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Kalorama Triangle Historic District

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The Kalorama Triangle Historic District is located in the Kalorama Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It has been listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites since 1986. The district is home to roughly 350 contributing properties.

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Kalorama Triangle Historic District
Belmont Road Northwest, Washington

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Belmont Road Northwest 1922
20009 Washington
District of Columbia, United States
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Kalorama Park and Archeological Site
Kalorama Park and Archeological Site

The Kalorama Park and Archeological Site is a park and archeological site in the Kalorama Triangle neighborhood of northwest Washington, D.C. Bounded by Kalorama Road, Columbia Road, 19th Street, and the rear property lines of buildings on Mintwood Place, the 3.17-acre (1.28 ha) triangular park includes roughly 2 acres (0.8 ha) that contains remnants of a 19th-century farm. The park includes a central lawn, a basketball court, playgrounds, a community garden, winding paths, and a field house. The present-day park sits on land previously inhabited by the Nacotchtank tribe. Years later the Holmead family owned the land and sold it to the Hines brothers. Irish immigrant John Little purchased the property in the 1830s and established a farm. He built a large manor house in the 1850s which stood until 1937. Little owned over a dozen slaves, one of whom was Hortense Prout. She briefly escaped in 1861, possibly with help from people associated with the Underground Railroad, but was apprehended and returned to Little's custody. After slavery in the District of Columbia was abolished in 1862, Little continued operating his farm until his death. His daughters later sold portions of his farm to brewer and real estate investor Christian Heurich and lumber merchant Thomas W. Smith. In the early 1900s, neighborhood residents formed a group, later named the Kalorama Citizens Association, to advocate for a park. A few decades later this finally came to fruition when the National Capital Planning Commission purchased the two properties previously owned by Heurich and Smith. The park was established in 1947 and named in honor of the citizens group. It is administered by the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation. Due to archeological tests resulting in the discovery of remnants of the manor house along with household artifacts, the site was nominated for historic landmark status. The Kalorama Park and Archeological Site was added to the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 2010 and National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Because of the site's connection with Prout's escape, the park is also included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.