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Cleveland Park Historic District: This largely residential neighborhood reflects changing styles and ongoing development from 1894 to 1941.
The Cleveland Park Historic District is an intact community integrating residences, apartment buildings and neighborhood retail shopping located on a hill overlooking the city center but separated…
C&O Canal National Historical Park: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is an excellent and well-preserved example of 19th-century canal technology.
The C&O Canal Company was chartered in 1825, the same year as the opening of the Erie Canal. The groundbreaking was celebrated by President John Quincy Adams at Little Falls in 1828. The canal was…
Woodley Park Historic District: Encompasses roughly the area bounded by Rock Creek Park to the east, Calvert Street and Woodley Road to the south, 29th Street to the west, and Cathedral Avenue to the north.
Platted in the mid-1870s, Woodley Park was originally conceived as a residential suburb which its promoters described as the finest country seats ever offered for sale near the urban center, a mere 20…
Capitol Hill Historic District: One of the city's oldest neighborhoods, Capitol Hill offers a window into the social and economic history of the city through its architectural diversity.
The Capitol Hill Historic District, which encompasses approximately 8,000 contributing buildings, grew from a small boarding house community for members of Congress to an area of more than 150 squares…
Anacostia Historic District
Initially incorporated under the name Union Town, Anacostia began as a working-class community removed from the city and dominated by Navy Yard employees. In the latter half of the nineteenth century,…