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Navy Yard Car Barn<br />

770 M Street, SE<br />

Built 1891; W.C. Root, architect<br />

Rosedale (amendment)<br />

3501 Newark Street, NW<br />

Built ca. 1792-93<br />

Second Baptist Church<br />

816 3 rd Street, NW<br />

Built 1894, Appleton P. Clark, architect<br />

Seventh Street Savings Bank<br />

1300 7 th Street, NW<br />

Built 1912-13; Rich & Fitzsimons, architect<br />

Sixteenth Street <strong>Historic</strong> <strong>District</strong> Expansion<br />

16 th Street from H Street to Scott Circle, NW<br />

Tabard Inn<br />

1737 N Street, NW (Built 1887, Thomas Franklin Schneider, architect)<br />

1739 N Street, NW (Built 1900; Hornblower & Marshall, architects)<br />

1741 N Street, NW (Built 1888; Samuel C. Edmonston, architect)<br />

Third Church of Christ, Scientist, and Christian Science Monitor Building<br />

1601 I Street, NW<br />

Built 1968-71; I.M. Pei and Partners, architects<br />

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INVENTORY OF HISTORIC SITES<br />

Cleveland Abbe House: see Arts Club<br />

Adams Building: see F Street NW (800 Block)<br />

Adams Memorial<br />

Rock Creek Cemetery, Rock Creek Church Road & Webster Street, NW<br />

Widely acclaimed masterpiece by the foremost American sculptor of his time; influenced the development of<br />

abstract composition and form in 20th century American sculpture; erected by Henry Adams (historian and<br />

descendant of John and John Quincy Adams) as a memorial to his wife Clover after her 1885 suicide; named<br />

The Peace of God by Adams, but widely known as Grief; hooded bronze figure seated in front of a carved<br />

granite monolith, in a sheltered setting; completed 1891 (Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor; Stanford White,<br />

architect); DC listing 11/8/64, NR listing 3/16/72; within Rock Creek Cemetery<br />

Adams-Mason Houses<br />

1072 and 1074 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW<br />

DC designation 1/23/73; within Georgetown HD<br />

Adams-Mason House (1072 Thomas Jefferson Street): Federal style frame house built c. 1810-12 by Thomas<br />

Adams; one of few remaining clapboard houses in the Georgetown waterfront area; purchased by carriage<br />

maker George W. Mason c. 1880, occupied by Mason family until 1964; 2-1/2 stories with gable roof and<br />

dormers, separate dwelling and shop doors<br />

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