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Oak Hill Cemetery
The Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel is the only known example of ...
Old Woodley Park Historic District
The neighborhood now known as Old Woodley Park is a distin...
National Zoological Park
The National Zoological Park was planned by F.L. Olmstead ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park
The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal is one of the most int...
National Cathedral
The National Cathedral, completed in 1990, is the culminat...
Cleveland Park Historic District
Cleveland Park is unusual because of its concentration of ...
Peirce Mill
Peirce Mill is significant as the last existing mill in th...
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
St. John's was the first Catholic parish in Indianapolis a...
St.Mary's Catholic Church
The history of St. Mary’s Catholic Church is strongl...
Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church
Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church is an important ea...
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Oak Hill Cemetery
The Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel is the only known example of James Renwick's Gothic Revival ecclesiastical design in Washington, DC. The one story rectangular chapel, measuring 23 by 41 feet, was built in 1850 and sits on the highest ridge ...
Old Woodley Park Historic District
The neighborhood now known as Old Woodley Park is a distinct urban neighborhood, characterized by stately queues of dignified 20th-century rowhouses carefully articulated in the classical language of architecture, embellished by the rich greenery of street landscape, and bordered by ...
National Zoological Park
The National Zoological Park was planned by F.L. Olmstead & Co., one of the most influential and prolific American landscape architectural firms in history, and its location in the spacious and picturesque Rock Creek Valley marked an important departure from ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park
The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal is one of the most intact and impressive survivals of the American canal-building era. The C&O Canal is unique in that it remains virtually unbroken and without substantial modification affecting its original character for ...
National Cathedral
The National Cathedral, completed in 1990, is the culmination of a two-century-long plan for a majestic Gothic style cathedral. This richly decorated cathedral is located on a landscaped 57 acre plot of land on Mount Saint Albans in Northwest Washington, ...
Cleveland Park Historic District
Cleveland Park is unusual because of its concentration of architect-designed late Victorian frame houses reminiscent of New England summer homes. Also unusual is the fact that the suburban development that began in 1894 was superimposed upon land previously occupied by ...
Peirce Mill
Peirce Mill is significant as the last existing mill in the District of Columbia and the only 19th-century gristmill maintained by the National Park Service that operates on a full-time basis. It stands as a unique symbol of the milling ...
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
St. John's was the first Catholic parish in Indianapolis and played an important role in the growth and development of Catholicism in the city. The present St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church is a brick and stone Gothic Revival design, ...
St.Mary's Catholic Church
The history of St. Mary’s Catholic Church is strongly associated with the German American community that quickly developed in Indianapolis during the mid-19th century, when many Germans immigrated to the midwest. The church with its dominating octagonal towers and exterior ...
Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church
Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church is an important early example of Romanesque Revival architecture and one of the oldest churches remaining downtown. Its congregation has its roots in one of the first Methodist groups in the city that began meeting ...
