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This is a list of properties and districts in Washington, D.C., on the National Register of Historic Places.There are more than 600 listings, including 74 National Historic Landmarks of the United States and another 13 places otherwise designated as historic sites of national importance by Congress or the President.
The eight wards each elect a member to the Council of the District of Columbia and are redistricted every ten years. As the nation's capital Washington, D.C.'s local neighborhood history and culture is often presented as distinct from that of the national government.
Langston Terrace was the first federally funded housing project in Washington, D.C., and one of the first four in the United States. It was part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’s Public Works Administration and was named in honor of John Mercer Langston , a 19th-century American abolitionist and attorney who founded Howard University ...
Potomac Gardens, known to some of its residents as " The Gardens ", is a housing project located at 1225 G Street SE, in Capitol Hill, Southeast, Washington, D.C., thirteen blocks to the southeast of the United States Capitol building . The property is owned by the District of Columbia Housing Authority, and its 352-units are divided into ...
38°54′05″N 77°02′46″W. / 38.901444°N 77.046167°W / 38.901444; -77.046167 ( Cleveland Abbe House) Cleveland Abbe, a prominent meteorologist who became known as the father of the National Weather Service, lived in this house from 1877 to 1909. Previous occupants in the early decades of the 19th century included James ...
Lincoln Heights is a residential neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C. It is bounded by Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue NE to the north, Blaine Street NE to the south, Division Avenue NE to the east, and 49th Street NE to the west. The neighborhood is almost entirely composed of the Lincoln Heights Housing Project, a 325-unit public housing ...
Members of the HPRB are appointed by the mayor and are approved by the Council of the District of Columbia. [2] The D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites was created in 1964, and was originally compiled by the predecessor to the HPRB, the Joint Committee on Landmarks of the National Capital. As of 2019, the Inventory includes approximately 750 ...
Benning Terrace is a public housing project of 274 apartments and townhouses in southeast Washington, D.C. located east of the Anacostia River in the Benning Ridge neighborhood. It is known to the natives as "Simple City." Housing Project. Built in 1958, Benning Terrace is a public housing project of townhouses and low-rise apartments.