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- Glen Echo Park, Chautauqua Tower, 7300 McArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, Montgomery County, MD
Title
- Glen Echo Park, Chautauqua Tower, 7300 McArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, Montgomery County, MD
Description
National Chautauqua of Glen Echo; Baltzley, Edward; Baltzley, Edwin; Chandler, Theophilus Parsons; Mindeleff, Victor E; Mindeleff, Cosmos; Libbey, J Edward; Collier, C J; Barber and Ross; W.T. and T.B. Weaver; O'Connor and Dodd; Fisher and Johnson; Pettit and Dripps; J.G. and J.M. Waters; Wheatley Brothers; Belt and Dyer; Gibble, Michael, field team; Vazquez , J Raul, field team; Schara, Mark, field team; Kutsevych, Bogdan, field team; George Washington Memorial Parkway, sponsor; Price, Virginia B, historian; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Schara, Mark, photographer
Depicted place Maryland; Montgomery County; Glen Echo
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
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-GLENEC,3D-15
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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 substantial, three-story tower is the only intact structure remaining from the late nineteenth-century Chautauqua community based at Glen Echo, Maryland. The stonework reinforces the tower's significance as it alone conveys the massive scale of the Chautauqua building campaign and the picturesque quality of the site overall. The Chautauqua Tower, known during the period as one of the gate towers, was constructed of stone in 1891 shortly after Edward and Edmund Baltzley deeded part of their land holdings to the National Chautauqua of Glen Echo. The Baltzley brothers also hired a well-established architect from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Theophilus Parsons Chandler, to design several of the earliest Glen Echo Chautauqua structures, including the Amphitheater. In addition, Chandler drew up plans for a hotel that was never realized. However, it was a local architect named Victor E. Mindeleff who was responsible for the gate tower and for some of the other buildings on the Glen Echo Chautauqua grounds. Mindeleff was remembered as someone with a reputation for creating rustic stone structures and so his milieu fit in well with the Baltzleys's desire to capitalize on the "rugged grandeur of the glen."
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N696
  • Survey number: HABS MD-1080-D
  • Building/structure dates: 1891 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1914 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after 1970 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 84001850.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1575.photos.380187p
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