Georgetown Industrial Ruins

Lock 3 of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is marked by a series of heavy stone walls that still hold their original gates. These four locks, numbered one through four, sit in such quick succession that they resemble a staircase built for…

The Duvall Foundry is a two-story brick warehouse located on Thirtieth Street, sitting immediately adjacent to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Built between eighteen fifty-six and eighteen sixty-six by William T. Duvall, the structure…

The Ritz-Carlton Georgetown is identified by a prominent one hundred and forty-foot smokestack that rises above the neighborhood skyline. This luxury hotel occupies a site that functioned for thirty-nine years as the city’s municipal…

Grace Episcopal Church sits at one thousand forty-one Wisconsin Avenue, its Gothic Revival stone walls and pointed arches standing as the only church remaining in the historic waterfront district. Established in eighteen fifty-five as a…

The Flour Mill Condominium is an eight-story red brick structure defined by its angled balconies and a terraced facade that creates a distinctive, rippling silhouette against the skyline. Completed in nineteen eighty-five at ten fifteen…

The building at thirty-four hundred and one Water Street is identifiable by its long, low profile of brick and concrete-block construction, which sits tucked between the C&O Canal and the elevated Whitehurst Freeway. Originally built in…

The Potomac Aqueduct, sometimes called the Alexandria Aqueduct, is marked by the lone stone pier still visible rising from the Potomac River near the modern Key Bridge. Built between eighteen thirty and eighteen forty-three, this structure…