Lanier Heights

Lanier Heights is a small urban neighborhood in the northwest section of Washington, D.C. It was one of the District of Columbia’s early planned subdivisions outside the original City of Washington. Situated two miles north of the White House, Lanier Heights is within the larger and newer neighborhood of Adams Morgan, and is usually considered to be a part of that more prominent locale.

The roughly 50 acres (20.25 hectares) of Lanier Heights are bounded by 16th Street on the east, Adams Mill Road and the National Zoo on the west; Columbia Road to the south, and on the north, Harvard Street, which divides it from the slightly older neighborhood of Mount Pleasant.

Developed mostly between 1900 and 1940, Lanier Heights consists primarily of row houses plus some low- and medium-rise apartment buildings. The architecture is generally typical of the early twentieth century, in a variety of styles, especially Classical Revival. Some apartment houses have distinctive Art Deco designs. The area also contains a commercial stretch of stores on its southern side along Columbia Road.

Lanier Heights is a part of the city's Ward One and part of ANC 1-C of D.C.'s Advisory Neighborhood Commission system.