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Marjorie Webster Junior College Historic District: The Marjorie Webster School was an early private educational institution focused on the needs of working women.
This small intact campus was built by Marjorie Webster, a significant figure in the education of women in Washington, as a private junior college dedicated to the educational needs of working women.…
Massachusetts Avenue Historic District: The Massachusetts Avenue Historic District's grandly appointed buildings are widely known as Embassy Row.
Massachusetts Avenue is a boulevard of grand mansions, row houses, and embassies, affectionately known as "Embassy Row." It is among the finest realizations of L'Enfant's Baroque vision of grand…
McMillan Park Reservoir Historic District: The city’s first water treatment plant was both a victory for public health and a monument to the City Beautiful movement.
Constructed over a period of decades at the turn of the 20th century, the McMillan Park Reservoir’s original slow sand filtration system was DC’s first water purification facility. Connected to the…
Meridian Hill Historic District: This historic district provides a unique illustration of how the City Beautiful Movement inspired the development of Washington as an international city beyond the National Mall.
The district includes, at its center, the grand neo-Classical Meridian Hill Park (also known as Malcolm X Park) with an important array of grand Beaux-Arts style mansions, foreign legations, and large…
Mount Pleasant Historic District: Mount Pleasant remains one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the District and serves as a testament to the resilience of culture and community in the face of adversity.
The Mount Pleasant Historic District is a cohesive residential district illustrating the growth and development of one of Washington, DC’s first suburbs. Its significance lies in the visual character…
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…
Mount Vernon Square Historic District
One of two remaining fragments of a formerly contiguous neighborhood around Mount Vernon Square, this residential and commercial enclave derives its origins from scattered growth on what was once the…
Mount Vernon Triangle Historic District: The Mount Vernon Triangle Historic District is a remnant of a unique 19th and early 20th century working class neighborhood.
The Mount Vernon Triangle Historic District consists of a tight-knit group of 25 residential, commercial, and light industrial buildings dating from 1873 to 1946. The area evolved from extremely…
National Arboretum Historic District: The National Arboretum celebrates the diverse plant life of the United States with a 446-acre center for nature research and preservation in the nation’s capital.
Although Congress passed a law authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national arboretum in DC in 1927, more than three decades passed before the U.S. National Arboretum was open to…
National Mall Historic District: The National Mall Historic District encompasses some of the most iconic public land and museums in the United States.
The development of the National Mall Historic District reflects two seminal historic plans for the federal city: the plan designed by Pierre Charles L’Enfant in 1791 and the 1901-1902 McMillan (Senate…