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New Kalorama Triangle Historic District
This area historically was part of the 19th century estate...
Massachusetts Avenue Historic District
The Massachusetts Avenue Historic District is linearly con...
Georgetown Historic District
Georgetown was formally established in 1751 when the Maryl...
Old Woodley Park Historic District
The neighborhood now known as Old Woodley Park is a distin...
Cleveland Park Historic District
Cleveland Park is unusual because of its concentration of ...
Takoma Park Historic District
Takoma Park was founded and developed as a suburb by Benja...
Fort Benjamin Harrison Historic District
Fort Harrison was the city’s major military facility...
Speedway Historic District
Speedway Historic District is an important early example o...
New Augusta Historic District
New Augusta Historic District is an excellent and intact e...
Indianapolis Union Station - Wholesale Historic District
The Indianapolis—Union Station Wholesale Historic Di...
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New Kalorama Triangle Historic District
This area historically was part of the 19th century estate "Kalorama" and enjoyed a reputation for its natural ambience. It was not until the turn of the century that urban development extended the city of Washington into and beyond the ...
Massachusetts Avenue Historic District
The Massachusetts Avenue Historic District is linearly conceived. L'Enfant planned Massachusetts Avenue as a transverse avenue crossing the city diagonally from the Eastern Branch to Rock Creek. The longest of the transverse avenues, it is roughly parallel to Pennsylvania Avenue ...
Georgetown Historic District
Georgetown was formally established in 1751 when the Maryland Assembly authorized a town on the Potomac River on 60 acres of land belonging to George Beall and George Gordon. George Town was named in honor of King George II and ...
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 ...
Cleveland Park Historic District
Cleveland Park is unusual because of its concentration of architect-designed late Victorian frame houses reminiscent of New England summer homes. Also unusual is the fact that the suburban development that began in 1894 was superimposed upon land previously occupied by ...
Takoma Park Historic District
Takoma Park was founded and developed as a suburb by Benjamin F. Gilbert in 1883. Takoma Park was the first commuter suburb in the area and was originally located on approximately 100 acres of land around the B & O ...
Fort Benjamin Harrison Historic District
Fort Harrison was the city’s major military facility before its closing in the 1990s. Beginning in 1902, the fort served in a training capacity for two World Wars, the Cold War, Vietnam War, and other U.S. actions. For many central ...
Speedway Historic District
Speedway Historic District is an important early example of a planned residential community for an industrial complex and an illustration of the trend toward suburbanization. Indianapolis Motor Speedway founders Carl Fisher, James Allison, Frank Wheeler, and Arthur Newby established the ...
New Augusta Historic District
New Augusta Historic District is an excellent and intact example of the type of railroad village that dotted the once-rural townships surrounding Indianapolis. With the completion of the Michigan Road, a small village called Augusta developed at the corner of ...
Indianapolis Union Station - Wholesale Historic District
The Indianapolis—Union Station Wholesale Historic District’s brick, stone, and terra cotta commercial blocks and hotels demonstrate the impact of railroad trade on the growth of Indianapolis. Meridian was lined with simple houses prior to Indy’s railroad era. In 1849, railroads ...
