Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Potomac Annex (Old Observatory Hill)

6:30-8:30PM

23rd & E Streets, NW

Metro Station: Foggy Bottom

Join DCPL for a tour led by Navy Historian Jan Herman of the Potomac Annex. Occupied by the Navy since 1842, Observatory Hill is the location of the historic Old Naval Observatory (1844) and the original Washington Naval Hospital, designed by famed architect Ernest Flagg.

$15 Members

$25 Non-Members

Space is limited and reservations are required

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Woodrow Wilson High School

A Wildcat Walking Tour

6:30-8:30PM

3950 Chesapeake Street, NW

Metro Station: Tenleytown-AU Station

Join the DC Preservation League for a tour of Woodrow Wilson High School. Led by Christoffer A. Graae AIA, LEED AP, Principal of cox graae + spack

architects and Sarah Norman, Project Manager of GCS-SIGAL,LLC, the tour will highlight the modernization activities of this historic landmark under the DC Education Reform Act of 2007.

The 1920s and 1930s were a time of phenomenal growth in Tenleytown.  Single family houses were built with rapid fire bringing a significant increase in school aged children. As one of the most crowded areas of the DC Public School system, the Board of Education recognized the need for an additional high school and acquired the current site of Wilson in 1932.

Wilson opened for the 1935 school year and was described by District Teacher Magazine as “of the most modern and up to date type of school construction.” Today, the building exemplifies the high standard of architectural quality characterized by Washington’s public school design and construction of this era.

$15 Members

$25 Non-Members

Limited space available. Reservations required.

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Check us out at  www.dcpreservation.org