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The Music Center at Strathmore features an undulating roof that outlines the sloping form of the concert hall. Inspired by the rolling hills of the Strathmore grounds, the 190,000-square-foot (18,000 m 2) building is nestled into an 11-acre (45,000 m 2) park-like setting. The German limestone façade is punctuated by large glass walls.
The Fraser Gallery was either of two Washington, D.C. (1996-2011) or Bethesda, Maryland (2002-2011) art galleries founded by Catriona Fraser, [1] an expatriate British photographer and art dealer in Washington.
Service to Grosvenor (named for its proximity to Grosvenor Lane) began on August 25, 1984. [3] [4] Grosvenor Lane was located at the 100 acres (40 ha) farm of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875–1966), the father of photojournalism and the first full-time editor of National Geographic from 1899 to 1954. He moved there from the Dupont Circle area in ...
The portion of Old Georgetown Road from that turnpike (now MD 355) in Bethesda to the community of Alta Vista at Cedar Lane was paved as a macadam road by Montgomery County with state aid by 1910. [12] [13] MD 187 was extended to what is now Democracy Boulevard in 1924. [14] [15] The highway was extended as a macadam road to Tuckerman Lane in ...
Maryland Route 355 (MD 355) is a 36.75-mile (59.14 km) north–south road in western central Maryland in the United States.The southern terminus of the route is in Bethesda in Montgomery County, where Wisconsin Avenue meets the county's border with Washington, D.C. [2] The northern terminus is just north of a bridge over Interstate 70 (I-70)/U.S. Route 40 (US 40) in the city of Frederick in ...
A second section of MD 190 was constructed through Potomac in the mid-1920s. The Bethesda and Potomac portions of the route were unified in the late 1920s. MD 190 was extended west toward Seneca in two steps in 1950 and the early 1970s. The highway was expanded to a four-lane divided highway through Bethesda in the early 1960s.
Maryland Route 191 (MD 191) is a state highway in southwestern Montgomery County in the U.S. state of Maryland.. Known for most of its length as Bradley Boulevard, the highway runs 7.16 miles (11.52 km) from MD 190 (River Road) in Potomac east through Bethesda to MD 185 (Connecticut Avenue) in Chevy Chase.
Maryland Route 410 (MD 410) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland and known for most of its length as East–West Highway. The highway runs east to west (hence its name) for 13.92 miles (22.40 km) from MD 355 in Bethesda east to Pennsy Drive in Landover Hills.