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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" was a significant landmark in the modern Civil Rights Movement. 60: State, War, And Navy Building: State, War, And ...
Three iconic, classically inspired American landmarks on the National Mall illuminated at night: the Lincoln Memorial (forefront), the Washington Monument, and the United States Capitol (background) Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, [1] has a unique and diverse architectural history. Encompassing government, monumental ...
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 Lafayette Square Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District in Washington, D.C., encompassing a portion of the original L'Enfant Plan for the city's core. It includes the 7-acre (2.8 ha) Lafayette Square portion of President's Park , all of the buildings facing it except the White House , and the buildings flanking the White ...
Nowhere else in the District of Columbia does there exist such a collection of late-19th and early-20th century small-scale frame and brick working-class housing." [6] The historic district is roughly bounded by: [2] [6] [7] [8] Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE between Marion Barry Ave SE and Morris Road SE;
(d) Architecture and Urbanism: They embody the distinguishing characteristics of architectural styles, building types, or methods of construction, or are expressions of landscape architecture, engineering, or urban planning, siting, or design significant to the appearance and development of the District of Columbia or the nation;
Old Patent Office Building, c. 1846 Vignette of the Old Patent Office Building from an 1880s patent certificate A 1915 Sanborn Fire Insurance map of the building Designed in the Greek Revival style [4] [5] [2] by architect Robert Mills, construction started in 1836, and the massive structure took 31 years to complete.
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