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| x Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey |
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National | 66000606 |
The Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey is a monument at the border between the U.S. states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, on the north side of the Ohio River. It is near the three-way intersection of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the northern tip...
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| x Washington Monument |
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National | 66000035 |
The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's...
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| x Lincoln Memorial |
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National | 66000030 |
The Lincoln Memorial is an American memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and was dedicated on May 30, 1922. The architect was Henry Bacon, the...
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| x Yucca House National Monument |
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National | 66000252 |
Yucca House National Monument is a United States National Monument located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. Yucca House is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site.
President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the site a...
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| x Garber House | State | 85001313 | |||
| x Kimberly Mansion | National | 74002178 | Julia Evelina Smith |
Kimberly Mansion is a historic house in Glastonbury, Connecticut. It was the home of Abby and Julia Evelina Smith, political activists involved in causes including abolitionism and women's suffrage. By contesting the assessment on their property and...
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| x Elihu Benjamin Washburne House |
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National | 73000708 | Elihu B. Washburne |
The Elihu Benjamin Washburne House is a Greek Revival house in the city of Galena, Illinois, USA. Constructed in 1844–45, the building was built for and owned by Elihu B. Washburne a nationally significant politician and Galena resident. The...
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| x Farm Creek Section | National | 91002039 | Frank Leverett |
Farm Creek Section is a hillside in East Peoria, Illinois that clearly showed geological strata. It was noticed and described by geologist Frank Leverett.... It is nationally significant for its ...
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in...
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| x Van Ness Mausoleum | State | 82001032 |
The Van Ness Mausoleum was designed by George Hadfield. It is said to be a copy of the Temple of Vesta in Rome. It was constructed in 1833, after the architect's death in 1826, initially for the wife of John Peter Van Ness who died in 1832. The...
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| x Mayflower Hotel |
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State | 83003527 |
The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, known locally as simply The Mayflower, is an historic hotel in downtown Washington, DC located on Connecticut Avenue NW, two blocks north of Farragut Square (one block north of the Farragut North Metro station). It...
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| x Wardman Row |
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State | 84000871 |
Wardman Row is a block of historic apartment buildings at 1416-1440 R Street, NW in Washington, D.C. The buildings, located in the Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District were designed in 1911 by Harry Wardman and Albert Beers. In 1984, the...
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| x American Federation of Labor Building |
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National | 74002154 |
The American Federation of Labor Building is a building that was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.
The National Park Service, in 1974, described it:
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| x Arts and Industries Building |
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National | 71000994 |
The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Called initially the National Museum, it was built to provide the Smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display...
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| x Ashburton House |
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National | 73002071 |
Ashburton House, also known as St. John's Church Parish House or British Legation, is a house on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C..
It was the site of 10 months of U.S.-British negotiations leading to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. This...
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| x Decatur House |
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National | 66000858 |
Decatur House is one of the oldest surviving homes in Washington, D.C., and one of only three remaining houses in the country designed by neoclassical architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Completed in 1818 for naval hero Stephen Decatur and his wife,...
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| x General Post Office |
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National | 69000311 |
General Post Office, also known as Tariff Commission Building is a building in Washington, D.C. that is currently used as the Hotel Monaco.
It was built in two stages between 1839 to 1886 in the Neoclassical style. The building was declared a...
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| x Samuel Gompers House |
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National | 74002161 | Samuel Gompers |
Samuel Gompers House is a house in Washington, D.C..
Samuel Gompers was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until his death in 1924. Gompers helped found the AFL, and vigorously pursued its three goals of higher wages, shorter...
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| x Charles Evans Hughes House |
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National | 72001424 | Charles Evans Hughes |
Charles Evans Hughes House is a historic home located at 2223 R Street, NW in the Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Charles Evans Hughes was a leader in the Progressive Era and 1916 presidential candidate. He held office as...
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| x Memorial Continental Hall |
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National | 72001427 |
Memorial Continental Hall is owned & operated by the Daughters of the American Revolution. It also serves as the organization's National Society headquarters. Memorial Continental Hall is located alongside DAR Constitution Hall, connected by a third...
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| x National Portrait Gallery |
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National | 66000902 |
The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in Washington, D.C., administered by the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous individual Americans.
It resides in the National Historic Landmarked Old Patent Office...
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| x Mary Church Terrell House |
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National | 75002055 | Mary Church Terrell |
Mary Church Terrell House was a home of civil rights leader Mary Church Terrell in Washington, D.C.. Terrell was the first black woman to serve on an American school board, in 1896. She led the fight to integrate eating places in Washington, D.C.,...
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| x Tudor Place |
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National | 66000871 |
Tudor Place is a mansion in Washington, D.C. that was originally the home of Thomas Peter and his wife, Martha Parke Custis Peter, the step-granddaughter of George Washington, who left her the $8,000 in his will that was used to purchase the...
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| x David White House |
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National | 76002133 |
David White House was a home of geologist David White (1862-1935).
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
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| x Elliott Coues House |
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National | 75002049 | Elliott Coues |
Elliott Coues House was a home of Elliott Coues, a leading 19th century ornithologist. Coues led great expansions of the knowledge of North American bird life, helped found the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883, edited approximately 15 volumes...
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| x Old Naval Observatory |
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National | 66000864 |
Old Naval Observatory is a site in Washington, D.C.. The observatory operated from 1844 to 1893 when it was closed in favor of a new U.S. Naval Observatory facility on Massachusetts Avenue. The building and grounds were retained by the U.S. Navy,...
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| x Zalmon Richards House |
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National | 66000866 | Zalmon Richards |
Zalmon Richards House was a home of Zalmon Richards, founder of the National Education Association.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
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| x Woodrow Wilson House |
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National | 66000873 |
The Woodrow Wilson House was the residence of the Twenty-Eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson after he left office. It is at 2340 S Street NW on Washington, D.C.'s Embassy Row. On February 3rd, 1924, Wilson died in an upstairs...
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| x Adams Memorial |
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National | 72001420 |
The Adams Memorial is a grave marker located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., that features a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The shrouded figure is seated against a granite block, which forms one...
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| x Thomas Law House |
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State | 73002093 |
The Thomas Law House was built in 1796 near present day 6th and N Streets, Southwest in Washington, D.C. Originally inhabited by Thomas Law and Elizabeth Parke Custis, oldest granddaughter of Martha Washington.
In 1816 the home was purchased by...
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| x LeDroit Park Historic District |
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State | 74002165 |
LeDroit Park Historic District is a historic district in Washington, D.C.. The historic district includes the Mary Church Terrell House, a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The neighborhood was awarded a place on the National Register of Historic...
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| x Luther Place Memorial Church |
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State | 73002096 |
Luther Place Memorial Church (Washington, D.C.) was built in 1873 as a memorial to peace and reconciliation following the Civil War. Its original name was Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church and it was designed by architects Judson York, J.C....
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| x Codman-Davis House |
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State | 79003100 |
The Codman-Davis House is a four-story, red brick, 1906, classical revival house in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The house is the residence of the Ambassador of Thailand.
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| x Meridian House |
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State | 73002101 |
Meridian House, at 1630 Crescent Place in Washington, D.C., was built by Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin. He purchased the land in 1912, two years after his friend Henry White bought the adjacent site. After a long career with the US Foreign Service...
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| x Congressional Cemetery | National | 69000292 |
The Congressional Cemetery is an historic cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the bank of the Anacostia River. It is the final resting place of hundreds of individuals who helped form the nation and the city of Washington...
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| x Ringgold-Carroll House | State | 73002114 | Tench Ringgold |
The Ringgold-Carroll House (also known as the DACOR-Bacon House and John Marshall House) was built in 1825 for Tench Ringgold, who was part of a three-member team in charge of restoring public buildings in the District of Columbia, following the War...
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| x Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
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National | 74002156 | Andrew Carnegie |
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (former headquarters), also known as Peter Parker House, is a site significant for its association with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The organization was established by Andrew Carnegie....
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| x Mary Ann Shadd Cary House |
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National | 76002128 | Mary Ann Shadd |
The Mary Ann Shadd Cary House is a historic residence located at 1421 W Street, Northwest in Washington, D.C. From 1881 to 1885, it was the home of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a writer and abolitionist who was one of the first African American female...
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| x Dumbarton Bridge |
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State | 73002080 |
The Dumbarton Bridge, also known as the Q Street Bridge and the Buffalo Bridge, is a historic bridge located in Washington, D.C. It was built in 1914–1915 to convey Q Street Northwest across Rock Creek Park between the city's Dupont Circle and...
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| x Folger Shakespeare Library |
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National | 69000294 |
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare...
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| x Forrest-Marbury House |
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National | 73002084 |
The Forrest-Marbury House, located at 3350 M Street, Northwest, in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., was the site of the March 29, 1791 meeting between George Washington and the local land-owners to propose the federal government's purchase offer for...
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| x Freer Gallery of Art |
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National | 69000295 |
The Freer Gallery of Art, along with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, forms the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian art. The Freer contains art from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Muslim world, the ancient Near East, and...
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| x Halcyon House |
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State | 71001002 | Benjamin Stoddert |
Halcyon House is a Federal-style home in Washington, D.C. Located in the heart of Georgetown, the house was built beginning in 1787 by the first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddert. Its gardens were designed by Pierre L'Enfant, and for several...
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| x Christian Heurich Mansion |
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State | 69000296 |
Heurich House, also known as the Brewmaster's Castle, is a Gilded Age mansion in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington D.C.
The house was built in 1892-94 by German immigrant and American beer baron Christian Heurich. It is listed on the...
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| x Northumberland Apartments |
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State | 80004304 |
The Northumberland Apartments is an historic apartment building at 2039 New Hampshire Avenue, NW in the U Street Corridor of Washington, D.C. The Classical Revival building was constructed in 1909 by local real estate developer Harry Wardman and...
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| x Washington Navy Yard |
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National | 73002124 |
The Washington Navy Yard is the former shipyard and ordnance plant of the United States Navy in Southeast Washington, D.C. It is the oldest shore establishment of the U.S. Navy. The Yard currently serves as a ceremonial and administrative center for...
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| x Robert Simpson Woodward House |
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National | 76002136 | Robert Simpson Woodward |
The Robert Simpson Woodward House is a former residence located at 1513 16th Street, NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. From 1904 until 1914, it was a home of geologist Robert Simpson Woodward, the first president of the...
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| x National War College |
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National | 72001535 |
The National War College (NWC) of the United States is a school in the National Defense University. It is housed in Roosevelt Hall on Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., the third-oldest Army post still active. It was officially established on...
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| x Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac |
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National | 73002097 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac is located on Columbia Island in Washington, D.C. The memorial honors the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson.
The grove consists of two parts. The first area, commemorative in...
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| x National Mall |
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National | 66000031 |
The National Mall is an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The National Mall is a unit of the National Park Service, and is administered by the National Mall and Memorial Parks unit. The term ...
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| x U.S. Capitol Gatehouses and Gateposts |
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National | 73002120 |
The U.S. Capitol Gatehouses and Gateposts — designed circa 1827 by celebrated architect Charles Bulfinch — originally stood on the grounds of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Two of the gatehouses are listed on the National Register of...
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| x Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park |
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National | 66000036 |
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located in the District of Columbia and the states of Maryland and West Virginia. The park was established as a National Monument in 1961 by President...
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| x Newton D. Baker House |
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National | 76002126 | Newton D. Baker |
Newton D. Baker House, also known as Jacqueline Kennedy House, is a house built in 1794 in Washington, D.C.. It was home of Newton D. Baker, who was Secretary of War, during 1916-1920, while "he presided over America's mass mobilization of men and...
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| x Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site |
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National | 66000865 |
Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park Service in Washington, D.C..
Pennsylvania Avenue, linking the Capitol to the White House, serves as America's main street, providing a setting for parades and cultural...
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| x Washington Aqueduct |
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National | 73002123 |
The Washington Aqueduct is an aqueduct that provides the public water supply system serving Washington, D.C. and parts of its suburbs. One of the first major aqueduct projects in the United States, the Aqueduct was commissioned by Congress in 1852,...
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| x Strivers' Section Historic District |
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State | 85000239 |
The Strivers' Section is a historic district located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C.
Strivers' Section was historically an enclave of upper-middle-class African Americans, often community leaders, in the late 19th and...
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| x Walsh Stable |
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State | 86002932 |
The Walsh Stable is a historic building located at 1523 22nd Street, NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was designed by architect Lemuel Norris in 1903 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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| x Frederick Douglass National Historic Site |
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National | 66000033 |
The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W St., SE in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, D.C.. Established in 1988 as a National Historic...
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| x Blanche K. Bruce House |
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National | 75002046 | Blanche Bruce |
The Blanche K. Bruce House was a home of slave-born Blanche K. Bruce (1 March 1841 – 17 March 1898), who represented Mississippi as a U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881 and was the first black American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate.
It was...
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| x Dumbarton House |
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State | 90002148 |
Dumbarton House is a Federal style house located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C. It was completed around 1800. Its first occupant was Joseph Nourse, the first Register of the Treasury.
The home was purchased by the National Society...
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| x Embassy Gulf Service Station |
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State | 93001014 |
The Embassy Gulf Service Station is a service station in Washington, D.C., located on P Street near Dupont Circle and at the entrance to the Georgetown neighborhood. Constructed in 1937, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in...
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