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Logan Circle, Vermont Avenue, Rhode Island Avenue, & Thirteenth Street, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Logan Circle, Vermont Avenue, Rhode Island Avenue, & Thirteenth Street, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

description

Summary

Significance: Included as open space on both the L'Enfant and Ellicott plans, this intersection comprised of a large circular reservation flanked by four smaller ones, has features landscaped park land since its first improvement in 1872. The residential neighborhood that developed around the circle in the last quarter of the nineteenth century has remained largely intact and is included in the National Register of Historic Places as the Logan Circle Historic District the Statue in the center is also on the National Register as an example of Washington's Civil War statuary.
Survey number: HABS DC-339
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001426

date_range

Date

1933 - 1970
person

Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
place

Location

Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.94119, -77.02970
Google Map of 38.9411923, -77.0297028
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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