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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K9K_embassy-of-the-republic-of-lithuania_Washington-DC.html
You are standing in front of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania. The Spanish Baroque style mansion is all that remains of what was once a duplex, or double, embassy building designed by George Oakley Totten for Mary Foote Henderson's exclus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K9J_lithuanias-march-to-freedom_Washington-DC.html
Since 1924 this mansion has housed representatives of the Republic of Lithuania, even during the 50 years when the country was occupied by the Soviet Union. In the late 1700s, the Russian Empire annexed Lithuania's territory, ending the 500-year-…
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You are now standing in front of the longest-serving embassy building among Washington DC's more than 180 diplomatic missions: the Embassy of the Republic of Poland. Renowned architect George Oakley Totten designed the building for Mary Foote Hend…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IY8_paul-laurence-dunbar-apartments_Washington-DC.html
In 2009, the Residents Association of the Campbell Heights Apartments was given the opportunity to preserve their community by exercising their District of Columbia Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act rights. Jair Lynch Development Partners created…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IY1_a-shared-neighborhood_Washington-DC.html
(Front side) Although Washington, D.C., has been a racially segregated city for much of its history, black and white Washingtonians have shared parts of this neighborhood. The modern building across 15th Street sits on the site of Portner Flats, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IQ5_logan-circle-just-ahead_Washington-DC.html
Some of the City's finest Victorian Houses ring Logan Circle. While the area appears on the L'Enfant Plan of 1791, it took Alexander "Boss" Shephard's improvements to make these grand houses of the 1870s and '80s possible. Three Union l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IN9_all-the-row-houses_Washington-DC.html
All the row houses in the 1700 block of Q St. (north and south pictured above) were built in the mid-1880s by one of Washington's most prolific architects/builders, Thomas Franklin Schneider. The prosperity and growth during the 1880s in DC result…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IN7_see-you-at-the-center_Washington-DC.html
The City's Jewish Community Center opened here in 1926. Its grand presence one mile north of the White House expressed Jewish residents' prosperity and their growing contributions to the federal city and the nation. With American Jews routinely ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IL0_edward-duke-ellington-residence_Washington-DC.html
1805 13th Street, NW Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899—1974), the internationally renowned composer and musician born in Washington, DC, spend part of his youth here at 1805 13th Street, NW (1910—1914). During those form…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICK_contraband-to-community_Washington-DC.html
The Entire Block to Your Left was once a Civil War-era camp and hospital for formerly enslaved African Americans After the Civil War broke out in 1861, thousands walked away from bondage. When some sought shelter at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, U…
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