Healy Hall Marker

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Georgetown in Washington, District of Columbia — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Healy Hall
National Historic Landmark
— Georgetown University —

Healy Hall Marker - Panel 1 Photo, Click for full size

By Richard E. Miller, August 23, 2009

1. Healy Hall Marker - Panel 1

Inscription. [Panel 1:] Healy Hall
bares the name of
the Reverend Patrick F. Healy, S.J.
1834-1910
the University's twenty-ninth president
1873-1882 The first Black American to hold a doctorate and the first to serve as president of a major university in the United States,
known as Georgetown's second founder.
Father Healy - through his pioneering achievement and personal sacrifice - established this institution as a leader in American higher education.

[Panel 2:] Healy Hall
Georgetown University has been designated a National Historic Landmark. This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America

Erected 1987 by Georgetown Unviersity and the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior.

Marker series. This marker is included in the National Historic Landmarks marker series.

Location. 38° 54.456′ N, 77° 4.355′ W. Marker is in Georgetown, District of Columbia, in Washington. Marker can be reached from O Street, NW west of 37th Street, NW. Click for map. Marker panels are on either side of the northeast entrance to Healy Hall on the campus of Georgetown University. The are accessible to pedestrian visitors via the campus' east gate at 37th and O Streets. Marker is in this post office area: Washington DC 20057, United States of America.

Healy Hall Marker - Panel 2 Photo, Click for full size

By Richard E. Miller, August 23, 2009

2. Healy Hall Marker - Panel 2

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. John Carroll (within shouting distance of this marker); Restoration of Georgetown’s Call Boxes (about 300 feet away, in a direct line); Jan Karski (n. Jan Kozielewski) (1914-2000) (about 500 feet away); John Fitzgerald Kennedy (about 700 feet away); Holy Trinity Parish (about 700 feet away); Holy Trinity Church (approx. 0.2 miles away); Francis Scott Key Park (approx. 0.3 miles away); Francis Scott Key (approx. 0.3 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Georgetown.

Also see . . .
1. Wikipedia entry for Healy Hall. (Submitted on August 23, 2009, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)
2. Wikipedia entry for Patrick Francis Healy. (Submitted on August 23, 2009, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)
3. Passing Free. "...That the Healys could accept a Church whose leading thinkers were convinced of the inferiority of Blacks suggests that Catholicism offered something to them beyond its interior spiritual reward—that they embraced it as a new public identity. And indeed, from the time of their conversion onward, the brothers consistently separated themselves from African-Americans....Black in the South, Irish in the North, the Healys slipped the bonds of race in Civil War America...." (Submitted on August 23, 2009, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)

By Richard E. Miller, August 23, 2009

3. Healy Hall

Built in the Flemish Romanesque style by architects Smithmeyer and Pelz, 1877-1879.

Additional keywords. Patrick Francis Healy; Irish-Americans; slavery; miscegenation; bi-racial; Healy Family of Georgia;.

Healy Hall - northeast entrance (Gaston Hall auditorium, upstairs) Photo, Click for full size

By Richard E. Miller, August 23, 2009

4. Healy Hall - northeast entrance (Gaston Hall auditorium, upstairs)

- the marker panels are visible in the shadows at the top of the steps on the left and right.

The Rev. Patrick F. Healy, S.J. Photo, Click for full size

By Georgetown University

5. The Rev. Patrick F. Healy, S.J.

Credits. This page originally submitted on August 23, 2009, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland. This page has been viewed 958 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on August 23, 2009, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland. • Kevin W. was the editor who published this page.