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Blair Lee House
Built in 1824 for Dr. Joseph Lovell, first Surgeon General...
DAR Constitutional Hall
Constitution Hall was designed by prominent architect, Joh...
Abbe House (Arts Club of Washington)
This elegant Federal town house, built in 1808, was home t...
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...
General Oliver Otis Howard House
The General Oliver Otis Howard House is located on the cam...
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...
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
The history of the Metropolitan AME Church is very importa...
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Blair Lee House
Built in 1824 for Dr. Joseph Lovell, first Surgeon General of the United States who organized the Army Corps of Engineers, this National Historic Landmark serves as the official guest house of the President of the United States. In 1836, ...
DAR Constitutional Hall
Constitution Hall was designed by prominent architect, John Russell Pope, and is a monumental Neoclassical design constructed of Alabama limestone. The building houses the largest auditorium in the District and was finished in 1929. It was built by the National ...
Abbe House (Arts Club of Washington)
This elegant Federal town house, built in 1808, was home to Cleveland Abbe (1838-1916), father of the United States Weather Bureau, from 1877 to 1909. The house had previously been home to James Monroe while he was Secretary of State ...
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. ...
General Oliver Otis Howard House
The General Oliver Otis Howard House is located on the campus of Howard University. Constructed between 1867 and 1869, it was the home of Major General Oliver Otis Howard, the founder of the school and its first President from 1869 ...
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 ...
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 ...
