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Detail view of the porch to show windows, with scale - National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
Photographer
Boucher, Jack E.
Title
Detail view of the porch to show windows, with scale - National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
Description
Alpha Epsilon Pi sorority; Cassedy, John Irving, A; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Ott, Cynthia, historian; Boucher, Jack, 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,2H-4
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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 American bungalow is one of five buildings erected during the Cassedy's first year of construction in 1898. It was the first of eight sorority houses on campus. It was the home of the Alpha Epsilon Pi sorority. Its shingle siding, broad overhanging roof, wide veranda and central dormer exemplifies the bungalow style of architecture. The bungalow was a popular form of suburban architecture from the 1890s through the early twentieth century. Because of its ubiquitous presence, it became an emblem of the American home. Judging by the great wealth of the NPS students, this modest dwelling were probably not going to be their future house design. They were like playhouses on the NPS campus. They were idyllic representations of home in which the young women perfected their domestic skills. Their small scale and prototypical suburban house and garden designs added essential domestic elements to the large academic institution whose primary aim was to train young women to be ideal mothers and wives. They were constructed in a variety of eclectic designs. Most styles highlighted the innate, natural qualities of the building materials and were intended to blend well with the natural surroundings. The American bungalow was the most conventional of all the sorority houses built on the NPS campus.
  • Survey number: HABS MD-1109-H
  • Building/structure dates: 1898 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1919-1922 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1511.photos.216732p
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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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