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1. OAS_970808_01.JPG: Organization Of American States The Organization of American States is based in this building. Originally called the Pan American Union, the OAS building was completed here in 1910. The group was renamed as the OAS in 1948 and consists of most of the countries of North America, South America, and Latin America. Before 1910, this site had been where David Barnes' home stood. Barnes was the original land-owner of much of the land which became Washington DC. This has been a tobacco plantation and, although it now borders the Ellipse, was originally waterfront property since the Potomac River came up to this area until the 1880's. Barnes sold most of his property to the federal government in 1792. Barnes' daughter Marcia married Peter Van Ness and the couple settled in the Van Ness House, built behind the Barnes' home on this same site. Peter later became Mayor of Washington in 1830, The Barnes' home was torn down in 1894 and the Van Ness House was demolished in 1907.
2. OAS_970808_02.JPG: Organization Of American States This is a close-up of the father and son duo to the right of the main entrance. (See OAS_1.GIF)
3. OAS_970808_03.JPG: Organization Of American States This is a close-up of the mother and son duo to the left of the main entrance. (See OAS_1.GIF)
4. OAS_970808_04.JPG: Organization Of American States; Bolivar Statue In back of the main OAS building (shown in the other pictures) is a garden with a reflecting pool (known as the Aztec Gardens) and then a separate building containing the Art Museum of the Americas, the first museum in the world devoted exclusively to recent works of Latin American and Caribbean artists. This statue of Simon Bolivar stands in the Aztec Gardens.
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Wikipedia Description: Organization of American States
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The Organization of American States (OAS, or, as it is known in the three other official languages, OEA) is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas.

History:

The notion of closer hemispheric union in the American continent was first put forward by Sim�n Bol�var who, at the 1826 Congress of Panama, proposed creating a league of American republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. This meeting was attended by representatives of Gran Colombia (comprising the modern-day nations of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela), Peru, the United Provinces of Central America, and Mexico, but the grandly titled "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation" was ultimately only ratified by Gran Colombia. Bol�var's dream soon floundered with civil war in Gran Colombia, the disintegration of Central America, and the emergence of national rather than continental outlooks in the newly independent American republics.

The pursuit of regional solidarity and cooperation again came to the forefront in 1889–90, at the First International Conference of American States. Gathered together in Washington, D.C., 18 nations resolved to found the International Union of American Republics, served by a permanent secretariat called the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (renamed the "International Commercial Bureau" at the Second International Conference in 1901–02). These two bodies, in existence as of 14 April 1890, represent the point of inception to which today's OAS and its General Secretariat trace their origins.

At the Fourth International Conference of American States (Buenos Aires, 1910), the name of the organization was changed to the "Union of American Republics" and the Bureau became the "Pan American Union".

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