Grant Road Historic District - View this location on map  The Grant Road Historic District encompasses a distinctive remnant of the settlement that once stretched out along the country roads crisscrossing Washington County. During the Civil War, the road helped link the ring of earthen forts defending the Capital, and afterwards it was integrated into the substantial community at Tenleytown. The road retains the narrow meandering character and shifting grade of a rural byway, and it is still fronted by modest late-19th century frame houses, including the former Post Office and General Store on Wisconsin Avenue. Extant residences include well-preserved examples of I -houses, Italianate boxes, and various side- and front-gabled folk house forms. Buildings date from 1860 to 1931. 4555 Grant Road NW, Washington , DC Historical |