709 D Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of...
Significance: 709 D Street was designed by I. Grenueller, architect, in 1903-1904 and built by W-F Basin, contractor. The building's greatest significance lies in the retention of ht originally intended functi... More
Bates Warren Apartment Building, 2029 Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Wa...
Significance: This building is one of the more elegant early apartment buildings in Washington. Survey number: HABS DC-559 Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977... More
3041 N Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Survey number: HABS DC-734 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000025
639 Indiana Avenue, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, Distr...
Significance: This commercial building was built in the early nineteen century and is one of Washington's oldest structures. This building and its immediate neighbors are the last vestiges of the small scale s... More
1348 Twenty-Eighth Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of ...
Survey number: HABS DC-760 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000025
Potomac Savings Bank, 1200 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington, Dis...
Significance: This is an example of a large mid-nineteenth century commercial brick building of the Georgetown area, employing classical architectural features and decoration. Survey number: HABS DC-323 Bui... More
1314 Vermont Avenue Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbi...
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Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House, 25 Madison Place Northwest, Washington, Di...
Significance: This building was a social center during Tayloe period later occupied by Don Cameron, Senator from Penn. It was referred to as the Little White House during the time of president McKinley when it ... More
Georgetown Visitation Convent, 1500 Thirty-fifth Street Northwest, Was...
Significance: Established in 1799, the Georgetown Visitation Convent was the first Catholic school for girls and the first Visitation Convent in the United States. Daughters of several Presidents and other nat... More
G Street, Northwest, 1200 Block (Commercial Buildings), No. 1239, Wash...
Significance: Interesting variation on the International (Modern) Style of commercial architecture. Survey number: HABS DC-333-C
3130 Dumbarton Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Colu...
1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-108 Survey number: HABS DC-634 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000025
Gunston Hall School for Girls, 1904 T Street Northwest, Washington, Di...
Significance: By noted Washington architectural firm of Wood, Donn and Deming. Survey number: HABS DC-416
War Production Board poster. Poster produced by the WPB for distributi...
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1011 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...
Significance: 1011 E Street, NW, is an extensively altered rowhouse whose simple form and pattern of use is typical of mid-19th century buildings in this part of downtown. Along with 1013 E Street, NW (HABS DC-... More
Nichol's Cafe, Seventeenth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of ...
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[Second Floor, Northwest Pavilion. Mural of Science in the Pavilion of...
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U.S. Soldiers Home, Quarters No. 2, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur St...
See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Quarters 2 one of the earliest buildings in the complex. Survey number: HABS DC-353-B Building... More
Seven Buildings, 1901-1913 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, ...
Significance: Important as homes of Government Officials, ministers and private citizens, reported to have been erected soon after Washington became the capital city. Corner building (1901) house the State Dep... More
True Reformer Building, 1200 U Street Northwest, Washington, District ...
Significance: The True Reformer Building was probably the first building in the United States to have gone through all of the design, financing,and construction processes using only the talents and resources of... More
Alexander Stewart House, 2200 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washingt...
Significance: This limestone structure in the Louis XV manner is skillfully balanced with Louis XVI details. the building conforms to an irregular-shaped lot, which is defined by Massachusetts Avenue, Q Street... More
1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...
Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... 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
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
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
Atlantic Building, 930 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Co...
Significance: When the Atlantic Building was completed in 1888, it was the largest commercial structure in the city and one of the first with a passenger elevator. The speculative office building was designed ... More
Atlantic Building, 930 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Co...
Significance: When the Atlantic Building was completed in 1888, it was the largest commercial structure in the city and one of the first with a passenger elevator. The speculative office building was designed ... More
Patterson House, 15 Dupont Circle Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: This structure is a McKim, Mead and White example of neoclassicism in the decorative Italianate manner. The white marble and glazed terra-cotta building is heavily ornamented. The court, which b... More
Abner Cloud House, Intersection of Canal Road & Reservoir Road Northwe...
Significance: This is an early 18th century Miller's House which played a part in the history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The Abner Cloud house was built in about 1891 as the residence of a second gener... 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
3632 N Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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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
Jane Stone Harrison Building, 1205 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Wash...
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Larz Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, ...
Significance: Originally a private residence commissioned for lavish entertaining, this limestone, detached structure is one of the largest and costliest homes in the city. The dissimilar facades of the north e... 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
2618 Thirtieth Street Northwest (House), Washington, District of Colum...
Significance: House incorporates Romanesque double doorway and other fragments from the Henry Adams Mansion (1885) designed by need architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Fragments brought to present site on demol... 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
Central Union Mission, 624 Indiana Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: (Architectural Significance) Central Union Mission, a charitable organization, has been located on this site for over a century; thus the history of the institution is strongly tied to the site. ... 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
William Nordlinger House, 3032 N Street, Northwest, Washington, Distri...
Survey number: HABS DC-845 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000025
Riggs-Riley House, 3038 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District of C...
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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
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
Eynon Building, 3407 M Street Northwest, Washington, District of Colum...
Significance: This building is part of a row of bay windowed apartments with commercial space on the street level which exhibits early 20th Century architectural design characteristics. Survey number: HABS DC... More
Brownley Building, 1300-1304 F Street Northwest, Washington, District ...
Significance: The building permit for the Brownley Building notes that when built in 1932, it received an award from the Architect's Advisory Council for "meeting exceptionally well the standards which should b... More
Brownley Building, 1300-1304 F Street Northwest, Washington, District ...
Significance: The building permit for the Brownley Building notes that when built in 1932, it received an award from the Architect's Advisory Council for "meeting exceptionally well the standards which should b... More
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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U.S. Soldiers Home, Stuccoed House with Gable Roof, Rock Creek Church ...
See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Survey number: HABS DC-353-M National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74002176
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
Capital Traction Company Powerhouse, 3142 K Street Northwest, Washingt...
Significance: The building housed the equipment which generate the electricity for Washington's transportation system from 1911 to 1943. It is superior industrial architecture, and an impressive landmark on th... 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
1502 Thirteenth Street Northwest (House), Washington, District of Colu...
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Bank of Columbia, 3210 M Street Northwest, Washington, District of Col...
Significance: Built originally as a bank, this building is representative of an early commercial type in Georgetown; subsequently utilized for various purposes, each with strong historical associations. Unpro... 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
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
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
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
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
F Street Northwest, 600 Block (Commercial Buildings), Washington, Dist...
Significance: Interesting row of commercial buildings documenting a variety of 19th and early 20th century styles. Survey number: HABS DC-335
3015 Dumbarton Avenue Northwest (House), Washington, District of Colum...
Significance: This two story house exhibits a unique combination of a Victorian front block added to an earlier wooden building. Although there is no secure dating for this earlier section, stylistic evidence ... 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
Methodist Episcopal Parsonage House, 1221 Twenty-eighth Street Northwe...
Significance: The two story front portion of this house is a good example of an early 19th century modest frame dwelling. It is one of the few surviving of this type in the northeast section of Georgetown. S... More
Dalecarlia Water Treatment Plant, 5900 MacArthur Boulevard, Northwest,...
Significance: The Dalecarlia Water Treatment Plant is a component of the Washington Aqueduct, a utility operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that provides water to Washington, D.C., Arlington County, Vi... More
James Y. Davis Sons Building, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue & 408 Twelfth S...
Significance: This brick commercial building was designed by a local architect in the late nineteenth century. In spite of twentieth century alterations, the irregular shape, use of ornamental terra cotta, pro... More
James Y. Davis Sons Building, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue & 408 Twelfth S...
Significance: This brick commercial building was designed by a local architect in the late nineteenth century. In spite of twentieth century alterations, the irregular shape, use of ornamental terra cotta, pro... More
James Y. Davis Sons Building, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue & 408 Twelfth S...
Significance: This brick commercial building was designed by a local architect in the late nineteenth century. In spite of twentieth century alterations, the irregular shape, use of ornamental terra cotta, pro... More
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
Evening Star Building, Northwest corner of Eleventh Street & Pennsylva...
Significance: Home of the Evening Star from 1898 to 1955. Survey number: HABS DC-316
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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U.S. Department of the Treasury, South Court, Fifteenth Street & Penns...
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Wheatley Row House, 1018 Twenty-ninth Street Northwest, Washington, Di...
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: An attractive example of a type of multiple dwelling common in the late 19th century. Several groups of row houses are found in this area. Unprocessed Field ... More
Evermay, 1623 Twenty-eighth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of...
Significance: The formality and elegance Evermay's architecture and landscaping create an ensemble of unparalleled beauty. The estate reflects twentieth-century aesthetics, rooted in and continuing Evermay's e... More
Evermay, 1623 Twenty-eighth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of...
Significance: The formality and elegance Evermay's architecture and landscaping create an ensemble of unparalleled beauty. The estate reflects twentieth-century aesthetics, rooted in and continuing Evermay's e... More
3022-3026 P Street, Northwest (Houses), Washington, District of Columb...
Survey number: HABS DC-756 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000025
Powhatan Hotel, Pennsylvania Avenue & Eighteenth Street Northwest, Was...
Significance: Interesting example of early 19th century hotel architecture. The building's roof garden was a popular dining and dancing spot for many years. From the roof, the Washington Monument was illumina... More
Polkinhorn Building, 638 D Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: A printing shop operated at this address in 1875 according to the D.C. City Directories. The HUB furniture store has occupied the building since 1942. The building occupies two lots. It therefo... More
Polkinhorn Building, 638 D Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: A printing shop operated at this address in 1875 according to the D.C. City Directories. The HUB furniture store has occupied the building since 1942. The building occupies two lots. It therefo... 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
1329 N Street, Northwest (Rowhouse), Washington, District of Columbia,...
Significance: 1329 N Street, NW, was designed by architect C.A. Didden in 1883 as one of a block of four identical brick rowhouses constructed for landowner A. Heitmuller. (See HABS DC-784, HABS DC-785, and HAB... More
S. S. Kresge Company, 712 E Street, Northwest, Washington, District of...
Significance: Constructed in 19118 by Frank L. Wagner and designed by A.B. Mullet and Company, S. S. Kresge's typifies construction methods for commercial buildings during the early 1900s. In particular, it sh... More
S. S. Kresge Company, 712 E Street, Northwest, Washington, District of...
Significance: Constructed in 19118 by Frank L. Wagner and designed by A.B. Mullet and Company, S. S. Kresge's typifies construction methods for commercial buildings during the early 1900s. In particular, it sh... More
629 D Street Northwest (Commercial Building), Square 457, Washington, ...
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Timothy Caldwell House, 2017 "Eye" Street Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: The Timothy Caldwell house was begun in 1802 and has been continuously well maintained ever since. It was the Executive Mansion during the first months of James Monroe's Presidency, and is now co... More
Timothy Caldwell House, 2017 "Eye" Street Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: The Timothy Caldwell house was begun in 1802 and has been continuously well maintained ever since. It was the Executive Mansion during the first months of James Monroe's Presidency, and is now co... More