Excerpt from Georgetown Architecture, Northwest Washington, District of Columbia: Historic American Buildings Survey Selections, Number 10
This volume is the sixth and last in the current series of studies of Georgetown architecture which were begun in 1966 by the Commission of Fine Arts, with the cooperation of the Historic American Buildings Survey. A complete list of these studies will be found in the appendix.
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