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Events at the Historical Society of Washington DC Saturday, November 21 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. HSW Collection in Action Guided Tour, Celebrating a Century of Wardman Row-House Neighborhoods Sally Berk, a Washington preservationist, will give a guided tour of the exhibition she co-curated with Caroline Mesrobian Hickman, Celebrating a Century of Wardman Row-House Neighborhoods. This exhibit recounts the story of real-estate mogul Harry Wardman, who claimed in 1925 that he housed 10% of Washingtons population. The critical role he played, not only in the development of the Bloomingdale, Columbia Heights, and Brightwood-- three row-house neighborhoods that were built along major streetcar lines in the early years of the 20th century--but in the constituent city as a whole, is told with historic photographs, maps, and advertisements; architectural floor plans and elevations; and the faces and voices of current residents. (The exhibit was sponsored by the DC Preservation League and funded in part by the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.) Meet at the entrance to the Kiplinger Library located on the second level of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (Suitable for all ages) No RSVP required. FREE Matthew Gilmore H-DC list co-editor, web editor dc-edit@mail.h-net.msu.edu http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/ [list website] http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi?list=H-DC [subscribe to H-DC] Remember to check http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=lm&list=H-DC for past list messages.
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