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Anacostia Historic District
Anacostia Historic District Photo courtesy of the DC SHPO The name Anacostia derives from the area's early history as Nacochtank, a settlement of Necostan or Anacostan Indians on the banks of the ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc90.htm

Capitol Hill Historic District
Capitol Hill Historic District Photo courtesy of the DC SHPO The Capitol Hill Historic District takes its name from the hill, which rises in the center of the Federal City and extends eastward. ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc81.htm

Kalorama Triangle Historic District (NPS)
Kalorama Triangle Historic District, Biltmore Street NPS Photo This area historically was part of the 19th century estate "Kalorama" and enjoyed a reputation for its natural ambience. It was not ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc45.htm

LeDroit Park Historic District (NPS)
LeDroit Historic District Photo courtesy of the DC SHPO The LeDroit Park Historic District was originally a planned architecturally unified subdivision of substantial detached and semidetached ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc65.htm

Logan Circle Historic District (NPS)
Logan Circle Historic District Photo courtesy of the DC SHPO This approximately eight-block area is a unique, virtually unchanged example of a prosperous, late-19th-century residential ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc64.htm

Mount Pleasant Historic District (NPS)
1700 Block of Monroe St., Mt. Pleasant Historic District Photograph by Chris Shaheen Mount Pleasant is a densely developed urban neighborhood with a distinct architectural character. It contains a ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc96.htm

Sheridan Kalorama Historic District (NPS)
The Lindens, 2401 Kalorama Rd. Photo courtesy of DC SHPO As early as the mid-17th century, the boundaries of the Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District as it is known today were being formed by ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc46.htm

Takoma Park Historic District
Takoma Park Historic District, view along Piney Branch Rd. NPS Photo Takoma Park was founded and developed as a suburb by Benjamin F. Gilbert in 1883. Takoma Park was the first commuter suburb ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc1.htm

Woodley Park Historic District (NPS)
Commercial area along Connecticut Avenue Photo courtesy of the DC SHPO The neighborhood now known as Old Woodley Park is a distinct urban neighborhood, characterized by stately queues of dignified ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc8.htm

16th Street Historic District (Washington)
16th Street Historic District Photo courtesy of the DC SHPO The 16th Street Historic District is characterized by the linear experience of the street itself. 16th Street, one of the most important ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc53.htm

Blagden Alley-Naylor Court Historic District (Washington)
Blagden Alley-Naylor Court NPS Photo Blagden Alley is a historic district defined by middle-class residences, churches and small apartment buildings which display a rich variety of Victorian ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc67.htm

DCPhotoTour.com (Washington)
online photo tour of Washington DC's most famous tourist attractions, from famous Washington DC monuments, landmarks, memorials, museums, parks to the destinations that are barely mentioned in ...
http://www.dcphototour.com/

Dupont Circle Historic District (Washington)
Dupont Circle Historic District Photo courtesy of the DC SHPO It was the Board of Public works under the leadership of Alexander Shepherd that spearheaded the way for the development of Dupont ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc50.htm

Greater U Street Historic District (Washington)
The Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U Street NPS Photo The Greater U Street Historic District is a Victorian-era neighborhood, developed largely between 1862 and 1900. The area consists of a coherent ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc63.htm

Highrock's Washington D.C. (Washington)
Washington Monument White House United States Treasury National Archive United States Capitol Supreme Court Jefferson Memorial Lincoln Memorial Vietnam Veterans Memorial Marine Corps Memorial / ...
http://www.highrock.com/WashingtonDC/

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