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The view of Washington, DC taken from the 2nd floor bay window. The site of the Frederick Douglass home originally was purchased by John Van Hook in about 1855. Van Hook built the main portion of the present house soon after taking possession of the property. For a portion of 1877, the house was owned by the Freedom Savings and Trust Company ...
A piece of American history is changing hands in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass married his second wife, Helen ...
The District of Columbia, capital of the United States, is home to 78 National Historic Landmarks.The National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]
Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass National Historic Site: 1877–1895 Kyle: Douglass wrote the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in this house, which he named "Cedar Hill". [74] Langston Hughes [[]] Langston Hughes House, Washington D.C. 1924–1926 Washington D.C.
The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is a through arch bridge that carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It was completed in 2021 and replaced an older swing bridge that was completed in 1950 as the South Capitol Street Bridge. In 1965, the original bridge was renamed after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. [2]
Note that the White House, the Capitol, and the United States Supreme Court Building are recorded in the National Register's NRIS database as National Historic Landmarks, but by the provisions of the Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Section 107 (16 U.S.C. 470g), these three buildings and associated buildings and grounds are legally exempted ...
Media related to Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, Founders Library at Wikimedia Commons Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. DC-364, "Howard University, Founders Library, 2400 Sixth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC", 30 photos, 11 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
The families of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Emmett Till, and Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, among others, were scheduled to ...