Bethesda in Montgomery County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Walter Johnson House
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, June 15, 2015
1. Walter Johnson House Marker
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Notable Buildings • Sports.
Location. 39° 0.282′ N, 77° 6.658′ W. Marker is in Bethesda, Maryland, in Montgomery County. Marker can be reached from Old Georgetown Road (Maryland Route 187) just north of Oakmont Avenue, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 9100 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda MD 20814, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. The Mary Woodard Lasker Center for Health Research and Education (approx. 0.2 miles away); Sky Horizon (approx. 0.4 miles away); Tree of Hippocrates (approx. 0.4 miles away); At This Location (approx. 0.4 miles away); Claude Denson Pepper Building (approx. half a mile away); President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the NIH Bethesda campus on this site, October 31, 1940 (approx. 0.6 miles away); The Paul G. Rogers Plaza (approx. 0.6 miles away); The Louis Stokes Laboratories (approx. 0.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Bethesda.
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Photographed By Allen C. Browne, June 15, 2015
2. Walter Johnson House Marker
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, June 15, 2015
3. Walter Johnson House Marker
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, June 15, 2015
4. Walter Johnson House Marker
Library of Congress
5. Walter Johnson
The Big Train
The Big Train
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6. Mrs. Walter Johnson
Walter Johnson, star twirler of the Washington ball club, and greatest pitcher baseball has ever known, pitched the last game a double-header against Philadelphia recently, won it, then hurried into his wedding clothes and dashed to the home of Representative E. E. Roberts of Nevada, where the latter's daughter, Miss Hazel, became Mrs. Walter Johnson. The newly married couple left for a honeymoon automobile trip to Atlantic City. — The day book, Chicago, July 2, 1914.
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7. "Big Train" to roll again.
Germantown, MD, Sept. 13 [1938] Walter Johnson; Washington Senators' pitching star for two decades, scored another shutout yesterday when he defeated his opponent, James M. Mount, for the Republican nomination as County Commissioner for Montgomery County. The score was: Johnson 1,025 votes, Mount 40, Johnson is pictured as he warmed up that powerful right arm in preparation for the campaign he will wage for election. The former pitcher now runs a dairy farm here. [The dairy farm mentioned here is the site of Seneca Valley High School in Germantown.]
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, April 9, 2011
8. Walter Johnson's Grave
Rockville Cemetery
Rockville Cemetery
Johnson
1887 — 1946
Credits. This page was last revised on September 22, 2019. It was originally submitted on June 19, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. This page has been viewed 622 times since then and 45 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. submitted on June 19, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
