Lincoln Park, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: L'Enfant designated a large park one mile east of the U.S. Capitol at the convergence of four avenues. Set aside as a large rectangle on the Ellicott Plan, it has been landscaped as a park since the 1870s, and has become significant for its association with black history and the African-American Civil Rights Movement. It is located within National Register's Capitol Hill Historic District. The Emancipation Statue, which depicts Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave, is one of the Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C., on the National Register of Historic Places.
Survey number: HABS DC-677
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76002127