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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…
General Oliver Otis Howard House: Built in 1867, this building is the sole survivor of the four original structures that comprised early Howard University.
The General Oliver Otis Howard House (1830-1909), today known as Howard Hall, was one of four early campus buildings at Howard University and the only one to survive to the present. Built in 1867, it…
Mary Ann Shadd Cary House: This two-story brick rowhouse was the home of journalist and activist Mary Ann Shadd Cary from 1881 to 1885.
From 1881 to 1885, this was the home of Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893), who was a writer, journalist, educator, abolitionist, and lawyer. She is generally regarded as the first Black female…