File:General view looking from the east southeast - National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD HABS MD,16-SILSPR,2I-9.tif

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General view looking from the east southeast - National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL))
Photographer
Jack Boucher  (1931–2012)  wikidata:Q6111338
 
Alternative names
Jack E. Boucher; Jack Edward Boucher
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
HABS, HAER and HALS photographer, National Park Service
Date of birth/death 4 September 1931 Edit this at Wikidata 2 September 2012 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Buffalo Holy Cross Hospital
Work period from 1949 until 2009
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creator QS:P170,Q6111338
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General view looking from the east southeast - National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
Description
Pi Beta Nu sorority; Ament, James E; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Ott, Cynthia, historian; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Lavoie, Catherine C, project manager
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,2I-9
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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 castle is one of the NPS clubhouses. The fanciful, medieval fortress for the Pi Beta Nu sorority counterbalanced the symmetrical architectural forms, such as the villa and the Colonial House, in this section of the campus. It helped fuse this area with the more informal styles on the main campus. The fairytale-like castle with crenelated tower and Gothic windows is reminiscent of garden follies common in English gardens in the eighteenth century and revived in American suburban and garden architecture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Gothic Revival style became popular in the mid-nineteenth century, in part, as a reaction against the vast transformations caused by industrialization.
  • Survey number: HABS MD-1109-I
  • Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: before 1922 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1512.photos.216755p
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