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Oxon Cove Park & Oxon
Hill Farm
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| The principal dwelling, known as "Mount Welby," is a ca. 1807-1811 two-story three-bay brick structure laid in Flemish bond with Italianate detailing and sheltered by a shed roof, and visible to motorists crossing the interstate Woodrow Wilson Bridge. The house was built by Irish immigrant Dr. Samuel DeButts. It was entrusted to the National Park Service in 1959 in order to protect its resources from increased development. From 1891 to 1950, the property was used as a therapeutic farm by St. Elizabeths Hospital, and was known as Godding Croft. The house is operated as a historic house museum, with exhibits about period life in the early 1800s for the owners and slaves on the plantation. Other exhibits focus on the home's role at Godding Croft. | |
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| The Oxon Hill Farm includes the Mount Welby home, Farm Museum, barns, a stable, feed building, livestock buildings and a visitor activity barn. | |
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| Altogether, fourteen buildings and two structures are located in the historic district and associated with the property's sequential development as a plantation, an institutional agricultural complex, and a farm museum. | |
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National Capital Parks East Sites:
Anacostia Park
| Carter G Woodson Home NHS
| Civil War Defenses/Fort
Circle Parks | Fort
Dupont Park |
Frederick Douglass NHS |
Harmony Hall |
Kenilworth Park |
Oxon Hill Farm and Cove |
Piscataway Park
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