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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O31_the-presidents-church_Washington-DC.html
Through The 1960s President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family worshipped across the street to your left at National City Christian Church. The First Family sat near the front in the pew deemed safest by their Secret Service agents. The church hoste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O20_the-messer-building_Washington-DC.html
The original Messer Building was developed by James A. Messer and occupied a portion of this site for over half a century until 1989. The Messer family, early Scottish immigrants who settled in the District of Columbia, have left their mark as ski…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NA4_wormleys-hotel-site_Washington-DC.html
James Wormley (1819-1884), free-born like his parents, was one of a number of African Americans entrepreneurs with downtown hospitality and service businesses. His five-story Wormley's Hotel opened here in 1871, catering primarily to wealthy and p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N72_fleeing-the-executive-mansion_Washington-DC.html
On August 24, 1814, President James Madison rode out to Bladensburg, Maryland, to observe the state of the American troops defending the nation's capital. U.S. General William Winder, now sure of the direction of the British approach, marched his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IVY_striving-for-equality_Washington-DC.html
This building was the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women from 1943 to 1966. Political activist and educator Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) founded NCNW in 1935 in her nearby apartment. She moved the organization here eight years …
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The Studio Theatre, on the corner of 14th and P Streets since 1987, anchors the Logan Circle/14th Street artistic community. The theatre, founded by director and educator Joy Zinoman and set designer Russell Metheny in 1978, originally rented spac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IQ6_6-logan_Washington-DC.html
Built for Capt. Allen V. Reed, USN Circa 1878 Renovated 1986 by Allan Bortel & Associates
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IP9_it-takes-a-village_Washington-DC.html
After the Civil Disturbances following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, 14th Street appeared largely abandoned by day. By night, however, residents witnessed scenes of the "world's oldest profession,&quo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IL1_automobile-row_Washington-DC.html
Etched into the corner of the building next to this sign are the names of cars and trucks sold here back when showrooms lined this stretch of 14th Street. Hurley Motor Company, which opened here in 1920, sold Milwaukee-made Nash cars and trucks. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IDP_the-artistic-life_Washington-DC.html
The Imposing Double House to Your Left, numbers 1 and 2, was built as an investment for Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., son of the 18th president. The house would later serve as the Venezuelan Legation and then a Seventh-Day Adventist nursing home. Henry …
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