Washington D.C.: Historical Place
Places and attractions in the Historical place category
Categories
- Museum
- Park
- Monuments and statues
- Church
- History museum
- Memorial
- Library
- Gothic Revival architecture
- Bridge
- Neighbourhood
- Street
- Art museum
- Historical place
- Specialty museum
- Theater
- Shopping
- Concerts and shows
- Neoclassical architecture
- Nightlife
- Greek Revival architecture
- Beaux-Arts architecture
- Cemetery
- Vernacular architecture
- Romanesque architecture
- Colonial revival architecture
- Art gallery
- Dancing
- Sculpture
- Georgian architecture
- Architecture
- Victorian architecture
- Sport
- Sport venue
- Garden
- Romanesque revival architecture
- Italianate architecture
- Sacred and religious sites
- Neo-renaissance architecture
- Palladian architecture
- Synagogue
- Arenas and stadiums
- Modernist architecture
- Queen Anne architecture
- Memorial site
- View point
- Restaurant
- Military museum
- Waterfront
- Lake
- Reportedly haunted
- Modern art museum
- Shopping centre
- Art Deco architecture
- Universities and schools
- Natural attraction
- Cinema
- Area
- Tower
- Market
- Interesting neighbourhood
- Tudor Revival architecture
- Sailing
Zero Milestone
The Zero Milestone is a lesser-known but historically significant landmark nestled in the heart of Washington D.C. This small monument, positioned just south of the White House in President's Park, serves as a symbolic reference point for distances in the United States.
Hillwood Estate
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is a decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C. United States. The former residence of businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and collector Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood is known for its large decorative arts collection that focuses heavily on the House of Romanov, including Fabergé eggs.
Heurich House Museum
Heurich House Museum, also known as the Christian Heurich Mansion or Brewmaster's Castle, is a Gilded Age mansion in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington D.C.
Ford's Theatre
Historic performing arts venue Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C. which opened in August 1863. It is infamous for being the site of the assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
Arlington Memorial Bridge
The Arlington Memorial Bridge is a Neoclassical masonry, steel, and stone arch bridge with a central bascule that crosses the Potomac River at Washington, D.C. the capital of the United States.
Blair House
Blair House, also known as The President's Guest House, is an official residence in Washington, D.C. the capital of the United States. The President's Guest House has been called "the world's most exclusive hotel" because it is primarily used as a state guest house to host visiting dignitaries and other guests of the president.
First Division Monument
The First Division Monument is located in President's Park, south of State Place Northwest, between 17th Street Northwest and West Executive Avenue Northwest in Washington, DC, United States. The Monument commemorates those who died while serving in the 1st Infantry Division of the U.S. Army of World War I and subsequent wars.
Albert Einstein Memorial
Bronze statue of a celebrated scientist The Albert Einstein Memorial is a monumental bronze statue by sculptor Robert Berks, depicting Albert Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand.
Old Stone House
The Old Stone House is the oldest unchanged building in Washington, D.C. United States. The house is also Washington's last pre-revolutionary colonial building on its original foundation.
Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum
The Capital Jewish Museum, officially the Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum, is a historical society and its planned museum in Washington, D.C. focused on the history of Jewish life in the American capital city and the surrounding Washington metropolitan area.
Tudor Place
Tudor Place is a Federal-style mansion in Washington, D.C. that was originally the home of Thomas Peter and his wife, Martha Parke Custis Peter, a granddaughter of Martha Washington.
Charles Sumner School
The Charles Sumner School, established in 1872, was one of the earliest schools for African Americans in Washington, D.C.
Anderson House
Anderson House, also known as Larz Anderson House, is a Gilded Age mansion located at 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, on Embassy Row in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site preserves the house of Mary McLeod Bethune, located in Northwest Washington, D.C. at 1318 Vermont Avenue NW.
Dumbarton House
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.
L. Ron Hubbard House
The L. Ron Hubbard House, also known as the Original Founding Church of Scientology, is a writer's house museum and former Scientology church located at 1812 19th Street NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. United States. Public tours are given on a regular basis.
Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument
The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Uptown Theater
The Uptown Theater, known as The Uptown, was a single-screen movie theater in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Opened in 1936, it hosted the world premieres of such movies as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Jurassic Park. It closed in March 2020.
Peirce Mill
The Peirce Mill is a historic mill building located in Rock Creek Park, at Tilden Street and Beach Drive, Northwest, Washington, D.C. United States.
Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site
Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site at 1538 9th Street NW, in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. preserves the home of Carter G. Woodson. Woodson, the founder of Black History Month, was an African-American historian, author, and journalist.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Cady-Lee
Cady-Lee is an historic house located in the Takoma neighborhood in Washington, D.C. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975 as the Lucinda Cady House.
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