Historical Markers in Brookland, District of Columbia
Washington and Vicinity
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Near 14th Street Northeast at Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
Sacred to the memory of the servant of God
Aristides Leonori
Third Order of St. Francis.
Saintly Roman architect of this memorial church and monastery of the Holy Sepulcher, Wash. D.C.
Born - July 28, 1856
Died - July 30, 1938 . . . — — Map (db m208432) HM
Near 14th Street Northeast south of Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
In loving memory
Carlo Angelo Facchina
First Mosaicista
for
the Franciscan Monastery
Born
Sequals, Italia
1870
Died
Brookland, D.C.
1948 — — Map (db m111793) HM
Near 14th Street Northeast south of Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
Corinthian Capital Circa 2nd-3rd century AD. This capital, the top of a column, is from Jerusalem. Capitals of this type can be seen in Roman buildings constructed during the time of the Roman occupation of the Holy Land. Good examples can still . . . — — Map (db m111792) HM
On 10th Street Northeast just south of Franklin Street Northeast, on the left when traveling north.
This building, completed in 2004, is an addition to and renovation of an earlier school building constructed on this site in 1931. — — Map (db m197692) HM
Near 14th Street Northeast south of Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
Erected to the memory of the very Reverend Commissaries of the Holy Land for the United States; who have, since 1880 contributed to the preservation of the Holy-Places and prospered the charitable missionary activities of the Franciscan Custody . . . — — Map (db m111791) HM
On 14th Street Northeast at Perry Street Northeast, on the left when traveling north on 14th Street Northeast.
[Captions:]
Fort Bunker Hill from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drawing.
Built by the 11th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment who named the fort after the Revolutionary War battle in their home state.
Other Civil War fort . . . — — Map (db m111794) HM
Near Otis Street Northeast near 14th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west.
One of the Civil War Defenses of Washington erected in the fall of 1861, Fort Bunker Hill occupied an important position between Fort Totten and Fort Lincoln in the defense of the National Capital. Thirteen guns and mortars were mounted in the fort. — — Map (db m111795) HM
On Rhode Island Avenue Northeast (U.S. 1) west of 13th Street Northeast, on the right when traveling west.
Este Templo fue consagrado
a la
Gloria de Dios
por el Excelentísimo
Apóstol de Jesucristo
Samuel Joaquín Flores
Washington, D.C. Julio 7 de 2002
[English translation:]
This Temple . . . — — Map (db m238259) HM
On Quincy Street Northeast east of 12th Street Northeast.
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), internationally acclaimed artist and teacher, lived here from the 1950s into the 1970s. Born and educated in Boston, Jones joined the Howard University Art Department in 1930 and stayed for nearly 50 years. She began . . . — — Map (db m111784) HM
Near 14th Street Northeast at Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
To commemorate the establishment of the Middle Atlantic Lieutenancy in 1993 in the United States of America, of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
H.E. Bernard J. Ficarra, KGCHS, Lieutenant •
H.E. James Cardinal . . . — — Map (db m208438) HM
On 14th Street Northeast north of Monroe Street Northeast.
Economist Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997) was born in Washington and grew up here in Brookland. After graduating from Dunbar High School, he earned three degrees in economics from Harvard and moved into a long career in government service. Weaver . . . — — Map (db m111796) HM
On Kearny Street Northeast east of 12th Street Northeast.
Sterling Brown (1901-1989) was a central figure of the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s. Brown's work includes Southern Road (1932), The Negro in American Fiction (1937), . . . — — Map (db m111799) HM
On Franklin Street Northeast at Reed Street Northeast, on the right when traveling west on Franklin Street Northeast.
Stone Straw Building circa 1931; site of the development of the paper drinking straw and other wound paper products by Marvin C. Stone, inventor of the paper straw. (c.1888) On this site was developed the automated equipment and manufacturing . . . — — Map (db m144339) HM
Near 14th Street Northeast at Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
Bernard J. Ficarra, M.D., Ph.D.
Founding President
Brother Austin David Carroll, F.S.C., Ph.D.
Founding Secretary
Sustaining Academicians
John E. Albers, M.D. •
Julian L. Ambrus, M.D. •
George A. Antonelli, Ph.D. • . . . — — Map (db m208436) HM
On Monroe Street Northeast east of 12th Street Northeast, on the right when traveling east.
Dedicated in memory of the longest serving member of Engine Company 17, Wagon Driver Jackson H. Gerhart.
He was appointed on Feb. 3, 1963 and retired on Sept. 30, 1994. He succumbed to injuries sustained in the line of duty while operating . . . — — Map (db m111800) HM
Near 14th Street Northeast just south of Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
This edifice is a replica of the Tomb of Mary. The Shrine as it appears today was constructed by the Crusaders in the 12th century. It is located just east of Jerusalem. — — Map (db m208439) HM
On 14th Street Northeast north of Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
Sacred to the memory of
Very Rev. Charles A. Vissani, O.F.M.
First Commissary General of
the Holy Land for the United States
1880 - 1896
The first to conduct an American Catholic
pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1889,
and to place the . . . — — Map (db m111788) HM
On 14th Street Northeast near Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
Sacred to the memory of
Very Rev. Charles A. Vissani, O.F.M.
Founder of the cause of the Holy Land
in the United States
Erected to commemorate the centenary of the
First Commissariat in New York City in 1880
Fr. Charles . . . — — Map (db m111789) HM
Near 14th Street Northeast south of Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
Sacred to the memory of Very Rev. Godfrey Schilling, O.F.M. 1896-1901 Commissary 1911-1922. Founder of this Memorial Church and Monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in 1897. Fr. Godfrey was the first American Missionary to the Holy Land. By the . . . — — Map (db m111787) HM
Near 14th Street Northeast north of Quincy Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north.
In
loving
memory of the
Very Reverend Father
Godfrey Schilling O.F.M.
Superior
Builder of this church
Dedicated 1899
Born 1855 - Died 1934
— — Map (db m208431) HM
