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Blagden Alley - Naylor Court Historic District
Blagden Alley is a historic district defined by middle-cla...
Mary Church Terrell House
This house was the home of Memphis-born Mary Church Terrel...
LeDroit Park Historic District
he LeDroit Park Historic District was originally a planned...
Mary McLeod Bethune House
The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, a National Historic...
Logan Circle Historic District
This approximately eight-block area is a unique, virtually...
Greater U Street Historic District
The Greater U Street Historic District is a Victorian-era ...
Greater 14th Street Historic District
The Greater 14th Street Historic District is significant f...
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
The history of the Metropolitan AME Church is very importa...
Charles Sumner School
The Charles Sumner School was constructed in 1872 and desi...
Scottish Rite Temple
One of the most unusual buildings in the eclectic Sixteent...
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Blagden Alley - Naylor Court Historic District
Blagden Alley is a historic district defined by middle-class residences, churches and small apartment buildings which display a rich variety of Victorian architectural styles dating from the 1860s to the 1890s. In the interior of each block are extant examples ...
Mary Church Terrell House
This house was the home of Memphis-born Mary Church Terrell, who at age 86 led the successful fight to integrate eating places in the District of Columbia. Local integration laws dating back to 1872 and 1873 had disappeared in the ...
LeDroit Park Historic District
he LeDroit Park Historic District was originally a planned architecturally unified subdivision of substantial detached and semidetached houses designed by James McGill and constructed mainly between 1873 and 1877. LeDroit Park presently contains 50 of the original 64 McGill houses. ...
Mary McLeod Bethune House
The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, a National Historic Site, was significant as a center for the development of strategies and programs which advanced the interests of African American women and the black community. Mary McLeod Bethune Council House was ...
Logan Circle Historic District
This approximately eight-block area is a unique, virtually unchanged example of a prosperous, late-19th-century residential neighborhood constructed around a large open urban space. The focal point of the district is Logan Circle, an important element of the 1791-92 L'Enfant Plan ...
Greater U Street Historic District
The Greater U Street Historic District is a Victorian-era neighborhood, developed largely between 1862 and 1900. The area consists of a coherent group of row houses constructed overwhelmingly by speculative builders and real estate developers along streets established by the ...
Greater 14th Street Historic District
The Greater 14th Street Historic District is significant for its representation of residential and commercial development resulting from the establishment of the 14th Street streetcar line. Fourteenth Street has been a transportation corridor since its earliest days when it served ...
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
The history of the Metropolitan AME Church is very important in the development of the AME Church in the District of Columbia. The impetus for the organization of the church was dissatisfaction among the District of Columbia's black community with ...
Charles Sumner School
The Charles Sumner School was constructed in 1872 and designed by Washington architect Adolph Cluss. Named for US Senator Charles Sumner, a major figure in the fight for abolition of slavery and the establishment of equal rights for African Americans, ...
Scottish Rite Temple
One of the most unusual buildings in the eclectic Sixteenth Street Historic District is the Temple of the Scottish Rite at 1733 16th Street. The building, designed by John Russell Pope who also designed the National Archives and the Jefferson ...
