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Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and Old Post Office
Pennsylvania Avenue is certainly among the world's most fa...
Pension Building
Now housing the National Building Museum, the Pension Buil...
800 Block of F Street, Washington, DC
The 800 Block of F Street, NW is representative of the ear...
Ford's Theater National Historic Site
Ford's Theater was the location of the assassination of Ab...
The Willard Hotel
American author Nathaniel Hawthorne observed in the 1860s ...
Lockkeeper's House
The Lockkeeper's House is the only remnant of the C & ...
The Old Executive Office Building
The Old Executive Office Building, now renamed the Eisenho...
Lafayette Square
Lafayette Square is a seven-acre public park located direc...
Franklin Square
Franklin Square is an active and bustling area of downtown...
Renwick Gallery
The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, a Nati...
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Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and Old Post Office
Pennsylvania Avenue is certainly among the world's most famous streets. While the Avenue serves work-a-day Washington as a major east-west transit route, it is known the world over as the heart of the Nation's Capital. Many Presidential inauguration parades and ...
Pension Building
Now housing the National Building Museum, the Pension Building was erected to serve the needs of the Union veterans after the Civil War. During and after the Civil War, Congress passed laws expanding the eligibility for pensions of the wounded, ...
800 Block of F Street, Washington, DC
The 800 Block of F Street, NW is representative of the earliest development of F Street as the commercial core of Washington, DC It typifies the growth of Washington from its sleepy southern village days to an advanced and enterprising ...
Ford's Theater National Historic Site
Ford's Theater was the location of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865, while the President and Mrs. Lincoln were attending a performance of the play, "Our American Cousin." Actor John Wilkes Booth, in this ...
The Willard Hotel
American author Nathaniel Hawthorne observed in the 1860s that "the Willard Hotel more justly could be called the center of Washington than either the Capitol or the White House or the State Department." From 1847 when the enterprising Willard brothers, ...
Lockkeeper's House
The Lockkeeper's House is the only remnant of the C & O Canal Extension. The building was constructed as the house for the Lockkeeper of the Canal, who collected the tolls and kept records of commerce on the canal. The ...
The Old Executive Office Building
The Old Executive Office Building, now renamed the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, is a National Historic Landmark, that was built between 1871 and 1888. Designed by Alfred B. Mullet in the Second Empire Style, the building first housed the Departments ...
Lafayette Square
Lafayette Square is a seven-acre public park located directly north of the White House on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, NW. The Square and the surrounding structures were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970. Originally planned ...
Franklin Square
Franklin Square is an active and bustling area of downtown Washington, DC. The Franklin School, completed in 1868 and designed by Adolph Cluss, is a focal point of the square. The school was a model of advanced design in its ...
Renwick Gallery
The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, a National Historic Landmark, was erected between 1859 and 1861 by William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), Washington banker and philanthropist, as an art gallery for his private collection of paintings and sculpture. The building ...
