Embassy Building No. 10

3149 Sixteenth St. NW, Washington, District Of Columbia. County/parish: District of Columbia.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 06, 1986. NRIS 86003023.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • D.C. Department of Recreation Headquarters

From Wikipedia:

Embassy Building No. 10

Embassy Building No. 10 is a historic building located at 3149 16th Street NW Washington, D.C., in the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Although as the name implies it was built to be a foreign mission, it was never in fact used as such; instead, it served as the central office of the District's municipal parks department for nearly seventy years.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117692118

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