District of Columbia Parks and Recreation Areas with National Historic Site

Pennsylvania Avenue is certainly among the world's most famous streets. While the Avenue serves work-a-day Washington as a major east-west transit route, it is known the world over as the heart of the Nation's Capital. America's history has marched, paraded, promenaded, and protested its way up and down the Avenue. read more...

Phone: 202-485-9880   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: SW Washington   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site

From 1877 to 1895, this was the home of Frederick Douglass, the Nation's leading 19th-century African American spokesman. Visitors to the site will learn more about his efforts to abolish slavery and his struggle for Human Rights, Equal Rights and Civil Rights for all oppressed people. Among Frederick Douglass' other achievements, he was U.S. minister to Haiti in 1889. Authorized Sept. 5, 1962, as Frederick Douglass Home; redesignated Feb. 12,1988 as the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.

Phone: 202-426-5961   Price Range: $0 - $2   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Washingto   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

The Sewall-Belmont House was built by Robert Sewall in 1799-1800 and was named for him and for Alva Belmont, whose financial contribution enabled the National Woman's Party to purchase the house. It has been the headquarters of the National Woman's Party since 1929. The house was designated a National Historic Site by an Act of Congress in 1974. read more...

Phone: (202) 546-1210   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: SE Washington   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site

America's transfer from civil war to peace was made more difficult on April 14, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed, just five days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. A well-known actor, John Wilkes Booth, desperate to aid the dying Confederacy, stepped into the president's box. Booth's decision to pull the trigger altered the nation's power to reconstruct after the war. read more...

Phone: 202-426-6924   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Washington   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Ford's Theatre National Historic Site