National Register Listings in
Washington , District of Columbia

Northwest No. 4 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Northwest No. 5 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Northwest No. 6 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Northwest No. 7 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Northwest No. 8 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Northwest No. 9 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia O Street Market Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel Observatory Hill Octagon, The Old Engine Company No. 6 Old Naval Hospital Old Naval Observatory Old Post Office and Clock Tower Old Stone House Old Woodley Park Historic District Olympia Apartments Oriental Building Association No. 6 Building Owens, Isaac, House Page, Thomas Nelson, House Pan American Union Park Road Courts Park Tower Park View Christian Church Park View Playground and Field House Park View School Peirce Mill Penland, W. H., & Company Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site Pension Building Perkins, Frances, House Perna Brothers' Chesapeake Street Houses Petworth Branch Library Petworth Gardens Peyser Building-Security Savings and Commercial Bank PHILADELPHIA (gundelo) Phillips, Duncan, House Pierce Springhouse and Barn Pierce Still House Pierce-Klingle Mansion Pink Palace Plymouth Theater Plymouth, The Ponce de Leon Apartment Building Potomac Boat Club Potomac Electric Power Company Substation No. 13 Potomac Electric Power Company Substation No. 25 President's House, Gallaudet College President's Office, George Washington University President's Park South Prince Hall Masonic Temple Prospect House Quality Hill Quarters A, Washington Navy Yard Quarters B, Washington Navy Yard Railroad Retirement Board Building Randall Junior High School Real Estate Trust Building-Continental Trust Building Renwick Museum Rhodes' Tavern Richards, Zalmon, House Riggs National Bank Riggs National Bank, Washington Loan And Trust Company Branch Riggs-Tompkins Building Ringgold-Carroll House Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Historic District Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery Rock Creek Park Historic District Roosevelt Apartment Building Roosevelt, Theodore, Senior High School Rosedale Saint James Mutual Homes Saint Paul African Union Methodist Church Saul, B.F., Building Scheele-Brown House Schneider Triangle Scriven, Brigadier Gen. George P., House Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store Second National Bank Sedgwick Gardens Seventh Street Savings Bank Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site Shaw Junior High School Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District Simpson's, Billy, House of Seafood and Steaks Sixteenth Street Historic District Sixteenth Street Historic District (Boundary Increase) Slater, John Fox, Elementary School Slayton, William L., House Slowe-Burrill House Smithsonian Building Social Security Administration Building Sousa, John Philip, Junior High School Southeast No. 1 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Southeast No. 2 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Southeast No. 3 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Southeast No. 5 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Southeast No. 6 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Southeast No. 7 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Southeast No. 9 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia Southern Aid Society-Dunbar Theater Building Southern Railway Building Spasowski, Ambassador Romuald, House Spencer Carriage House and Stable Spingarn Senior High School Springland Springland Springhouse-Springland (Boundary Increase) Square 1500 St. Aloysius Catholic Church St. Elizabeths Hospital St. John's Church St. Luke's Episcopal Church St. Mark's Church St. Mary's Episcopal Church St. Matthew's Cathedral And Rectory St. Paul's College St. Paul's Episcopal Church Standard Material Company-Gyro Motor Company Steedman-Ray House Stevens, Thaddeus, School Stockton Hall Stone, Robert and Lillie May, House Strand Theater Strivers' Section Historic District Strong, Hattie M., Residence Hall Studio House Suitland Parkway Sulgrave Club Sumner, Charles, School Sun Building Surratt, Mary E., House Syphax, William, School Tabard Inn Takoma Park Historic District Temperance Fountain Tenth Precinct Station House Terminal Refrigerating and Warehouse Company Terrell, Mary Church, House Texas Gardens Apartments The Furies Collective Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial Third Baptist Church Thomas Jefferson Memorial Thomas, Alma, House Tiber Island Tilden Hall Titanic Memorial Tivoli Theater Tower Building Town Center East Trades Hall of National Training School for Women and Girls Traveling Carousel Trinity Towers Truck Company F Truck House No. 13 True Reformer Building Tucker House and Myers House Tudor Place Twin Oaks Twin Oaks Playground and Field House U.S. Capitol Gatehouses And Gateposts U.S. Civil Service Commission Building U.S. Court Of Military Appeals U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation) U.S. Department of Agriculture Cotton Annex U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development U.S. Department of State Building U.S. Department of the Treasury U.S. Marine Corps Barracks and Commandant's House U.S. National Arboretum U.S. Post Office Department Mail Equipment Shops U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home U.S. Tax Court Uline Ice Company Plant and Arena Complex Underwood, Oscar W., House Union Market Historic District Union Station Union Station Plaza and Columbus Fountain Union Station Plaza and Columbus Fountain (Boundary Increase) Union Trust Building United Brick Corporation Brick Complex United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners-Local 132 United Mine Workers of America United States Daughters of 1812, National Headquarters US Chamber of Commerce Building US Courthouse-District of Columbia US Department of Agriculture South Building US Department of the Interior Building US General Accounting Office Building US Public Health Service Building USS SEQUOIA (yacht) Van Ness Mausoleum Van View Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vigilant Firehouse Virginia Interlocking Control Tower Waggaman-Ray Commercial Row Walde-Carter House Walsh Stable Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) Historic District Warder-Totten House Wardman Flats Wardman Park Annex and Arcade Wardman Row Washington and Georgetown Railroad Car House Washington Animal Rescue League Animal Shelter Washington Aqueduct Washington Canoe Club Washington Club Washington Heights Historic District Washington Monument Washington Navy Yard Washington Navy Yard (Boundary Increase) Washington Railway and Electric Company Garage Washington Yacht Club Washington, Margaret Murray, School Watergate Watterston House Webster, Daniel, Memorial Webster, Marjorie, Junior College Historic District Western High School Westory Building Wetzel, Margaret, House Wetzell-Archbold Farmstead Wheat Row Wheatley, Phillis, YWCA White, David, House White-Meyer House Whitelaw Hotel Whittemore House Wiley, Emily, House Willard Hotel Wilson, James Ormand, Normal School Wilson, Woodrow, House Winder Building Windsor Lodge Wire Building Woodhull, Maxwell, House Woodlawn Cemetery Woodrow Wilson High School Woodson, Carter G., House Woodward and Lothrop Service Warehouse Woodward, Robert Simpson, House Wyoming Apartments Yale Steam Laundry Young, Browne, Phelps and Springarn Educational Campus Historic District
The city was built on a swamp: The area that is now Washington, D.C. was originally a swampy, marshy region along the Potomac River. The construction of the city involved extensive drainage and landfill projects to make the land suitable for building.