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FRONT, SOUTHEAST ELEVATION, LOOKING NORTHWEST - Bonfield's Service Station, 6124 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, Montgomery County, MD   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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
Work location
Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Atlantic City Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q6111338
Title
FRONT, SOUTHEAST ELEVATION, LOOKING NORTHWEST - Bonfield's Service Station, 6124 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, Montgomery County, MD
Depicted place Maryland; Montgomery County; Brookmont
Date May 1987
date QS:P571,+1987-05-00T00:00:00Z/10
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Accession number
HABS MD,16-GLENEC.V,1-2
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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: Bonfield's Service Station is perhaps the only continually operating early twentieth century auto service station, virtually unaltered since the 1930's, in the metropolitan area. Very few changes have been made to this circa 1915 site which includes original air pump and outdoor repair pit. The garage and service station stands as a tribute to the development and growth of the age of the automobile. The effects of the automobile, seen in the tremendous increase of mobility, and thus the significance of sites such as Bonfield's Service Station have been often overlooked as part of the seemingly too recent, familiar past. Thus, although not a terribly old structure itself, the relatively recent history of the automobile makes Bonfield's a fairly early site. In addition, service industries such as automotive station are often subject to periodic upgrading, and therefore are not often long-lived. Bonfield's Service Station was established to cater to traffic along this federally owned stretch of road which is still a main route between Maryland and the District of Columbia.
  • Survey number: HABS MD-965
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1914 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work
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under the digital ID hhh.md1072/photos.082536p.
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Object location38° 56′ 37.32″ N, 77° 06′ 57.6″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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