25, 1918) was an American architect in Washington, D.C. He designed public buildings in the District of Columbia, and residences there and in Maryland, and Virginia,[1] including some of the first in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where he was the community's first resident. His D.C. work includes the 1893 conversion of the Shepherd Centennial Building into the Raleigh Hotel[2][3] and the Normal School for Colored Girls (1913), designed with Snowden Ashford.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference inform was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ John DeFerrari (2011). Lost Washington. ISBN 9781609493653 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Goode, Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings, 2003, p. 218.