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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Smithsonian Quadrangle Historic District: The Smithsonian Quadrangle adapted to urban renewal and the development of the National Mall.
The Smithsonian Quadrangle features four buildings in a campus-like setting on the south side of the National Mall: the Smithsonian Castle (1847-55), the Arts and Industries Building (1879-81), the…
Union Market Historic District: Union Market continues to be a commercial, as well as historic district.
Union Market Terminal is a large complex of wholesale warehouse buildings occupying an approximately forty-acre tract of land located east of Union Station between Florida and New York Avenues NE.…
Kingman Park Historic District: Kingman Park fostered an African American community in Northeast DC, while engendering the further growth of segregated residential, educational, and recreational institutions.
The Kingman Park Historic District, located at the northeastern end of today’s Capitol Hill, was principally developed during the late 1920s through 1940s as a residential neighborhood for African…
Colony Hill Historic District: Colony Hill represents an outstanding example of a twentieth century planned community in Washington, D.C. with many Colonial Revival style homes.
In the 1930s, Colony Hill – near Reservoir and Foxhall roads – emerged as a distinctive suburban development built in an architectural style that echoed the Georgian and Federal styles of the early…
Bloomingdale Historic District: Bloomingdale is significant for its status as one of DC’s largest cohesive row house neighborhoods.
The Bloomingdale Historic District is a group of 1,692 contributing resources bounded by Channing Street to the north; North Capital Street to the east; Florida Avenue to the south; and 2nd Street to…