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Financial Historic District: The monumental buildings of the Financial Historic District reflect the ideals of many of DC's wealthiest.
The Financial Historic District is a linear district of monumental Beaux-Arts Classicist commercial buildings along Fifteenth Street NW, from Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street and McPherson Square.…
Foggy Bottom Historic District: The row houses of the Foggy Bottom Historic District capture the history of an early working class neighborhood in DC.
The Foggy Bottom Historic District is a residential area, whose tree-lined streets contain attractive but modest row houses that reflect their working class origins during the period of 1870-1915. The…
Fort McNair Historic District (Washington Arsenal): Established in 1791, Fort McNair is one of the oldest U.S. Army installations in continuous use.
The third-oldest Army installation in the United States, Fort McNair is nationally-significant for its architecture and military history, as well as its associations with military education, health,…
Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District: This former streetcar neighborhood reflects great development during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Fourteenth Street Historic District is a diverse mid-city neighborhood with origins in the post-Civil War development boom along one of the city's first streetcar lines. The historic district…
Foxhall Village Historic District: Built to be “a village in the city,” the distinctively styled row houses of Foxhall Village make up one of DC’s oldest and largest planned developments.
Constructed between 1925 and 1935, the houses of the Foxhall Village Historic District form a cohesive community of Tudor Revival-style homes that emulate the image of a traditional English…
Gallaudet College Historic District: The Gallaudet College Historic District includes most of the original campus of the only university in the U.S. dedicated to the education of the deaf.
Gallaudet University, founded in 1864 as the National Deaf-Mute College, has been since its inception the only institution of higher learning in the United States devoted specifically to the education…
Georgetown Historic District: One of DC's oldest neighborhoods, Georgetown Historic District encompasses a complete historic town, and was the District's first designated historic district.
Georgetown was founded by an Act of the Maryland Assembly in 1751 and incorporated with an elected government in 1789. It became part of the District of Columbia upon its establishment in 1791,…
Georgetown Visitation Academy Historic District: The Georgetown Visitation Convent is the oldest Catholic girls' school in the United States.
Originally established as the Georgetown Academy for Young Ladies, the Georgetown Visitation Convent was the first Catholic girls’ school in America. It was established by religious women in 1799 and…
Glover-Archbold Park Historic District: Glover-Archbold Park contains a network of trails and a variety of wildlife as one of DC’s urban forest environments.
Charles C. Glover, a former Riggs Bank executive, and Anne Archbold, an heiress of Standard Oil of New Jersey, donated Glover-Archbold Park’s 221.62 acres to Washington, D.C., in 1924 to be used as a…
Grant Road Historic District: The Grant Road Historic District encompasses a distinctive remnant of the settlement that once stretched out along the country roads crisscrossing Washington County.
The Grant Road Historic District consists of a two-block remnant of a major east-west connector road that historically led from Tenleytown (formerly Tenallytown), on the important Frederick Road…