There are seventy historic districts in Washington, including the monumental civic complexes of the National Mall and Federal Triangle. Local neighborhoods account for more than thirty districts, and there are more than a dozen military and campus districts. Cemeteries, parks and parkways make up the remainder.
Maps of each historic district are available online at the links below. For many neighborhood districts, there are also illustrated informational brochures in pdf format.
Neighborhood Historic Districts
- Anacostia
- Blagden Alley Naylor Court
- Bloomingdale
- Capitol Hill
- Cleveland Park
- Colony Hill
- Downtown
- Dupont Circle
- Emerald Street
- Financial
- Foggy Bottom
- Fourteenth Street
- Foxhall Village
- Georgetown
- George Washington University/Old West End
- Grant Circle
- Grant Road
- Kalorama Triangle
- Kingman Park
- Lafayette Square
- LeDroit Park
- Logan Circle
- Massachusetts Avenue
- Meridian Hill
- Mount Pleasant
- Mount Vernon Square
- Mount Vernon Triangle
- Pennsylvania Avenue
- Shaw
- Sheridan Kalorama
- Sixteenth Street
- Strivers' Section
- Takoma Park
- U Street
- Union Market
- Washington Heights
- Woodley Park
Government and Institutional Historic Districts
- Armed Forces Retirement Home
- Congressional Cemetery
- Federal Triangle
- Fort McNair
- Gallaudet College
- Georgetown Visitation Academy
- Glenwood Cemetery
- Immaculata Seminary
- Howard University
- Langston Golf Course
- Marine Barracks
- Marjorie Webster
- McMillan Park Reservoir
- Mt. Vernon Seminary for Girls
- National Mall
- Northwest Rectangle
- Observatory Hill
- Saint Elizabeths Hospital
- Seventeenth Street
- Smithsonian Quandrangle
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- Washington Cathedral Close
- Washington Navy Yard
- Washington Monument Grounds
- Young, Brown, Phelps and Spingarn Educational Campus