Posts about History
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Dupont Circle, 1887
The 1887 Report of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army includes this plan of the Dupont Circle park: Keep reading…
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Lost Washington: The Raleigh Hotel
The Raleigh Hotel got its start in 1893 when the Shepherd Centennial Building on the northeast corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street, NW, was converted from commercial use into the hotel by Washington architect Leon E. Dessez. The hotel expanded quickly. In 1897 three additional floors were added. In 1898 New York architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh designed a major… Keep reading…
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Lost Washington: The Southland
The Southland was built in 1908 at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. as the SS Southland. The steamer operated for the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Co. on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, transporting passengers and freight between Washington, Alexandria, Old Point Comfort, and Norfolk. Keep reading…
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