Lockkeeper's House

The Lockkeeper's House is the only remnant of the C & O Canal Extension. The building was constructed as the house for the Lockkeeper of the Canal, who collected the tolls and kept records of commerce on the canal. The ...

US Department of the Interior

The U.S. Department of the Interior building covers 5-acres on a 2-block site bounded by 18th, 19th, C and E Streets, NW. This project of the Public Works Administration from the Great Depression Era continues to serve its original purpose ...

LeDroit Park Historic District

he LeDroit Park Historic District was originally a planned architecturally unified subdivision of substantial detached and semidetached houses designed by James McGill and constructed mainly between 1873 and 1877. LeDroit Park presently contains 50 of the original 64 McGill houses. ...

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

The history of the Metropolitan AME Church is very important in the development of the AME Church in the District of Columbia. The impetus for the organization of the church was dissatisfaction among the District of Columbia's black community with ...

Scottish Rite Temple

One of the most unusual buildings in the eclectic Sixteenth Street Historic District is the Temple of the Scottish Rite at 1733 16th Street. The building, designed by John Russell Pope who also designed the National Archives and the Jefferson ...

The Phillip's Collection

Duncan Phillips, Jr. opened the Phillips Collection in a wing of his home in 1921 as a memorial to his father and brother, who had died in 1917 and 1918 respectively. Duncan Phillips, Jr had already displayed his interest in ...

Saint Michaels Cemetery tombstone symbols, Pensacola Fl

Numerous graves located within Saint Michaels Cemetery are marked with numerous symbols, many of which relate to fraternal organizations. The Masonic order is one of the predominant and reoccurring symbols amongst a variety of stones. One such stone is that ...

Dupont Circle Historic District

It was the Board of Public works under the leadership of Alexander Shepherd that spearheaded the way for the development of Dupont Circle. Nevada Senator William Morris Stewart led the "California Syndicate" which bought up tracts of undeveloped land. The ...

Bubonic Plague in Pensacola, Martin Massey

Martin Massey, 10 years old, was one of seven deaths caused by Bubonic plague in Pensacola, Florida. Martin, who died on September 3, 1920, was the last victim to die from the plague outbreak that lasted from May 31 until ...

Pensacola Council of Ministers

The Pensacola Council of Ministers was located on the corner of West Jackson in De Villiers, at 508 West Jackson Street in Pensacola, Florida.

As the Civil Rights Movement intensified in Pensacola, this group of Christian ministers came together to ...