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Son of Massachusetts · Graduate of Harvard College · Judge and legislator · Delegate 1780-1781 to the Continental Congress · Soldier of three wars · First commander of patriot forces.
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When NBC radio and television and its local affiliate,WRC, moved to these new headquarters in 1958, the average TV screen measured 12 inches. The facility opened with six studios—three TV and three radio. Soon history happened here.
On Oc…
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The U.S. Navy arrived across the street at 3801 NebraskaAvenue during World War II, taking the Colonial style red-brick campus of Mount Vernon Seminary for secret "essential wartime activities." Soon more than 5,000 workers occupied the campus. Am…
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From 1927 until the late 1950s, the landscaped grounds across the street were the Hillcrest Children's Center. It was founded downtown in 1814 as the Washington City Orphan Asylum by Marcia Burnes VanNess and President Madison's wife Dolley. The c…
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The brick building across the street opened in 1928 as theConvent of Bon Secours (literally, "good help"). The convent's sisters had arrived in Baltimore from France in 1881. In Baltimore they quietly nursed both wealthy and needy patients in thei…
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In the 1930s city engineers created Tenley Circle where commuters headingcross-town or downtown changed streetcars. Across the street and to the left of Tenley Circle, a surviving strip of historic Grant Road meets Wisconsin Avenue. In the 1890s, …
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Step back into the 19th century with a walk down Grant Road, ahead and to your left. This winding byway recalls Tenleytown's farming past. In fact Grant Road's undisturbed quality earned it National Historic District and DC Historic District desig…
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The Herb Cottage was built as the temporary baptistry of Washington National Cathedral. The first Bishop of Washington, Henry Yates Satterlee, commissioned this building from architect T. Henry Randall (1862-1905). It was begun in 1903 and complet…
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About 2:00 p.m. on September 13, 1814, gunners of the Maryland Militia under Captain J.H. Nicholson were waiting out the British bombardment behind this parapet. It was futile to return fire because their 21 pounder gun did not have the range to h…
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Soon after the United States entered the First World War in 1917, the American University's offer of its campus and buildings for war work was accepted.
The permanent buildings and part of campus were turned over to the Bureau of Mines on July …