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Emerald Street Historic District: Situated on the east end of Capitol Hill, Emerald Street Historic District's rowhouses represent urban development in response to the city’s growing middle-class population from 1892 to 1923.
Emerald Street NE, or Emerson Street prior to 1950, is a one-block-long "minor" residential street located between 13th and 14th and E and F Streets NE at the center of Square 1029 in east Capitol…
Observatory Hill Historic District: Situated on a prominent hill in Foggy Bottom, the buildings of the Observatory Hill Historic District represent important developments in science and national intelligence.
Although L’Enfant anticipated that this hill overlooking the Potomac would be used for defensive battlements, it was instead set aside for a national university that never materialized. The site…
Glenwood Cemetery Historic District: Glenwood Cemetery is one of DC's longest-running cemeteries and its first for-profit graveyeard.
Chartered by Congress in 1852, Glenwood Cemetery was the first for-profit cemetery in the District, and among the first nationwide. This business model, initially disdained as disrespectful to the…
Mount Vernon Seminary for Girls Historic District: This campus has been significant in both girls' education in DC and Naval history nationwide.
The 38.6-acre Mount Vernon Seminary for Girls campus includes 16 buildings, generally brick with Georgian Revival or simple Colonial Revival detailing. Six of these date to the period between 1916 to…
Young, Browne, Phelps and Spingarn Educational Campus Historic District: This planned school campus includes four Colonial and Classical Revival style schools.
Spingarn Senior High School, Browne Junior High School, Charles Young Elementary School, and Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering (formerly Vocational) High School are located on…
Grant Circle Historic District: The Grant Circle Historic District represents a core part of the carefully planned Petworth subdivision.
Grant Circle is a major urban and visual feature of the Petworth neighborhood, marking the intersection of Fifth and Varnum Streets and Illinois and New Hampshire Avenues, N.W. These parks are defined…
Armed Forces Retirement Home Historic District: The 272-acre Armed Forces Retirement Home Historic District represents an early American military asylum.
The Armed Forces Retirement Home Historic District includes a collection of 19th- and early-20th-century buildings, as well as an extensive historic landscapes. Dating from 1842 to 1951, the focal…
Commercial National Bank (Western Union Building): The Commercial National Bank was one of DC's first Stripped Classical designs, inspiring many later iterations.
The Commercial National Bank, also known as the Western Union Building, designed by noted Washington architect Waddy B. Wood in 1917, is an excellent early example of the simplified and stylized…
Henry J. Daly Building (District of Columbia Municipal Center and Plaza): The Daly Building is an exemplar of the Classical Moderne style common among Public Works Administration buildings.
The Daly Building was designed by DC Municipal Architect Nathan C. Wyeth and constructed with the aid of Public Works Administration funds between 1939 and 1941. This was the first building…
Georgetown University Astronomical Observatory: The third observatory founded in the United States, this building was part of pioneering work in astronomy.
Georgetown University's Greek Revival astronomical observatory is located on a knoll in the southwest corner of the campus, south of Kehoe Field and north of McDonough Memorial Gym. The observatory is…