Naylor Gardens

Naylor Gardens is a small neighborhood located in southeast Washington, D.C. It is bounded by Alabama Avenue SE, Naylor Road SE, Good Hope Road SE, and Branch Avenue SE.^[1] The neighborhood is located in the area south and east of the Anacostia River.

Naylor Gardens
Neighborhood
Map of Washington, D.C., with the Naylor Gardens neighborhood highlighted in red
Coordinates: 38°50′7.1232″N 076°59′16.7994″W
Country	United States
District	Washington, D.C.
Ward	Ward 7
Constructed	1943
Named after	Naylor Gardens apartment cooperative
Government
• Councilmember	Wendell Felder

The intersection of Naylor Road and 30th Street SE, in Naylor Gardens, December 2017

Naylor Gardens was founded in 1943, when the Defense Homes Corporation, a federal agency of the United States government which constructed housing for defense workers during World War II, constructed the $6 million, 750-unit Naylor Gardens apartment complex. The complex opened on February 1, 1943.^[2] Naylor Gardens is dominated by a housing cooperative.^[3] Hailed by The Washington Post as one of D.C.'s last best kept secrets, the neighborhood is minutes away from Capitol Hill and the Anacostia and Potomac riverfronts, and a short walk to the Southeast waterfront. The community is adjacent to Hillcrest to the northeast, Skyland to the northwest, and Garfield Heights to the west.