The Sewall–Belmont House, now the site of the Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument, is famous for serving as the headquarters for the National Woman's Party from 1929 for nearly 90 years. Originally founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to…

The Mountjoy Bayly House (also known as the Bayly House, Hiram W. Johnson House, Chaplains Memorial Building, and Parkington) was built in 1822 for the second Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, General Mountjoy Bayly. A combination of Federal and…

An early speculative venture from the post-Civil War period is Philadelphia Row, a row of attached houses in the 100 block of 11th Street SE. These houses, which have features of the Federal style, were built by Capitol Hill developer James Gessford…

Designed by Geroge Hadfield (1763-1826), the Marine Corps Commandant’s House is the only original building on the complex. This white-painted, Flemish-bonded brick residence has served as the home of the Commandants of the U.S. Marine Corps since…

The row house at 219 11th Street SE, historically home to the Furies Collective, is a two-story, early 20th-century brick dwelling located in the Capitol Hill Historic District. Built in 1913, the house is one of a pair of dwellings in a block of…

Constructed sometime between 1802 and 1819 and designed by architects Nicholas King and Nicholas Hedges, the George Watterston House is named for one of the Federal City's most distinguished citizens of the 19th century. Watterston, who held the…

The red-brick, High Victorian Saint Mark's Church, designed in 1888 by T. Buckler Chequier, combines Romanesque elements with Gothic verticality and has a particularly distinguished interior with exposed brick walls and timbered roofing. Between…

With a continually expanding population, the Office of the Building Inspector saw an increasing need to build school buildings to accommodate students. Constructed from 1879 to 1880, the George Peabody School exemplified shifting architectural…

Three years into the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln petitioned Congress to build DC’s first Naval hospital. Built by July 1866, the Old Naval Hospital provided medical services to American veterans in the US Navy. The hospital served sick and wounded…