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Webster University Geneva was founded in 1978. From 1978 to 1983, the university was housed in the John Knox Center in Grand-Saconnex. In 1983 the university moved to its current location, which at the time included a large house (the current administration building) and 24’000 sq/m of land.
The residence, built in 1910, was designed by the French-born American architect Jules Henri de Sibour for William Watson Lawrence (1859-1916), [4] a paint and white lead manufacturer. [3]
U.S. Route 29 (US 29) enters Washington, D.C., via the Key Bridge from Arlington County, Virginia, and exits at Silver Spring, Maryland.It predominantly follows city surface streets, although the portion of the route from the Key Bridge east to 26th Street Northwest is an elevated highway better known as the Whitehurst Freeway.
In the early days of Washington, D.C., most diplomats and ambassadors lived on or around Lafayette Square. The first purpose-designed embassy building in Washington was the embassy of the United Kingdom on 1300 Connecticut Avenue , immediately south of Embassy Row, built in 1872 by Sir Edward Thornton on John Fraser 's design, and demolished in ...
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The U.S. General Services Administration Building, the first government building designed for the specific needs of a designated federal department, was the first federal building to use limestone facing and one of the first buildings in Washington, DC constructed of steel framing. It fills the entire city block between E, F, Eighteenth and ...
The Sixteenth Street Historic District is a 1.25-mile (2.01 km) linear historic district in Washington, D.C., that includes all structures along 16th Street NW between H Street and Florida Avenue. The district's southern boundary is bordered by Lafayette Square, just north of the White House, and Meridian Hill Park on its northern boundary. It ...
Beacon Global Strategies LLC (BGS) is a Washington, DC–based strategic advisory firm founded by Jeremy Bash, Philippe Reines, and Andrew Shapiro in 2013. [1] [2] Philippe Reines left the firm as of September 2017. [3]