What's
New
This section includes
timely information on special projects, landmark
applications and activities. It will also from
time to time include information on programs sponsored
by other organizations dedicated to historic preservation.
|
Art On Call
As you walk around Tenleytown, look for the eleven refurbished police and fire call boxes depicting elements of local history.
The Tenleytown Historical Society (THS) provided historical consultant services to the Tenleytown Neighbors Association (TNA) for TNA's segment of the citywide Art-on-Call project. The Art-on-Call project is sponsored by Cultural Tourism, DC. |
|
|
Application to designate WOODROW WILSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL filed
In January 2010 the D. C. Preservation League submitted a nomination to list Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in the DC Inventory of Historic Sites. Wilson is eligible for historic landmark status under the Multiple Property Document "Public School Buildings of Washington, D.C., 1864-1960," and it is one of the buildings identified as a candidate for landmarking in the Tenleytown Historical Society's 2003 Historic Resources Survey of Tenleytown. |
|
|
Garden Club of America Entrance Markers
In 1932-33, as part of the George Washington Bicentennial celebration, The Garden Club of America erected pairs of stone markers at six entrances to the city. The pair at Wisconsin and Western Avenues at Friendship Heights is still in place. During construction on the site, the marker on the northwest corner was removed for safekeeping. The site’s developer, Boston Properties, cleaned the marker and recently reinstalled it with a protective fence and planting. The Friendship Heights markers and the other extant markers were added to the DC Inventory of Historic Sites in 2008.
|
|
|
