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Closer view, looking from the north - National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
Photographer
Boucher, Jack E.
Title
Closer view, looking from the north - 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-17
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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.216763p
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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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