List of National Historic Landmarks in the District of Columbia

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This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in the District of Columbia, of which there are 74. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance.^[1] Washington, D.C. is home to 74 of these landmarks, which reflect the city's status as the national capital. But mixed among the grand government buildings, homes of politicians, military facilities, and museums, the list also includes sites relating to support for the disabled, the Civil Rights Movement, pioneering urban infrastructure, and other historic themes.

The table below lists all 74 of these sites, along with added detail and description.

Contents 1 Current NHLs 2 Historic areas administered by the National Park Service 3 Former NHLs 4 References 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Current NHLs

[2]	Landmark name[3]	Image	Date designated[3]	Quadrant[4][5]	Description[6]
1	Cleveland Abbe House		1975	NW	Cleveland Abbe, a prominent meteorologist who became known as the father of the National Weather Service, lived in this house from 1877 to 1909. Previous occupants in the early decades of the 19th century included James Monroe and the British legation. Built ca. 1802 to 1805, this is a fine example of the Federal style of residential architecture.
2	Administration Building, Carnegie Institution of Washington		1965	NW
3	American Federation of Labor Building	NRHP photos avail.	1974	NW
4	American Peace Society		1974	NW	Headquarters of the American Peace Society from 1911 to 1948, in LaFayette Square Historic District
5	Anderson House		1996	NW
6	Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Frederick Douglas Memorial Hall, Founders Library		2001	NW	Three Howard University buildings: Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, and Founders Library
7	Army Medical Museum		1965	NW
8	Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution		1971	SW
9	Ashburton House		1973	NW	House on Lafayette Square that was site of 10 months of U.S.-British negotiations leading to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. This settled U.S.-Canada border disputes and ended the Aroostook War.
10	Newton D. Baker House		1976	NW
11	Blair House		1973	NW
12	Borah, William E., Apartment, Windsor Lodge		1976	NW	A home of William E. Borah?
13	Blanche K. Bruce House		1975	NW	A home of Blanche K. Bruce, who was an African American Senator from Mississippi.
14	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace		1974	NW
15	Mary Ann Shadd Cary House		1976	NW	A home of writer and abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd Cary
16	District of Columbia City Hall		1960	NW	Does this also have a D.C. courthouse?
17	Constitution Hall		1985	NW
18	Corcoran Gallery and School of Art		1992	NW
19	Elliott Coues House		1975	NW	Elliott Coues, a leading 19th century ornithologist, led great expansions of the knowledge of North American bird life, helped found the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883, edited approximately 15 volumes of journals, memoirs, and diaries by famous Western explorers and fur traders. He lived in this house from 1887 until his death in 1899.
20	Decatur House		1960	NW	A house.
21	Franklin School	HABS photos avail.; NRHP photos avail	1996	NW	A school.
22	Gallaudet College Historic District		1965	NE	A college.
23	General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters		1991	NW
24	General Post Office (Washington, D.C.)		1971	NW	This post office is a fine example of restrained Neoclassical design. Built in phases between 1839 and 1866, the building features beautiful scaling and fine details.
25	Georgetown Historic District		1967	NW [7]
26	Samuel Gompers House		1974	NW	Samuel Gompers was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until his death in 1924. Gompers helped found the AFL, and vigorously pursued its three goals of higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions for American workers. He lived in this three-story brick rowhouse from 1902 to 1917.
27	Charlotte Forten Grimke House		1976	NW	A home of Charlotte Forten Grimke?
28	Healy Hall, Georgetown University		1987	NW [7]	This large-scale High Victorian Gothic structure is the most prominent building on the Georgetown University campus and a picturesque landmark for all Georgetown. Built from 1877 through 1879, its construction marked the evolution of the school toward true university status.
29	General Oliver Otis Howard House		1974	NW	Try also General Oliver Otis House. A home of Oliver O. Howard or of Oliver Otis Howard?
30	Charles Evans Hughes House		1972	NW	Charles Evans Hughes was a leader in the progressive movement, and 1916 presidential candidate. He held office as Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the United States, as well as multiple executive positions under several Presidents. He lived in this house from 1930 until his death in 1948.
31	Hiram W. Johnson House		1976	NE
32	Lafayette Building	image pending	2005	NW
33	Lafayette Square Historic District		1970	NW [7]	District including LaFayette Park, near the White House, may include various buildings, boundary unclear
34	Library of Congress		1965	SE
35	Andrew Mellon Building		1976	NW	A residence of Andrew W. Mellon.
36	Memorial Continental Hall	image pending	1972	NW
37	Meridian Hill Park		1994	NW
38	National Training School for Women and Girls	image pending	1991	NE
39	National War College		1972	SW [8]
40	Octagon House		1960	NW	Plantation owner's home lent to President Madison after the British burnt the White House
41	Old Naval Observatory		1965	NW	An observatory
42	Old Patent Office		1964	NW	A building
43	Pension Building		1985	NW
44	Frances Perkins House		1991	NW	A home of Frances Perkins?
45	Philadelphia (gundelo)		1961	NW	Philadelphia, the only remaining American gunboat from the Revolutionary War, sank in a battle on Lake Champlain in 1776. It was salvaged in remarkably good condition in 1935 and now resides at the National Museum of American History.
46	Red Cross (American National) Headquarters		1965	NW
47	Renwick Gallery		1971	NW
48	Zalmon Richards House		1965	NW	A home of Zalmon Richards?
49	St. Elizabeth's Hospital		1990	SE
50	St. John's Church		1960	NW	A church
51	St. Luke's Episcopal Church		1976	NW
52	Sequoia (presidential yacht)		1987	SE	A yacht
53	Sewall-Belmont House		1974	NE	A house
54	Smithsonian Institution Building		1965	SW
55	John Philip Sousa Junior High School	image pending	2001	SE	In 1950, eleven black students were denied admission to the newly constructed all-white Sousa school. This action was eventually overturned in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Bolling v. Sharpe, which made segregated public schools illegal in the District of Columbia. This defeat of the principle of "separate but equal" marked an early victory in the modern Civil Rights Movement.
56	State, War, and Navy Building		1971	NW
57	Supreme Court Building		1987	NE
58	Mary Church Terrell House		1975	NW	A home of Mary Church Terrell.
59	Tudor Place		1960	NW	A place
60	Twelfth Street YMCA Building		1994	NW	NHRP 83003523. The earliest "Y" built by and expressly for African Americans.
61	Oscar W. Underwood House		1976	NW	A home of Oscar W. Underwood.
62	United Mine Workers of America Building	image pending	2005	NW
63	United States Capitol		1960	NW, NE, SE, SW [7]
64	United States Department of the Treasury		1971	NW
65	United States Marine Corps Barracks and Commandant's House		1976	SE
66	United States Soldier's Home		1973	NW
67	Volta Bureau		1972	NW	Founded in 1887 by Alexander Graham Bell "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge relating to the Deaf"; merged with the American Association for the Promotion and Teaching of Speech to the Deaf in 1908, and operates today as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
68	Washington Aqueduct		1973	NW (and Montgomery County, Maryland)
69	Washington Navy Yard		1976	SE
70	White House		1960	NW	Residence of the President of the U.S.
71	David White House		1976	NW	Geologist David White of the United States Geological Survey lived in this house from 1910 to 1925. His researches into the distribution of petroleum resources became essential to the oil industry.
72	Woodrow Wilson House		1964	NW	A home of Woodrow Wilson
73	Carter G. Woodson House Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site		1976	NW	A home of Carter G. Woodson
74	Robert Simpson Woodward House		1976	NW	From 1904 to 1914, this was the home of Robert Simpson Woodward, the first President of the Carnegie Institution during the same period. Woodward had made his name as a leading geologist and mathematician.

[edit] Historic areas administered by the National Park Service

National Historic Sites, National Historical Parks, National Memorials, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are fifteen of these in the District of Columbia. The National Park Service lists these 15 together with the NHLs in the state,^[9] The Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site and the White House are also NHLs and are listed above. The remaining 13 are:

	Landmark name	Image	Date established[10]	Quadrant	Description
1	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial		02 May 1977	NW
2	Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park				(shared with Maryland and Virginia)
3	Ford's Theatre National Historic Site				Other than that, how did u like the theatre?
4	Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
5	Korean War Veterans Memorial
6	Lincoln Memorial
7	Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac
8	Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
9	Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site
10	Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
11	Thomas Jefferson Memorial
12	Vietnam Veterans Memorial
13	Washington Monument

[edit] Former NHLs

To be added.

There are no NHL places that were de-designated within Washington, D.C. There may be NHL ships that were located here and were moved away, though.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of Registered Historic Places in the District of Columbia
• List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state
• Historic preservation
• National Register of Historic Places
• History of Washington, D.C.

[edit] External links

Map of all coordinates
Export points of interest as KML
Export microformated coordinates as GeoRSS
Map of microformated coordinates

• National Historic Landmark Program at the National Park Service
• Lists of National Historic Landmarks
• Washington, DC, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary

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