Pointless Prize: 2022 Photo Scavenger Hunt
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2/16/22 Historic House – Glebe House
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2/16/2022 Historic House
911 Elden Street is one of a number of historic houses listed and described on the Herndon Historical Society’s website. It sits at the intersection of Elden Street and School Streets (formerly Mulberry Street). The lot where the house was built was bought by Mr. Hugh Wiley in 1890 for $50. He borrowed money from Benjamin Middleton and from Baltimore Building and Loan Association, between the years of 1891 and 1893, the years in which it was believed that he build the house. The house is a frame Victorian farmhouse with moveable shutters and a tin roof. It is thought that the original house had a kitchen, dining room, parlor and porch on the first floor, with a 27” wide staircase in the center, leading to the upstairs. Other architectural details include two roof gables, exposed beam in the attic, oak floors throughout, paneling and fluted oak handrail.
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02/16/22: Historic House
The oldest house in Alexandria is the “Ramsay House,” now the Alexandria Visitor Center, at 221 King St. The Ramsay house was the residence of William Ramsay, one of the Scottish merchants who founded Alexandria in 1749.
https://alexandrialivingmagazine.com/home-and-garden/oldest-home-in-alexandria-va-city/
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2/16/2022 Historic House
Foundation of the house at the Abingdon Plantation. Built around 1746 and destroyed by a fire in 1930.
The remains of the house are located between two parking garages at Washington National Airport.
Wow smart idea. I shoulda taken a pic of where the Rouse house was torn down, around the corner from my house. Tempted to go do that right now [emoji848]
https://www.arlnow.com/2021/03/24/just-in-rouse-estate-is-currently-being-torn-down/
2/16/2022 Historic house
This is the Riley-Bolton House, the “big house” of the plantation where Josiah Henson was enslaved. Henson later escaped to Canada, wrote a book about his experience, and traveled internationally telling his story. His was one of the stories that was the basis for Uncle Tom’s Cabin.If you expand the photo, it actually says “historic house” on the sign.
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2/16 Historic House
The Lindens. This is the oldest house in DC, built in 1754, even older than the Old Stone House in Georgetown. It wasn’t originally built here but in Massachusetts! It was later moved to DC in the 1930’s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lindens_(Washington,_D.C.)
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