Washington, D.C., United States
Robert Simpson Woodward House
Washington, D.C., United States
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Located at 1513 16th Street, NW in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood, the Robert Simpson Woodward House is a Richardsonian Romanesque residence that served as the home of geologist Robert Simpson Woodward from 1904 to 1914. Woodward, who lived from 1849 to 1924, was the first president of the Carnegie Institution and a prominent scientist and science administrator. The building now houses the Capital Research Center headquarters and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976, subsequently recognized as a contributing property to the Sixteenth Street Historic District in 1978.
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- house
- Heritage
- District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites, National Register of Historic Places listed place
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- Washington, D.C., United States
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