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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2439_yoko-ono_Washington-DC.html
Hirshhorn
In The City
Yoko Ono
Relax.
Your Heart Is Stronger
Than What You Think!
2017
Yoko Ono (b. Tokyo, 1933) is an artist, peace activist, and human rights worker who has strongly influenced the Feminist movement. Since the late 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM237F_green-roof-plants_Washington-DC.html
Soil depth on a green roof determines the types of plants that can be grown, and the depth of the US Botanic Garden roof will average just 3 inches. Green roofs with shallow soils are referred to as 'extensive', and those with soil at 6 inches or …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM237E_green-roof-engineering_Washington-DC.html
Once the stone façade and roof are restored, the U.S. Botanic Garden (USBG) will install a new green roof on top of the stone part of the Conservatory. This plant-covered roof will reduce the amount of heat absorbed by the building and decrease t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM237D_the-pollinator-partnership_Washington-DC.html
Insects, birds, bats, and even monkeys, lemurs, and a lizard! About 75% of the world's flowering plants depend upon these animals for pollination. Most other plants rely upon wind to carry their pollen grains from plant to plant.
Pollination is…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UVB_leonard-m-elstad-historical_Washington-DC.html
Elstad AuditoriumDedicated toLeonard M. Elstad, G-'231899-1990Third President of Gallaudet University1945-1969This plaque presented by the Alpha Sigma Pi Fraternity
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TEB_denison-house-historical_Washington-DC.html
Erected in 1874-1875James Denison(1837-1910)Denison was the first Deaf principal of the Primary Department, later known as the Kendall School, and served for almost 50 years. He and his family lived here from 1875-1909.Gift of Gallaudet University…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TEA_helen-fay-house-historical_Washington-DC.html
Erected in 1874-1875Helen Bradshaw Fay(1881-1957)Class of 1904(Certificate of Graduation from Normal Department)Born in Washington, D.C., Fay lived her whole life on Kendall Green. In 1907, she taught at Kendall School for 39 years. From 1929 unti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TE9_ballard-house-historical_Washington-DC.html
Erected in 1867Melville Ballard(1839-1912)Classes of 1886 (B.S.) & 1870 (M.S.)Ballard was the first undergraduate to receive a bachelor of science degree in 1866 from the National Deaf-Mute College, now Gallaudet University. He taught at Kendall S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TE8_the-edward-miner-gallaudet-residence-historical_Washington-DC.html
Erected in 1867-1868Edward Miner Gallaudet(1837-1917)Gallaudet became the first superintendent of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind in 1857, and in 1864, was named the first president of the National Deaf Mute College, l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TE7_laurent-clerc-historical_Washington-DC.html
First deaf teacher of deaf students in AmericaPresented to our alma mater by grateful alumni to commemorate Gallaudet's move to university status on October 24, 1986. This bust is a copy of the Clerc Memorial at the American School for the Deaf.La…