Sites tagged "Tenleytown": 3
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The Highlands (Sidwell Friends School): This Georgian-style country house, now part of Sidwell Friends School, has been home to several significant Washingtonians.
Erected between 1817 and 1827 by the first United States Register of the Treasury, Joseph Nourse (1754-1841), The Highlands is a late-Georgian styled home. The Nourse family, who owned and lived in…
Engine Company No. 20 (Tenleytown Firehouse): As its first major public structure, Engine Company No. 20 ushered in a new era of development for Tenleytown.
Engine Company No. 20 was the first major public structure built in Tenleytown in 1900. At the time, Tenleytown was at the edge of Washington, DC's development. Soon after, the nearby residential…
Western Union Telegraph Company (Washington Radio Terminal): This seventy-three-foot-tall octagonal transmission tower was built from 1945 to 1947 near the city’s highest point of elevation.
The Western Union Telegraph Company Tenley Radio Terminal is a landmark in engineering history. Built between 1945 and 1947, it served as a transmission and receiving station in an experimental radio…