22 10 274 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/b26dc377e829a2c16b7dfbf10aa9d94b.png 89bbaf1b7b836299c06e736c7ca1f041 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://overseasbuildings.state.gov/">Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, U.S. Department of State</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1139/#geolocation">1701 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, VA 22209</a> <a>+1 (703) 875-6361</a> Description The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas building program for the Department of State and the U.S. Government community serving abroad under the authority of the chiefs of mission. In concert with other State Department bureaus, foreign affairs agencies, and Congress, OBO sets worldwide priorities for the design, construction, acquisition, maintenance, use, and sale of real properties and the use of sales proceeds. OBO’s mission is to provide safe, secure and functional facilities that represent the U.S. government to the host nation and support our staff in the achievement of U.S. foreign policy objectives. These facilities should represent American values and the best in American architecture, design, engineering, technology, sustainability, art, culture and construction execution. Resource <a href="http://art.state.gov/">Art in Embassies:</a> For five decades, Art in Embassies (AIE) has played a leading role in U.S. public diplomacy through a focused mission of vital cross-cultural dialogue and understanding through the visual arts and dynamic artist exchange. The Museum of Modern Art first envisioned this global visual arts program in 1953, and President John F. Kennedy formalized it at the U.S. Department of State in 1963. Today, AIE is a public-private partnership engaging over 20,000 participants globally, including artists, museums, galleries, universities, and private collectors, and encompasses over 200 venues in 189 countries. Professional curators and registrars create and ship about 60 exhibitions per year, and since 2000, over 58 permanent collections have been installed in the Department’s diplomatic facilities throughout the world. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, U.S. Department of State 20th century 21st century architecture archives Arlington art buildings community construction culture design exhibits international real estate Virginia https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/5127b6efc5642eff6d120c3a9d13dcb3.jpg c6e880ef60eaac0f162aeb26718f905d https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/207acbf7326aa67922ff14f1c5e4034c.jpg f750673c1bdea6ffecbe04780ae0ad88 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/7354636cbd285480f8e882e4a7b8520a.jpg 3d8655526b2105b97b8d65ed2d4f17dd https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/622ba5d3d57ba1e79b0cafce1c920f6e.jpg 1c6af120738b34878bee65f0c1faf4c7 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/a4313932de384043dc5efa8cafdf1322.jpg cc41fb285a05857c4d6c6132436f6f64 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/6a6e46fad6504f1aae8e48d7ab48d75c.jpg 361fe44a860c5c54ba41f79513b6a194 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/">Tudor Place Historic House & Garden</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1138/#geolocation">1644 31st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007</a> <a>+1 (202) 965-0400</a> <a href="mailto:info@tudorplace.org">info@tudorplace.org</a> Description Tudor Place, a National Historic Landmark, was completed in 1816, lived in by six generations of a single family, and opened to the public in 1988, Tudor Place Historic House & Garden preserves, interprets, and shares with the public and scholars the rich resources of its architecture, history, collections, and archive. One of America’s first National Historic Landmarks, it was built by a granddaughter of Martha Washington and a son of Robert Peter, a prominent Scottish-born merchant and landowner and Georgetown’s first mayor. With an inheritance from George Washington, Thomas and Martha Custis Peter purchased 8½ acres of farmland on Georgetown Heights. Dr. William Thornton, architect of the first U.S. Capitol and a family friend, designed the grand neoclassical house. It remains one of the nation’s few historic urban estates retaining the majority of its original landscape. The estate remained under continuous Peter family ownership through six generations spanning 178 years, its rooms a destination for leading politicians, military leaders, and dignitaries. After the 1983 death of Armistead Peter 3rd, the founders’ great-great-grandson, the site was opened to the public in accordance with his wishes. Today, visitors see the house much as he and other Peters lived in it, preserving spaces and belongings of many eras while adapting their home and landscape to contemporary fashion and functions. With an object collection representing every period of the estate’s occupation since 1805, Tudor Place is a time capsule of culture. Its 15,000-plus objects span three centuries and include a range of cultural touchstones from Martha and George Washington’s personal items to Asian and European decorative arts, musical instruments, garden implements, weaponry, 20th-century couture, and a 1919 automobile. In domestic furnishings alone, the Collection encompasses an extensive aggregation of early American silver, porcelain and ceramics from Europe and Asia. While most house museums reflect the tastes and styles of one era, Tudor Place’s nearly encyclopedic accumulation reflects more than 200 years of American social, political, and economic history. Most of the collection is associated with the residents of Tudor Place or close family members, and nearly a third is displayed in the Landmark House. The intimate rooms of Tudor Place exhibit a constellation of decorative arts, fine art, and household furnishings, inviting guests to imagine life in the past. In its contents and the rich Archive that informs them, the object collection is a rich resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts. Photographs by <a href="http://www.matailongdu.com/">Matailong Du</a>. Resource <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/research-history/archive/">Archive:</a> The Tudor Place archival collection of approximately 300 linear feet or 250,000 items consists of the personal papers of the Peter family from the mid-18th century to 1983. It includes correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, financial records, inventories, blueprints, architectural drawings, and ephemera. In addition, a substantial collection of 5,000 books from the 18th through 20th centuries and mid-19th-century photographs complete this rare resource for students and scholars. <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/research-history/collection/in-the-collection/">The Collection:</a> Most of the more than 15,000 objects in Tudor Place’s collection date from 1750 to 1983. Fine and decorative arts holdings encompass American, European, and Asian silver and metalwork, jewelry, furniture, costume and furnishing textiles, paintings, prints, sculpture, porcelain and ceramics, glass, weaponry, and musical instruments. The museum’s Washington Collection is the largest publicly held collection from the first “first family” outside historic Mount Vernon. <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/who-we-are/garden/">Garden:</a> With its 5½ open acres, Tudor Place remains one of America’s last intact urban estates from the Federal Period. Its open lawns and garden rooms are a delight for the senses as well as a historical record of changing land use over time. Thomas and Martha Custis Peter put their land to agricultural and ornamental uses, and numerous trees and shrubs they cultivated still grow on the site today. <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/research-history/reading-room/">Virtual Reading Room:</a> This is Tudor Place’s virtual library, where you’ll find original essays, research, maps, and other resources. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tudor Place Historic House & Garden 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century architecture Asian art automobiles blueprints books ceramics correspondence couture District of Columbia drawings ephemera European art financial records garden historic site instruments inventories objects Park personal papers Peter Family photographs scrapbooks Silver Washington Washington, George Washington, Martha weaponry https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/f9fda6be3a4d1b102a9fb343ea5caf6d.jpg 6efad8eaedcb4efc1908c712f1980d37 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/f79dba6ebc5ba1c8204ced5f8d5b7558.jpg 13e584547d73e791feb72be4d43f52d9 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/d04c9f4c3f55b3b9592db7d66386f094.jpg 8da59bd5cded43fbf251150835de8c5d https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/f94e8d2cca9c52358f1bfe605e81c5bc.jpg 4ba1841f06243806b49004c4ca064f75 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/678766a58f4f205cd1cdad1a9e1960ef.jpg f577a01ca22a1d2eae41f772f7be3a3d Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://scottishrite.org/">House of the Temple</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1137/#geolocation">1733 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009-3103</a> Main: <a>+1 (202) 232-3579 Archives:</a><a>+1 (202) 777-3107</a> <a href="mailto:council@scottishrite.org">council@scottishrite.org</a> Description Opened to great fanfare on October 18, 1915, the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C., has since functioned as the headquarters of the Supreme Council, 33°, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA. The Temple, which includes a library, archives, and museums, is open to visitors for guided tours. Designed by renowned architect, John Russell Pope, the House of the Temple was his first monumental commission. It garnered him the attention of the architectural community, leading to many awards and commissions in the District, such as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, National Archives, and the National Gallery of Art—West Building. The library—which was the first library open to the public in the District of Columbia and remains so today—contains books on Freemasonry including history, philosophy, symbolism, poetry, lodge proceedings, and periodicals. Photographs by <a href="http://www.matailongdu.com/">Matailong Du</a>. Resource <a href="http://scottishrite.org/headquarters/library/">Library:</a> The House of the Temple’s library, located on the main floor, is the oldest library in DC that is open to the public and houses over 250,000 precious books, manuscripts, and other publications. Two of its rarest volumes include Benjamin Franklin’s 1734 re-printing of Rev. James Anderson’s The Constitutions of the Free-Masons and an Incunabulum titled, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, by Albertus Magnus, printed in Ulm, Germany in 1479. Whether or not you are a Mason, the House of the Temple’s library is a treasure for researchers and anyone who loves books. <a href="http://scottishrite.org/headquarters/archives/">Archives:</a> The purpose of the Archives is to conserve and maintain the Supreme Council’s official correspondence, records, rituals and most rare and valuable printed items and holographs. The goal in managing these valuable collections is to preserve the Scottish Rite’s history. <a href="http://scottishrite.org/headquarters/museums/">Museums:</a> The House of the Temple is home to several unique museums, exhibits and collections. It has been accessible to the public for tours since 1915, when the building first opened its doors. The building’s design was widely praised by contemporary architects, and it won John Russell Pope the Gold Medal of the Architectural League of New York in 1917. Fiske Kimball’s 1928 book American Architecture describes it as “an example of the triumph of classical form in America”. In the 1920s, a panel of architects named it “one of the three best public buildings” in the United States, along with the Nebraska State Capitol and the Pan-American Union headquarters building in Washington, D.C. In 1932, it was ranked as one of the ten top buildings in the country in a poll of federal government architects. The House of the Temple is designated as a contributing property to the Sixteenth Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource House of the Temple 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century Anderson, James architecture archives books correspondence District of Columbia Franklin, Benjamin Free Masons historic site holographs library manuscripts records rituals https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/f66f686bcf154f3c44b05840eab903ee.jpg 6cf18a0d3d59f67756086f5b38606a42 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/">Anderson House, Society of the Cincinnati</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1136/#geolocation">2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008</a> Library: <a>+1 (202) 785-2040 (ext 411)</a> <a href="mailto:library@societyofthecincinnati.org">library@societyofthecincinnati.org</a> Description The Society of the Cincinnati is the nation's oldest patriotic organization, founded in 1783 by veteran officers of the Revolutionary War. Now a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the principles and ideals of its founders, the modern Society maintains its headquarters, library, and museum at Anderson House in Washington, D.C. The Society's library and museum collections document and illuminate the people and events of the American Revolution, the art of war in the eighteenth century, the history of the Society of the Cincinnati, and Anderson House and its occupants. Resource <a href="http://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/collections/library/about">Library:</a> The Society of the Cincinnati library collects, preserves, and makes available for research printed and manuscript materials relating to the military and naval history of the eighteenth century, with a particular concentration on the people and events of the American Revolution. The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection specializes in works relating to the art of war in the period, providing context for the achievement of the volunteer American forces and their French allies in securing the independence of the United States. Complementing the library's extensive rare book collection are historical manuscripts, maps, graphic arts, and the archives of the Society of the Cincinnati. In addition, a modern reference collection supports research on the American revolutionary period and the history of the Society of the Cincinnati and its members; and a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century children's literature and fiction reveal popular perceptions of the American Revolution through time. The library also houses books, manuscripts, photographs, and other documentary materials relating to Larz and Isabel Anderson. <a href="http://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/collections/museum_collections/">Museum Collection:</a> The museum collections of more than four thousand objects preserve and interpret the history of the Revolutionary War, the Society of the Cincinnati, and Anderson House. Strengths of the collections include portraiture, armaments, Society Eagle insignias, and Asian art. <a href="http://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/collections/conservation">Collections Conservation:</a> In addition to the proper housing and handling of its collections, the Society undertakes conservation treatments to ensure the long-term preservation of the wide variety of materials under its care. The goal of this work is to stabilize the collections items and return them as much as possible to their original condition and appearance, so they may continue to be made accessible for research, exhibition, and other purposes. The Society has called upon the services of top conservators in the field for projects that range from books and manuscripts to artworks, artifacts, and the historic fabric of Anderson House. <a href="http://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/anderson_house/history">Anderson House:</a> To the Andersons, their Washington home represented the culmination of what America's founders, including George Washington, hoped their capital city would become—a grand, modern city to rival European capitals, but with a patriotic identity and a sense of history that would make it distinctly American. When Larz Anderson died in 1937 with no children, his widow oversaw the gift of Anderson House and its contents to the Society of the Cincinatti, of which Larz had been a devoted member. Since 1939, this National Historic Landmark has been open to the public as a historic house museum where the Society has continued the traditions of collecting, entertaining, and patriotic service that the Andersons began one hundred years ago. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anderson House, Society of the Cincinnati 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century American Revolution Anderson, Isabel Anderson, Larz armaments Asian art books conservation District of Columbia Fergusson, Robert Charles Lawrence historic site insignias manuscripts maps military history nonprofit organization photographs Society Eagle Washington https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/845d2ed1a95ba6bddceeff84a8ec34e1.jpg 4d2f94359f1a536cef99075fd55c7b3a https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/615b1d1d7a754286e91b22e88bfe7d9c.jpg 6312e3ce3a0121c1bf2497317162337f https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/e2f264cc71e8cddd653990d0d91d887f.jpg c4ac3db7c4c8c4c30d6c7e2047985638 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/18f865287396a188a387d93ae6310b3a.jpg 11ffaeb894791f8e79f5a6ab020eac8b https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/83debfad638e2dc816b6f4d1453c5b85.jpg 625a858469cd51461e9c67d0296aff9a Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.saveourseminary.org/">National Park Seminary Historic District</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1135/#geolocation">9615 Dewitt Drive #68, Silver Spring, MD 20910</a> <a>+1 (301) 589-1715</a> <a href="mailto:info@saveourseminary.org">info@saveourseminary.org</a> Description Save Our Seminary at Forest Glen (also known as SOS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1988 and incorporated in 1989 to combat the neglect of the unique, beautiful and historic buildings and landscape of the National Park Seminary in Silver Spring, Maryland. The site that is now the National Park Seminary Historic District was originally a wooded glen and tobacco plantation. It was developed in 1887 as a resort hotel designed by the noted Washington architect T. F. Schneider and known as Ye Forest Inne. When the hotel proved to be unsuccessful, John and Vesta Cassedy rented and later purchased the property to create, in 1894, National Park Seminary, a finishing school for young women. Most recently, in October 2004, The Alexander Company and EYA's plan to save all of the historic buildings, to add new townhouses in compatible styles, and to transform the Seminary into a unique residential community of apartments, condominiums, and single-family homes has been approved by local planning and historic preservation agencies. Photographs by <a href="http://www.matailongdu.com/">Matailong Du</a>. Resource <a href="http://www.saveourseminary.org/tours/tours/">SOS Guided Tours:</a> While walking the property, the guides present the Seminary’s buildings, statues, and landscape features in their historical and social context. The stunning ballroom and other unique interior spaces are included in the tour. <a href="http://www.operant.com/seminary/main_page.html#people">Forest Glen Seminary Project Website:</a> This web site was developed as a non-commercial project of my company, Operant WebSites, to increase public awareness of the fascinating history and remaining charm of the Seminary at Forest Glen, and the perils that threaten it. This site includes in-depth history of the district and its people, as well as detailed information and maps of the buildings and grounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource National Park Seminary Historic District 20th century 21st century buildings historic district historic site landscape Maryland nonprofit organization Park Silver Spring https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/4ecaab894801614885907119d39570c0.jpeg 70562a67011bfc0292071c0df860b2a9 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/">Sandy Spring Museum</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1134/#geolocation">17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860</a> <a>+1 (301) 774-0022</a> <a href="mailto:info@sandyspringmuseum.org">info@sandyspringmuseum.org</a> Description The Sandy Spring Museum is a place where people can develop meaningful connections by exploring community history through the visual, literary and performing arts. Sandy Spring is the center of a unique Maryland community, a network of rural villages settled in the 1720s by members of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers. The Sandy Spring Museum's extensive artifact and document collection illuminates the rich 18th, 19th, and 20th century history that took place in this small Maryland town. From the hand-made doll of a child to the tools of a farmer, the museum’s artifact collection represents the daily lives of generations of local residents. We collect records of individual, families, corporations, and groups, documenting the life of the community – its politics, economies, work, play, and family life. The collection features a number of items relating to the War of 1812, such as objects and documents from James Madison's 1814 flight from the advancing British army, during which he spent a night in Sandy Spring. The museum's collection also includes a letter from Dolley Madison to the mother of the prominent local Quaker Edward Stabler, who would later design the seal for the U.S. Senate and Supreme Court. Stabler had been jailed during the War of 1812 as a result of his pacifism. In the letter, Dolley Madison promises Stabler's mother that she will intercede for his release. Additionally, the many collection items relating to manumission in Sandy Spring offer visitors a look into antebellum Maryland's uniquely hybrid border-state society, which consisted of slaves, free blacks, and whites working side-by-side. The extensive manumission records from 1780-1820 document the local Quaker-led effort to end slavery, while the numerous genealogical, property, commercial, and religious records of the free black families in the community from emancipation through the 20th century offer visitors a vivid picture of the everyday life of African Americans after the Civil War. The records from Cloverly, a facility next door to the museum where exhausted Union Army nurses were treated, today reside in the permanent collection. The museum also has records of the constant strain on agriculture from both the Union and the Confederate armies passing through the area repeatedly in search of food, horses, and cloth during the Civil War. Resource <a href="http://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/collections-research/research-library-archives/">Research Library & Archives:</a> Our archives are an extensive collection of primary source documents and photographs related to the history of the Sandy Spring community: <ul><li>rural economy (18th through 20th century): farming, milling, lumbering, orchard and dairy industries, tobacco/slavery and freedom</li> <li>transportation: the C&O canal, the B&O railroad, roads, horses, oxen, wagons, carriages, and early automobiles</li> <li>education: primary through university level, innovations, schools for girls, schools for African Americans</li> <li>life in the rural villages that preceded today’s “megalopolis”: general store records, family history, historic homes, land deeds, marriage and birth records</li> <li>index to Montgomery County manumission records by slave owner and by the name of the person freed</li> <li>the original minutes of many of Sandy Spring’s early social and agricultural clubs and the six volumes of the Annals of Sandy Spring, begun by Quakers in 1863, chronicling a century of community history – the longest such record in the nation</li> <li>manumission records</li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sandy Spring Museum 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century african american agriculture antebellum civil war Cloverly community correspondence emancipation Genealogy historic district Madison, Dolley Madison, James Maryland museum photographs Quakers religious records Sandy Spring slavery Stabler, Edward Supreme Court U.S. Senate Union Army nurses https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/7df52aaa63962a19ac712942599f4999.jpg 11a48200d63303743f9eeb38db9e9903 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Riversdale_House_Museum.htm?">Riversdale House Museum</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1133/#geolocation">4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park, MD 20737</a> <a>+1 (301) 864-0420</a> <a href="mailto:riversdale@pgparks.com">riversdale@pgparks.com</a> Description Riversdale, an elegant Federal style manor house, was constructed between 1801 and 1807 for Henri Stier, a Flemish aristocrat, and completed by his daughter, Rosalie, and her husband, George Calvert, grandson of the fifth Lord Baltimore. Today, this elegant architectural gem has been restored to reflect the lifestyle of the Calverts in Federal America. Riversdale is primarily interpreted to the period 1801-1821. Rooms are furnished to appear as they were when Rosalie Stier Calvert lived here. Furniture, ceramics, glassware, textiles, and books include Calvert family pieces and other period antiques. Furnishings are supplemented by high quality reproductions. Resource <a href="http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Riversdale_House_Museum/Kitchen_Guild_and_Interpretative_Gardens.htm?">Interpretive Gardens:</a> Riversdale’s kitchen gardens are dedicated to long-time volunteer and Riverdale Park resident Betty Gossett. The eight square plots and adjacent orchard feature a variety of fruits and vegetables representative of the food needed to support the early 19th century Riversdale community. <a href="http://www.riversdale.org/index.html">Riversdale Historical Society Archives:</a> Copies of the Stier-Calvert correspondence are held in the Riversdale Historical Society archives. Researchers may access the archives by appointment. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Riversdale House Museum 19th century architecture books Calvert, George Calvert, Rosalie ceramics Federal furniture historic site Maryland museum restoration Riverdale Park Stier, Henri Joseph textiles https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/23bd91e77abff1038f51d81661d798f7.jpeg 7012cd3c05ce5759f173389c5e9f3d6d Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.pghistory.org/library.php?st=Library">Frederick S. DeMarr Library of County History, Prince George's County Historical Society</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1132/#geolocation">Mount Calvert Headquarters 16801 Mount Calvert Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772</a> The Frederick S. DeMarr Library Greenbelt Branch Library 11 Crescent Road, Lower Level, Greenbelt, MD 20770 <a>+1 (301) 220-0330</a> <a href="mailto:info@pghistory.org">info@pghistory.org</a> Description The Frederick S. DeMarr Library of County History specializes in many different types of materials relating to Maryland, with particular emphasis on Prince George's County. It began as the private collection of Frederick S. DeMarr, and was legally conveyed to the Historical Society after Mr. DeMarr's death in 1997. The library houses approximately 6,000 volumes on subjects ranging from architecture to educational institutions to military history and transportation; it also houses an outstanding collection of historical maps, archival photos, journals, and newspapers, as well as extensive files on places, events, and individuals. Complete sets of the Archives of Maryland and the Maryland Historical Magazine are available at the library, which also offers on-line services, and assistance in all types of research. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frederick S. DeMarr Library of County History, Prince George's County Historical Society 20th century architecture DeMarr, Frederick S. Historical society journals library maps Maryland military history newspapers photographs transportation Upper Marlboro https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/ed255e5825298942526dd65d3f2bf198.jpg 58ca83219c3fb2beb6670f936b3a06c3 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.pgplanning.org/Planning_Home.htm">Planning Department, Prince George’s County</a> County Administration Building, 4th Floor <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1131/#geolocation">14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772</a> <a>+1 (301) 952-3594</a> <a href="mailto:historicpreservation@ppd.mncppc.org">historicpreservation@ppd.mncppc.org</a> Description The Prince George's County Planning Department's close partnership with the citizens of the county allows the organization to receive and give assistance and advice on matters relating to the use of land, enhancement of the physical environment, provision of public facilities and services, and more. The Planning Department performs technical analyses and offers recommendations through the specified work program and budget adopted by the Prince George's County Council and under the direction of the Prince George's County Planning Board. The 12 major program areas in the Planning Department are: <ul><li>Countywide Planning</li> <li>Community and Small Area Planning</li> <li>Revitalization Planning</li> <li>Transportation Planning</li> <li>Environmental Planning</li> <li>Public Facilities Planning</li> <li>Intergovernmental Coordination</li> <li>Development Review Activities and Initiatives</li> <li>Managing Countywide Databases</li> <li>Analysis of County Trends</li> <li>Community Outreach and Public Information</li> <li>Management, General Administration and Supporting Services</li> </ul> Resource <a href="http://www.pgplanning.org/Resources/Publications.htm">Planning Department Online Publications:</a> The Planning Department provides a variety of publications for the citizens and businesses of Prince George's County. These range from master plans and sectional map amendments to community studies, pamphlets, and brochures. <a href="http://www.pgplanning.org/About-Planning/Our_Divisions/Countywide_Planning/Historic_Preservation/Historic_Preservation_Commission.htm">Historic Preservation Commission Archive, Prince George's County:</a> The Prince George's County Historic Preservation Commission (HPC), appointed by the County Executive, administers the provisions of the county's historic preservation ordinance and preservation tax credit program. The HPC's responsibilities are to protect the properties listed in the County Inventory of Historic Resources. As a result of the protection afforded by the ordinance, today there 418 historic sites and 4 locally designated historic districts. There are also 75 individual properties and 13 historic districts listed in the National Register of Historic Places. <a href="http://www.pgplanning.org/Resources/Tools_On-line/Mapping_Tools.htm">Mapping Tools: </a> <ul><li>PGAtlas</li> <li>GIS Data Inventory</li> <li>GIS Data Request Form</li> <li>GIS Digital Data Price Schedule</li> <li>GIS Paper Maps Data</li> <li>Zoning Maps</li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Planning Department, Prince George’s County archives GIS datasets historic district historic preservation maps Maryland planning office transportation Upper Marlboro zoning https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/1311ec2ff7825e46af95e7f2133bc0dc.jpeg 3b14fc0cb5bc392e582ded6ef1ebbf15 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.woodlawnpopeleighey.org/">Woodlawn Plantation & Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1130/#geolocation">9000 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, VA 22309</a> <a>+1 (703) 780-4000</a> <a href="mailto:woodlawn@savingplaces.org">woodlawn@savingplaces.org</a> Description Woodlawn and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House, sites of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, are located on the same grounds in historic Alexandria, Virginia. On a beautiful 126-acre estate of rolling hills overlooking the Potomac River, visitors can explore and contrast the architectural and historical backgrounds of two unique homes and enjoy a natural retreat in the midst of the busy Route 1 corridor. Resource <a href="http://www.woodlawnpopeleighey.org/pope-leighey-house">Pope-Leighey House:</a> During the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright set his formidable attention towards designing affordable middle-class residences. More than 100 of these modest homes, referred to as Usonian, thought to mean “the United States of North America,” were constructed between 1936 and Wright’s death in 1959, including the Pope-Leighey house (1940). Commissioned in 1939 by Loren Pope, a journalist in Falls Church, the residence was sold to Robert and Marjorie Leighey in 1946. <a href="http://www.woodlawnpopeleighey.org/woodlawn">Woodlawn Plantation:</a> Woodlawn, the first site operated by the National Trust, was part of George Washington’s Mount Vernon. In 1799, he gave the site to his nephew, Lawrence Lewis, and Lewis’ new bride, Eleanor “Nelly” Parke Custis, Martha’s granddaughter, in hopes of keeping Nelly close to Mount Vernon. The newly-married couple built the Georgian/Federal house designed by William Thornton, architect of the U.S. Capitol. In 1846, the entire plantation was sold to Quaker timber merchants, who purposefully operated the farm plantation with free labor, making a statement in Virginia on the eve of the Civil War. At the turn of the twentieth century, two separate owners, Paul Kester and Elizabeth Sharpe, lovingly restored the property using the best Colonial Revival architects and builders. Senator Oscar Underwood from Alabama, an uncompromising advocate for civil rights, lived at the mansion from 1925 until his death in 1929. Operated as a historic house museum since 1949, Woodlawn is an interesting case-study of the cultural relevance of the house museum. Woodlawn relies on local support and engagement to succeed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Woodlawn Plantation & Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House 19th century 20th century Alexandria architecture buildings civil rights civil war class colonial america Federal Georgian historic site Kester, Paul labor history Leighey, Marjorie Leighey, Robert Lewis, Lawrence Lewis, Nelly Custis merchants Mount Vernon museum National Trust Pope, Loren Quaker Sharpe, Elizabeth Thornton, William Underwood, Oscar Usonian Virginia Washington, George Wright, Frank Lloyd