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Langston Golf Course Historic District: Langston Golf Course represents desegregation of public golfing and recreational facilities.
Opened in June 1939, the eighteen-hole golf course was named for John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), who was the first dean of the Howard University School of Law, the first president of Virginia Normal…
Lafayette Square Historic District: Across from the White House, this park has hosted many prominent public demonstrations and has served as a site of national symbolic importance.
Lafayette Square is the formal public park opposite the White House, and with its surrounding frame of buildings constitutes the Lafayette Square Historic District. The Historic District includes…
Kalorama Triangle Historic District: Kalorama Triangle represents the ambitions and ideals of DC's early-20th century middle class.
The development of the Kalorama Triangle neighborhood illustrates the transition from a rural to an urban environment that marked Washington's growth into a 20th century city. Kalorama Triangle…
Howard University: This Historic District and National Historic Landmark encompasses three significant buildings on the Main Yard.
These three buildings on Howard University’s Main Yard are nationally significant as the setting for the institution’s role in the legal establishment of racially desegregated public education, and…
Greater U Street Historic District: The Greater U Street Historic District is a model of a Victorian-era community, developed mainly between 1862 and 1900.
The residential and commercial center of Washington’s African American community between 1900 and 1950, this “city within a city” shows how African Americans responded to intense racial segregation…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…