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Arlington Memorial and Arlington House
George Washington Parke Custis inherited the 1100-acre est...
Jefferson Memorial
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial, modeled after the Pantheon ...
Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial stands at the west end of the Nationa...
The Federal Triangle Historic District
The Federal Triangle is located between Pennsylvania Avenu...
Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and Old Post Office
Pennsylvania Avenue is certainly among the world's most fa...
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...
Warner Theater
The Warner Theatre and Office Building is the sole survivi...
The Willard Hotel
American author Nathaniel Hawthorne observed in the 1860s ...
US Department of Treasury
The present Treasury Building was built over a period of 3...
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Arlington Memorial and Arlington House
George Washington Parke Custis inherited the 1100-acre estate from his father, the only surviving son of Martha Washington. Like John Parke Custis, G.W.P. Custis was raised at Mount Vernon, and he dedicated much of his life to perpetuating the memory ...
Jefferson Memorial
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial, modeled after the Pantheon of Rome, is America's foremost memorial to our third president. As an original adaptation of Neoclassical architecture, it is a key landmark in the monumental core of Washington, DC The circular, colonnaded ...
Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial stands at the west end of the National Mall as a neoclassical monument to the 16th President. The memorial, designed by Henry Bacon, after ancient Greek temples, stands 190 feet long, 119 feet wide, and almost 100 ...
The Federal Triangle Historic District
The Federal Triangle is located between Pennsylvania Avenue, Constitution Avenue and 15th Street, NW and is part of the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site. It is comprised of a unified group of important and prominent Federal office buildings. The 1926 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Warner Theater
The Warner Theatre and Office Building is the sole surviving movie palace downtown. Opening in 1924, it is a ten-story, stone and terra cotta structure that features a corner tower. It was designed by C. Howard Crane, a noted theater ...
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, ...
US Department of Treasury
The present Treasury Building was built over a period of 33 years between 1836 and 1869. The east and center wings, designed by Robert Mills, architect of the Washington Monument and the Patent Office Building, comprise the first part of ...
