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Massachusetts Heights, a small neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., is predominantly occupied by Washington National Cathedral, its grounds, and its associated properties, including St. Albans School. A very small, triangular area contains the only residential section, adjacent to Observatory Circle…

Cleveland Park is a residential neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of D.C. The first settler of what is now the neighborhood was George Washington’s aide-de-camp, General Uriah Forrest when he built the Rosedale estate in 1793. Now part of a…

The Kalorama area, which includes the residential neighborhoods of Kalorama Triangle and Sheridan-Kalorama, was primarily rural until the very late 19th century. It lay northwest of the limits of Washington City as planned by L’Enfant, but in the 1880s the…

Rock Creek Park, established under President Harrison in 1890, is home to over 1,700 acres of natural area along Rock Creek that bisects the northwestern urban areas of Washington, D.C. Administered by the National Park Service, the park also contains…

H Street, one of Washington’s earliest and most vital commercial districts, is a thriving hot-spot for a night out in D.C. Popular with the hipster crowd, H Street is home to theatre, clubs, live music venues, restaurants and bars. As…

Foggy Bottom, probably named from the industrial smoke given off by its original breweries, glass plants and city gas works as well as concentrations of fog from the riverside location, is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th century…

Upper Chevy Chase, one of D.C.’s first streetcar suburbs, is a quiet community known for its established trees and large, single-family homes. Ranked among the most popular in the Washington region for home buyers, Upper Chevy Chase is priced significantly…

Mount Pleasant, a neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., is bounded to the north and west by Rock Creek Park, Harvard Street NW and Adams Morgan to the south, and Sixteenth St. NW and the Columbia Heights to…

Georgetown, an historic neighborhood located in Northwest Washington, D.C., is nestled along the Potomac River. Founded in the state of Maryland in 1751, the port of Georgetown was established 40 years before the federal district and the City of Washington.…

Palisades, or The Palisades, is a neighborhood that runs along the Potomac River, from the edge of the Georgetown University campus at Foxhall Road to the D.C.-Maryland border near the Delacarlia Treatment Plant. The main thoroughfare through the neighborhood is…