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Georgetown Market
The Georgetown Market, located at 3276 M Street, between E...
Custom House and Post Office
The building that houses the Custom House and Post Office ...
Volta Laboratory and Bureau
The Volta Laboratory and Bureau building, a National Histo...
Dumbarton House
Dumbarton House is a significant example of early Federal ...
Tudor Place
Designed by Dr. William Thornton, who also designed the U....
Montrose and Dumbarton Parks
Montrose Park occupies land that belonged to ropemaking ma...
Oak Hill Cemetery
The Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel is the only known example of ...
Old Woodley Park Historic District
The neighborhood now known as Old Woodley Park is a distin...
National Zoological Park
The National Zoological Park was planned by F.L. Olmstead ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park
The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal is one of the most int...
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Georgetown Market
The Georgetown Market, located at 3276 M Street, between East and West Market Streets in Georgetown, was built in 1865 on the site of an earlier 1795 market, which was the first public market in Washington, DC. The one-story brick ...
Custom House and Post Office
The building that houses the Custom House and Post Office of Georgetown was designed by Ammi B. Young, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury from 1852 to 1862. The Custom House and Post Office is one of a number of ...
Volta Laboratory and Bureau
The Volta Laboratory and Bureau building, a National Historic Landmark, was constructed in 1893 under the direction of Alexander Graham Bell to serve as a center of information for deaf and hard of hearing persons. Bell, best known for receiving ...
Dumbarton House
Dumbarton House is a significant example of early Federal period architecture that features 18th- and 19th-century furniture and decorative arts (paintings, textiles, silver, and ceramics), made and used during the Republic's formative years. Constructed around 1800 in an Adamesque Federal ...
Tudor Place
Designed by Dr. William Thornton, who also designed the U.S. Capitol as well as the Octagon House , Tudor Place was the home of Thomas and Martha Custis Peter. Martha Custis Peter was the step-granddaughter of George Washington, who left ...
Montrose and Dumbarton Parks
Montrose Park occupies land that belonged to ropemaking magnate Robert Parrott during the early 19th century. Parrott generously allowed Georgetown residents to use his tract of land for picnics and meetings. The area became known as Parrott's Woods and by ...
Oak Hill Cemetery
The Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel is the only known example of James Renwick's Gothic Revival ecclesiastical design in Washington, DC. The one story rectangular chapel, measuring 23 by 41 feet, was built in 1850 and sits on the highest ridge ...
Old Woodley Park Historic District
The neighborhood now known as Old Woodley Park is a distinct urban neighborhood, characterized by stately queues of dignified 20th-century rowhouses carefully articulated in the classical language of architecture, embellished by the rich greenery of street landscape, and bordered by ...
National Zoological Park
The National Zoological Park was planned by F.L. Olmstead & Co., one of the most influential and prolific American landscape architectural firms in history, and its location in the spacious and picturesque Rock Creek Valley marked an important departure from ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park
The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal is one of the most intact and impressive survivals of the American canal-building era. The C&O Canal is unique in that it remains virtually unbroken and without substantial modification affecting its original character for ...
