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The statue of Benjamin Franklin is located in front of the Old Post Office at the intersection of 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It was originally sited two blocks east across the street from The Washington Post offices but was moved to its present location in 1980, based on the design plan of the city's Pennsylvania Development Corporation. [4]
In 1919, female journalists founded the Women's National Press Club, when the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. [5] [6] In December 1970, members of the Women's National Press Club voted to allow men into their club and renamed it the Washington Press Club. The next month, the National Press Club voted 227 to ...
This appropriation commemorates the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth on January 17, 1706. [4] In 2008, the Memorial underwent a $3.8 million restoration, which included installation of a multi-media presentation about Philadelphia's most famous citizen, now featured in the 3½-minute show "Benjamin Franklin Forever".
In March 2012, The Washington Post reported that Monument Realty offered a base rent much higher than that of The Trump Organization. [131] Monument and development partner Angelo, Gordon & Co. proposed a 260,000-square-foot (24,000 m 2) office building with a media center on the first three
Benjamin Franklin at 11th Street and ... First Division Monument at State Place and ... by Davide Prete, 5001 Central Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20019 (Capitol View ...
Public Law 95-260 was passed by Congress in 1978 to create a memorial to the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The memorial is a gift from the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and consists of 56 stone blocks, each with a facsimile of the signer's actual signature, his occupation, and his home town.
The Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. are a group of seventeen outdoor statues which are spread out through much of central and northwest Washington, D.C. [3] The statues depict 11 Union generals and formerly included one Confederate general, Albert Pike, who was depicted as a Mason and not as a general.
He was an associate of Benjamin Franklin and a prominent member of the Philadelphia community [2] who assisted in founding the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, the Union Fire Company, and the University of Pennsylvania. [4] In 1731, Syng served as Grand Master of Masons in Pennsylvania. [5]