1400 Quincy St., NE., Washington, District Of Columbia. County/parish: District of Columbia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 17, 1992. NRIS 91001943.
11 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 6 contributing structures. 2 contributing objects.Also known as:
The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America is a Franciscan complex at 14th and Quincy Streets in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C. Located on a hill called Mount Saint Sepulcher, and anchored by the Memorial Church of the Holy Sepulcher, it includes gardens, replicas of various shrines throughout Israel, a replica of the catacombs in Rome, an archive, a library, as well as bones of Saint Benignus of Armagh, brought from the Roman catacombs and originally in the cathedral of Narni, Italy.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117692150