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Julian Francis Abele (April 30, 1881 – April 23, 1950) was a prominent black American architect, and chief designer in the offices of Horace Trumbauer.He contributed to the design of more than 400 buildings, including the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University (1912–15), Philadelphia's Central Library (1917–27), [3] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1914–28). [4]
The Argentine Government purchased the building on February 20, 1913, from Henrietta Huff, who decided to sell the house after her husband's death in 1912. Julian Abele designed the Widener Library at Harvard University and several buildings for Duke University in North Carolina, mansions in Newport Rhode Island and New York as well as many ...
Library Thing: Books by J. C. Catford; Memorial Websites: Remembering J. C. Catford; The Catford Tapes: Ian Catford's Life in Linguistics. 67/68 year old Ian relates his life. Videos from 8 “lectures” given between Feb. 7 and Apr. 18, 1985. Altogether 6h 21m of storytelling.
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 ...
Woodley Lane (later Woodley Road) in Washington, D.C., was named after the Woodley Mansion. [12] The Woodley Society, founded at Maret in 1993, is an association of students, faculty, and alumni that studies the house's history. [1] In 2008, the group's leader, historian Allerton Kilborne, published a book about Woodley. [2]
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The Mount Pleasant Library was the third and last DC Neighborhood Library to be built with Carnegie funding. Andrew Carnegie had funded the construction of the Central Library and, at its dedication in 1903, he offered to finance branch buildings as they were needed. Congress was slow to authorize the acceptance of his offer.
Carnegie Library of Washington D.C. formerly served as the DCPL's Central Public Library. In October 1895, in preparation of the library's establishment, founders rented two rooms in the McLean Building at 1517 H Street NW to begin acquiring and processing materials to be used in what would then be called the Washington City Free Library.