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A post-Civil War building boom brought grand new houses to this convenient area. By 1881 Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, and Major John Wesley Powell, pioneering director of the U.S. Geologi…
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This Circle Honors Anna Julia Haywood Cooper the educator and civil and women's rights advocate who lived in the gracious house at 201 T Street from 1916 until her death in 1964 at age 105. Born into slavery, Cooper graduated from Oberlin College.…
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Poet May Miller once remarked that unlike New York's Harlem, LeDroit Park "didn't have to have a renaissance." In fact, before they joined the cultural movement of the 1920s and '30s, most Harlem Renaissance intellectuals spent time at H…
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Duke Ellington is among the world's most prolific composers and musicians. As a bandleader and pianist, Ellington led several Jazz orchestras with a musical career that spanned over fifty years.
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As the Civil War was ended in 1865, most formerly enslaved African Americans arriving in the District could not read or write. The following year members of the First Congregational Society considered organizing a school to train teachers and prea…
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A Peaceful Landscape With City Conveniences for wealthy Washingtonians: that was the goal of the men who made LeDroit Park.
Brothers-in-law Amzi L. Barber and Andrew Langdon purchased land here, and in 1873 hired local aIchitect/builder James McG…
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1844 Third Street, NW
Columbia Lodge No. 85 of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the World was incorporated in Washington in 1906, eight years after the parent organization was incorporated in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lodge No…
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The Roster of LeDroit Park's accomplished African Americans is long. Consider these prominent Washingtonians who lived on T Street.
Walter E. Washington and his wife, Bennetta Bullock Washington, lived with her family at 408 T Street. Mrs. Washi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MW4_the-old-carroll-hall_Washington-DC.html
Site of
The Old
Carroll Hall
1865 - 1904
1 - The Original Carroll Hall
2 - In it was started St. John's College - 1866
3 - In it was started Sisters of the Poor -1871
4 - In it was started The Tabernacle Society of Wash. D.C.
5 - In it wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MOE_willis-richardson-residence_Washington-DC.html
512 U Street, NW
Willis Richardson (1889-l977) Was a prolific and acclaimed playwright known for realistic portrayals of ordinary African Americans. Family circumstances forced the promising writer to choose work over college, and Richardson spe…