Mount Rainier Historic District
The Mount Rainier Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Rainier, Prince George's County, Maryland, which began as a streetcar suburb located northeast of Washington, D.C.
The Mount Rainier Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Rainier, Prince George's County, Maryland, which began as a streetcar suburb located northeast of Washington, D.C. The district was built on a gently rolling rural landscape from about 1900 to 1940. The district contains more than 1,000 buildings, which are modestly scaled, detached, single-family, frame houses sited closely together with common setbacks. It consists primarily of single-family homes, with some small apartment buildings, a few duplexes, and single family homes that include a small storefront, usually located at the corner of an intersection. With the exception of five churches and a bank building known to have been designed by local architects, the remainder of the district's buildings are vernacular in character. Some homes contain Queen Anne detailing.
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Worth seeing in and around Mount Rainier Historic District
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01The Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America is a private Catholic research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of two pontifical universities of the Catholic Church in the United States – the only one that is not primarily a seminary – and the only institution of higher education founded by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
3.3 km · private Catholic University in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 02Archdiocese of Washington
The Archdiocese of Washington is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States. The archdiocese is home to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
2.6 km · archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church serving Washington, D.C., and five counties of Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 03Trinity Washington University
Trinity Washington University is a private Catholic university in Washington, D.C., United States. It was founded as Trinity College by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as the nation's first Catholic liberal arts college for women.
4 km · Catholic university in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 04National Bonsai Foundation
The National Bonsai Foundation is a nonprofit organization that was created to sustain the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum. NBF also helps the United States National Arboretum showcase the arts of bonsai and penjing to the general public.
3 km · nonprofit organization that was created to sustain the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum · Wikipedia - 05Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
The Saint John Paul II National Shrine is a national shrine in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. It is a place of prayer for Catholics and welcomes people of all faiths.
3.7 km · national shrine in Washington, D.C · Wikipedia - 06Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens is a National Park Service site located in the north eastern corner of Washington, D.C., near the Maryland state border. Nestled near the banks of the Anacostia River and directly west of the Baltimore–Washington Parkway, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens preserves a plethora of rare waterlilies and lotuses in the cultivated ponds near the river.
3.6 km · park in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 07Fort Bunker Hill
Fort Bunker Hill was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army. From west to east, the forts were: Fort Slocum, Fort Totten, Fort Slemmer, Fort Bunker Hill, Fort Saratoga, Fort Thayer and Fort Lincoln.
2.3 km · historical fort in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 08Mount Olivet Cemetery
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 1300 Bladensburg Road, NE in Washington, D.C. It is maintained by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. The largest Catholic burial ground in the District of Columbia, it was one of the first in the city to be racially integrated.
3.4 km · cemetery in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 09Fort Saratoga
Fort Saratoga was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C. built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army. From west to east, the forts were as follows: Fort Slocum, Fort Totten, Fort Slemmer, Fort Bunker Hill, Fort Saratoga, Fort Thayer and Fort Lincoln.
1.8 km · historical fort in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 10Fort Thayer
Fort Thayer was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army. From west to east, the forts were as follows: Fort Slocum, Fort Totten, Fort Slemmer, Fort Bunker Hill, Fort Saratoga, Fort Thayer and Fort Lincoln.
1.4 km · historical fort in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mount Rainier Historic District
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 12 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 36 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 43 km
- Stations
- Brookland–CUA, 2.9 km · Hyattsville Crossing, 2.9 km · Fort Totten, 3.8 km · West Hyattsville, 1.9 km · Rhode Island Avenue–Brentwood, 3.6 km
- Dulles → Mount Rainier Historic District42 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · $4–6
- Richmond → Mount Rainier Historic District160 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · $14–20
- Philadelphia → Mount Rainier Historic District191 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · $17–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mount Rainier Historic District
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mount Rainier Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inincluding stops in South Bend, Elkhart, Waterloo, Toledo, Sandusky, Elyria, Cleveland, Alliance, Pittsburgh, Connellsville, Cumberland, Martinsburg, Harpers Ferry, and Rockville.
- Get inMARC also provides service on the Brunswick line towards western Maryland through the suburbs of Silver Spring, Kensington, Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Germantown, on the way out to Frederick and on to Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg, West Virginia on Monday through Friday.
- Get aroundFor an ambitious all-day ride, try branching north at Leesburg, crossing the Potomac River on White's Ferry (inactive as of Nov 2024), and riding on the C&O Canal towpath to return to D.C.
- Get aroundPedicabs (tricycle rickshaws), commonly found on the National Mall, are regulated, insured, and offer tours or pre-arranged rides.
- Go nextFrom spring to fall, you can take a water taxi from the Inner Harbor to historic Fort McHenry.
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Next door to Mount Rainier Historic District
Mount Rainier Historic District is 8 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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