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    Historic Landmarks

    Metadata Updated: April 15, 2026

    This dataset contains Historic Landmarks (by structure) officially designated by the District of Columbia. This is a consolidated collection of structures with historical significance within the District of Columbia as listed in the "District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sights". It contains the locations and attributes of buildings, statues, bridges, forts, fountains, & memorials of historical worth. Additional datasets are available of Historic Districts. The same records in this polygon-format dataset are also available in a point-format dataset.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 15, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 15, 2026
    Publisher DC Office of Planning
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=288a8c4db1b641b28748dbad958b5272&sublayer=23
    Data First Published 2015-02-27T21:08:41.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-12T23:45:23.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id f1b9fe22-b13f-4c17-8723-324a9223efda
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::historic-landmarks
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1726,38.7902,-76.9090,38.9960
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2b1fd8e749d605f204093e42de1acfe1bf38c9ac4c28621a6fb93109dfdd26e8
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1726, 38.7902, -77.1726, 38.9960, -76.9090, 38.9960, -76.9090, 38.7902, -77.1726, 38.7902}

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