Travel Reference
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9. EASTERN MARKET
Completed in 1873, Eastern Market has been a key element in Capitol Hill's history.
Designed by a prominent local architect, Adolph Cluss, the market symbolized the
urbanization of the city at the end of the Civil War. Since then, it has served as a
meeting place for residents, and as a focal point in the revitalization of the area.
Following fire damage in 2007, a multi-million dollar restoration has preserved the
building's distinctive architecture.
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10. NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM
The US Postal Service delivers over 600 million items of mail every day, and this
ingenious museum manages to communicate the human scale of the system. Ex-
hibits explore the history of mail from pre-Revolutionary America to modern tech-
nological developments. The philatelic collection is one of the largest in the world
(for further details see
National Postal Museum
)
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2 Massachusetts Ave, NE •
www.postalmuseum.si.edu
• Open 10am-5:30pm daily • Dis. access • Free
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Capitol Hill Residences
In the early 19th century, the area east of the Capitol was filled with a motley col-
lection of boarding houses and taverns where members of Congress stayed dur-
ing legislative sessions. During the 19th and into the 20th centuries, a diverse
mix of housing styles - Federal townhouses, manor houses, Queen Anne, inter-
spersed with two-story frame dwellings - developed. The protected Capitol Hill
Historic District is now the largest historic residential district in the city.
