Wheat Row, constructed in 1794, is the city’s oldest standing group of rowhouses. Located in Southwest near the waterfront on 1315 through 1321 4th Street SW, the Federal-style cluster are designed to appear as a single structure. Named after a resident and Senate messenger, John Wheat, these rowhouses are one of the few remaining pre-1950 buildings to survive the massive urban renewal the government undertook on the neighborhood. Wheat Row was part of a large…