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Aqueduct Bridge (Potomac River) The Aqueduct Bridge, also called the Alexandria Aqueduct, was a bridge that carried traffic between Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and Rosslyn, Virginia, from 1843 to 1923. It was built to transport cargo-carrying boats on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Georgetown across the Potomac River to the Alexandria Canal.
Editor-in-chief of the Washington Post. Sally Quinn of the Washington Post. Other information. Number of rooms. 24. The Laird-Dunlop House is a historic mansion in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. The house stands at 3014 N Street N.W.
Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789, [c] it is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States and the nation's first federally chartered university. The university has eleven undergraduate ...
Third Church of Christ, Scientist, established in 1918, is a Christian Science church in downtown Washington, D.C. From 1971 to 2014, the church was located in a controversial building at 16th and I Street NW. Considered a significant work of "Brutalist" church architecture by some critics, the building was considered unsatisfactory by members ...
The Archdiocese of Washington ( Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Vashingtonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States. The Archdiocese of Washington is home to the Catholic University of America [6] and Georgetown ...
Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.. Georgetown University Medical Center is a Washington, D.C.-based biomedical research and educational organization affiliated with Georgetown University that is responsible for over 80% of the university's sponsored research funding and is led by Edward B. Healton, MD, the Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean ...
July 22, 1726. East Kilbride, Scotland. Died. November 15, 1806 (aged 80) Georgetown, D.C., U.S. Resting place. Oak Hill Cemetery. Robert Peter (July 22, 1726 – Nov 15, 1806) was an American politician, merchant, and landowner who served as the first mayor of Georgetown. [1] [2]
Georgetown Car Barn. / 38.90528°N 77.07000°W / 38.90528; -77.07000. The Georgetown Car Barn, historically known as the Capital Traction Company Union Station, is a building in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Designed by the architect Waddy Butler Wood, it was built between 1895 and 1897 by the ...