Highly Unusual Wood-Frame Misery Dwelling, Eads Street, NE, Washington, D.C.
Highly Unusual Wood-Frame Misery Dwelling, Eads Street, NE, Washington, D.C.
Located in the 5600 Block of Eads St, NE, Washington, D.C, this tiny one room, perhaps two, wood-frame dwelling is a highly unusual building to be found in today’s architectural context of Washington, D.C. The house is one that is typical of poor African Americans in more southern [...]
Apparently Two Men Always Shared A Room In Washington, District of Columbia
Apparently Two Men Always Shared A Room In Washington, District of Columbia
Fashionable Room For Rent, Two Men Allowed, In Washington, D.C.
Advertisement. People’s Advocate. November 22, 1879, Washington, D.C. A Very Desirable Front Room, Taken Out of Context…
While we don’t know whether this would ever have been the home of two gentlemen ”lovers” and/or ”a couple,” we know [...]
McKinley Hall, American University, Washington, D.C.
McKinley Hall, American University, Washington, D.C.
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Respect D.C.: The Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church Has NONE, As They Defile Another Historic Mansion of Upper Sixteenth Street, 4700 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Respect D.C.: The Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church Has NONE, As They Defile Another Historic Mansion of Upper Sixteenth Street, 4700 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Located at 4700 16th Street, NW, the Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church joins the ranks of our “In The Name of God” series, a group of articles recognizing the outstanding [...]
Pro-Jewish Advertisement Sparked By Anti-Semitism, Bungalow Dwellings, Washington, D.C.
Pro-Jewish Advertisement Sparked By Anti-Semitism,
Bungalow Dwellings,
Washington, D.C.
Washington Post Advertisement, Only 2 Left, Referring to Semi-Bungalows For Sale Built by Horace G. Smithy, the Eminent Real Estate Developer of Washington D.C. Published in 1930.
This advertisement from the Washington Post features a large star of David, not usually illustrated for design purposes, but perhaps, in this case, [...]
The New Hygienic Laboratory At The Marine Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Designed and financed by the Federal government, the “new” Hygienic Laboratory of the U.S. Public Health Service and Marine Hospital was constructed between 1907 and 1909 in Washington, D.C. The neoclassical building was completed in 1909. Originally, the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service had their Laboratory of Hygiene in New York City, but, [...]
One of the First Helicopter Engines in America, by Emile Berliner…In An Old Barn At 1458 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, D.C.
One of the First Helicopter Engines in America, by Emile Berliner…In An Old Barn At 1458 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, D.C.
Emile Berliner (1851-1929) began studying aeronautics/aviation in the 1890s at his Columbia Heights (then Pleasant Plains) Mansion at 1458 Columbia Road, NW, where he owned nearly all of the 1400 block. This was prior to [...]
The Gyrocopter Wasn’t All That Appealed To Henry Berliner…Emile Berliner’s Helicopter, Brightwood, Washington, D.C.
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Emile Berliner Invented the Flat Disc and Gramophone at 1458 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, D.C.
After Emile Berliner (1851-1929) sold one of his innovations related to the transmission of speech to the Bell Telephone Company in the 1880s, he was able to relieve himself from Bell’s employment and residency in Boston and return to the District of Columbia to build a commodious house, which many called a mansion, at 1458 [...]
Emile Berliner Invented the Microphone at 812 6th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
In 1877, Emile Berliner (1851-1929) had been in America since his immigration in 1870, was clerking in the 700-800 block of G Street, NW, and was renting a room from Mrs. Susan Gangewer, the window of J.D. Gangewer, at 812 6th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Repurposing the single room as both bedroom and laboratory, it [...]
