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The District of Columbia, capital of the United States, is home to 78 National Historic Landmarks. The 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]
The D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites was created in 1964, and was originally compiled by the predecessor to the HPRB, the Joint Committee on Landmarks of the National Capital. As of 2019, the Inventory includes approximately 750 historic sites and 50 historic districts. [3]
English: Based upon the US counties map but cut down to show only the Washington, DC metropolitan area and then clipped to a rectangular region Source File:Usa_counties_large.svg
Note that the White House, the Capitol, and the United States Supreme Court Building are recorded in the National Register's NRIS database as National Historic Landmarks, but by the provisions of the Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Section 107 (16 U.S.C. 470g), these three buildings and associated buildings and grounds are legally exempted ...
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area comprising Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, and its surroundings.
S. Saint Martin de Porres (sculpture) Saint Mother Théodore Guérin (Clark) Saraswati (sculpture) Second Division Memorial; Serenity (Clara) The Servant Christ
Add new Silver Line; add indicators for line name for the color blind; add new additional rush-hour extended service; move legend to bottom left: 23:52, 5 November 2011: 760 × 630 (45 KB) Train2104: Official colors, new station names: 22:54, 14 October 2011: 760 × 630 (110 KB) Rfc1394: Reverted to version as of 19:52, 10 October 2009 - I ...
English: A redesigned map of the Washington Metro. Created using Adobe Illustrator. This map shows the Rush Plus service details and is designed to be more geographically matched than the current metro map. Two files from Commons were used in the creation of the Map. They are File:WMATA Metro Logo.svg, and File: Amtrak logo.svg