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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26BX_the-civil-war-defenses-of-washington_Washington-DC.html
The ridge that extends along the edge of the parking lot to the right where you are standing is the remains of a rifle trench built during the Civil War. This ridge, part of the Defenses of Washington, connected Ft. Totten to the north and Ft. Sle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM243L_the-poets-house_Washington-DC.html
The Poet's House
1222 Kearney Street N.E.
Sterling Allen Brown
(1901-1989)
"The strong men keep a-comin' on
The strong men git stronger..."
In 1979, the D.C. City Council
declared Brown's birthday, May 1,
Sterling Allen Brown Day,
and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM243J_sterling-a-brown-residence_Washington-DC.html
1222 Kearney Street, NE
Sterling Brown (1901-1989) was a central figure of the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s. Brown's work includes Southern Road (1932), The Negro in American Fict…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM243I_the-jackson-h-gerhart-house_Washington-DC.html
The Jackson H. Gerhart House
Engine Company 17
Constructed 1902
Renovated 2007
Dedicated in memory of the longest serving member of Engine Company 17, Wagon Driver Jackson H. Gerhart.
He was appointed on Feb. 3, 1963 and retired on Sept. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241M_lois-mailou-jones-residence_Washington-DC.html
1220 Quincy Street, NE
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), internationally acclaimed artist and teacher, lived here from the 1950s into the 1970s. Born and educated in Boston, Jones joined the Howard University Art Department in 1930 and stayed for …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241L_franciscan-monastery_Washington-DC.html
Franciscan Monastery
D.C. Historic Preservation
Division Landmark Designee
November 8, 1964
National Register of
Historic Places Designee
January 17, 1991
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241K_very-rev-godfrey-schilling-o-f-m_Washington-DC.html
Sacred to the memory of
Very Rev. Godfrey Schilling, O.F.M.
1896-1901 Commissary 1911-1922
Founder of this Memorial Church and Monastery
of the Holy Sepulcher in 1897.
Fr. Godfrey was the first American Missionary
to the Holy Land. By the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241J_very-rev-charles-a-vissani-o-f-m_Washington-DC.html
Sacred to the memory of
Very Rev. Charles A. Vissani, O.F.M.
First Commissary General of
the Holy Land for the United States
1880 - 1896
The first to conduct and American Catholic
pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1889,
and to place the Star…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241I_very-rev-charles-a-vissani-o-f-m_Washington-DC.html
Sacred to the memory of
Very Rev. Charles A. Vissani, O.F.M.
Founder of the cause of the Holy Land
in the United States
Erected to commemorate the centenary of the
First Commissariat in New York City in 1880
Fr. Charles served as 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241H_erected-to-the-memory-of-the-very-reverend-commissaries_Washington-DC.html
Erected to the memory of the very Reverend Commissaries
of the Holy Land for the United States; who have, since
1880 contributed to the preservation of the Holy-Places
and prospered the charitable missionary activities of
the Franciscan Cust…