File:Dog Bridge, general view looking from the south (standing on the access road) - National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, and HABS MD,16-SILSPR,2-72.tif

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Dog Bridge, general view looking from the south (standing on the access road) - National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, and Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
Photographer
Boucher, Jack E.
Title
Dog Bridge, general view looking from the south (standing on the access road) - National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, and Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
Description
U.S.Department of the Army; Ray, Arthur; Cassedy, John Irving, A; Ament, James E; Davis, Roy Tasco; Holman, Emily Elizabeth; Schneider, Thomas Franklin; Rosenthal, James, field team; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Ott, Cynthia, historian; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Lavoie, Catherine C, project manager; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Depicted place Maryland; Montgomery County; Silver Spring
Date Documentation compiled after 1933; 2001
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS MD,16-SILSPR,2-72
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth century, National Park Seminary offered its students advanced academic training while indoctrinating them in contemporary definitions of womanhood. National Park Seminary's spectacular assemblage of buildings together with the surrounding landscape provide a dramatic example of how a school's environs helped meet these ends. The site offers a valuable record of turn-of-the-century campus designs and, more specifically, pedagogical architecture and landscapes created for women. Embedded in the National Park Seminary grounds are also traces of earlier historic values, meanings, and uses which help to illuminate how and why it was utilized as a women's school and evolved into its current form. The lavish man-made and natural elements that define its campus, from the fanciful sorority houses to the forested ravine, preserved historic perceptions of the therapeutic and instructional value of art, architecture, and the natural world. The mix of architectural styles, from Classical to Romantic, used at National Park Seminary exemplifies the eclecticism that defined the era. The site also records the historic connections between park landscapes and suburbanization since the development of the site and its adjoining neighborhoods were directly tied to the creation of a rural retreat along one of D.C.'s early transportation corridors.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N697
  • Survey number: HABS MD-1109
  • Building/structure dates: 1887-1927 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1503.photos.216556p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location38° 59′ 26.02″ N, 77° 01′ 35″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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