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- Also Known As: DC or Washington, District of Columbia
- Formally Known As: District of Columbia
- Moniker: The District
- As Noted In: Preserve America Community, United States Executive Branch
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Washington, DC| Name of Notable | Genus | AsNotedIn | No | Address | Proximity | Area |
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| 2000 Block Of Eye Street, NW |
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2000 block | I St NW | South side | |
| Adas Israel Synagogue |
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3rd and G Sts, NW |
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| Administration Building, Carnegie Institute of Washington |
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1530 | P St NW | ||
| Alban Towers Apartment Building |
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3700 | Massachusetts Ave, NW |
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| Alden, Babcock, Calvert Apartments |
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2620 | 13th St, NW |
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| Alexander Crummell School |
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Kendall St and Gallaudet St NE | |||
| Alibi Club |
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1806 | I St, NW | ||
| Alice Pike Barney Studio House |
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2306 | Massachusetts Ave NW | 23rd St NW | |
| Alma Thomas House |
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1530 | 15th St NW |
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| American Federation of Labor Building |
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901 | Massachusetts Ave NW |
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| American Institute of Pharmacy Building |
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2215 | Constitution Ave NW |
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| American National Red Cross |
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430 | 17th St NW | D St NW | |
| American Peace Society |
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734 | Jackson Pl NW | ||
| American Revolution Statuary |
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Public buildings and various parks within DC |
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| American Security and Trust Company |
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15th and Pennsylvania Ave, NW |
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| Anacostia Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Good Hope Rd, 16th St, Mapleview | |||
| Apartment Building at 2225 N Street |
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2225 | N St, NW |
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| Arlington Memorial Bridge |
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Spans Potomac River |
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| Armed Forces Retirement Home-Washington |
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3700 | N Capitol St NW |
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| Armstrong Manual Training School |
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1st St and P Sts NW | Jct of 1st St and P Sts NW | ||
| Arts and Industries Building |
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900 | Jefferson Dr SW | ||
| Arts Club of Washington |
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2017 | I St NW | Pennsylvania Ave NW | |
| Asbury United Methodist Church |
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11th St NW and K St NW |
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| Ashburton House |
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1525 | H St NW | ||
| Auditor's Building Complex |
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14th St and Independence Ave |
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| Augusta Apartment Building |
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1151 | New Jersey Ave (216 New York Ave), NW |
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| Babcock-Macomb House |
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3415 | Massachusetts Ave, NW |
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| Bachelor Apartment House |
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1737 | H St NW |
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| Bank of Columbia, Washington |
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3210 | M St NW | Wisconsin Ave | |
| Banneker Recreation Center |
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2500 | Georgia Ave NW |
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| Battleground National Cemetery |
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6625 | Georgia Ave, NW |
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| Ben's Chili Bowl |
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1213 | U St NW |
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| Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House |
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21 | Madison Pl NW | H St NW | |
| Blagden Alley-Naylor Court Historic District |
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Bounded by O, 9th, M, and 10th Sts NW |
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| Blair House |
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1651 | Pennsylvania Ave, NW | ||
| Blanche K Bruce House |
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909 | M St, NW |
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| Bond Building |
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1404 | New York Ave NW |
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| Boulder Bridge and Ross Drive Bridge |
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Rock Creek Park |
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| Bowen, Anthony, YMCA |
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1816 | 12th St NW |
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| British Embassy, DC |
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3100 | Massachusetts Ave NW |
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| Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion |
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1500 | Rhode Island Ave, NW | ||
| Brooks Mansion |
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901 | Newton St, NE |
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| Brownley Confectionary Building |
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1309 | F St, NW |
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| Building at 3901 Connecticut Ave, NW |
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3901 | Connecticut Ave, NW |
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| Buildings at 1000 Block of Seventh Street and 649-651 New York Avenue NW |
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1005 - 1035 | 7th St and 649-651 New York Ave NW |
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| Buildings at 1644-1666 Park Road NW |
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1644 - 1666 | Park Rd NW | ||
| Bulletin Building |
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717 | 6th St, NW |
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| Burns, H B Memorial Building |
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2150 | Pennsylvania Ave, NW | ||
| Cairo Apartment Building |
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1615 | Q St, NW |
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| Capitol Hill Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Virginia Ave, SE., S Capitol St, F St NE., and 14th Sts SE and NE. | |||
| Capitol Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase) |
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Roughly bounded by 7th St NE, I-295, M St SE and 11th St SE | |||
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
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700 | Jackson Pl, NW | ||
| Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory |
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2801 | Upton St, NW | ||
| Carnegie Library |
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K St, NW | Mount Vernon Sq, 8th St NW | ||
| Carter G Woodson House |
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1538 | 9th St, NW |
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| Castle Gatehouse, Washington Aqueduct |
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Reservoir Rd and MacArthur Blvd NW | Near jct of Reservoir Rd and MacArthur Blvd NW |
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| Cathedral Mansions Apartment Buildings |
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2900, 3000 and 3100 | Connecticut Ave, NW |
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| Central Heating Plant |
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325 | 13th St SW |
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| Central National Bank |
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633 | Pennsylvania Ave, NW |
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| CF Folks |
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1225 | 19th St NW |
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| Chain Bridge Road School |
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2820 | Chain Bridge Rd |
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| Champlain Apartment Building |
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1424 | K St, NW |
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| Charles Evans Hughes House |
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2223 | R St NW |
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| Charles Sumner School |
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17th St and M St NW |
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| Charlotte Forten Grimke House |
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1608 | R St, NW |
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| Chase's Theater and Riggs Building |
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1426 | G St NW and 615--627 15th St NW |
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| Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Georgetown |
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Canal Rd NW | Clara Barton Pkwy | ||
| Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Building |
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730 | 12th St NW |
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| Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse and Repair Facility |
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1111 | N Capitol St NE |
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| Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Old Main Building |
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722 | 12th St NW |
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| Chevy Chase Arcade |
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5520 | Connecticut Ave | ||
| Chevy Chase Theater |
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5612 | Connecticut Ave | ||
| Child House |
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2706 | Olive St NW | 27th St NW | |
| Children's Country Home |
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1731 | Bunker Hill Rd |
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| Christ Church (Georgetown, DC) |
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3116 | O St NW | ||
| Christ Church, Washington Parish |
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620 | G St SE | ||
| Christian Heurich Mansion |
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1307 | New Hampshire Ave, NW | ||
| Church of the Ascension |
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1215 | Massachusetts Ave NW |
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| Church of the Epiphany |
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1317 | G St, NW |
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| City Hall |
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4th St and E St NW |
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| City Tavern |
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3206 | M St, NW | ||
| Civil War Monuments in Washington, DC |
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Various parks and plazas within the original boundaries of city |
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| Cleveland Park Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Tilden St, Connecticut Ave, Klingle Rd, and Wisconsin Ave | |||
| Clifton Terrace |
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1308,1312 1350 | Clifton St | ||
| Cloverdale |
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2600 and 2608 | Tilden St NW |
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| Codman Carriage House and Stable |
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1413 1415 | 22nd St NW | ||
| Codman-Davis House |
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2145 | Decatur Pl NW | 22nd St NW | |
| Columbus Fountain |
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Massachusetts Ave NW | Louisiana and Delaware Aves and 1st St NW | ||
| Commercial National Bank |
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1405 | G St, NW |
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| Concordia German Evangelical Church and Rectory |
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20th and G Sts, NW |
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| Conduit Road Schoolhouse |
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4954 | MacArthur Blvd, NW |
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| Congressional Cemetery |
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1801 | E St SE |
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| Connecticut Avenue Bridge |
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Connecticut Avenue NW | Spans Klingel Valley | ||
| Constitution Hall |
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311 | 18th St NW |
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| Convent de Bon Secours |
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4101 | Yuma St NW |
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| Corcoran Gallery of Art |
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17th St NW | New York Ave NW | ||
| Corcoran Hall |
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721 | 21st St, NW | ||
| Cosmos Club |
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2121 | Massachusetts Ave, NW |
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| Cuban Friendship Urn |
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Ohio Dr | Reservation 332, Ohio Dr at 14th St Bridge SW |
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| Customhouse and Post Office |
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1221 | 31st St, NW | ||
| Cutts-Madison House |
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Madison Pl NW | Vermont Ave NW | ||
| Daniel Webster Memorial |
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Scott Cir NW | Massachusetts Ave and Rhode Island Ave |
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| Danzansky Funeral Home, DC |
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3501 | 14th St, NW | Otis Pl Nw | |
| David White House |
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1459 | Girard St, NW |
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| Decatur House |
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748 | Jackson Pl NW | ||
| District Building |
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14th St NW and E St, NW | SE corner |
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| Downtown Historic District |
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7th St NW | Roughly Pennsylvania Ave to Mt Vernon Sq and F St between 11th and 7th Sts, NW | ||
| Dumbarton Bridge |
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Q St over Rock Creek Park, NW | |||
| Dumbarton House |
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2715 | Q St, NW | ||
| Dumbarton Oaks |
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32nd St NW | R St NW | ||
| Dumbarton Oaks Park and Montrose Park |
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R St NW | |||
| Dumblane |
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Address Restricted |
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| Duncanson-Cranch House |
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468 - 470 | N St, NW |
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| Dupont Circle Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Florida and Rhode Island Aves, M, T, 16th, 21st, and 23rd Sts | |||
| Dupont Circle Historic District (Boundary Increase) |
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Various areas within an area roughly bounded by 16th St, T St, Florida Ave, 23rd St and M St NW | |||
| Dupont Circle Historic District (Boundary Increase) |
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| East Building, National Gallery of Art, DC |
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Constitution Ave NW | National Mall btw 3rd St and 4th St | ||
| East Capitol Street Carbarn |
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1400 | E Capitol St, NE |
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| East Corner Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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Eastern and Southern Aves | 100 ft. E of jct |
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| Eastern Market |
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7th and C Sts, SE |
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| Edward Simon Lewis House |
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456 | N St, NW |
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| Eight Hundred Block of F St NW |
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800 - 818 | F St and 527 9th St, NW |
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| Eighteen Hundred Block Park Road, NW |
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1801 - 1869 | Park Rd, NW |
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| Eisenhower Executive Office Building |
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Pennsylvania Ave NW | 17th St NW | ||
| Eldbrooke United Methodist Church |
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4100 | River Rd NW | ||
| Elizabeth Arden Building |
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1147 | Connecticut Ave | M St NW | |
| Elliott Coues House |
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1726 | N St, NW |
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| Embassy Building No 10 |
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3149 | 16th St NW |
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| Embassy Gulf Service Station |
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2200 | P St, NW | ||
| Embassy of Uzbekistan, Washington |
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1746 | Massachusetts Ave NW |
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| Emily Wiley House |
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902 | 3rd St, NW | ||
| Engine Company 12 |
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1626 | N Capitol St, NW |
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| Engine Company 17 |
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1235 | Monroe St NE |
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| Engine Company 19 |
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| Engine Company 23 |
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2119 | G St, NW |
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| Engine Company 26, (Old) |
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2715 | 22nd St NE |
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| Engine Company 29 |
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4811 | MacArthur Blvd NW | ||
| Engine Company No 21 |
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1763 | Lanier Place NW |
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| Engine Company No 25 |
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3203 | Martin Luther King Jr, Ave SE |
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| Engine House No 10 |
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1341 | Maryland Ave, NE |
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| Equitable Co-operative Building Association |
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915 | F St, NW |
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| Euclid Apartments |
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| Evans-Tibbs House |
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1910 | Vermont Ave NW |
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| Evermay |
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1623 | 28th St, NW |
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| Federal Home Loan Bank Board Building |
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320 | 1st St NW | ||
| Federal-American National Bank |
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615 - 621 | 14th St, NW |
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| Fifteenth Street Financial Historic District |
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15th St | Pennsylvania Ave to I St, NW |
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| First African New Church |
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2105-07 | 10th St, NW |
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| First Baptist Church of Deanwood |
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1008 | 45th St NE |
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| Fletcher Chapel |
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401 | New York Ave, NW |
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| Foggy Bottom Historic District |
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Bounded by New Hampshire Ave, 25th, 26th, H, and K Sts, NW | |||
| Folger Shakespeare Library |
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201 | E Capitol St SE |
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| Ford's Theatre National Historic Site |
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511 | 10th St NW | Between E St NW and F St NW | |
| Forrest-Marbury House |
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3350 | M St, NW |
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| Fort McNair |
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4th St and P St SW | |||
| Fort Stevens |
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13th St NW | Quackenbos NW |
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| Fort View Apartments |
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| Foundry United Methodist Church |
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1500 | 16th St NW | Church St NW | |
| Fourteenth Street Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by S, 12th, N and 15th Sts, NW | |||
| Fourteenth Street Historic District (Boundary Increase) |
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1400 blks of | P St, Rhode Island Ave, N St and Massachusetts Ave, NW | ||
| Foxhall Village Historic District |
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Bounded by Reservoir Rd NW, Glover-Archibald Park, P St NW and Foxhall Rd NW | |||
| Frances Perkins House |
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2326 | California St, NW |
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| Francis Asbury Memorial |
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16th and Mt Pleasant Sts NW | Reservation 309-B |
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| Francis Griffith Newlands Memorial Fountain |
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Chevy Chase Cir | Connecticut and Western Aves NW (Reservation 335A) | ||
| Francis L Cardozo Senior High School |
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13th St and Clifton St NW | Jct of 13th St and Clifton St NW |
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| Francis Scott Key Bridge |
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Francis Scott Key Bridge (US 29) | Spans Potomac River | ||
| Francis Scott Key Park |
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M St NW | 34th ST NW | ||
| Franciscan Monastery and Memorial Church of the Holy Land |
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1400 | Quincy St, NE |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial |
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1850 | West Basin Dr SW | Tidal Basin | |
| Franklin School |
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13th St and K St NW | Franklin Square | ||
| Fraser Mansion |
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1701 | 20th St, NW | ||
| Frederic A Delano House |
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2244 | S St | Mitchell Park | |
| Frederick Douglass National Historic Site |
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1411 | W St SE |
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| Freer Gallery Of Art |
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12th St and Jefferson Dr, SW |
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| Frelinghuysen University, Former Classroom Building |
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1800 | Vermont Ave, NW |
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| Friendship Baptist Church |
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734 | First St SW |
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| Friendship House |
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619 | D St, SE, or 630 South Carolina Ave, SE |
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| Fulbright Hall |
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2223 | H St NW | ||
| Fuller House |
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2317 | Ashmead Pl, NW | ||
| Gallaudet College Historic District |
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Florida Ave and 7th St, NE | |||
| Gallinger Municipal Hospital Psychopathic Ward |
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Reservation 13, 19th St and Massachusetts Ave, SE |
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| Galt and Brothers Jewelers |
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607 | 15th Street NW | F St NW | |
| Garden Club of America Entrance Marker at Georgia Avenue |
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Georgia Ave | Kalmia Rd and Alaska Ave |
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| Garden Club of America Entrance Markers at Chevy Chase Circle |
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Chevy Chase Circle | Reservation 335A | ||
| Garden Club of America Entrance Markers at Westmoreland Circle |
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Reservation 559 |
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| Garden Club of America Entrance Markers at Wisconsin Avenue |
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Wisconsin Ave | Western Ave |
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| Garfinckel's Department Store |
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1401 | F St, NW |
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| Gen Oliver Otis Howard House |
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607 | Howard Pl |
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| Gen Robert Macfeely House |
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2015 | I St, NW |
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| General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters |
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1734 | N St, NW |
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| General Jose de San Martin Memorial |
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Virginia Ave and 20th St NW | Reservation 106 |
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| General Post Office |
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E St and F St | Between 7th St and 8th St NW |
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| George M Barker Company Warehouse |
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1525 | 7th St, NW |
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| George Washington Memorial Parkway |
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Roughly, S side of the Potomac R. From American Legion to Memorial Bridge and N side From Brickyard Rd to Chain Bridge |
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| Georgetown Academy for Young Ladies |
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1524 | 35th St NW | Volta Pl NW | |
| Georgetown Branch of the DC Public Library |
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3260 | R St NW | Wisconsin Ave NW | |
| Georgetown Market |
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3276 | M St, NW | Between East and West Market Streets | |
| Georgetown University |
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3700 | O St NW | 37th St NW | |
| Germuiller Row |
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748 | 3rd St and 300--302 H St, NW |
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| Gladstone and Hawarden Apartment Buildings |
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1419 and 1423 | R St, NW |
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| Glen Hurst |
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4933 | MacArthur BLVD. NW |
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| Glenwood Cemetery Mortuary Chapel |
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2219 | Lincoln Rd, NE |
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| Glover-Archbold Park |
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Reservation 351 and 450 (foundry Branch Valley) |
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| Godey Lime Kilns |
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Rock Creek and Potomac Pkwy NW | 27th and L Sts, NW |
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| Grace Protestant Episcopal Church |
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1041 | Wisconsin Ave, NW |
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| Grace Reformed Church, Sunday School and Parish House |
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1405 | 15th St NW |
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| Grant Road Historic District |
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4400 and 4500blks | Grant Rd, NW |
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| Greater U Street Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by New Hamphire Ave, Florida Ave, 6th St, R St, and 16th St |
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| Guglielmo Marconi Memorial |
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16th and Lamont Sts NW | Reservation 309A | ||
| Halcyon House |
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3400 | Prospect St, NW |
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| Hampshire Garden Apartment Buildings |
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4912 | New Hampshire Ave, 208, 222, 236 and 250 farragut St, 4915 3rd St and 215, 225 and 235 Emerson St, NW |
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| Harris and Ewing Photographic Studio |
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1311 - 1313 | F St, NW |
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| Harrison Apartment Building |
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704 | 3rd St, NW |
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| Hecht Company Warehouse |
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1401 | New York Ave, NE |
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| Henry Pringle House, Georgetown |
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3319 | N St NW | 33rd St NW | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Memorial |
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Connecticut Ave, M and 18th Sts NW | Reservation 150 |
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| Hillandale-Main Residence and Gatehouse |
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3905 | Mansion Ct, NW and 3905 Reservoir Rd, NW |
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| Hilltop Manor (The Cavalier Apartment Building) |
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3500 | 14th St NW |
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| Holmead, Anthony, Archeological Site |
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Address Restricted |
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| Hotel Washington |
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515 | 15th St, NW |
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| House at 2437 Fifteenth Street, NW |
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2437 | 15th St, NW |
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| Howard Theatre |
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620 | T St NW | E of 7th St NW | |
| Howard University Yard |
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2441 and 2365 | 6th St NW and 500 Howard Place NW | ||
| Immaculate Conception Church |
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1315 | 8th St, NW |
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| Indonesian Embassy |
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2020 | Massachusetts Ave NW |
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| Ingleside |
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1818 | Newton St NW | ||
| Interior Department Offices |
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18th St NW and F St NW | |||
| Isaac Owens House |
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2806 | N St NW |
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| Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Hall |
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2222 | I St, NW | 23rd St SW | |
| James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue |
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16th St and Park Rd NW | Reservation 309-G |
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| Janney Elementary School |
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4130 | Albemarle St NW | ||
| Japanese Embassy |
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2520 | Massachusetts Ave, NW |
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| Jefferson Apartment Building |
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315 | H St NW |
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| Jefferson Building, Library of Congress |
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10 | 1st St SE | Independence Ave SE | |
| Jesse Reno School |
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4820 | Howard St NW | ||
| John J Earley Office and Studio |
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| John Philip Sousa Junior High School |
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3650 | Ely Place SE |
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| John Stoddert Haw House |
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2808 | N St, NW |
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| Joseph Beale House |
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2301 | Massachusetts Ave, NW |
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| Kalorama Triangle Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Connecticut Ave, Columbia Rd, and Calvert St | |||
| Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens |
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Kenilworth Ave and Douglas St NE |
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| Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building |
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3133 | Connecticut Ave, NW |
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| Korean War Veterans Memorial |
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Independence Ave | SE of Lincoln Memorial | ||
| L'Enfant Plan of the City of Washington, District of Columbia |
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Roughly bounded by Florida Ave From Rock Cr., NW to 15th St, NE., S to C St, and E to the Anacostia River |
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| Lafayette Apartment Building |
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1605 - 1607 | 7th St, NW |
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| Lafayette Building |
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811 | Vermont Ave NW |
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| Lafayette Square Historic District |
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Roughly between 15th and 17th Sts and H St and State and Treasury Places, exclusive of the White House and its grounds | |||
| Laird-Dunlop House |
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3014 | N St NW | Coach house: 1248 30th St NW | |
| Langston Golf Course Historic District |
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Roughly, Anacostia Park N of Benning Rd |
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| Langston Terrace Dwellings |
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N from Benning Rd to H St NE |
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| Lansburgh, Julius, Furniture Co, Inc |
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909 | F St, NW |
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| Larz Anderson House |
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2118 | Massachusetts Ave, NW | ||
| Latrobe Gate |
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801 | M St SE | 8th St SE | |
| LeDroit Park Historic District |
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Bounded roughly by Florida and Rhode Island Aves, 2nd and Elm Sts, Howard University | |||
| Lenthall Houses |
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606 - 610 | 21st St NW |
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| Lincoln Industrial Mission-Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church |
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1701 | 11th St, NW |
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| Lincoln Memorial |
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West Potomac Park | |||
| Lincoln Theatre |
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1215 | U St NW |
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| Lisner Auditorium |
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730 | 21st St, NW | ||
| Lockkeeper's House, C and O Canal Extension |
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17th St and Constitution Ave, NW | SW corner | ||
| Logan Circle Historic District |
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Jct of Rhode Island and Vermont Aves | |||
| Lothrop Mansion |
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2001 | Connecticut Ave |
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| Lucinda Cady House |
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7064 | Eastern Ave, NW |
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| Luther Place Memorial Church |
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1226 | Vermont Ave, NW (Thomas Circle) |
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| Luzon Apartment Building |
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2501 | Pennsylvania Ave, NW |
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| Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove On The Potomac |
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Lady Byrd Johnson Park, Columbia Island |
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| M Street High School |
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128 | M St NW |
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| Madison Hall |
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736 | 22nd St NW | H St NW | |
| Manhattan Laundry |
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1326 - 1346 | Florida Ave, NW |
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| Mansion at 2401 15th St, NW |
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2401 | 15th St, NW |
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| Margaret Wetzel House |
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714 | 21st St, NW | ||
| Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library |
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901 | G St NW | 9th St NW | |
| Mary Ann Shadd Cary House |
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1421 | W St, NW |
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| Mary Church Terrell House |
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326 | T St NW | ||
| Mary E Surratt Boarding House |
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604 | H St NW | ||
| Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site |
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1318 | Vermont Ave, NW |
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| Masonic Temple |
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801 | 13th St NW | Franklin Square | |
| Massachusetts Avenue Historic District |
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Massachusetts Ave | Between 17th St and Observatory Circle NW | ||
| Massachusetts Avenue Parking Shops |
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4841 - 4861 | Massachusetts Ave NW | ||
| Maxwell Woodhull House |
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2033 | G St, NW |
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| Mayfair Mansions Apartments |
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3819 | Jay St, NE |
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| Mayflower Hotel |
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1127 | Connecticut Ave NW | Desales St NW |
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| McCormick Apartments |
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1785 | Massachusetts Ave, NW |
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| McLachlen Building |
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1001 | G St, NW |
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| Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington |
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2111 | Florida Ave, NW |
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| Memorial Continental Hall |
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17th St NW | Between C St and D St NW |
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| Meridian Hill Park |
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Bounded by 16th, Euclid, 15th, and W Sts, NW |
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| Meridian House |
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1630 | Crescent Pl NW |
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| Meridian Manor |
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1424 | Chapin St, NW |
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| Meridian Mansions |
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2400 | 16th St NW |
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| Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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1518 | M St, NW |
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| Metropolitan Club |
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1700 | H St NW |
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| Military Road School |
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1375 | Missouri Ave, NW |
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| Miner Normal School |
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2565 | Georgia Ave, NW |
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| Montrose Park |
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R St and Lovers' Ln (Res. 324) |
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| Moran Building |
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501 - 509 | G St NW |
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| Morrison and Clark Houses |
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1013 - 1015 | L St, NW |
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| Mount Pleasant Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Sixteenth and Harvard Sts, Rock Creek Church Rd, and Adams Mill Rd | |||
| Mount Vernon Memorial Highway |
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Washington St and George Washington Memorial Pkwy |
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| Mount Vernon Square Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by New York Ave, 7th St, N St, and 1st St NW | |||
| Mount Vernon Triangle Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by: 400 blks. Massachusettes Ave NW and K St NW, Prather's Alley and 5th St NW | |||
| Mount Vernon West Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Rhode Island Ave, 6th St, Massachusetts Ave, and Vermont Ave | |||
| Mount Zion Cemetery |
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27th St and Q St NW |
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| Mount Zion United Methodist Church |
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1334 | 29th St, NW |
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| Mountjoy Bayly House |
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122 | Maryland Ave, NE | ||
| Mullett Rowhouses |
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2517, 2519 and 2525 | Pennsylvania Ave, NW |
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| Munson Hall |
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2212 | H St NW | 22nd St NW | |
| Myrene Apartment Building |
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603 | 6th St, NW |
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| Nathaniel Parker Gage School |
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2035 | 2nd St, NW |
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| National Academy of Sciences |
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2101 | Constitution Ave, NW |
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| National Archives |
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Constitution Ave NW | Between 7th and 9th Sts, NW |
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| National Bank of Washington, Washington Branch |
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301 | 7th St, NW |
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| National Building Museum |
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4th St and 5th St NW | Between F St and G St |
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| National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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Constitution Ave NW | National Mall btw 3rd St and 9th St | ||
| National Metropolitan Bank Building |
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613 | 15th St, NW |
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| National Museum of African American History and Culture |
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1400 | Constitution Ave NW | 14th St NW | |
| National Museum of American History |
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1300 | Constitution Ave NW | 14th St NW | |
| National Portrait Gallery |
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F St and G St | Between 7th and 9th Sts, NW |
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| National Saving And Trust Company |
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New York Ave and 15th St, NW |
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| National Union Building |
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918 | F St, NW |
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| Newton D Baker House |
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3017 | N St, NW | ||
| Newton Theater |
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3601 - 3611 | 12th St NE |
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| North Corner Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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1880block | East-West Hwy |
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| Northeast No 2 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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6980 | Maple Ave, NW |
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| Northeast No 3 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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Eastern Ave and Chillum Rd | 144 ft. NW of jct |
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| Northeast No 4 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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5400 | Sargent Rd |
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| Northeast No 5 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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4609 | Eastern Ave |
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| Northeast No 6 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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3601 | Eastern Ave |
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| Northeast No 7 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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Fort Lincoln Cemetery |
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| Northeast No 8 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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Kenilworth Aquatics Gardens, NW of jct of Eastern and Kenilworth Aves |
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| Northeast No 9 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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919 | Eastern Ave |
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| Northumberland Apartments |
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2039 | New Hampshire Ave NW | ||
| Northwest No 4 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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5906 | Dalecarlia Pl, NW |
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| Northwest No 5 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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Dalecarlia Pkwy | Dalecarlia Reservoir, 600 ft. W of Dalecarlia Parkway and 300 ft SE of concrete culvert |
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| Northwest No 6 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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Park and Western Aves, NW | 150 ft. NE of jct |
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| Northwest No 7 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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5600 | Western Ave |
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| Northwest No 8 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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6422 | Western Ave |
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| Northwest No 9 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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2701 | Daniel Rd | Rock Creek Park, about 165 ft NW of the centerline of Daniel Rd and 5 ft SE from edge of 2701 Daniel Rd | |
| O Street Market |
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1400 | 7th St, NW |
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| Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, DC) |
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30th and R Streets NW | |||
| Old Engine Company No 6 |
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438 | Massachusetts Ave, NW |
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| Old Naval Hospital |
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921 | Pennsylvania Ave, SE | ||
| Old Naval Observatory |
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23rd and E Sts, NW | |||
| Old Post Office and Clock Tower |
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Pennsylvania Ave NW | 12th St NW |
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| Old Stone House |
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3051 | M St NW | ||
| Old Woodley Park Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Rock Creek Park, 24th St, 29th St, Woodley Rd and Cathedral Ave, NW | |||
| Olympia Apartments |
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1368 | Euclid St NW |
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| Oriental Building Association No 6 Building |
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600 | F St, NW |
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| Oscar W Underwood House |
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2000 | G St, NW | ||
| Owl's Nest |
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3031 | Gates Rd, NW |
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| P Street NW Historic District |
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P St NW | Btw Wisconsin Ave and Rock Creek Park | ||
| Pan American Union |
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17th St NW | Between C St and Constitution Ave, NW | ||
| Park Tower |
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2440 | 16th St NW |
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| Penland, W H, and Company |
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1211 - 1219 | 13th St, NW |
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| Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site |
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Pennsylvania Ave | Roughly bounded by Constitution Ave, F St, 3rd St and 15th St NW | ||
| Perry Belmont House |
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1618 | New Hampshire Ave, NW | ||
| Peter-Auchincloss Residence |
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3044 | O St NW | 31st St NW | |
| Petersen House |
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516 | 10th St NW | E St NW | |
| Petworth Gardens |
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124, 126, 128 and 130 | Webster St NW |
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| Pierce Mill |
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Tilden St and Beach Dr, NW | NW corner | ||
| Pierce Springhouse and Barn |
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2400Block | Tilden St and Beach Dr, NW |
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| Pierce Still House |
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2400 | Tilden St, NW |
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| Pierce-Klingle Mansion |
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3545 | Williamsburg Lane, NW |
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| Piney Branch Quarry Site |
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Address Restricted |
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| Pink Palace |
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2600 | 16th St, NW |
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| Plymouth Theater |
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1365 | H St NE |
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| Ponce de Leon Apartment Building |
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4514 | Connecticut Ave, NW |
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| Potomac Boat Club |
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3530 | Water St, NW |
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| Potomac Palisades Site |
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Address Restricted |
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| President's House, Gallaudet College |
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7th St and Florida Ave, NE | |||
| President's Office, George Washington University |
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2003 | G St, NW and 700 20th St, NW | ||
| President's Park South |
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Constitution Ave | |||
| Prince Hall Masonic Temple |
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1000 | U St NW |
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| Prospect House |
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3508 | Prospect St, NW |
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| Quality Hill |
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3425 | Prospect St, NW |
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| Railroad Retirement Board Building |
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330 | C St SW |
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| Ralph Bunche House, DC |
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1510 | Jackson St NE |
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| Randall Junior High School |
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65 | I St, SW |
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| Rathbone House |
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172 | Jackson Pl | ||
| Rawlins Park |
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18th St NW and E St, NW |
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| Renwick Museum |
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Pennsylvania Ave, NW | NE corner with 17th St NW | ||
| Rhodes' Tavern |
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601 - 603 | 15th St and 1431 F St NW |
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| Riggs National Bank |
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1503 - 1505 | Pennsylvania Ave, NW |
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| Riggs National Bank, Washington Loan And Trust Company Branch |
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9th and F Sts, NW | SW corner |
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| Riggs-Tompkins Building |
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1403-1405 and 1413 | Park Rd NW and 3300, 3306-3316, 3328, and 3336 14th St NW | ||
| Ringgold-Carroll House |
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1801 | F St, NW |
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| Robert Simpson Woodward House |
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1513 | 16th St NW |
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| Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Historic District |
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Rock Creek and Potomac Pkwy |
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| Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery |
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Webster St and Rock Creek Church Rd, NW |
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| Rock Creek Park Historic District |
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Roughly, Rock Creek Park From Klingle Rd to Montgomery County line |
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| Roosevelt Apartment Building |
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1116 - 1118 | F St, NE |
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| Rosedale |
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3501 | Newark St, NW |
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| Rutherford B Hayes School |
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5th and K Sts NE |
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| Samuel Gompers House |
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2122 | 1st St NW |
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| Samuel Gompers Memorial |
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Massachusetts Ave, 10th and L Sts NW | Reservation 69 | ||
| Samuel Hahnemann Monument |
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Massachusetts Ave and Rhode Island Ave | Reservation 64, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Aves at Scott Cir NW |
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| Schneider Triangle |
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Bounded by Washington Circle, New Hampshire Ave NW, K, 22nd, and L Sts NW |
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| Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store |
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4500 | Wisconsin Ave, NW |
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| Second National Bank |
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1331 | G St, NW |
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| Senator Theater |
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3950 | Minnesota Ave, NE |
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| Seventh Street Savings Bank |
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1300 | 7th St NW |
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| Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site |
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144 | Constitution Ave, NE | ||
| Shaw Junior High School |
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7th St, and Rhode Island Ave, NW |
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| Sheridan - Kalorama Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Rock Creek Park, Connecticut Ave, NW, Florida Ave, NW, 22nd St, NW, and P St, NW | |||
| Simpson's, Billy, House of Seafood and Steaks |
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3815 | Georgia Ave, NW |
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| Sixteenth Street Historic District |
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16th St NW | Between Scott Cir. and Florida Ave NW |
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| Sixteenth Street Historic District (Boundary Increase) |
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16th St NW |
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| Smithsonian Institution Building |
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Jefferson Dr SW | L'Enfant Plaza | ||
| Smithsonian National Zoological Park |
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3001 | Connecticut Ave NW | N of Cathedral Ave NW | |
| Social Security Administration Building |
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330 | Independence Ave SW |
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| Southeast No 1 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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Southern Ave and D St | 30 ft. S of jct of Southern Ave and D St |
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| Southeast No 2 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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4245 | Southern Ave |
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| Southeast No 3 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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3908 | Southern Ave |
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| Southeast No 5 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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280 ft. NE of jct of Southern Ave and Valley Terrace |
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| Southeast No 6 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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901 | Southern Ave |
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| Southeast No 7 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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Southern Ave and Indian Head Rd | 25 ft. NE of jct |
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| Southeast No 9 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia |
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0.225 mi S of Oxon Cove Br. and 420 ft. E of Shepherd Pkwy |
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| Southern Aid Society-Dunbar Theater Building |
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1901 - 1903 | 7th St NW |
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| Southern Railway Building |
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1500 | 1500 K St NW | 15th St NW | |
| Spencer Carriage House and Stable |
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2123 | Twining Crt., NW |
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| Springland |
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3550 | Tilden St NW |
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| Springland Springhouse-Springland (Boundary Increase) |
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3517 | Springland Ln, NW |
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| Square 1500 |
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4820,4860,4872 , 4874 | Massachusetts Ave, and 4301 49th St NW |
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| St Aloysius Catholic Church |
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N Capitol St and I St NW |
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| St Elizabeths Hospital |
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2700 | Martin Luther King Jr, Ave, SE |
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| St John's Church |
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16th and H Sts, NW | |||
| St Luke's Episcopal Church |
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15th and Church Sts, NW |
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| St Mark's Church |
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3rd and A Sts, SE |
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| St Mary's Episcopal Church |
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730 | 23rd St, NW | ||
| St Matthew's Cathedral And Rectory |
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1725 - 1739 | Rhode Island Ave NW |
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| St Paul's Episcopal Church |
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Rock Creek Church Rd and Webster St NW |
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| Steedman-Ray House |
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1925 | F St, NW |
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| Stockton Hall |
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720 | 20th St, NW | ||
| Strand Theater |
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5129 - 5131 | Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave NE |
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| Strivers' Section Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by New Hampshire and Florida Aves, 17th and 18th Sts along T, U, and Willard Sts NW |
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| Strong, Hattie M, Residence Hall |
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620 | 21st St, NW | ||
| Suitland Parkway |
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From the Anacostia R. in the District of Columbia to Pennsylvania Ave in Prince George's County, Maryland |
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| Sulgrave Club |
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1801 | Massachusetts Ave, NW |
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| Sun Building |
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1317 | F St NW |
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| Taft Bridge |
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Connecticut Ave NW | Rock Creek | ||
| Takoma Park Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by DC-MD boundary, 7th, Piney Branch, Aspen, and Fern Sts |
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| Temperance Fountain |
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7th St and Indiana Ave NW |
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| Tenth Precinct Station House |
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750 | Park Rd NW |
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| Thaddeus Stevens School |
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1050 | 21 St NW | ||
| The Causeway |
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3029 | Klingle Rd, NW | ||
| The Highlands |
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3825 | Wisconsin Ave NW |
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| The Lindens |
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2401 | Kalorama Rd, NW | ||
| The Methodist Cemetery |
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Murdock Mill Rd | Between River Rd and 42nd St | ||
| The Octagon |
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1799 | New York Ave NW | 18th St NW | |
| The Phillips Collection |
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1600 - 1614 | 21st St NW | ||
| The Plymouth |
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1236 | 11th St NW |
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| The Second Baptist Church |
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816 | 3rd St NW | H St Nw | |
| The St Regis Washington DC |
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923 | 16th St NW | K St |
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| The White House |
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1600 | Pennsylvania Ave NW | ||
| Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial |
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S of Key Bridge in the Potomac River |
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| Third Baptist Church |
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1546 | 5th St, NW |
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| Thomas Jefferson Memorial |
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E Basin Dr SW, S bank of the Tidal Basin | Tidal Basin | ||
| Thomas Law House |
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1252 | 6th St, SW |
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| Thomas Nelson Page House |
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1759 | R St, NW | ||
| Titanic Memorial |
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Water St and P St, SW | Reservation 717, SW Waterfront Park | ||
| Tivoli Theater |
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3301 - 3325 | 14th St NW | ||
| Tower Building |
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1401 | K St, NW |
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| Trades Hall of National Training School for Women and Girls |
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601 | 50th St, NE |
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| Trinity Towers |
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3023 | 14th St, NW |
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| Truck Company F |
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1336 - 1338 | Park Rd NW |
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| Truck House No 13 |
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1342 | Florida Ave NE |
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| True Reformer Building |
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1200 | U St, NW |
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| Tucker House and Myers House |
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2310 - 2320 | S St, NW | ||
| Tudor Place |
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1644 | 31st St, NW | ||
| Twin Oaks |
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3225 | Woodley Rd | ||
| Uline Ice Company Plant and Arena Complex |
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1132, 1140 and 1146 | 3rd St NE |
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| Ulysses S Grant School |
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2130 | G St NW |
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| Union Station |
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Massachusetts and Louisiana Aves and 1st St, NE | |||
| Union Station Plaza |
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1st St NE | Massachusetts Ave, Louisiana Ave NE | ||
| Union Trust Building |
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740 | 15th St NW |
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| United Brick Corporation Brick Complex |
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2801 | New York Ave NE |
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| United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners-Local 132 |
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1010 | 10th St NW, 1001 K St NW |
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| United Mine Workers of America |
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900 | 15th St NW | ||
| United States Capitol |
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1st St NW | Constitution Ave NW | ||
| United States Daughters of 1812, National Headquarters |
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1461 | Rhode Island Ave NW |
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| United States Supreme Court Building |
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1 | 1st St NE | E Capitol St NE | |
| US Chamber of Commerce Building |
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1615 | H St NW |
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| US Court Of Military Appeals |
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450 | E St, NW |
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| US Courthouse-District of Columbia |
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333 | Constitution Ave NW |
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| US Department of Agriculture Administration Building |
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12th St and Jefferson Dr, SW |
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| US Department of Agriculture South Building |
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14th St and Independence Ave, SW | |||
| US Department of Housing and Urban Development |
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451 | 7th St, SW |
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| US Department of the Interior Building |
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18th St NW and C St NW | |||
| US Department of the Treasury |
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1500 | Pennsylvania Ave, NW | ||
| US General Accounting Office Building |
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441 | G St, NW |
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| US Marine Corps Barracks and Commandant's House |
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8th St SE | I St SE | ||
| US National Arboretum |
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24th and R Sts, NE |
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| US Public Health Service Building |
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1951 | Constitution Ave NW |
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| US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home |
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Rock Creek Church Rd, NW |
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| US Tax Court |
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400 | 2nd St, NW |
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| USS SEQUOIA (yacht) |
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Hains Point |
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| Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
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West end of Constitution Gardens | |||
| Vigilant Firehouse |
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1066 | Wisconsin Ave, NW |
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| Volta Laboratory and Bureau |
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| All the President's Men (book) | History Book | Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward | Setting | |
| All the President's Men (film) | Film | Alan J Pakula | Setting | |
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| Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 (book) | History Book | Margaret Leech | ||
| Strangers on a Train (film) | Film | Alfred Hitchcock | "Strangers on a Train" is set in Washington, DC, 1950s | |
| The Duplicity of Hargraves (short story) | Short Story |
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William Sydney Porter | When Major Pendleton Talbot, of Mobile, sir, and his daughter, Miss Lydia Talbot, came to Washington to reside, they selected for a boarding place a house that stood fifty yards back from one of the quietest avenues. |
| The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today | Novel |
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Mark Twain Charles Dudley Warner | Set in Washington DC, 1870s |
| Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 (book) | History Book | Constance McLaughlin Green |
The Duplicity of Hargraves (short story)
By
When Major Pendleton Talbot, of Mobile, sir, and his daughter, Miss Lydia Talbot, came to Washington to reside, they selected for a boarding place a house that stood fifty yards back from one of the quietest avenues. It was an old-fashioned brick building, with a portico upheld by tall white pillars. The yard was shaded by stately locusts and elms, and a catalpa tree in season rained its pink and white blossoms upon the grass. Rows of high box bushes lined the fence and walks. It was the Southern style and aspect of the place that pleased the eyes of the Talbots.
In this pleasant, private boarding house they engaged rooms, including a study for Major Talbot, who was adding the finishing chapters to his book, "Anecdotes and Reminiscences of the Alabama Army, Bench, and Bar."
Major Talbot was of the old, old South. The present day had little interest or excellence in his eyes. His mind lived in that period before the Civil War, when the Talbots owned thousands of acres of fine cotton land and the slaves to till them; when the family mansion was the scene of princely hospitality, and drew its guests from the aristocracy of the South. Out of that period he had brought all its old pride and scruples of honour, an antiquated and punctilious politeness, and (you would think) its wardrobe.
Such clothes were surely never made within fifty years. The major was tall, but whenever he made that wonderful, archaic genuflexion he called a bow, the corners of his frock coat swept the floor. That garment was a surprise even to Washington, which has long ago ceased to shy at the frocks and broad brimmed hats of Southern congressmen. One of the boarders christened it a "Father Hubbard," and it certainly was high in the waist and full in the skirt.
But the major, with all his queer clothes, his immense area of plaited, ravelling shirt bosom, and the little black string tie with the bow always slipping on one side, both was smiled at and liked in Mrs Vardeman's select boarding house. Some of the young department clerks would often "string him," as they called it, getting him started upon the subject dearest to him - the traditions and history of his beloved Southland. During his talks he would quote freely from the "Anecdotes and Reminiscences." But they were very careful not to let him see their designs, for in spite of his sixty-eight years, he could make the boldest of them uncomfortable under the steady regard of his piercing gray eyes.
Miss Lydia was a plump, little old maid of thirty-five, with smoothly drawn, tightly twisted hair that made her look still older. Old fashioned, too, she was; but ante - bellum glory did not radiate from her as it did from the major. She possessed a thrifty common sense; and it was she who handled the finances of the family, and met all comers when there were bills to pay. The major regarded board bills and wash bills as contemptible nuisances. They kept coming in so persistently and so often. Why, the major wanted to know, could they not be filed and paid in a lump sum at some convenient period - say when the "Anecdotes and Reminiscences" had been published and paid for? Miss Lydia would calmly go on with her sewing and say, "We'll pay as we go as long as the money lasts, and then perhaps they'll have to lump it."
Most of Mrs Vardeman's boarders were away during the day, being nearly all department clerks and business men; but there was one of them who was about the house a great deal from morning to night. This was a young man named Henry Hopkins Hargraves - everyone in the house addressed him by his full name - who was engaged at one of the popular vaudeville theatres. Vaudeville has risen to such a respectable plane in the last few years, and Mr Hargraves was such a modest and well-mannered person, that Mrs Vardeman could find no objection to enrolling him upon her list of boarders.
At the theatre Hargraves was known as an all-round dialect comedian, having a large repertoire of German, Irish, Swede, and black-face specialties. But Mr. Hargraves was ambitious, and often spoke of his great desire to succeed in legitimate comedy.
This young man appeared to conceive a strong fancy for Major Talbot. Whenever that gentleman would begin his Southern reminiscences, or repeat some of the liveliest of the anecdotes, Hargraves could always be found, the most attentive among his listeners.
For a time the major showed an inclination to discourage the advances of the "play actor," as he privately termed him; but soon the young man's agreeable manner and indubitable appreciation of the old gentleman's stories completely won him over.
It was not long before the two were like old chums. The major set apart each afternoon to read to him the manuscript of his book. During the anecdotes Hargraves never failed to laugh at exactly the right point. The major was moved to declare to Miss Lydia one day that young Hargraves possessed remarkable perception and a gratifying respect for the old regime. And when it came to talking of those old days - if Major Talbot liked to talk, Mr Hargraves was entranced to listen.
Like almost all old people who talk of the past, the major loved to linger over details. In describing the splendid, almost royal, days of the old planters, he would hesitate until he had recalled the name of the Negro who held his horse, or the exact date of certain minor happenings, or the number of bales of cotton raised in such a year; but Hargraves never grew impatient or lost interest. On the contrary, he would advance questions on a variety of subjects connected with the life of that time, and he never failed to extract ready replies.
The fox hunts, the 'possum suppers, the hoe downs and jubilees in the Negro quarters, the banquets in the plantation-house hall, when invitations went for fifty miles around; the occasional feuds with the neighbouring gentry; the major's duel with Rathbone Culbertson about Kitty Chalmers, who afterward married a Thwaite of South Carolina; and private yacht races for fabulous sums on Mobile Bay; the quaint beliefs, improvident habits, and loyal virtues of the old slaves - all these were subjects that held both the major and Hargraves absorbed for hours at a time.
Sometimes, at night, when the young man would be coming upstairs to his room after his turn at the theatre was over, the major would appear at the door of his study and beckon archly to him. Going in, Hargraves would find a little table set with a decanter, sugar bowl, fruit, and a big bunch of fresh green mint.
"It occurred to me," the major would begin - he was always ceremonious - "that perhaps you might have found your duties at the - at your place of occupation - sufficiently arduous to enable you, Mr Hargraves, to appreciate what the poet might well have had in his mind when he wrote, 'tired Nature's sweet restorer,' - one of our Southern juleps."
It was a fascination to Hargraves to watch him make it. He took rank among artists when he began, and he never varied the process. With what delicacy he bruised the mint; with what exquisite nicety he estimated the ingredients; with what solicitous care he capped the compound with the scarlet fruit glowing against the dark green fringe! And then the hospitality and grace with which he offered it, after the selected oat straws had been plunged into its tinkling depths!
After about four months in Washington, Miss Lydia discovered one morning that they were almost without money. The "Anecdotes and Reminiscences" was completed, but publishers had not jumped at the collected gems of Alabama sense and wit. The rental of a small house which they still owned in Mobile was two months in arrears. Their board money for the month would be due in three days. Miss Lydia called her father to a consultation.
"No money?" said he with a surprised look. "It is quite annoying to be called on so frequently for these petty sums. Really, I -"
The major searched his pockets. He found only a two-dollar bill, which he returned to his vest pocket.
"I must attend to this at once, Lydia," he said. "Kindly get me my umbrella and I will go downtown immediately. The congressman from our district, General Fulghum, assured me some days ago that he would use his influence to get my book published at an early date. I will go to his hotel at once and see what arrangement has been made."
With a sad little smile Miss Lydia watched him button his "Father Hubbard" and depart, pausing at the door, as he always did, to bow profoundly.
That evening, at dark, he returned. It seemed that Congressman Fulghum had seen the publisher who had the major's manuscript for reading. That person had said that if the anecdotes, etc., were carefully pruned down about one half, in order to eliminate the sectional and class prejudice with which the book was dyed from end to end, he might consider its publication.
The major was in a white heat of anger, but regained his equanimity, according to his code of manners, as soon as he was in Miss Lydia's presence.
"We must have money," said Miss Lydia, with a little wrinkle above her nose. "Give me the two dollars, and I will telegraph to Uncle Ralph for some to-night."
The major drew a small envelope from his upper vest pocket and tossed it on the table.
"Perhaps it was injudicious," he said mildly, "but the sum was so merely nominal that I bought tickets to the theatre to-night. It's a new war drama, Lydia. I thought you would be pleased to witness its first production in Washington. I am told that the South has very fair treatment in the play. I confess I should like to see the performance myself."
Miss Lydia threw up her hands in silent despair.
Still, as the tickets were bought, they might as well be used. So that evening, as they sat in the theatre listening to the lively overture, even Miss Lydia was minded to relegate their troubles, for the hour, to second place. The major, in spotless linen, with his extraordinary coat showing only where it was closely buttoned, and his white hair smoothly roached, looked really fine and distinguished. The curtain went up on the first act of "A Magnolia Flower," revealing a typical Southern plantation scene. Major Talbot betrayed some interest.
"Oh, see!" exclaimed Miss Lydia, nudging his arm, and pointing to her programme. The major put on his glasses and read the line in the cast of characters that her finger indicated.
Col Webster Calhoun . . . . . H Hopkins Hargraves.
"It's our Mr Hargraves," said Miss Lydia. "It must be his first appearance in what he calls 'the legitimate.' I'm so glad for him." Not until the second act did Col Webster Calhoun appear upon the stage. When he made his entry Major Talbot gave an audible sniff, glared at him, and seemed to freeze solid. Miss Lydia uttered a little, ambiguous squeak and crumpled her programme in her hand. For Colonel Calhoun was made up as nearly resembling Major Talbot as one pea does another. The long, thin white hair, curly at the ends, the aristocratic beak of a nose, the crumpled, wide, ravelling shirt front, the string tie, with the bow nearly under one ear, were almost exactly duplicated. And then, to clinch the imitation, he wore the twin to the major's supposed to be unparalleled coat. High-collared, baggy, empire-waisted, ample-skirted, hanging a foot lower in front than behind, the garment could have been designed from no other pattern. From then on, the major and Miss Lydia sat bewitched, and saw the counterfeit presentment of a haughty Talbot "dragged," as the major afterward expressed it, "through the slanderous mire of a corrupt stage."
Mr Hargraves had used his opportunities well. He had caught the major's little idiosyncrasies of speech, accent, and intonation and his pompous courtliness to perfection - exaggerating all to the purposes of the stage. When he performed that marvellous bow that the major fondly imagined to be the pink of all salutations, the audience sent forth a sudden round of hearty applause.
Miss Lydia sat immovable, not daring to glance toward her father. Sometimes her hand next to him would be laid against her cheek, as if to conceal the smile which, in spite of her disapproval, she could not entirely suppress.
The culmination of Hargraves's audacious imitation took place in the third act. The scene is where Colonel Calhoun entertains a few of the neighbouring planters in his "den."
Standing at a table in the centre of the stage, with his friends grouped about him, he delivers that inimitable, rambling, character monologue so famous in "A Magnolia Flower," at the same time that he deftly makes juleps for the party.
Major Talbot, sitting quietly, but white with indignation, heard his best stories retold, his pet theories and hobbies advanced and expanded, and the dream of the "Anecdotes and Reminiscences" served, exaggerated and garbled. His favourite narrative - that of his duel with Rathbone Culbertson - was not omitted, and it was delivered with more fire, egotism, and gusto than the major himself put into it.
The monologue concluded with a quaint, delicious, witty little lecture on the art of concocting a julep, illustrated by the act. Here Major Talbot's delicate but showy science was reproduced to a hair's breadth - from his dainty handling of the fragrant weed - "the one-thousandth part of a grain too much pressure, gentlemen, and you extract the bitterness, instead of the aroma, of this heaven-bestowed plant" - to his solicitous selection of the oaten straws.
At the close of the scene the audience raised a tumultuous roar of appreciation. The portrayal of the type was so exact, so sure and thorough, that the leading characters in the play were forgotten. After repeated calls, Hargraves came before the curtain and bowed, his rather boyish face bright and flushed with the knowledge of success.
At last Miss Lydia turned and looked at the major. His thin nostrils were working like the gills of a fish. He laid both shaking hands upon the arms of his chair to rise.
"We will go, Lydia," he said chokingly. "This is an abominable - desecration."
Before he could rise, she pulled him back into his seat. "We will stay it out," she declared. "Do you want to advertise the copy by exhibiting the original coat?" So they remained to the end.
Hargraves's success must have kept him up late that night, for neither at the breakfast nor at the dinner table did he appear.
About three in the afternoon he tapped at the door of Major Talbot's study. The major opened it, and Hargraves walked in with his hands full of the morning papers - too full of his triumph to notice anything unusual in the major's demeanour.
"I put it all over 'em last night, major," he began exultantly. "I had my inning, and, I think, scored. Here's what the - Post - says:
His conception and portrayal of the old-time Southern colonel, with his absurd grandiloquence, his eccentric garb, his quaint idioms and phrases, his moth-eaten pride of family, and his really kind heart, fastidious sense of honour, and lovable simplicity, is the best delineation of a character role on the boards to-day. The coat worn by Colonel Calhoun is itself nothing less than an evolution of genius. Mr Hargraves has captured his public.
"How does that sound, major, for a first nighter?"
"I had the honour" - the major's voice sounded ominously frigid - "of witnessing your very remarkable performance, sir, last night.
" Hargraves looked disconcerted."
You were there? I didn't know you ever - I didn't know you cared for the theatre. Oh, I say, Major Talbot," he exclaimed frankly, "don't you be offended. I admit I did get a lot of pointers from you that helped me out wonderfully in the part. But it's a type, you know - not individual. The way the audience caught on shows that. Half the patrons of that theatre are Southerners. They recognized it."
"Mr Hargraves," said the major, who had remained standing, "you have put upon me an unpardonable insult. You have burlesqued my person, grossly betrayed my confidence, and misused my hospitality. If I thought you possessed the faintest conception of what is the sign manual of a gentleman, or what is due one, I would call you out, sir, old as I am. I will ask you to leave the room, sir."
The actor appeared to be slightly bewildered, and seemed hardly to take in the full meaning of the old gentleman's words.
"I am truly sorry you took offence," he said regretfully. "Up here we don't look at things just as you people do. I know men who would buy out half the house to have their personality put on the stage so the public would recognize it."
"They are not from Alabama, sir," said the major haughtily.
"Perhaps not. I have a pretty good memory, major; let me quote a few lines from your book. In response to a toast at a banquet given in - Milledgeville, I believe - you uttered, and intend to have printed, these words:
The Northern man is utterly without sentiment or warmth except in so far as the feelings may be turned to his own commercial profit. He will suffer without resentment any imputation cast upon the honour of himself or his loved ones that does not bear with it the consequence of pecuniary loss. In his charity, he gives with a liberal hand; but it must be heralded with the trumpet and chronicled in brass.
"Do you think that picture is fairer than the one you saw of Colonel Calhoun last night?"
"The description," said the major frowning, "is - not without grounds. Some exag - latitude must be allowed in public speaking."
"And in public acting," replied Hargraves.
"That is not the point," persisted the major, unrelenting. "It was a personal caricature. I positively decline to overlook it, sir."
"Major Talbot," said Hargraves, with a winning smile, "I wish you would understand me. I want you to know that I never dreamed of insulting you. In my profession, all life belongs to me. I take what I want, and what I can, and return it over the footlights. Now, if you will, let's let it go at that. I came in to see you about something else. We've been pretty good friends for some months, and I'm going to take the risk of offending you again. I know you are hard up for money - never mind how I found out; a boarding house is no place to keep such matters secret - and I want you to let me help you out of the pinch. I've been there often enough myself. I've been getting a fair salary all the season, and I've saved some money. You're welcome to a couple hundred - or even more - until you get -"
"Stop!" commanded the major, with his arm outstretched. "It seems that my book didn't lie, after all. You think your money salve will heal all the hurts of honour. Under no circumstances would I accept a loan from a casual acquaintance; and as to you, sir, I would starve before I would consider your insulting offer of a financial adjustment of the circumstances we have discussed. I beg to repeat my request relative to your quitting the apartment."
Hargraves took his departure without another word. He also left the house the same day, moving, as Mrs Vardeman explained at the supper table, nearer the vicinity of the down-town theatre, where "A Magnolia Flower" was booked for a week's run.
Critical was the situation with Major Talbot and Miss Lydia. There was no one in Washington to whom the major's scruples allowed him to apply for a loan. Miss Lydia wrote a letter to Uncle Ralph, but it was doubtful whether that relative's constricted affairs would permit him to furnish help. The major was forced to make an apologetic address to Mrs Vardeman regarding the delayed payment for board, referring to "delinquent rentals" and "delayed remittances" in a rather confused strain.
Deliverance came from an entirely unexpected source.
Late one afternoon the door maid came up and announced an old coloured man who wanted to see Major Talbot. The major asked that he be sent up to his study. Soon an old darkey appeared in the doorway, with his hat in hand, bowing, and scraping with one clumsy foot. He was quite decently dressed in a baggy suit of black. His big, coarse shoes shone with a metallic lustre suggestive of stove polish. His bushy wool was gray - almost white. After middle life, it is difficult to estimate the age of a Negro. This one might have seen as many years as had Major Talbot.
"I be bound you don't know me, Mars' Pendleton," were his first words.
The major rose and came forward at the old, familiar style of address. It was one of the old plantation darkeys without a doubt; but they had been widely scattered, and he could not recall the voice or face.
"I don't believe I do," he said kindly - "unless you will assist my memory."
"Don't you 'member Cindy's Mose, Mars' Pendleton, what 'migrated 'mediately after de war?"
"Wait a moment," said the major, rubbing his forehead with the tips of his fingers. He loved to recall everything connected with those beloved days. "Cindy's Mose," he reflected. "You worked among the horses - breaking the colts. Yes, I remember now. After the surrender, you took the name of - don't prompt me - Mitchell, and went to the West - to Nebraska."
"Yassir, yassir," - the old man's face stretched with a delighted grin - "dat's him, dat's it. Newbraska. Dat's me - Mose Mitchell. Old Uncle Mose Mitchell, dey calls me now. Old mars', your pa, gimme a pah of dem mule colts when I lef' fur to staht me goin' with. You 'member dem colts, Mars' Pendleton?"
"I don't seem to recall the colts," said the major. "You know I was married the first year of the war and living at the old Follinsbee place. But sit down, sit down, Uncle Mose. I'm glad to see you. I hope you have prospered."
Uncle Mose took a chair and laid his hat carefully on the floor beside it.
"Yassir; of late I done mouty famous. When I first got to Newbraska, dey folks come all roun' me to see dem mule colts. Dey ain't see no mules like dem in Newbraska. I sold dem mules for three hundred dollars. Yassir - three hundred.
"Den I open a blacksmith shop, suh, and made some money and bought some lan'. Me and my old 'oman done raised up seb'm chillun, and all doin' well 'cept two of 'em what died. Fo' year ago a railroad come along and staht a town slam ag'inst my lan', and, suh, Mars' Pendleton, Uncle Mose am worth leb'm thousand dollars in money, property, and lan'."
"I'm glad to hear it," said the major heartily. "Glad to hear it."
"And dat little baby of yo'n, Mars' Pendleton - one what you name Miss Lyddy - I be bound dat little tad done growed up tell nobody wouldn't know her."
The major stepped to the door and called: "Lydia, dear, will you come?"
Miss Lydia, looking quite grown up and a little worried, came in from her room.
"Dar, now! What'd I tell you? I knowed dat baby done be plum growed up. You don't 'member Uncle Mose, child?"
"This is Aunt Cindy's Mose, Lydia," explained the major. "He left Sunnymead for the West when you were two years old."
"Well," said Miss Lydia, "I can hardly be expected to remember you, Uncle Mose, at that age. And, as you say, I'm 'plum growed up,' and was a blessed long time ago. But I'm glad to see you, even if I can't remember you."
And she was. And so was the major. Something alive and tangible had come to link them with the happy past. The three sat and talked over the olden times, the major and Uncle Mose correcting or prompting each other as they reviewed the plantation scenes and days.
The major inquired what the old man was doing so far from his home.
"Uncle Mose am a delicate," he explained, "to de grand Baptis' convention in dis city. I never preached none, but bein' a residin' elder in de church, and able fur to pay my own expenses, dey sent me along."
"And how did you know we were in Washington?" inquired Miss Lydia.
"Dey's a cullud man works in de hotel whar I stops, what comes from Mobile. He told me he seen Mars' Pendleton comin' outen dish here house one mawnin'.
"What I come fur," continued Uncle Mose, reaching into his pocket - "besides de sight of home folks - was to pay Mars' Pendleton what I owes him."
"Owe me?" said the major, in surprise.
"Yassir - three hundred dollars." He handed the major a roll of bills. "When I lef' old mars' says: 'Take dem mule colts, Mose, and, if it be so you gits able, pay fur 'em'. Yassir - dem was his words. De war had done lef' old mars' po' hisself. Old mars' bein' 'long ago dead, de debt descends to Mars' Pendleton. Three hundred dollars. Uncle Mose is plenty able to pay now. When dat railroad buy my lan' I laid off to pay fur dem mules. Count de money, Mars' Pendleton. Dat's what I sold dem mules f'ur. Yassir."
Tears were in Major Talbot's eyes. He took Uncle Mose's hand and laid his other upon his shoulder.
"Dear, faithful, old servitor," he said in an unsteady voice, "I don't mind saying to you that 'Mars' Pendleton' spent his last dollar in the world a week ago. We will accept this money, Uncle Mose, since, in a way, it is a sort of payment, as well as a token of the loyalty and devotion of the old regime. Lydia, my dear, take the money. You are better fitted than I to manage its expenditure."
"Take it, honey," said Uncle Mose. "Hit belongs to you. Hit's Talbot money."
After Uncle Mose had gone, Miss Lydia had a good cry - for joy; and the major turned his face to a corner, and smoked his clay pipe volcanically.
The succeeding days saw the Talbots restored to peace and ease. Miss Lydia's face lost its worried look. The major appeared in a new frock coat, in which he looked like a wax figure personifying the memory of his golden age. Another publisher who read the manuscript of the "Anecdotes and Reminiscences" thought that, with a little retouching and toning down of the high lights, he could make a really bright and salable volume of it. Altogether, the situation was comfortable, and not without the touch of hope that is often sweeter than arrived blessings.
One day, about a week after their piece of good luck, a maid brought a letter for Miss Lydia to her room. The postmark showed that it was from New York. Not knowing any one there, Miss Lydia, in a mild flutter of wonder, sat down by her table and opened the letter with her scissors. This was what she read:
Dear Miss Talbot:
I thought you might be glad to learn of my good fortune. I have received and accepted an offer of two hundred dollars per week by a New York stock company to play Colonel Calhoun in "A Magnolia Flower."
There is something else I wanted you to know. I guess you'd better not tell Major Talbot. I was anxious to make him some amends for the great help he was to me in studying the part, and for the bad humour he was in about it. He refused to let me, so I did it anyhow. I could easily spare the three hundred.
PS How did I play Uncle Mose?
Major Talbot, passing through the hall, saw Miss Lydia's door open and stopped.
"Any mail for us this morning, Lydia, dear?" he asked.
Miss Lydia slid the letter beneath a fold of her dress. "The - Mobile Chronicle - came," she said promptly. "It's on the table in your study."
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