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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 McLeod Bethune House
The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, a National Historic...
Embassy Gulf Service Station
The Embassy Gulf Service Station, designed in 1936 by Gulf...
Saint Michaels Cemetery tombstone symbols, Pensacola Fl
Numerous graves located within Saint Michaels Cemetery are...
Bubonic Plague in Pensacola, Martin Massey
Martin Massey, 10 years old, was one of seven deaths cause...
Georgetown Commercial Buildings
Georgetown's commercial history began on the waterfront as...
Volta Laboratory and Bureau
The Volta Laboratory and Bureau building, a National Histo...
Dumbarton House
Dumbarton House is a significant example of early Federal ...
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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 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 ...
Embassy Gulf Service Station
The Embassy Gulf Service Station, designed in 1936 by Gulf Oil Corporation architect P.L.R. Hogner, was conceived and sited to complement its setting as part of an aesthetic directive by the Gulf Oil Corporation to construct a gas station with ...
Saint Michaels Cemetery tombstone symbols, Pensacola Fl
Numerous graves located within Saint Michaels Cemetery are marked with numerous symbols, many of which relate to fraternal organizations. The Masonic order is one of the predominant and reoccurring symbols amongst a variety of stones. One such stone is that ...
Bubonic Plague in Pensacola, Martin Massey
Martin Massey, 10 years old, was one of seven deaths caused by Bubonic plague in Pensacola, Florida. Martin, who died on September 3, 1920, was the last victim to die from the plague outbreak that lasted from May 31 until ...
Georgetown Commercial Buildings
Georgetown's commercial history began on the waterfront as a shipping center. Sprawled along the waterfront were warehouses and wharves, sailor's taverns, flour mills and a fleet of ships. Tobacco was the lifeblood of the new community, and in 1745, a ...
Volta Laboratory and Bureau
The Volta Laboratory and Bureau building, a National Historic Landmark, was constructed in 1893 under the direction of Alexander Graham Bell to serve as a center of information for deaf and hard of hearing persons. Bell, best known for receiving ...
Dumbarton House
Dumbarton House is a significant example of early Federal period architecture that features 18th- and 19th-century furniture and decorative arts (paintings, textiles, silver, and ceramics), made and used during the Republic's formative years. Constructed around 1800 in an Adamesque Federal ...
