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15. Landscape

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Front: 15. Landscape An 1897 study for Washington, D.C. by the renowned landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmstead influenced the layout of many streets in Cleveland Park. Rather than following the standard . . .

(Architecture • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

14. Flower

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Front: 14. Flower Cleveland Park's lovely, hidden private gardens periodically open to the public in organized garden tours. These tours are but one of many results of the long history of resident collaboration. In the . . .

(Agriculture • Charity & Public Work • Communications) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

13. Mary Day and the Washington Ballet

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Front: Mary Day Back: 13. Mary Day and the Washington Ballet Founded by Mary Day and her teacher, Lisa Gardner, in 1944, the Washington School of Ballet has grown from one studio on the first floor of this corner . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Charity & Public Work • Education • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

12. Map

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
12. Map Cleveland Park Historic District Art on Call Locator 1. Roma Restaurant - Mary Belcher 2. Commerce - Eleanor Oliver 3. The Broadmoor - John Simpson 4. Causeway at Tregaron - John Woo 5. Red Top - John Woo 6. Queen . . .

(Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bridges / Les ponts

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Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
Bridging the LaHave It is only fitting that a place named "Bridgewater" should have such a rich history of bridges. Between 1825 and 1983, five bridges have spanned the LaHave River, connecting east and west Bridgewater. . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

9. Rosedale

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Front: 9. Rosedale The grand, 1,000 acre Rosedale Estate which was later subdivided to form Cleveland Park, was purchased by General Uriah Forrest, an aid-de-camp of General George Washington, who built a farmhouse in . . .

(Architecture • Charity & Public Work • Education • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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New York, New York.
1908 Born November 29, in New Haven, Connecticut. 1930 Received his BA from Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. Became assistant pastor at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. 1932 Received his MA in Religious Education from . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Story of Rosedale

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
The Rosedale farmhouse is said to be the oldest house surviving in Washington, DC. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The farmhouse is a private home. Please do not enter farmhouse grounds. . . .

(Architecture • Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

5. Site of Red Top

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Front: 5. Site of Red Top President Cleveland's Cottage Cleveland Park derives it's name from it's most illustrious resident, President Grover Cleveland. In 1886, Cleveland purchased a stone farmhouse on the South side of . . .

(Architecture • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

7. Early Fire Fighting

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
7. Early Fire Fighting In 1910, this was the site of a shed hosting a horse drawn chemical fire truck, an important amenity as the first houses in Cleveland Park were constructed mainly of wood, and the new suburb was far . . .

(Architecture • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

8. Sherman Cottages

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Front: 8. Sherman Cottages Between 1903 and 1912, the second phase of Cleveland Park development featured houses in the Arts and Crafts style. Many of these were Sherman Cottages named for Ella Bennett Sherman, artist and . . .

(Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

6. Queen Anne Style

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
6. Queen Anne Style This 1898 Queen Anne style house is an outstanding example designed by Robert Thompson Head, the most prolific architect during the first phase of the Cleveland Park neighborhood's development. Between . . .

(Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

4. Causeway at Tregaron

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Front: 4. Causeway at Tregaron In 1912, renowned country house architect, Charles Adams Platt designed several buildings on this 20 acre country estate in collaboration with landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman. . . .

(Architecture • Bridges & Viaducts • Charity & Public Work • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tregaron Conservancy

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
The historic gardens of the Tregaron Estate with pathways, flowing streams and stone bridges are an enduring treasure and place of discovery. Tregaron Conservancy is dedicated to the preservation and rehabilitation of the . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Charity & Public Work • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Long and Winding Road

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
The first map of Woodley Park, called Kervand's Woodley and dated 1875, shows Woodley Lane (now called Woodley Road) as the only road through the area and the heart of the new subdivision. As recently as 1887, Woodley Lane . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Koch-Solomon House

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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Solomon House c.1775 One of Lunenburg's Most Historic Homes Built by Heinrich Koch Heinrich Koch was nineteen when he arrived at Lunenburg with the first settlers in 1753. The next year, with his father Anton, he set up . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1753 Open-Air Protestant Interfaith Church Services

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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Here, in the year 1753, before any church was built, open-air Divine Services were held and Holy Communion administered in English, French, and German, to the first settlers and Garrison of the Town of Lunenburg by the . . .

(Churches & Religion • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Jessen Bell / La Cloche Jessen

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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
This bell hung in the tower of St. John's since 1814 and served as the tolling bell for over 185 years. It was cast at the Whitechapel Foundry in London, England. On November 1, 2001, fire ravished through the Church, . . .

(Churches & Religion • Disasters • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Detroit Edison Company Building

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Northville, Michigan.
The Detroit Edison Company's Northville regional office was located here from 1929 to 1971. The company had a reputation for offices that were "a credit to the community." Upon completion this building, which housed the . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Waterfront Commerce

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Southwest Washington, District of Columbia.
By the 1820's, the Southwest Waterfront had become the principal commercial waterfront of the city, home to municipal piers, ice and coal docks, and fish and coastal steamship wharves.

(Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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