Sheriden Kalorama Call Box Restoration Project
Writers, sculptors, painters, and collectors made Sheridan-Kalorama their home: best-selling mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart at 2419 Massachusetts; classicist Edith Hamilton at 2448 Massachusetts; poet/novelist Elinor Wylie at 2153 Florida; Willem de Looper, Dutch-born abstract painter, and Frederick Hart, sculptor of the National Cathedral's Creation Series, at 2219 California. Alice Pike Barney conducted an arts salon in her Waddy Wood-designed home at 2306 Massachusetts. The modern art collection of Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn, 2241 Bancroft, became the foundation of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.About the artist: Peter Waddell, artist, here depicts the interior of the Barney Studio.Art on Call, a program of Cultural Tourism, DC, funded in part by the Commission on Arts and Humanities, the Department of Transportation, and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development.Call box locator map: Decatur Pl. and 22d St.www.sheridankaloramacallbox.org| HM Number | HM1VIH |
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| Placed By | Cultural Tourism DC |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Friday, November 4th, 2016 at 9:02pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 322354 N 4309080 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 38.91266667, -77.04891667 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 38° 54.76', W 77° 2.935' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 38° 54' 45.6" N, 77° 2' 56.1" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 202 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 2201 R St NW, Washington DC 20008, US |
| Alternative Maps | Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSR Maps, OpenCycleMap, MyTopo Maps, OpenStreetMap |
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