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MacArthur Theater: This theater, located in the Palisades neighborhood in northwest DC, was built in 1945 and opened the next year.
The MacArthur Theater is a large neighborhood movie house, characteristic of the theaters that were once prominent in the city's outlying commercial centers. Such places of popular entertainment,…
Engine Company No. 29: Engine Company No. 29 was the city's first one-story firehouse with an all-motorized apparatus, making it both technologically advanced and an identifiable neighborhood landmark.
Engine Company No. 29, also known as the Palisades firehouse, was the city’s first one-story firehouse and one of two prototype Colonial Revival firehouses dating from 1925. In that year, the fire…