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This is a list of notable buildings of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the American fraternal organization also known as the Elks or B.P.O.E., the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Black fraternal organization, and of Elks of Canada, its counterpart.
Both sides of Falls Rd. (Maryland Route 25) at its junction with Old Court Rd. (Maryland Route 133 39°24′03″N 76°40′06″W / 39.400833°N 76.668333°W / 39.400833; -76.668333 ( Rockland Historic
February 26, 1970 (115 E. Fairfax St. 5: Mount Hope: Mount Hope: October 4, 1984 (203 Oak St. A brick, Victorian farmhouse built in 1870 by Irish immigrant William Duncan. The home is attached to an earlier structure, built around 1830.
Elks National Home and Retirement Center is the name of a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status that formerly owned the Elks National Home property. [7] The nonprofit organization has discontinued operations as of 2019, and its continuing source of revenue are the bequests of an ongoing trust, and the nonprofit organization intends to ...
Likewise, "West Falls Church" is rarely used to describe the area but is usually applied to areas west of Falls Church city or near West Falls Church metro station. [3] The bulk of it is made of subdivisions built in the 1940s and early 1950s, including Jefferson Village, Westlawn, Hillwood, Sleepy Hollow, Woodley, Raymondale and Broyhill Park.
[5] [9] The property in West Towson came from two land grants: 400-acre Gott's Hope in 1719, and Gunner's Range in 1706. [10] In 1790, businessman Capt. Charles Ridgely completed the Hampton Mansion just north of Towsontown, the largest private house in America at the time. The Ridgelys lived there for six generations, until 1948. [11]
Falls Church is where the first rural branch of the NAACP was established stemming from events that took place in 1915, when the town passed a segregation ordinance by creating segregated districts in the town. The ordinance was not enforced after the U. S. Supreme Court ruling in Buchanan v. Warley in 1917.
The Falls Church Anglican is an Anglican parish in the Falls Church section of Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. In 2006, the congregation of the Falls Church divided over the question of whether to leave the Episcopal Church , effectively creating two congregations: the Falls Church Anglican and the Falls Church.