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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 preserving our local history.
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At its October 27, 2011 meeting, the Historic Preservation Review Board voted to accept the staff recommendation that the original Immaculata building facing Tenley Circle, its first addition and chapel as well as the 19th century estate home, Dunblane, be added to the DC Inventory of Historic Sites. The site is now the American University Tenley campus. |
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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. Paintings were done by local artist Lena Frumin. The Art-on-Call project is sponsored by Cultural Tourism, DC. |
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The Tenleytown Heritage Trail was launched in November 2011. It is a self-guided three mile walk, including nineteenth century estates, the highest natural elevation in the District of Columbia, and Fort Reno, part of the ring of forts built to protect the capital during the Civil War. The signs provide photographs and reminiscences. Brochures are available at the Tenley Friendship Library (corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Albemarle Street) and Middle C Music (corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine.) For more information or to download the brochure click here.
The Tenleytown Heritage Trail is a project of Cultural Tourism DC in collaboration with the District Department of Transportation. Tenleytown Historical Society and Tenleytown Neighbors Association are cosponsors of the Trail with Cultural Tourism DC. The Tenleytown Heritage Trail Working Group comprised of members of these organizations and the wider community planned the trail.
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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 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.
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