Programs
Programs and events
celebrating people, places and events of both
local and citywide interest are planned from time
to time. Tenleytown Historical Society often joins
with other local groups in sponsoring programs.
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2011
"Mr. Lincoln's City Goes to War, 1861." (November)
Dr. B. F. Cooling, author of Mr. Lincoln's Forts, talked about Washington, DC during the Civil War, including specific references to the role of Fort Reno and Tenleytown.
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Tenleytown
Walking Tour (September)
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In cooperation with Cultural Tourism DC. Focused on Civil War Tenleytown. Tour leader Frank Haendler at left.
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Dumblane Centennial Celebration (May)
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Special event to celebrate Dumblane’s first century. Talks by Sandra Jenkins, Independent Decorative Arts Scholar, on the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Scott Scholz, Museum Curator, Dumbarton House on Dumblane from construction to the present
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The Cold War and Tenleytown (February)
Albert LaFrance, an amateur historian, talked about the region's Cold War era national security and telecommunications infrastructure and the role of the "third water tower" at Fort Reno.
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2010
Tenleytown Heritage Trail Launch
Judith Beck Helm, the author of Tenleytown, DC: Country Village into City Neighborhood, shared her knowledge of Tenleytown as part of the Heritage Trail launch festivities.
Top of the Town - The installation of the Tenleytown Trail was celebrated with talks at Fort Reno, Open Houses along the trail, and music provided by Middle C students.
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Tenleytown Walking Tour
In cooperation with Cultural Tourism DC
Authors’ Evening
Four local authors talked about their recent books: Steve Dryden Peirce Mill: Two Hundred Years in the Nation’s Capital; Jim Johnston (with Margaret Loughboro,) The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough; Paul Sluby Bury Me Deep: Burial Places Past and Present in and Nearby Washington, DC, A Historical Review and Reference Manual; Elizabeth Smith Brownstein Mr. Lincoln’s Cottage.
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2009
American University Park/Robeyville Multi-property Document
Panel presentation of the document, what it does and doesn’t do, and possible effects of listing one’s property in the DC Inventory of Historic Sites. Panel: David Maloney, SHPO, DC Historic Preservation Office; Carol Goldman, President, the L’Enfant Trust; Frank Haendler, Grant Road Historic District homeowner; Todd Monash, owner, The Hilleary T. Burrows House, listed in the DC Inventory of Historic Sites; Julie Six, Realtor, Long & Foster.
Tenleytown Walking Tour
In cooperation with Cultural Tourism DC
An Evening with the Loughboroughs
Jim Johnston shared his research on the Loughboro family who once had an estate in Tenleytown called Grasslands, no longer extant. That research included Margaret Loughborough’s Recollections of her life in Richmond during the Civil War and is the basis for The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough.
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2008
DC Highest Natural Elevation Ceremony
Formal recognition of DC’s highest natural elevation, located at Fort Reno near Deal Middle School, was celebrated by local residents as well as representatives from the National Park Service, the Highpointers Club, the DC Association of Land Surveyors, and others. Program planned in cooperation with the National Park Service and Tenleytown Neighbors Association.
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2007
Dumblane in the Spring
A visit to Tenleytown’s Arts and Crafts house with the garden in bloom.
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2006
Tenleytown Walking Tour (April)
In cooperation with Cultural Tourism DC and Tenleytown Neighbors Association.
Visit to WASA Site at Fort Reno
Visitors toured the various buildings, including the interior of the second (grey stone) water tower and one of the ‘keeper’s’ houses. The manager of the site provided information about the site’s operations.
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2005
Mr.
Lincoln, Tenleytown and the Civil
War
Dr.
Benjamin Cooling, co-author of Mr.
Lincoln's Forts, National Park
Service Ranger Ron Harvey, and THS
member Jason Hegy, provided a lively
and informative discussion of the
role of Fort Reno and Tenleytown in
the Civil War.
150th
Anniversary of The Methodist Cemetery
– with The Methodist Cemetery
Association and Tenleytown Neighbors
Association (TNA)
Margaret Amundson, CG, and Diane Tamayo talked about
different aspects of genealogy relating to the families
of those interred at the cemetery. There was a short
service of rededication.
Historic
Preservation and Eminent Domain: How
the Recent Supreme Court Decision
Might Affect Your Neighborhood
Dorn McGrath, Professor Emeritus, GWU, former
chairman of the Departments of Urban and Regional
Planning and Geography, former Chairman of Committee
of 100 on the Federal City, Fellow of AICP, and a
resident of Forest Hills, provided some insight on
how city planning, historic preservation and the
eminent domain decision could affect our neighborhoods.
Peirce
Mill Tour and Picnic
Introduction
to the Mill’s history by a Rock Creek Park ranger.
Walk led by Richard Abbott, President of Friends
of Peirce Mill, and THS member.
Tour
of New Condominiums at Cityline
David Maloney
from the DC Historic Preservation Office provided
background on the project to add condominiums to the
landmarked Sears Roebuck building at the corner of
Albemarle Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Representatives
of Madison Marquette/Roadside Development then showed a
video of the new building taking shape after which
participants were able to tour a number of the not quite
finished units.
Celebration
of Lily Spandorf
In April we celebrated the life and
art of Lily Spandorf who adopted the
city of Washington as her own and
captured its essence and many of its
lost buildings in her art.
Her "Never More" collection of paintings
of buildings no longer in existence
is owned by The Historical Society
of Washington, and is the subject
of a book entitled Washington
Never More. Lily Spandorf spent
many of her weekends in Tenleytown.
Her painting of the Chappell
house, razed to permit construction
of the homes at Nebraska Avenue and
Albemarle Street, is reproduced on
the cover of Judith Helm's Tenleytown,
DC: Country Village into City
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2004
2nd
House and Garden Tour
Tour included homes in Grant Road
Historic District, Mt. Airy, and American
University Park, built from the mid-1800s
to the early 1900s. Also included
were Eldbrooke United Methodist Church
and The Methodist Cemetery.
The
Geography of Tenleytown: Hills
and Valleys
A
lecture by Richard Randall, Ph.D.
explaining how geography shaped Tenleytown's
development. Its elevation
(the highest natural elevation in
the city is located on the grounds
of Fort Reno) provided a strategic
advantage to troops stationed at Fort
Reno during the Civil War. |
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2003
2nd
House and Garden Tour
House and Garden Tour
 Tour included eight houses built between c. 1875 and 1941. |
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