Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, Washington, District Of Columbia. County/parish: District of Columbia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 04, 2005. NRIS 05000367.
Part of Parkways of the National Capital Region MPS (NRIS 64500258).
2 contributing buildings. 8 contributing sites. 15 contributing structures. 3 contributing objects.Also known as:
The Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, informally called the Rock Creek Parkway, is a parkway maintained by the National Park Service as part of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. It runs next to the Potomac River and Rock Creek in a generally north–south direction, carrying four lanes of traffic from the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Memorial Bridge north to a junction with Beach Drive near Connecticut Avenue at Calvert Street, N.W., just south of the National Zoological Park. During rush hours, the parkway is converted to one-way traffic corresponding to the peak direction of travel: southbound in the morning and northbound in the afternoon.
The Parkway was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 2005. Built from 1923 to 1936, it is "one of the best-preserved examples of the earliest stage of motor parkway development".
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117691708