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Bryant was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 12, 1965, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia vacated by Judge David Andrew Pine. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 11, 1965, and received his commission the same day.
The Freedman's Bank Building, previously known as the Treasury Annex, is a historic office building located on the corner of Madison Place and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It sits on the east side of Lafayette Square , a public park on the north side of the White House , and across from the Treasury Building .
While representation is often cited as a grievance of District residents, limited self-rule has often played a large or larger part in retrocession movements. In 1801, members of the levy courts that governed Washington County and Alexandria County were all chosen by the president, as was the mayor of the City of Washington from 1802 to 1820.
In 1977, the Gores sold the hotel [1] to John B. Coleman for $5 million. [5] Coleman soon spent $10 million on a renovation, and renamed the hotel The Ritz-Carlton Washington, D.C. in 1982, having licensed the name from Gerald Blakely, owner of the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, [6] for a fee of 1.5 percent of the Washington hotel's annual gross ...
Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. is located at the corner of 8th and I streets, Southeast in Washington, D.C. Established in 1801, it is a National Historic Landmark, the oldest post in the United States Marine Corps, the official residence of the Commandant of the Marine Corps since 1806, and the main ceremonial grounds of the Corps.
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Location of the Munitions and Main Navy Buildings on a 1945 USGS map. The Munitions Building, constructed in 1918, contained 841,000 square feet (78,100 m 2) of space across three stories and was designed to provide temporary accommodations for 9,000 Department of War employees. [6]
The current building opened in 1928 as the Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel, [4] under the direction of Marcellus E. Wright Sr., with Warren and Wetmore consulting. [5] It replaced an earlier Chamberlin Hotel, designed by Washington, D.C., architects John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz and completed in 1896, which had in turn replaced the Hygeia.