Visit the Frederick Douglass House

Frederick Douglass, a former enslaved person, became a leading abolitionist and lived in this house from 1877 to 1895.

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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W St. , SE in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, D.C.. Established in 1988 as a National Historic Site, the site preserves the home and estate of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent African Americans of the 19th century. Douglass lived in this house, which he named Cedar Hill, from 1877 until his death in 1895.

This description uses material from the Wikipedia article on Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (view authors).