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Ned Lamont (born 1954), businessman and 89th Governor of Connecticut; born in D.C. Brian Sims (born 1978), Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; born in D.C. [52] Josh Stein (born 1966), governor-elect and attorney general of North Carolina; born in D.C.
The President's House was a major feature of Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's [a] 1791 plan for the newly established federal city of Washington, D.C. [15] After L'Enfant's dismissal in early 1792, Washington and his Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, who both had personal interests in architecture, agreed that the design of the President's ...
Pennsylvania Avenue is a primarily diagonal street in Washington, D.C. that connects the United States Capitol with the White House and then crosses northwest Washington, D.C. to Georgetown. Traveling through southeast Washington from the Capitol, it enters Prince George's County, Maryland , and becomes MD Route 4 (MD 4) and then MD Route 717 ...
Exhibition Catalogue, Sale 6834: The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis April 23–26, 1996. Sothebys, Inc.: 1996. The White House: An Historic Guide. White House Historical Association and the National Geographic Society: 2001. ISBN 0-912308-79-6. The White House: Celebrating Two Hundred Years 1800–2000. White House Historical Association ...
By the 1950s, Pennsylvania Avenue was marked by deteriorating homes, shops, and office buildings on the north side and monumental Neoclassical federal office buildings on the south side. [80] [81] President John F. Kennedy noticed the dilapidated condition of the street when his inaugural procession traversed Pennsylvania Avenue in 1961.
People by university or college in Washington, D.C. (12 C) Pages in category "People from Washington, D.C." The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 527 total.
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.
Location: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20500: Built: c. 1800 Restored: Coolidge-appointed committee of Colonial revival and Federal furniture experts in 1926. . Subsequent work by Maison Jansen in 1961 and White House curator Clement Conger in 1971 further refined that resto