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This urban oasis exists because President Andrew Jackson needed water. The site of excellent springs (a rare commodity in the early city when everyone was dependent on private wells), this square was purchased by the federal government in 1832 so that it co…
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"Carpets, cushions, and hymnbooks were packed away ... ambulances began to stop ... lastly come the surgeons...." Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington.Church spires dominated the skyline of the city of Washington at the time of the Civil War, symbolizing …
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"Main Street" for the city and the nation.
Just a few steps ahead is Pennsylvania Avenue the inaugural parade route for every president since Thomas Jefferson and "Main Street" for local Washington since the city's founding. Jefferson planted the first t…
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"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," Senator Daniel Webster, January 1830.
Senator Daniel Webster, eloquent advocate for the preservation of the Union and a political giant in pre-Civil War America, lived and worked here. His home a…
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Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington"The neighborhood was our whole life." Albert Small, born in the neighborhood in 1902. This is the oldest surviving synagogue building in Washington. Constructed in 1875 by Adas Israel Congregation, and origina…
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"The churches are needed as never before for divine services," President Abraham Lincoln
So said President Lincoln from his pew in New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. While other churches were occupied by the federal government for offices and hospital…
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"I have paid the rent of a room in Washington ... retaining it merely as a shelter to which I might return when my strength should fail me under exposure and labor at the field." Clara Barton, December 1863.
In November 1997, Richard Lyons peered into t…
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"Alvin, Washington, D.C. is the place for us."
So wrote Samuel Walter Woodward to his business partner, Alvin Lothrop, in 1879. The young entrepreneurs were looking for a new location for their innovative dry goods store near Boston, Massachusetts. Unha…
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"It's too bad the damn thing is fire proof," General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1887.
The nation's only museum dedicated to American achievements in architecture, urban planning, construction, engineering, and design is appropriately housed in one of the …
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To your right at the end of Indiana Avenue is Washington's first City Hall/Courthouse. Across Sixth Street is the H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse, a successor to the original courthouse.
The Old City Hall/Courthouse opened in 1822, with offices for the may…