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States News Service's strategy was to concentrate on the local angles of national stories. [3] [4] Examples of these kinds of stories were described in a 1978 profile: For instance, the C.I.A. program to test the behavior of people who had taken LSD was a national story, but the fact that part of it was undertaken at Rutgers University was the more important page one news for The Newark Star ...
Pennsylvania Avenue is a primarily diagonal street in Washington, ... 904 (Anacostia Freeway to Independence Ave., then 7th St. NW to 11th St. NW)
Each of the organizations located in the Pennsylvania Avenue building are dedicated to international trade and global relations. Organizations headquartered in this building include U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Pennsylvania Avenue saw its first electric streetlights give light on October 14, 1881. [56] A small number of additional lights north of the avenue along 10th Street NW were lit later that month. [57] The southern part of the Pennsylvania Avenue district was flooded many times in the last three decades of the 19th century.
The Shops at National Place was a three-level, indoor shopping mall located in downtown Washington, D.C. in the 16-story National Place Building. [1] It is located on the block bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, F Street, between 13th and 14th Streets NW, the former site of the Munsey Trust Building.
This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the central area of Washington, D.C. For the purposes of this list central Washington, D. C. is defined as all of the Northwest quadrant east of Rock Creek and south of M Street and all of the Southwest quadrant.
The District Building was designed in the American Beaux Arts classical revival style and takes up the entire block between 14th and 13 1/2th Streets NW, south of Pennsylvania Avenue across from Freedom Plaza. The base of the building is made of grey granite from Maine, while the upper four stories are constructed of white marble from New York ...
Congress changed the height limit for buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue NW from 130 feet (40 m) to 160 feet (49 m) in 1910 in order to accommodate the Raleigh Hotel. [2] In 1936, there was a major interior renovation. Curt Schliffeler managed the hotel from 1936 to 1954. In 1964, the Raleigh was demolished. [3]