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On June 25, 1883, the club acquired a lot on the corner of H Street and 17th Streets for $10. [3] Later In 1883, the club moved into the first purpose-built structure for a club in Washington, D.C. [3] Designed by the architects W. Bruce Gray and Harvey L. Page, the Victorian-style, four-story building was destroyed in a fire in 1904. [3]
Washington Parks and People is an alliance of community urban park partnerships based at the Josephine Butler Parks Center in the Columbia Heights (Washington, D.C.) neighborhood in Northwest Washington, DC. The organization's field headquarters, the Riverside Center, is located in a former nightclub in Northeast Washington, DC, next to the ...
Washington. The Alibi Club (1884) abandoned; The Army and Navy Club (1885) [88] The Arts Club of Washington (1916) The Capitol Hill Club (The National Republican Club) (1951) The City Tavern Club (1962–2024), insolvent [89] The Cosmos Club (1878) The George Town Club (1966) [90] [91] The Metropolitan Club (1863) [92] The 1925 F Street Club ...
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first director of the National Park Service [5] François E. Matthes: geologist, U.S. Geological Survey [5] Washington Matthews: 1884–1900 surgeon in the United States Army, ethnographer, and linguist [1] Philip Mauro: 1894 lawyer [1] George Hebard Maxwell: 1899 lawyer, lobbyist, executive chairman National Irrigation Association [1] O. Louis ...
Cosmos Club at Lafayette Square, c. 1921 725 Madison Place Cosmos Club on Lafayette Square Tayloe House Townsend House ballroom. From 1879 to 1882, the Cosmos Club met in rented rooms on the third floor in the Corcoran Building on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th Street NW in Washington, D.C. [8] [6] The club moved into a rented house at 23 Madison Place in Lafayette Square from 1883 ...
Republic Gardens is an historic nightclub located in Washington, D.C. It first opened in the 1920s and operated as a popular nighttime music attraction for several decades. During its early years, notable musicians such as Cab Calloway and Ella Fitzgerald performed at the nightclub. [ 1 ]
On July 17, 2006, the club closed after longtime lot owners Potomac Investment Properties decided to move forward with a planned 400,000-square-foot (37,000 m 2) office building on the site. In July 2007, Potomac Investment sold the site to Opus East for $41.5 million, and in spring 2008 construction began on the office building. [ 1 ]