Bubonic Plague in Pensacola, Martin Massey

Martin Massey, 10 years old, was one of seven deaths caused by Bubonic plague in Pensacola, Florida. Martin, who died on September 3, 1920, was the last victim to die from the plague outbreak that lasted from May 31 until ...

Meridian House

Meridian House, at 1630 Crescent Place, was built by Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin. He purchased the land in 1912, two years after his friend Henry White bought the adjacent site. After a long and distinguished career with the US Foreign ...

Pensacola Council of Ministers

The Pensacola Council of Ministers was located on the corner of West Jackson in De Villiers, at 508 West Jackson Street in Pensacola, Florida.

As the Civil Rights Movement intensified in Pensacola, this group of Christian ministers came together to ...

Meridian Hill Park

The name Meridian Hill comes from a proposal in the early 1800s to establish an official meridian or longitudinal base point, for map-making and other purposes, through the mid-point of the White House. A plaque at the upper entrance to ...

Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District

As early as the mid-17th century, the boundaries of the Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District as it is known today were being formed by property lines of the early land grants. During the 40-year period between 1663 and 1703, 18 landowners acquired ...

Mt. Pleasant Historic District

Mount Pleasant is a densely developed urban neighborhood with a distinct architectural character. It contains a rich array of architectural forms representing every period of its development. Significant vestiges of the village's origins are successfully juxtaposed with the residential, commercial ...

New Kalorama Triangle Historic District

This area historically was part of the 19th century estate "Kalorama" and enjoyed a reputation for its natural ambience. It was not until the turn of the century that urban development extended the city of Washington into and beyond the ...

National Trust for Historic Preservation

The National Trust for Historic Preservation headquarters, also known as the McCormick Apartments, was constructed between 1917--1922 and designed by Jules Henri de Sibour. Sibour was commissioned by Chicago-based millionaire Stanley McCormick to create "the most luxurious apartment building in ...

Massachusetts Avenue Historic District

The Massachusetts Avenue Historic District is linearly conceived. L'Enfant planned Massachusetts Avenue as a transverse avenue crossing the city diagonally from the Eastern Branch to Rock Creek. The longest of the transverse avenues, it is roughly parallel to Pennsylvania Avenue ...

Georgetown Commercial Buildings

Georgetown's commercial history began on the waterfront as a shipping center. Sprawled along the waterfront were warehouses and wharves, sailor's taverns, flour mills and a fleet of ships. Tobacco was the lifeblood of the new community, and in 1745, a ...