Kelsey
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Inc. "Preserving Architectural Heritage" |
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New! Discovered a house on Kilbourne Place, NW (DC) to be the home of the 3rd generation of the Gawler family of J. Gawler & Sons funeral home. New! Found living relatives of the builder and original renters of the Riverdale Apartment building in NYC and reunited them for the buildings centennial birthday celebration in 2007! New! Revealed the location and documented the Hurd family house on Bryant Street, NW (DC), the impetuous of the US Supreme Court landmark 1948 case Hurd v. Hodge that ended racial covenants in deed transactions nationwide. New! Documented the career of vaudeville & boxing performer known as “Swift Eagle,” a resident of Swann Street, NW (DC) in the 1930s. New! Documented the childhood home if Judith Martin, aka “Miss Manners” on Davenport Street, NW (DC), and connected her with the home’s new owners. New! Discovered a house on 15th Street, NW (DC) to be the original home of opera singer Herndon Morsell (1858-1937). New! Discovered the name of the apartment building known as 67 Riverside Drive in NYC was originally called The Riverdale, and was once home to Julia Dent Grant, the daughter of US President Ulysses S. Grant. New! Discovered living relatives of George Kozel, owner of an early German beer garden on 14th Street, NW (DC) who provided rare vintage photographs of the establishment dating from about 1900. New! Documented several additional residences, previously unknown, occupied by Edward “Duke” Ellington and his family in Washington, DC. Found that the first owner of a 1923 built house in Chevy Chase
DC was a grand-daughter of Venerando Pulizzi, an Italian immigrant
in 1805 who was asked to come to this country by the President
as a talented musician, and who later became Director of the Marine
Corps Band. Documented the controversial history of Dr. William Koch and
his 1937 Delray Beach, Florida house, used as a laboratory and
WWII lookout for German U-Boats. Revealed the identities of the young authors of two c.1914 and c.1918 "love letters" found in the wall of a Capitol Hill home, discovering where they met, who was keeping their relationship at bay, and the fact they finally married in 1930! Discovered a 1892 house in Georgetown was used as an art gallery
for the Revealed that a house in Georgetown was home to Jacquelyn Kennedy following the assassination of the President. Uncovered that a house on Capitol Hill had been created from what had been a pipe organ factory. Determined the origin of a cannonball found in the front yard
of a house in Found a house on Capitol Hill to have once been used as an elite
Determined that ornate ceiling murals on a house in Bloomingdale
had been Found a house in the Greater U Street area to have been used
as Frelinghuysen Determined that Duke Ellington played his first concert as a
youngster at the Concluded that a Georgetown House with a plaque stating it was
built in 1840 Determined that a house in Friendship Heights that was thought
to have dated Uncovered that a prominent house along Massachusetts Avenue had once belonged to an infamous Taiwanese man who provided ladies to "entertain" Congressmen at the home! Researched the use of a home's rear outbuilding's in Georgetown
that were Found that a house in Logan Circle that had plywood floors in
the closets had Determined that hundreds of crutches found in an attic in a Logan
Circle home Revealed the name of a former home owner, whose initials had been found on a sterling silver spoon found in the yard of a Shaw home. Documented that performers such as Aretha Franklin and Sarah Vaughn and Pear Bailey played n a recreated club coined "Bohemian Caverns" on U Street. Found a house in Chevy Chase to have been a mail order house
from the Sears catalog!
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