Ninth Street Northwest, 500 Block (Commercial Buildings), Washington, ...
Survey number: HABS DC-445 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Findley House, 3606 N Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columb...
Significance: Built originally as a rental structure to house people performing neighborhood services, this post-bellum dwelling has been renovated but is scale and proportions have been maintained, unifying an... More
635 & 637 D Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, Distr...
Significance: This building is a simple, unadorned brick commercial building of the late-nineteenth century. Permit information indicates that the building existed before 1879. Though there is little that is in... More
Susan Hart Shields House, 1401 Sixteenth Street Northwest, Washington,...
Survey number: HABS DC-536 Public domain photograph of building plan, architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Meridian House, 1630 Crescent Place Northwest, Washington, District of...
Survey number: HABS DC-540 Public domain photograph of building plan, architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
645 D Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of...
Significance: A metal plaque beside the entrance to the Lincoln Inn proclaims the restaurant to be on "the site where Lincoln dined," although this act occurred in an earlier building. The Lincoln is an undisti... More
Twenty-first Street Northwest (1400 Block) (Houses), Washington, Distr...
Survey number: HABS DC-472 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ford's Theater, 511 Tenth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Co...
Survey number: HABS DC-82 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000034
Carter G. Woodson House, 1538 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, Dist...
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Carter G. Woodson House, 1538 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, Dist...
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Carter G. Woodson House, 1538 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, Dist...
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Masonic Temple, F & Ninth Streets Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: A post-Civil War fraternal and commercial building whose cornerstone-laying was honored by the presence of the President of the United States. This structure ranks among the most distinguished wo... More
The Lunch Connection (Commercial Building), 1109 Pennsylvania Avenue,...
Survey number: HABS DC-547 Public domain photograph of shopping center, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Washington Loan & Trust Company, West End Branch, Seventeenth & G Stre...
Significance: Built as West End Branch for Washington Loan & Trust Co., which was founded in 1889 and which built its main bank at 9th & F Sts., NW, in 1890. When Washingotn Loan & Trust was absorbed by Riggs ... More
Washington Loan & Trust Company, West End Branch, Seventeenth & G Stre...
Significance: Built as West End Branch for Washington Loan & Trust Co., which was founded in 1889 and which built its main bank at 9th & F Sts., NW, in 1890. When Washingotn Loan & Trust was absorbed by Riggs ... More
812 F Street Northwest (Commercial Building), (previously recorded as ...
Significance: A post Civil War building illustrating the early commercial development of F Street. Survey number: HABS DC-213 Building/structure dates: ca. 1875 Initial Construction Building/structure dates:... More
600 Indiana Avenue Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, Distri...
Significance: Built in 1928, these building originally had a drive-in gasoline station on the ground level. At present, a storefront has been installed and the space has been adapted to office use.... (Archit... More
Henrietta M. Halliday House, 2234 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Wash...
Significance: This semidetached limestone residence in the Louis XVI manner has two major facades (Massachusetts Avenue and Sheridan Circle). The structure covers most of the fan-shaped lot except for a small ... More
Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: One of few pre-Civil War office buildings in Washington and certainly the least altered, the Winder Building was built for William H. Winder who leased most of the space to the U.S. government, an... More
Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: One of few pre-Civil War office buildings in Washington and certainly the least altered, the Winder Building was built for William H. Winder who leased most of the space to the U.S. government, an... More
Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: One of few pre-Civil War office buildings in Washington and certainly the least altered, the Winder Building was built for William H. Winder who leased most of the space to the U.S. government, an... More
Engine Company Number Two, Firehouse, 719 Twelfth Street Northwest, Wa...
Significance: Interesting example of firehouse design from the early 20th Century. Survey number: HABS DC-350
PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: This building's stone facade solid massing and decorative elements contribute to the significance of the design. The architect, Arthur B. Heaton was a prominent Washington Architect, and received... More
PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: This building's stone facade solid massing and decorative elements contribute to the significance of the design. The architect, Arthur B. Heaton was a prominent Washington Architect, and received... More
PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: This building's stone facade solid massing and decorative elements contribute to the significance of the design. The architect, Arthur B. Heaton was a prominent Washington Architect, and received... More
First Baptist Church of Georgetown, Twenty-Seventh Street Northwest, W...
Significance: This Church is the first Church of the Baptist denomination in Georgetown. It was founded in 1862 by former slave. Survey number: HABS DC-241 Building/structure dates: 1882 Initial Construction
Townsend House, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: This detached residence is a good example of Louis XV exterior detailing. As reputedly stipulated by the Townsends, he present building incorporates parts of an earlier home (apparently only a po... More
2817 N Street Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Survey number: HABS DC-157 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colu...
Significance: No other property combines mansion, collections, and gardens into such an aesthetically compelling early to mid-twentieth century vision of estate living in Georgetown. Starting with the Bliss's o... More
Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colu...
Significance: No other property combines mansion, collections, and gardens into such an aesthetically compelling early to mid-twentieth century vision of estate living in Georgetown. Starting with the Bliss's o... More
Grafton Tyler Double House, 1314 Thirtieth Street Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: This double mansarded residence is an example of a particularly formal treatment of a mid-Victorian dwelling. It is conceived sculpturally with the heavy hood molds, cornice and mansard carried a... More
Oak Hill Cemetery, Gatehouse, 3001 R Street Northwest, Washington, Dis...
Significance: This handsome brick Victorian building forms an impressive entry to the spacious wooded grounds of Oak Hill Cemetery. Survey number: HABS DC-249 Building/structure dates: 1850-1853 Initial Cons... More
Z. D. Gilman's Drug Store, 627 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washingt...
Significance: This small Italianate commercial building is a fine example of pre-Civil War commercial Washington architecture. From 1843 through 1965, this site bore the name of Gilman's Drugstore, thus making... More
Crawford-Cassin House, 3017 O Street Northwest, Washington, District o...
Significance: 3017 O Street is a handsome example of a large free-standing Federal house. Documents as early as 1818 refer to the house as a "mansion." It is one of the few houses in Georgetown that still reta... More
Crawford-Cassin House, 3017 O Street Northwest, Washington, District o...
Significance: 3017 O Street is a handsome example of a large free-standing Federal house. Documents as early as 1818 refer to the house as a "mansion." It is one of the few houses in Georgetown that still reta... More
Tudor Place Tulip Poplar, 1644 31st Street, Northwest, Tudor Place, So...
See also HABS DC-97 for related documentation. Significance: The Tudor Place Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) is significant due to its association with the Peter family and their development of the Tudor... More
National Archives, Constitution Avenue, between Seventh & Ninth Street...
Significance: Serves as central archival repository of most important United States documents. Survey number: HABS DC-296 Building/structure dates: 1931-1937 Initial Construction National Register of Histor... More
National Archives, Constitution Avenue, between Seventh & Ninth Street...
Significance: Serves as central archival repository of most important United States documents. Survey number: HABS DC-296 Building/structure dates: 1931-1937 Initial Construction National Register of Histor... More
Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: This spacious and elegant dwelling, along with a similar house at the southeast corner of 30th and Q Streets, was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It is representative of Down... More
Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: This spacious and elegant dwelling, along with a similar house at the southeast corner of 30th and Q Streets, was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It is representative of Down... More
McCleery House, 1068 Thirtieth Street Northwest, Washington, District ...
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: A Georgetown residence of about 1800 with many fine interior details, reputedly designed by James Hoban. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More
Hillyer Place, Between Q & R & Twentieth & Twenty-first Streets Northw...
Significance: Relatively undisturbed block of late 19th century rowhouses, presenting a well-maintained period streetscape. #2030 was the home of Washington architect Joseph Hornblower. Street named for Curti... More
1013 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...
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St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Fifteenth & Church Streets Northwest, Was...
Significance: Tradition associates Calvin T.S. Brent (1854-1899), Washington's earliest known black architect, with the design of this church. St. Luke's rivals Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Georgetown... More
1300-1322 Rhode Island Avenue Northwest (Houses), Washington, District...
Survey number: HABS DC-527 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
District of Columbia City Hall, 451 Indiana Avenue Northwest, Washingt...
Significance: For many years served as city hall for the District of Columbia and later served as U.S. courthouse and D.C. Superior Court. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-47 Sur... More
District of Columbia City Hall, 451 Indiana Avenue Northwest, Washingt...
Significance: For many years served as city hall for the District of Columbia and later served as U.S. courthouse and D.C. Superior Court. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-47 Sur... More
Woodward & Lothrop Department Store, G & Eleventh Streets Northwest, W...
Survey number: HABS DC-310 Public domain photograph of decorated panel, decor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...
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Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...
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Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...
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Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...
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Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...
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Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...
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Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...
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Twelfth Street YMCA Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: Designed for the black community by a black architect, W. Sidney Pittman, the costly and well-equipped YMCA became a vital community center. Organizations such as the NAACP, Negro Medical Aid Soci... More
Twelfth Street YMCA Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: Designed for the black community by a black architect, W. Sidney Pittman, the costly and well-equipped YMCA became a vital community center. Organizations such as the NAACP, Negro Medical Aid Soci... More
Twelfth Street YMCA Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: Designed for the black community by a black architect, W. Sidney Pittman, the costly and well-equipped YMCA became a vital community center. Organizations such as the NAACP, Negro Medical Aid Soci... More
S. Kann & Sons, Market Space, between Seventh & Eighth Streets, Northw...
Significance: At one time, the second largest department store in Washington. Block also site of the beginnings of Saks Company as well as Woodward and Lothrop. Housed in four principle buildings of interesti... More
Edward H. Everett House, 1606 Twenty-third Street Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: This limestone structure reflects the more eclectic variations which influenced Beaux-Arts Neoclassicism. With its size and setting on 23rd Street, the building takes visual command of the easter... More
Zalmon Richards House, 1301 Corcoran Street Northwest, Washington, Dis...
Significance: Home of Zalmon Richards, who was an important 19th century educator, first president of the National Teachers' Association (which became the National Education Association), instrumental in establ... More
920-926 F Street, Northwest (Commercial Buildings), Washington, Distri...
Significance: The Schwartz Building at 920 F Street, NW was designed in 1911 by local architect Samuel R. Turner, and is a significant example of the Federal Revival style popular in Washington commercial archi... More
920-926 F Street, Northwest (Commercial Buildings), Washington, Distri...
Significance: The Schwartz Building at 920 F Street, NW was designed in 1911 by local architect Samuel R. Turner, and is a significant example of the Federal Revival style popular in Washington commercial archi... More
Apartment Building, Nineteenth & Vernon Streets Northwest, Washington,...
Survey number: HABS DC-425 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Vigilant Firehouse, 1066 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: One of the eldest firehouses standing in the District of Columbia. Started as a private fire company in 1817, the Vigilants built this structure on 10 August 1844 as the second firehouse on the s... More
Brickyard Hill House, 3134 South Street Northwest, Washington, Distric...
Significance: A well preserved detached frame house of early date (ca. 1800) now very rare in the Waterfront district. Owned and probably built by the Peter family. Survey number: HABS DC-158 Building/struc... More
Georgetown University, Old North Building, Thirty-Seventh & O Streets ...
Significance: Oldest building remaining on Georgetown University Campus. Survey number: HABS DC-170
John R. McLean House, 1500 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of...
Survey number: HABS DC-24 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1940 Demolished
John R. McLean House, 1500 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of...
Survey number: HABS DC-24 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1940 Demolished
John R. McLean House, 1500 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of...
Survey number: HABS DC-24 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1940 Demolished
Francis Scott Key House, 3518 M Street Northwest, Washington, District...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14 Survey number: HABS DC-23 Building/structure dates: ca. 1814 Initial Construction
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Georgetown Section, East & West parallel to M...
Significance: A remarkable engineering achievement of the early 19th century that played an important role in the development of Georgetown commerce, and stimulated trade and settlement of the interior. Unproc... More
Benjamin Miller House, 1524 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washington...
Significance: Benjamin Miller, the master carpenter of the Potomac Aqueduct, built this modest frame dwelling which is distinguished by a Greek Revival front porch. Survey number: HABS DC-247 Building/struct... More
Warder Building, 527 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: A late nineteenth century commercial building of interesting architectural character. Survey number: HABS DC-216 Building/structure dates: ca. 1890 Initial Construction Building/structure dat... More
1008-1010 F Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Di...
See HABS No. DC-800 for related documentation. Building incorporates a 1950s "Populuxe" aluminum facade. Significance: 1008-10 F Street, NW, is comprised of two adjacent 19th century buildings clad in a 1950s P... More
1008-1010 F Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Di...
See HABS No. DC-800 for related documentation. Building incorporates a 1950s "Populuxe" aluminum facade. Significance: 1008-10 F Street, NW, is comprised of two adjacent 19th century buildings clad in a 1950s P... More
Wheatley Town House, 3043 N Street Northwest, Washington, District of ...
Significance: 3043 N Street is a fine example of a large Victorian town house of the third quarter of the 19th Century. It possesses the grand living spaces, the lushness of ornament and the variety of fine de... More
3331 O Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Significance: This house is a good example of post-Civil War Second Empire-style domestic architecture, as seen in the intact Mansard roof. The house's architectural significance is further enhanced by the twen... More
3331 O Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Significance: This house is a good example of post-Civil War Second Empire-style domestic architecture, as seen in the intact Mansard roof. The house's architectural significance is further enhanced by the twen... More
Laird-Dunlop-Lincoln House, 3014 N Street, Northwest, Washington, Dist...
1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: With the original, middle block built before 1798, this house represents a subset of the Federal period houses of Georgetown that were more ambitious that tho... More
Laird-Dunlop-Lincoln House, 3014 N Street, Northwest, Washington, Dist...
1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: With the original, middle block built before 1798, this house represents a subset of the Federal period houses of Georgetown that were more ambitious that tho... More
Laird-Dunlop-Lincoln House, 3014 N Street, Northwest, Washington, Dist...
1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: With the original, middle block built before 1798, this house represents a subset of the Federal period houses of Georgetown that were more ambitious that tho... More
1200 E Street Northwest (Commercial), Washington, District of Columbia...
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Germond Crandell Building, 401-407 Seventh Street Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: A post-Civil War commercial building of interesting architectural design, illustrating the character of Seventh Street in the early days of its commercial development. Survey number: HABS DC-224... More
1908-1916 G Street Northwest (Row Houses), Washington, District of Col...
Survey number: HABS DC-404 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Adams Building, 816 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colum...
Significance: A building illustrating the commercial development of F Street during the 1870's, of interesting architectural character. Survey number: HABS DC-214 Building/structure dates: 1878 Initial Construction
Adams Building, 816 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colum...
Significance: A building illustrating the commercial development of F Street during the 1870's, of interesting architectural character. Survey number: HABS DC-214 Building/structure dates: 1878 Initial Construction
Colonel John Cox House, 3339 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District...
Significance: The Colonel John Cox House, constructed in 1816-17 at 3339 N Street in Georgetown, is a handsome and imposing federal-era town house on a substantial corner lot. The house was built as the wester... More
Colonel John Cox House, 3339 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District...
Significance: The Colonel John Cox House, constructed in 1816-17 at 3339 N Street in Georgetown, is a handsome and imposing federal-era town house on a substantial corner lot. The house was built as the wester... More
Colonel John Cox House, 3339 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District...
Significance: The Colonel John Cox House, constructed in 1816-17 at 3339 N Street in Georgetown, is a handsome and imposing federal-era town house on a substantial corner lot. The house was built as the wester... More
Colonel John Cox House, 3339 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District...
Significance: The Colonel John Cox House, constructed in 1816-17 at 3339 N Street in Georgetown, is a handsome and imposing federal-era town house on a substantial corner lot. The house was built as the wester... More
1903-1911 F Street Northwest (Row Houses), Washington, District of Col...
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Occidental Restaurant, 1413 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington,...
Significance: The two-story Occidental Restaurant functions aesthetically with the Occidental Hotel, (DC-325), continuing the fenestration and rustication of the hotel. Built before 1870, as the Owen House, a... More
Sims House, 2803 M Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia,...
Significance: Formerly a dwelling house, this building has been converted to commercial use, yet it retains its gable roof and dormers and many of the original details above the first floor. Survey number: HA... More
U.S. Department of the Treasury, South Court, Fifteenth Street & Penns...
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U.S. Department of the Treasury, South Court, Fifteenth Street & Penns...
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Wheatley Row, 3041-3045 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Survey number: HABS DC-843 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000025
Clarence Moore House, 1746 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington,...
Significance: Originally a private residence, this structure was designed in the Louis XV manner and, as built was one of the largest and most costly on the avenue. The simple, logical progression of interior ... More
Clarence Moore House, 1746 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington,...
Significance: Originally a private residence, this structure was designed in the Louis XV manner and, as built was one of the largest and most costly on the avenue. The simple, logical progression of interior ... More
District Building, Fourteenth & E Streets Northwest (Southeast Corner)...
Significance: Has housed the municipal government of the District of Columbia, in its various forms, since the building's erection. Survey number: HABS DC-314 Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction