BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Rosedale Conservancy

DC -- Rosedale Conservancy:

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1. CONSER_171217_10.JPG: The Rosedale Conservancy Est. 2002
2. CONSER_171217_46.JPG: The Story of Rosedale From Colonial Farm to Village Green 1740-1792 An unknown Maryland colonist built a stone cottage on Pretty Prospects, a vast area that included today's Wisconsin Avenue, Melvin Hazen Park, Pierce Mill, the National Zoo, and upper Georgetown. 1793-1917 General Uriah Forrest, a Revolutionary War hero and colleague of George Washington, purchased 420 acres of Pretty Prospects to move his family from the sweltering port of Georgetown to the green hills above the new federal city. He named his property Rosedale and built a gracious farmhouse, attaching it to the original stone cottage. There, Uriah and his wife Rebecca entertained the nation's leaders, among them John Adams. Debt and misfortune nearly took Rosedale from the Forrests and their descendants. Gradually, all but 8.6 acres were sold, including the land to develop Cleveland Park in the 1890s. When Rosedale finally changed hands after 124 years, the house and grounds were a wreck. The Rosedale farmhouse is said to be the oldest house surviving in Washington, DC. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The farmhouse is a private home. Please do not enter farmhouse grounds. 1917-1959 Avery and Queene Coonley rescued Rosedale when they moved from Chicago with their 15-year-old daughter Elizabeth. They renovated the crumbling farmhouse and built a guest cottage, tennis court, and greenhouse. Mrs. Coonley worked with a prominent landscape architect to restore the 18th-century landscape. Avery Coonley died in 1920. Queene Coonley kept Rosedale beautiful for 41 years. She left the property to Elizabeth, married to architect Waldron Faulkner. 1959-2002 Youth for Understanding USA The Faulkners sold Rosedale to the National Cathedral to build dormitories for students attending the National Cathedral School. In 1977, the Cathedral sold the property to Youth for Understanding, and international student exchange group. Under institutional use, Rosedale's historical landscape faded to a shadow of its former beauty. 2002-Forever Neighbors banded together to purchase Rosedale, tear down the dormitory buildings, restore the 18th-Century landscape, preserve the land forever as Cleveland Park's Village Green. Rosedale is managed by The Rosedale Conservancy, a volunteer group of neighbors. The Conservancy is financially supported through the generosity of hundreds of local residents. To learn more about Rosedale's history, its popular community events, and how to become a member, please visit: rosedaleconservancy.org
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2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA, a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin), New York City, and my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona). For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about: "Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo), "The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy), "The American Spirit" (David McCullough), "Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert), "The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and "The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover). Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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