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![Fortune 500
First [Female] CEO
Pentagon Papers](/Graphlib/GraphData48.nsf/Images/2023_04_17D3_0160/$File/CALLBX_230417_11.JPG) |
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Fortune 500
First [Female] CEO](/Graphlib/GraphData48.nsf/Images/2023_04_17D3_0160/$File/CALLBX_230417_15.JPG) |
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![Sheridan Kalorama
Call Box Restoration Project
The Presidents
Six United States presidents have resided in Sheridan-Kalorama between 1916 and the present (2018). Warren G. Harding lived at 2314 Wyoming Avenue while a senator from Ohio. William Howard Taft lived across the street at 2215 Wyoming Avenue while Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after leaving the presidency. Herbert Hoover occupied the house at 2300 S Street while Secretary of Commerce and until his inauguration as President. Woodrow Wilson lived at 2340 S Street after his presidency. And [sic -- left over from the original text before Barack Obama's portrait was added] Franklin D. Roosevelt resided at 2131 R Street while assistant secretary of the navy. Barack Obama made his post-presidential home at 2446 Belmont Road.
About the Artist: Peter Waddell, artist, specializes in images of 18th and 19th century Washington.](/Graphlib/GraphData21.nsf/Images/2021_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_210314_061.JPG) |
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![In memoriam to
Albert E. Mitchler
Badge 669
District of Columbia Fire Department who died on September 29, 1947 in the line of duty. Dedicated by his children
June Ann M. McComas
Joyce Marie M. Luce
and
Albert E. Mitchler, Jr.
[According to https://fems.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/fems/publication/attachments/Bull.%20100%20Roll%20of%20Honor.pdf , he was the 69th DC Fire and Emergency Services person to die in the line of duty.]](/Graphlib/GraphData21.nsf/Images/2021_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_210311_05.JPG) |
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![In memoriam to
Albert E. Mitchler
Badge 669
District of Columbia Fire Department who died on September 29, 1947 in the line of duty. Dedicated by his children
June Ann M. McComas
Joyce Marie M. Luce
and
Albert E. Mitchler, Jr.
[According to https://fems.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/fems/publication/attachments/Bull.%20100%20Roll%20of%20Honor.pdf , he was the 69th DC Fire and Emergency Services person to die in the line of duty.]](/Graphlib/GraphData21.nsf/Images/2021_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_210114_22.JPG) |
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![Tour guide, map and artist information for all 22 boxes available at: www.DupontCircleCallBox.com
[NOTE: As of October 2020, this URL is not valid.]](/Graphlib/GraphData20.nsf/Images/2020_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_200912_11.JPG) |
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![Sheridan Kalorama
Call Box Restoration Project
The Presidents
Six United States presidents have resided in Sheridan-Kalorama between 1916 and the present (2018). Warren G. Harding lived at 2314 Wyoming Avenue while a senator from Ohio. William Howard Taft lived across the street at 2215 Wyoming Avenue while Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after leaving the presidency. Herbert Hoover occupied the house at 2300 S Street while Secretary of Commerce and until his inauguration as President. Woodrow Wilson lived at 2340 S Street after his presidency. And [sic -- left over from the original text before Barack Obama's portrait was added] Franklin D. Roosevelt resided at 2131 R Street while assistant secretary of the navy. Barack Obama made his post-presidential home at 2446 Belmont Road.
About the Artist: Peter Waddell, artist, specializes in images of 18th and 19th century Washington.](/Graphlib/GraphData20.nsf/Images/2020_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_200629_33.JPG) |
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Art on Call
Site of The National Bureau of Standards
In 1901, the National Bureau of Standards began developing a large complex [of] 89 buildings on 70 acres [w]est of Connecticut Avenue near this site. The NBS was devoted to testing new materials and establishing industry standards. The NBS [ph]ysicists developed radio technology, which led to guiding airplanes with radio waves.
This artistic work reflects the history of technological scientific research in the Van Ness neighborhood and natural beauty of Rock Creek Park.
Artist: Anna Glist, Burke School](/Graphlib/GraphData20.nsf/Images/2020_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_200422_14.JPG) |
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![Everyday People
Columbia Heights Art on Call
Moving between Old and New
Youth from the Latin American Youth Center -- Art + Media House used cameras and microphones to explore the changing faces of Columbia Heights' people and places. Collaborating with community artists, youth researched neighborhood history, interviewed residents, and uncovered what Columbia Heights means to them today. See the neighborhood through the eyes of these youth. Then look around you and take in the face of Columbia Heights from where you stand. Celebrate the people of Columbia Heights -- both longtime and newer residents, elders and the young -- that add to the vitality and vibrancy of this community.
Stories on Call
Take a minute and listen to the neighborhood.
You can reach our Stories on Call by dialing: 1-800-321-2474, and then press #7.
Art on Call
Police and fire call boxes were installed throughout the capital starting in the 1860s and remained in use until 1976. Before the 911 emergency call system, two-way radios and walkie-talkies; call boxes were vital for emergency communication. Now unused, these beautiful iron structures remain part [sic] our streets. Art on Call is a city-wide project of Cultural Tourism DC, to transform Washington's abandoned call boxes into artistic neighborhood icons.
Art on Call is a program of Cultural Tourism DC, with support from:
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, DC Creates Public Art Program, District Department of Transportation, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development.
All work produced by youth from the Latin American Youth Center -- Art + Media House
For more information visit: www.ArtMediaHouse.org](/Graphlib/GraphData20.nsf/Images/2020_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_200417_07.JPG) |
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Fortune 500
First [Female] CEO](/Graphlib/GraphData19.nsf/Images/2019_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_191017_225.JPG) |
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Georgetown University, founded in 1789 by Reverend John Carroll as a school for students of "Every Religious Profession," is the oldest Catholic university in America, administered by the Jesuits since 1805. According to the 1831 University prospectus, students were to bring , "a silver tumbler and spoon, two knives and forks, a matrass [sic] and a pillow, two pair of sheets and two pillow-cases, three blankets and a counterpane of rug."
Healy Hall, which faces the University's front gates, is named for Georgetown's 29th president, Rev. Patrick Healy, S.J., who served from 1873 to 1882. Father Healy, the son of an Irish father, and a mother who had been a slave, was the first African American president to head what has become a major research university. The south pavilion of Healy houses the Riggs Memorial Library, on of few remaining cast-iron libraries in the country. It is balanced in the north pavilion by Gaston Hall, the University's primary ceremonial space, named for Georgetown's first student, William Gaston, who later served in the U.S. Congress. Since 1879, Healy has made a striking Georgetown landmark with its 200-foot-high central clock spire visible up and down the Potomac River.
Behind Healy Hall is the original quadrangle, where the Old North Building houses classrooms and faculty offices. Completing the original quadrangle are Dahlgren Memorial Chapel of 1893 and former residence halls -- Maquire, Gervaise, Mulledy, and Ryan -- named for earlier Jesuits and benefactors.
President George Washington addressed students from the front porch of Old North in 1797 as did the Marquis de Lafayette in 1824. Among Georgetown's alumni are President William J. Clinton, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, National Basketball Association player and two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Patrick Ewing, Sr., actor John Barrymore and Senate Majority leader George Mitchell.](/Graphlib/GraphData18.nsf/Images/2018_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_180422_01.JPG) |
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Country Village to City Neighborhood
Modern Commerce
A Sears Roebuck department store was built in the 4500 block of Wisconsin Avenue in 1941. The Sears building marked the arrival of modem [sic] day commerce in Tenleytown. The art deco style and the building's signature rooftop parking reflected urban design concepts of that time. The Giant Food Store (pictured here) originally occupied the building at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine Street and also featured rooftop parking. Other commercial activities, such as television broadcasting, came to Tenleytown in the 1950s.](/Graphlib/GraphData17.nsf/Images/2017_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_170709_20.JPG) |
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Impeach
The Putin Puppet]
Dupont Circle
Art on Call
The Dupont Circle Art on Call project explores neighborhood history and local fire and police events. It also celebrates our diverse political, artistic and intellectual community by presenting original artwork by 22 local artists featuring the hub of our neighborhood. Dupont Circle and the beautiful fountains designed by Daniel Chester French.
Art on Call is a program of Cultural Tourism DC with support from
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
District Department of Transportation](/Graphlib/GraphData17.nsf/Images/2017_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_170414_65.JPG) |
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Art on Call
Site of The National Bureau of Standards
In 1901, the National Bureau of Standards began developing a large complex [of] 89 buildings on 70 acres [w]est of Connecticut Avenue near this site. The NBS was devoted to testing new materials and establishing industry standards. The NBS [ph]ysicists developed radio technology, which led to guiding airplanes with radio waves.
This artistic work reflects the history of technological scientific research in the Van Ness neighborhood and natural beauty of Rock Creek Park.
Artist: Anna Glist, Burke School](/Graphlib/GraphData16.nsf/Images/2016_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_160312_06.JPG) |
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On August 24, 1814, after defeating the US forces at Bladensburg, MD, British soldiers entered the District of Columbia. At dusk, they torched the Capitol and headed to the Treasury and the White House. Soon after, British George Cockburn and General Robert Ross stopped at a boardinghouse at 15th St and Pennsylvania Ave, NW, and instructed its owner, Barbara Suter, to prepare a fine supper for them. Then they left to torch the White House and Treasury, and returned to eat their meal as the buildings burned.
While dining, General Ross asked Suter about the Bank of the Metropolis, the former location of Suter's boarding house, here on the corner of F St. Soon, the British commanders left, intent on burning down the three-story, Federal style brick bank building too. But at the bank, they were met by Sarah Sweeny, the bank's cleaning woman. In order to save the structure, she told the British officers that [the] bank rented its building, and its owner, a poor widow, depended on that rent as her sole source of income. Sweeney's [the placard spells her last name two different ways...] fiction convinced the British to spare the building, built in 1799 and formerly operated by William Rhodes as a tavern serving the federal government. Bank records reveal that Sweeny received a $100 bonus for her successful intervention.
Rhodes Tavern, a designated landmark, was torn down in 1984.
Artist: Ken Frye](/Graphlib/GraphData10.nsf/Images/2010_DC_Callbox_0160/$File/CALLBX_100708_05.JPG) |
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