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Site Description
Location
Howard University’s East Campus is a 23.3 acre assemblage
located at 1400 Shepherd Street, NE Washington, DC, 20017
in Ward 5’s Brookland neighborhood. The site is primarily
undeveloped, situated within a low density residential area,
and bordered by several institutional uses.
The site is within the jurisdictional boundary of Advisory
Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 5B and single member
district (SMD) 5B02.
Legacy of Institutional Use
The property has a long and uninterrupted legacy of
institutional and educational use, dating back to its 1931 use
as home of the Holy Name College, built by the Order of the
Franciscans.
Howard acquired the site in the 1980s to house the School of
Divinity (HUSD). HUSD operated continuously in this location
until 2015, when the School was temporarily relocated to the
University’s West Campus.
HU School of Divinity
Founded in 1870, HUSD achieved full accreditation in 1940,
making it one of the oldest fully accredited theological
schools in the United States and Canada—and the oldest
historically black school affiliated with the Association of
Theological Schools. Additionally, it is the only African- Parcel Key
American theological school connected to a comprehensive (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
category 1 research institution. HUSD anticipates returning to
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