The Federal Bureau of Investigation is headquartered across Pennsylvania Avenue from this spot. Thanks to popular media, it may be one of the better-known government agencies. Since the 1930s Hollywood has found great stories among the . . . — — Map (db m57218) HM
The National Archives, keeper of the nation's founding documents and most important federal government records, occupies this important spot halfway between the Capitol and the White House. Before the Archives building was constructed, federal . . . — — Map (db m57217) HM
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is the youngest agency housed here in the Federal Triangle. Established as an independent agency in 1970, EPA protects human health and the environment through science, transparency, and the rule of . . . — — Map (db m57211) HM
Across the street the Department of Commerce's Herbert C. Hoover Building anchors the Federal Triangle, just as the department - with its mission of promoting trade, supporting economic development, and strengthening the competitiveness of . . . — — Map (db m57204) HM
The John A. Wilson Building is the headquarters of the local government that serves over 600,000 citizens who call the nation's capital their home. The Mayor and the 13-member Council, elected by the residents of the District of Columbia, . . . — — Map (db m218235) HM
This is the John A. Wilson Building, Washington, DC's city hall, home to DC's mayor and city council. When completed in 1908, it was known as the District Building (for District of Columbia). Cope and Stewardson of Philadelphia won the . . . — — Map (db m57141) HM
When "the Great War" ended in 1918, the United States did not have a tradition of national war memorials. Most memorials honored veterans from the local community, such as the District of Columbia War Memorial on the National Mall. An exception . . . — — Map (db m171292) HM
This large free-standing townhouse was built in 1849, and is one of the few remaining houses with Greek Revival elements in the city. — — Map (db m116985) HM
These two circa 1800 Federal Style houses were built by John Lenthall, architect and principal assistant to Benjamin Latrobe on the construction of the United States Capitol. The houses were originally located at 612 and 614 19th Street, N.W., and . . . — — Map (db m115901) HM
The Washington Loan & Trust Company, a predecessor of the Riggs Bank, was established in 1889, at which time it was the first chartered bank in Washington, D.C. In 1923, The Trust built a new, one story stone bank at the corner of 17th & G Streets, . . . — — Map (db m142261) HM
Notable architectural features comprised the Washington Loan & Trust Company Building, which originally stood at the corners of 17th and G St Northwest. Decorative elements from the bank building included the four medallions displayed here. Each . . . — — Map (db m142262) HM
In 1923, The Washington Loan Trust built a new, one story stone bank at the corner of 17th & G Streets, N.W. but in 1974 the building was razed for the construction of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board building that currently stands at this location. . . . — — Map (db m142263) HM
"I am interested in how interactivity and play help us understand how we relate to one another. I create disarmingly fun experiences allowing people to let down their boundaries and connect. By expressing my ideas through . . . — — Map (db m223817) HM
Listed in the
National Register of Historic Places, was the first Black Episcopal church built in the City of Washington.
Saint Marys represents a landmark in the history of the Black American struggle for equal rights and human dignity, . . . — — Map (db m182173) HM
In 1983, Hillwood commissioned architects to create a structure to house part of Marjorie Post's collection of American Indian objects that she had acquired to decorate Camp Topridge, her retreat in Upstate New York, and would later donate to the . . . — — Map (db m178210) HM
Marjorie Post built this adaptation of a Russian country house, called an izba or dacha, in 1969. Russian-style carvings surround the doors and windows of the California redwood-clad masonry structure. Other details, such as the bright . . . — — Map (db m178211) HM
Fanciful touches lend a whimsical air to this intimate, formal garden inspired by those designed in France in the 1700s. Ivy-covered walls enclose the garden, and beds of closely trimmed boxwood and gravel paths section the space. Sculptures . . . — — Map (db m178216) HM
Step down into this secluded garden featuring a miniature mountain landscape. Paths follow the rushing stream as it cascades through rocky terrain to fill a peaceful pond below. The garden showcases a mix of Japanese and American gardening . . . — — Map (db m178212) HM
The mansion's portico, or porch, offers a panoramic view across the Lunar Lawn to the Washington Monument in the distance. Marjorie Post hosted garden parties here, welcoming friends, veterans, students, leaders in politics and the arts, and . . . — — Map (db m178214) HM
The Georgian-style mansion was built for Washington social figures Helen and Henry Parsons Erwin in 1926. In 1955, Marjorie Post purchased the estate, at the time known as Arbremont, and renamed it Hillwood. From 1955 to 1957, Post renovated and . . . — — Map (db m178204) HM
Marjorie Post designed Hillwood with the pleasure of her guests in mind. The diplomats, politicians, students, military veterans, public figures, and family members who arrived at Hillwood's stately gates followed the winding drive to the lushly . . . — — Map (db m178205) HM
Climbing roses and wisteria drape the pergola in this garden in spring to provide shade and pleasant fragrances. Beginning in spring and continuing into summer, floribunda roses delight with their brilliant colors. Marjorie Post, who died in 1973, . . . — — Map (db m178217) HM
In 1955, Marjorie Post built a home for the head gardener on this house. He supervised a staff of about fifteen that maintained Hillwood's extensive gardens and grounds. The gardener's house was razed in 1996 to make way for the visitor center, the . . . — — Map (db m178206) HM
While the hospital continued to emphasize clinical microscopy and bacteriology, achievements in other fields set the standards for military and civilian care in fields such as dentistry and X-ray use. The circumstances of World War I and the high . . . — — Map (db m143699) HM
The home of Thomas Carberry was later sold to James Donald Cameron, former Secretary of War under President Grant. When the U.S. government acquired property here for the Army hospital in 1905, the small stream running through the property was . . . — — Map (db m143703) HM
As conceived by Major Borden, the Walter Reed General Hospital campus was to focus around a large hospital and administrative building, with separate and symmetrically arranged outbuildings. In 1905, congressional funding provided for construction . . . — — Map (db m143696) HM
To keep pace with the advances in medical technology and consolidate patient care in one facility, congressional funds were procured for a new modern hospital facility on the WRAMC campus in 1967. Construction of the New Hospital commenced in 1972, . . . — — Map (db m143704) HM
Welcome to Foxhall Village, one of Washington DC's most charming and distinctive residential neighborhoods. Construction of the English Tudor style homes began in 1925. To protect the architectural integrity of the neighborhood, the community . . . — — Map (db m187487) HM
After local builder Harry K. Boss visited England in the mid-1920s, he was determined to build a community reflecting the architecture of the town of Tewkesbury and in the spirit of ancient Bath. In 1925, the firm of Boss and Phelps, working with . . . — — Map (db m187490) HM
This building dates to the late 1700's and reputedly was constructed from brick which had been used as ballast in a ship from England. Originally the first apothecary store in Washington, it became a sign shop around 1860. In the 1890's, it was . . . — — Map (db m113645) HM
Almost a miniature Gothic cathedral, Christ Church behind you was built in 1885. It is the third building to occupy the spot since a group of Georgetown Episcopalians founded the parish in 1817. Among the founders were Francis Scott Key, author of . . . — — Map (db m113421) HM
The original Box Knot, located on the east side of the Center Walk, fell into disrepair during the Civil War. The garden's design was lost until 1929, when Armistead Peter 3rd "rediscovered" it in the book Historic Gardens of Virginia, . . . — — Map (db m241125) HM
In the early 19th century, the northeast portion of the garden was an orchard with pears, apples, and other fruits. By the 1880s, this area was leveled and converted into a lawn tennis court used by Britannia's grandchildren. They formed the . . . — — Map (db m241127) HM
In the 1800s, a barn stood to the right of the building you see today. The garage, the left hand portion of the building ahead, was built in 1913-1914 to house the familys automobile and to provide an apartment for the chauffeur. The last . . . — — Map (db m95957) HM
The Garage was constructed in 1913 by Armistead Peter Jr. It was designed by his brother, Washington architect Walter G. Peter, and featured three automobile bays, second-floor housing for staff, a laundry, and a basement steam boiler to heat . . . — — Map (db m241124) HM
You are standing in the heart of a once thriving African American community. At the time of the American Revolution in 1776, one third of Georgetown's population was African American. By the time of the Civil War in the 1860s, many former slaves . . . — — Map (db m110018) HM
Georgetown began in the 1740s as a tobacco port, where ships departed for Britain, Europe and the West Indies filled with flour, lumber, coal, grain and, above all, tobacco. The fine harbor brought visitors and goods and, with them, prosperity . . . — — Map (db m113415) HM
The early mansions of wealthy ship owners, merchants and land speculators in this part of Georgetown were built high above the Potomac River with fine views, or prospects, of the harbor filled with ships and the wilds of Virginia on the other . . . — — Map (db m113401) HM
His half-century of articulate, constructive and untiring activism on behalf of urban planning and historic preservation helped shape the face of Georgetown and the City of Washington.
President and Fellow, Washington Chapter of the AIA
. . . — — Map (db m112136) HM
c. 1869 Erected by Edgar Murphy, prominent African-American carpenter.
1948 - 1961 Home of Julia Child, famous chef, author and television personality.
1970 Renovated by Hugh Newell Jacobson, renowned architect. . . . — — Map (db m241118) HM
M Street has always been heavily traveled. In 1795 this prompted passage of the first local speeding law, making it illegal to gallop horses on M Street. Back in 1634, things were quieter. Then, Englishman Henry Fleet wrote of finding "deer, . . . — — Map (db m97704) HM
In 1821, George MaHorney, a bricklayer, built this two room, two story frame "laborer's cottage." William W. Corcoran, a founder of the Corcoran and Riggs Bank and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, owned the property from 1853, through the Civil War, . . . — — Map (db m112144) HM
Potomac Boat Club
Founded in 1869
This Boathouse built in 1908
A.B. Mullet & Co., Architect
Charles J. Cassidy, Builder
Listed in the
District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites
1973
National . . . — — Map (db m129836) HM
Foundation for Preservation of Historic Georgetown Easement acquired October, 1975 Accepted, March, 1976, by National Trust for Historic Preservation Additional marker: 1210 30th Street, N.W. Andrew Ross Tenant House II Built by Andrew Ross . . . — — Map (db m97705) HM
One of the primary landscape features of the property is the wide and gently sloping South Lawn which served both ornamental and functional purposes. Influenced by late 18th century English landscape design with informal and naturalistic, rather . . . — — Map (db m241120) HM
This first Episcopal congregation in Georgetown was founded in 1796 by the Reverend Walter Dulany Addison. Other founders and benefactors include Thomas Hyde, Thomas Corcoran, Benjamin Stoddert, and Francis Scott Key. President Thomas Jefferson . . . — — Map (db m113951) HM
Hidden behind the grand houses of N Street and many others large and small are tranquil walled gardens with brick terraces, old shade trees, lily ponds, swimming pools, and a tennis court or two.
Behind you stands the Edes Home, . . . — — Map (db m113641) HM
First built in 1796 Restored by the City Tavern Association Founded 1959 Founders Mr. Robert Calhoun Baker · Capt. and Mrs. Peter Belin (UNS, Ret.) · Mrs. Denton Blair · Hon. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss · Hon. and Mrs. David K. E. Bruce · Mr. and . . . — — Map (db m97686) HM
Occupying the most prominent site on the Georgetown Heights overlooking Georgetown, the Potomac River and Virginia is the Georgetown Branch Library. The library houses the Peabody Room, an archive devoted to the history of Georgetown. The archive . . . — — Map (db m101365) HM
The Presbyterian Congregation in George Town, founded in 1780 and chartered by Congress in 1806, has the longest unbroken ministry in Washington. This building was erected in 1821 at what is now 30th and M, was moved to this site in 1873 and altered . . . — — Map (db m97747) HM
Volta Bureau
has been designated a
Registered National
Historical Landmark
under the provisions of the
Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
This site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating or illustrating
the . . . — — Map (db m112142) HM
The Great Depression (1929-1941) meant economic catastrophe for millions of Americans, but in Washington it meant a building boom as the Federal Government staffed up to the end the economic crisis. In 1931 alone Congress approved new . . . — — Map (db m61823) HM
A bronze likeness of Chief Justice John Marshall, visible on your way to the next Heritage Trail sign, keeps watch over John Marshall Park to your right. Marshall is remembered for molding the U.S. Supreme Court into today's authoritative body. . . . — — Map (db m56495) HM
Welcome to downtown Washington DC - an area rich in history, culture and places to see. You will enjoy visiting the following sites located in the vicinity of this sign.
Clockwise from top:
"Lone Sailor" at the US Navy . . . — — Map (db m110214) HM
dubbed "best addresses" by historian James Goode, the grand apartments of the Kalorama Triangle are among the city's earliest. The Mendota (1901) located at 2220 20th, is the city's oldest intact luxury apartment house. The Wyoming (1905_1911), . . . — — Map (db m130714) HM
This building in the historical district of Kalorama houses the Embassy and the Consulate of the Republic of Malta. It was built in 1903 on the plans of the noted American architect Waddy Butler Wood (1869-1944). In 1987 it was listed on the . . . — — Map (db m119777) HM
You are standing in the Kalorama Triangle Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1987. Most of its elaborate houses were built between 1888 and 1930 in what was then the "Washington Heights" subdivision. . . . — — Map (db m130715) HM
A Peaceful Landscape With City Conveniences for wealthy Washingtonians: that was the goal of the men who made LeDroit Park.
Brothers-in-law Amzi L. Barber and Andrew Langdon purchased land here, and in 1873 hired local architect/builder . . . — — Map (db m152365) HM
The Logan Circle Historic District has a rich history of change. A fashionable, exclusive neighborhood had evolved by the 1870s home to members of Congress, such as Senator John Logan of Illinois. By the turn of the 20th century, Iowa later . . . — — Map (db m63401) HM
Pierre L'Enfant's 1791 design for the Nation's capital featured a prominent triangle formed by the "President's House" and two intersections: Pacific Circle, located to the northwest of the presidential residence, and Iowa Circle, to the northeast. . . . — — Map (db m153986) HM
Some of the City's finest Victorian Houses ring Logan Circle. While the area appears on the L'Enfant Plan of 1791, it took Alexander Boss Shephard's improvements to make these grand houses of the 1870s and '80s possible.
Three Union . . . — — Map (db m130851) HM
9 Logan Circle has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
———
The Preservation of the Pratt house conforms to
National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior standards
and is consistent with the historic . . . — — Map (db m79589) HM
The Hawarden
1901
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
George S. Cooper, Architect — — Map (db m145634) HM
The overall inspiration for the Bishop's Garden is a 14th century monastic garden, in keeping with the gothic design of the Cathedral. However, this small garden room called the Hortulus or "little garden" is anchored firmly in the 9th century . . . — — Map (db m203137) HM
The August 23, 2011, magnitude 5.8 earthquake left the flying buttresses in bad shape. The shaking cracked buttress flyers, twisted buttresses pinnacles and shook stones apart. To stabilize the stones and prevent major damage in the case of a future . . . — — Map (db m203134) HM
The massive 50-ton, 40+-foot tall grand pinnacles at the top corners of the central tower sustained some of the worst earthquake damagecracking, twisting and literally popping the top off one of the pinnacles. The eight smaller intermediate . . . — — Map (db m203127) HM
Look upcan you find our decapitated gargoyle? Only the stump of his neck remains after the head was removed for safety reasons.
Only one gargoyle was damaged in the August 23, 2011, magnitude 5.8 earthquake. This gargoyle, known as the . . . — — Map (db m203130) HM
Carvings of 16 Old Testament prophets decorate the grand pinnacles of the south transept. The south transept withstood some of the worst damage in the August 23, 2011, magnitude 5.8 earthquake. Since the earthquake, the western grand pinnacle was . . . — — Map (db m203132) HM
The buttresses that run along the north and south nave generally sustained less damage than the freestanding flying buttresses of the east end, as the lower portions of these buttresses are "engaged" in the lower part of the nave exterior walls. . . . — — Map (db m203141) HM
The north side did not come through unscathed on August 23, 2011. Like the corresponding grand pinnacles on the south transept, the grand pinnacles of the north transept also cracked and twisted. Several of the delicate spires of the secondary . . . — — Map (db m203142) HM
The Earthquake
On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook the East Coast, causing over $34 million in damage to Washington National Cathedral. While the Cathedral withstood the quake largely intact, buttresses cracked, large . . . — — Map (db m203126) HM
Energy from the 2011 earthquake traveled upward, like the energy traveling to the tip of a cracked whip. Most of the worst damage therefore took place at the tops of towers and buttresses. On the west towers the damage was mostly limited to the . . . — — Map (db m203138) HM
The limestone pinnacles were damaged in the August 23, 2011, earthquake here. The ground shook for less than a minute but caused the 301-foot central tower of Washington National Cathedral to whip back and forth. Some of the 50-ton pinnacles . . . — — Map (db m71202) HM
Friendship was the country estate for two generations of the McLean family. The English style manor house “Eden Bower” was built around 1800 by British Col. Richard Pyle. Pyle was succeeded by Georgetown University, which used the . . . — — Map (db m152176) HM
In the late nineteenth century, a rural retreat called the Woodley Inn rose near what became Massachusetts Avenue and 38th Street. Before the advent of air conditioning, wealthy families summered on the heights overlooking the city to escape the . . . — — Map (db m112151) HM
Even before the United States entered World War II in 1941, thousands of workers from across the country streamed into Washington to fill new military and government jobs. The swelling population needed more housing, and, to accommodate them, . . . — — Map (db m111891) HM
Around 1900 this successful suburb attracted successful business leaders, who set a grand standard for home building. Printer Byron S. Adams commissioned architect Frederick Pyle to design 1801 Park Road in the Colonial Revival style. Pyle . . . — — Map (db m130876) HM
Like the Latino immigrants of recent times, Europeans left the political and economic hardships of home for a better life in the United States. Following the 1948 communist coup of Czechoslovakia a "Czech Row" or "Prague Road" enclave . . . — — Map (db m152976) HM
In 1948 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of houses to individuals of certain races could not be enforced. Two years later, Dr. Robert Deane became the first African American to purchase a house in Mount . . . — — Map (db m130875) HM
In 1903 a street car line arrived on Mt. Pleasant Street and so did new businesses. In this block were Sophia Weiss's notions shop, Domenico Pappalardo's shoe shop, and Lee Sing's laundry. The block's first commercial building (3215) was . . . — — Map (db m130880) HM
When the Mount Pleasant Library, behind you, opened in 1925, crowds flocked to the Classical style building. Many had campaigned long and hard for this community centerpiece. The Carnegie Corporation, funder of public libraries in Mount Vernon . . . — — Map (db m130864) HM
During the second half of the 20th century, housing in Mount Pleasant was relatively affordable. Recent immigrants, students, young professionals, and families from diverse economic backgrounds populated the neighborhood. In 1986, residents . . . — — Map (db m130883) HM
Ingleside, the grand house to your left, once anchored a 139-acre estate. Thomas Ustick Walter (1804-1887), architect of portions of the U.S. Capitol, designed Ingleside in 1851. Today it is Mount Pleasant's oldest structure.
New York . . . — — Map (db m184985) HM
Harry Townsend, who passed away at the age of 102 in 2004, had lived in the 1700 block of Kenyon Street since 1956. He was a well-known local figure who worked in construction. Townsend was still helping neighbors with repairs at age 90. . . . — — Map (db m179596) HM
This was the western edge of Samuel P. Brown's Mount Pleasant Village. Across the street and a few steps ahead at 3423 Oakwood Terrace is "Oakwood," an original village house built in 1871 for city politician J.W. Buker. Brown reserved the . . . — — Map (db m130870) HM
If a house could talk, what tales would it tell? The private residence at 415 M Street, to your left, would tell of hundreds of Shaw residents who came here to play and worship.
The house at 415 was built in the 1860s for Joseph Prather, . . . — — Map (db m130897) HM
The wooden chapel here was completed in 1857 as a mission of the McKendree Methodist Church. Known as Fletcher Chapel, it may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Washington's Anti-Saloon League began meeting at Fletcher Chapel . . . — — Map (db m130898) HM
Second Baptist Church was organized in 1848 by seven members of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Under the leadership of the Reverend Sandy Alexander eventually one of the country's best-known black Baptist ministers the church purchased . . . — — Map (db m152617) HM
After this neighborhood's original Northern Liberty Market on Mount Vernon Square was razed in 1872, a new Northern Liberty Market was built along Fifth between K and L streets. When owners decided that fresh farm products weren't drawing . . . — — Map (db m130899) HM
Security and style came to Tenleytown in 1900, when Engine House No. 20 opened across from Wisconsin Avenue. No longer would fire fighters have to come all the way from Georgetown to extinguish blazes in Tenleytown's wood-frame houses. Opened . . . — — Map (db m147297) HM
Early Tenleytown homes still standing today were built mostly in the 1890s along paths used by farmers and dairymen. The homes in the Grand Road Historic District (pictured here) are typical of these early dwellings, as are the homes along Belt . . . — — Map (db m112188) HM
The Tenleytown Firehouse (pictured here) dates to 1903. Its location on Wisconsin Avenue near Tenley Circle provides access and coverage to the greater Tenleytown area. Prior to the introduction of motor driven fire vehicles in the 1920s, the . . . — — Map (db m111344) HM
Designated a D.C. Landmark in 1960, the Rest (pictured here) is Tenleytown's oldest residence (built around 1800) and is located at the corner of Windom Place and 39th Street. Local legend maintains that the bricks for the house were brought over . . . — — Map (db m112187) HM
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