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Memorial Continental Hall was commissioned by the DAR in 1902 to be used as a headquarters, assembly hall, and meeting place for DAR conferences. Architect Edward Pearce Casey designed the building, and construction occurred between 1904 and 1910. [3] It was the first of three DAR buildings erected on the same site.
DAR Constitution Hall is a concert hall located at 1776 D Street NW, near the White House in Washington, D.C. It was built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to house its annual convention when membership delegations outgrew Memorial Continental Hall .
The first meeting of the society was held August 9, 1890. [7] The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution sculpture honoring DAR's four founders. The first DAR chapter was organized on October 11, 1890, [8] at the Strathmore Arms, the home of Mary Smith Lockwood, one of the DAR's four co-founders.
For example, a formal tea party hosted on December 19, 1971, by the Alhambra San Gabriel Society of the CAR was covered in the News-Herald and Journal Green Sheet on December 19, 1971, featuring Mrs. Alvin Willard Kirkham, a member of the DAR and her granddaughter, Karen Earle Lile who at the age of 12 was noted in the paper as one of the ...
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The marble sculpture is a female figure symbolizing American womanhood. She has outstretched arms and is adorned with flowing drapery. Four medallions honoring the four founders of the DAR are on the front of a rectangular marble stele that stands behind the sculpture. The inscriptions on the memorial include the following: [1] Gertrude V. Whitney
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