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Abbe House (Arts Club of Washington)
This elegant Federal town house, built in 1808, was home t...
Foggy Bottom Historic District
The Foggy Bottom Historic District is comprised primarily ...
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...
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...
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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 ...
Foggy Bottom Historic District
The Foggy Bottom Historic District is comprised primarily of private residences and, except for a single alley warehouse and a few buildings built as corner stores, only rowhouses survive. They form a cohesive neighborhood of modest dwellings, built in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
