This area historically was part of the 19th century estate ""Kalorama"" and enjoyed a reputation for its natural ambience. It was not until the turn of the century that urban development extended the ...
Although Kenilworth Gardens are locally important today as a part of Washington‘s Park System, its greater significance lies in its contribution to the botanical study and development of water plants ...
Lafayette Square is a seven-acre public park located directly north of the White House on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, NW. The Square and the surrounding structures were designated a Nation...
The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site commemorates the life of Mary McLeod Bethune and the organization she founded, the National Council of Negro Women. The Bethune Council Hou...
The Massachusetts Avenue Historic District is linearly conceived. L‘Enfant planned Massachusetts Avenue as a transverse avenue crossing the city diagonally from the Eastern Branch to Rock Creek. The l...
Mount Pleasant is a densely developed urban neighborhood with a distinct architectural character. It contains a rich array of architectural forms representing every period of its development. Signific...
The National Archives, occupied in 1935, is the repository of the more valuable and rare documents of this Government as well as a reference library. On display in the Exhibition Hall are the Constitu...
The White House, one of the most recognizable buildings in Washington, DC, was designed by James Hoban, a...
The United States Capitol is among the most symbolically important and architecturally impressive buildings in the nation. It has housed the meeting chambers of the House of Representatives and the Se...
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 Di...
Eastern Market has long been an important element in the Capitol Hill community by providing a neighborhood market for over a century and a gathering place for residents. The market, completed in 1873...
The Mall is significant as the central axis of the District‘s monumental core as designed by L‘Enfant in 1791. The Mall was to be the foremost avenue of the city, the so-called "Grand Avenue." It was ...
America‘s transfer from civil war to peace was made more difficult on April 14, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed, just five days after General Lee‘s surrender at Appomattox Court House.
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Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson, designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. It is the only US house listed on the United Nation‘s World...
Built in 1925, the Mayflower Hotel, an architectural and social landmark in the capital city, was the dream of Washington developer Allen E. Walker, a prominent businessman credited with developing Br...
The Old Post Office is located at 12th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC Pennsylvania Avenue is certainly among the world‘s most famous streets. While the Avenue serves work-a-day Washingt...
The Old Post Office is one of the last remaining examples of Richardsonian Romanesque Architecture in Washington, D.C. The dominant park feature is the spectacular view from the 270-foot tower observa...
It was the Board of Public works under the leadership of Alexander Shepherd that spearheaded the way for the development of Dupont Circle. Nevada Senator William Morris Stewart led the "California Syn...
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 ded...
The Cannon House Office Building, completed in 1908, is the oldest congressional office building as well as a significant example of the Beaux Arts style of architecture. The first congressional offic...
These first congressional office buildings are a set of non-identical neoclassical twins that provide a visually appealing background for the United States Capitol. Both buildings are the oldest of th...
Carlyle House stands as a reminder of Alexandria’s prosperity and growth during the mid-eighteenth century. One of the founders and first landowners in Alexandria, John Carlyle and his first wife Sara...
The Charles Sumner School was constructed in 1872 and designed by Washington architect Adolph Cluss. Named for US Senator Charles Sumner, a major figure in the fight for abolition of slavery and the e...
Clara Barton National Historic Site commemorates the life of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. The home served as the headquarters and warehouse for the organization. From this house, M...
The building that houses the Custom House and Post Office of Georgetown was designed by Ammi B. Young, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury from 1852 to 1862. The Custom House and Post Office is ...
Completed in 1819, Decatur House is significant as the first private residence constructed on Lafayette Square and the last of Benjamin Henry Latrobe‘s city houses in America to be preserved. Latrobe ...
This living history site demonstrates the life of a poor farm family living on a small farm in northern Virginia just prior to the American Revolutionary War. Staff and volunteers dressed in reproduct...
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...
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 ...
The Federal Triangle is part of the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site. It is comprised of a ...
The Octagon House, built between 1798 and 1800, was designed by Dr. William Thornton, the architect of the U.S. Capitol, and completed by 1800. Colonel John Tayloe, for whom the house was built, owned...
The Old Executive Office Building, a National Historic Landmark, was built between 1871 and 1888. Designed by Alfred B. Mullet in the Second Empire Style, the building housed the Departments of State,...
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 stan...
The Warner Theater 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...
The U.S. Department of the Interior building covers 5-acres on a 2-block site bounded by 18th, 19th, C and E Streets, NW. This project of the Public Works Administration from the Great Depression Era ...
Franklin Square is an active and bustling area of downtown Washington, DC. The Franklin School, completed in 1868 and designed by Adolph Cluss, is a focal point of the square. The school was a model o...
From 1877 to 1895 this was the home of famous abolitionist, writer, lecturer, statesman, and Underground Railroad conductor, Frederick Douglass. Modest in its scale and ornamentation, Cedar Hill demon...
Georgetown was formally established in 1751 when the Maryland Assembly authorized a town on the Potomac River on 60 acres of land belonging to George Beall and George Gordon. George Town was named in ...
The Georgetown Market was built in 1865 on the site of an earlier 1795 market, which was the first public market in Washington, DC. The one-story brick market originally measured 40 feet with three ba...
One of Washington‘s best-kept secrets, The Brewmaster‘s Castle is the most intact late-Victorian home in the country, and a Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. The Christian Heurich ...
In the midst of Washington, D.C., a city of grand memorials to national leaders and significant events, stands an unassuming building commemorating the daily lives of ordinary Americans who made this ...
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...
Pennsylvania Avenue is certainly among the world‘s most famous streets. While the Avenue serves work-...
Duncan Phillips, Jr. opened the Phillips Collection in a wing of his home in 1921 as a memorial to his father and brother, who had died in 1917 and 1918 respectively. Duncan Phillips, Jr had already d...
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is the largest building (3.1 million square feet) in Washington, DC, and is owned by the U.S. General Services Administration. As the first an...
An oasis of the past, Sully reflects the history of Fairfax County. Completed in 1799 by Richard Bland Lee, the main house at Sully combines aspects of Georgian and Federal architecture. Richard Bland...
Long known as ""the Church of the Presidents,"" St. John‘s Episcopal Church has served virtually as the chapel to the White House for nearly two centuries. Every President since James Madison has wors...
St. Matthew‘s Cathedral is one of the most impressive houses of worship in the United States. The red brick church, designed by C. Grant La Farge in 1893, has eclectic features inspired by Italian chu...
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