Results for Historic District
Anacostia Historic District
The name Anacostia derives from the area's early history a...
Capitol Hill Historic District
The Capitol Hill Historic District takes its name from the...
The Federal Triangle Historic District
The Federal Triangle is located between Pennsylvania Avenu...
Foggy Bottom Historic District
The Foggy Bottom Historic District is comprised primarily ...
Blagden Alley - Naylor Court Historic District
Blagden Alley is a historic district defined by middle-cla...
LeDroit Park Historic District
he LeDroit Park Historic District was originally a planned...
Logan Circle Historic District
This approximately eight-block area is a unique, virtually...
Greater U Street Historic District
The Greater U Street Historic District is a Victorian-era ...
Greater 14th Street Historic District
The Greater 14th Street Historic District is significant f...
16th Street Historic District
The 16th Street Historic District is characterized by the ...
Results for Historic District
Anacostia Historic District
The name Anacostia derives from the area's early history as Nacochtank, a settlement of Necostan or Anacostan Indians on the banks of the Anacostia River. Captain John Smith recorded in his journals that he sailed up the Eastern Branch or ...
Capitol Hill Historic District
The Capitol Hill Historic District takes its name from the hill, which rises in the center of the Federal City and extends eastward. This hill, which in 1790 was called Jenkins Hill or Jenkins Heights, was the site chosen by ...
The Federal Triangle Historic District
The Federal Triangle is located between Pennsylvania Avenue, Constitution Avenue and 15th Street, NW and is part of the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site. It is comprised of a unified group of important and prominent Federal office buildings. The 1926 ...
Foggy Bottom Historic District
The Foggy Bottom Historic District is comprised primarily of private residences and, except for a single alley warehouse and a few buildings built as corner stores, only rowhouses survive. They form a cohesive neighborhood of modest dwellings, built in a ...
Blagden Alley - Naylor Court Historic District
Blagden Alley is a historic district defined by middle-class residences, churches and small apartment buildings which display a rich variety of Victorian architectural styles dating from the 1860s to the 1890s. In the interior of each block are extant examples ...
LeDroit Park Historic District
he LeDroit Park Historic District was originally a planned architecturally unified subdivision of substantial detached and semidetached houses designed by James McGill and constructed mainly between 1873 and 1877. LeDroit Park presently contains 50 of the original 64 McGill houses. ...
Logan Circle Historic District
This approximately eight-block area is a unique, virtually unchanged example of a prosperous, late-19th-century residential neighborhood constructed around a large open urban space. The focal point of the district is Logan Circle, an important element of the 1791-92 L'Enfant Plan ...
Greater U Street Historic District
The Greater U Street Historic District is a Victorian-era neighborhood, developed largely between 1862 and 1900. The area consists of a coherent group of row houses constructed overwhelmingly by speculative builders and real estate developers along streets established by the ...
Greater 14th Street Historic District
The Greater 14th Street Historic District is significant for its representation of residential and commercial development resulting from the establishment of the 14th Street streetcar line. Fourteenth Street has been a transportation corridor since its earliest days when it served ...
16th Street Historic District
The 16th Street Historic District is characterized by the linear experience of the street itself. 16th Street, one of the most important numbered streets in the Federal City, is a major element of the L'Enfant Plan. This section of the ...
