“Evangeline” (2007)
(349/4) 36-44 McAllister Street; Salvation Army Girls Hotel, Young Women’s Boarding Home of the Salvation Army, the Evangeline. Rooming house with 211 rooms and fourteen baths. 8B stories; reinforced concrete structure; scored stucco facade with end bays surmounted by Salvation Army symbols; three-part vertical composition; Renaissance/Baroque ornamentation; vestibule: pilaster order at entry. Alterations: ground level mostly remodeled, aluminum windows, cornice removed. Original owner: Salvation Army. Architect: Norman R. Coulter. 1922.
Built “for working girls employed at a small wage” by The Salvation Army, the Evangeline has been renamed the Civic Center Residence by its current owner, the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation.
Postcard, circa 1930.
I lived at the Evangeline in Washington, DC in 1965-1966.
I lived at the Evangeline Residence in Los Angeles, on 6th Street. 1973, I was 20 and just started working at the Twin Towers downtown Bank of California. A great experience, met wonderful friends, and always felt safe. I especially remember a girl from Las Vegas, N.M., I can see her face, but cannot remember her name. Sorry to hear about the closing of this most needed women’s residence.
I lived at The Evangeline Residence at 1330 L Street, NW, Washibgton, DC during 1953 and on….
Margie Perkins Beaver (I was then Margie Higgins and worked on F street, NW)
After arriving from the Midwest and getting an office job at Bechtel,I lived for several months there in 1964. I could park my VW bug in the empty lot next door in the evenings. Met so many nice women from other countries! Food was good, and rooms adequate…
I lived in the Evangeline in 1962….worked at Reliance Insurance Company a short walk away…it was a welcoming experience for a young woman recently arrived in American from Scotland..I recall some very special friendships I made while there…
I lived in the Evangeline the month of September 1978. My room overlooked the Pussycat Cinema whose red lights would flash on and off all night long!