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Fuller House is an historic house in the Kalorama Triangle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It has been listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites since 1985 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The house was designed by architect Thomas J.D. Fuller and completed in 1893.
The District of Columbia, capital of the United States, is home to 78 National Historic Landmarks.The National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]
Army Medical Museum and Library, opened 1862, became the National Museum of Health and Medicine in 1989 and relocated to Silver Spring, Maryland in 2011 Bead Museum, closed December 2008, [ 8 ] Black Fashion Museum, founded 1979, moved to Washington in 1994, closed in 2007 and collection donated to the National Museum of African American ...
The museum announced on 17 May 2010 that it was closing, and hoped to move to Washington, D.C. [2] On January 27, 2012 the museum filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy (liquidation) in the Southern District of New York as case number 12-10331. The Voluntary Petition listed assets of less than $50,000 and liabilities of $1 million to $10 million.
A museum of church history was planned as early as 1843 in Nauvoo, Illinois. The current Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah was opened in April 1984. [10] [11] A major proponent of the creation of the church museum was Florence S. Jacobsen, a church curator and a former Young Women General President. The Museum underwent a major ...
The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., also called the DC History Center, is an educational foundation dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of Washington, D.C. The society provides lectures, exhibits, classes, and community events. It runs a museum, library, and publishes the journal Washington History.
The Embassy now houses the new Founding Church of Scientology; the museum of the historic Founding Church of Scientology is nearby. [1] [3] [30] [65] Foundry United Methodist Church, 1500 16th Street NW; This Gothic Revival church, designed by Appleton P. Clark, Jr., was built in 1904. The annex on the corner of 16th and P Streets was built in ...
The museum was established as a nonprofit organization in 2010. [15] The museum's building location and design were announced in 2012 when the Green family purchased the 1923 Terminal Refrigerating and Warehousing Co. building, [16] that used to be the Washington Design Center, two blocks from the National Mall in Washington D.C. [17] [18] The primary donors to the museum at launch were Hobby ...