Sightseeing
History BuffGeorgetown
No admission feeStroll cobblestone side streets, shop and eat along M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, and follow the C&O Canal down to the Potomac waterfront.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Sightseeing
Tudor Place
A Federal-era house and garden in Georgetown that tells the stories of Martha Washington's descendants and the enslaved and free people who worked there.
1644 31st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007 · Washington, DC
About Tudor Place
Tudor Place is a historic house and garden in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It preserves the history of six generations of the family descended from Martha Washington, along with the enslaved and free people who lived and labored on the property. The house is a well-known example of Federal-period architecture in the capital. The museum holds more than 18,000 decorative objects, including a large group of Washington family items that is the biggest of its kind outside Mount Vernon. The grounds cover about five and a half acres and include a garden with its own history and seasonal bloom calendar. The site also runs tours, education programs, and lectures, and it addresses its history of slavery directly.
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