43 10 490 https://mallhistory.org/files/original/8d7772c9c26bff3d8229d70f3b7bbb74.jpg 8fe393e57d938dfe1589e1864e07c10a Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 800 Height 641 Bit Depth 8 Channels 1 People An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc. Birth Date 02/07/1897 Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Death Date 04/08/1993 Occupation Musician Biographical Text Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Marian Anderson began singing in her church choir when she was only 6 years old. Nicknamed "the Baby Contralto," she was invited to sing in churches throughout Philadelphia. She began voice lessons when she was 15 with Mary Saunders Patterson, a prominent black soprano. As she continued with her musical training, invitations to sing gradually grew into concert tours throughout the American south. In 1928, she performed a solo recital in New York's Carnegie Hall. Anderson spent time training and singing in Europe, where she was given scholarships to fund her musical career. She broadened her operatic repertoire, improved her French, Italian, and German. In the US, legal racial discrimination prevented Anderson's musical career from blossoming in the same way it had in Europe. In 1955, after performing for years with prominent American and European musical ensembles, the New York Metropolitan Opera invited her to sing a major role in Giuseppe Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera." Her performance marked the first time an African American opera singer appeared as a member of the opera company. Anderson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. On Easter Sunday in 1965, Anderson gave her final concert at Carnegie Hall, following a year-long farewell tour. She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978 and the National Medal of Arts in 1986. Two years before she died, she was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. First Name for nav purposes Marian Last Name for nav purposes Anderson Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marian Anderson Description An account of the resource Marian Anderson was an African American singer, who became famous for fighting racial inequality when she gave a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/101">concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial</a>. In April 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow Anderson to sing to an integrated audience at their Constitution Hall. With help from First Lady <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/330">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, the concert was moved to the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial</a>. Anderson <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/373">stood on the steps and performed</a> before 75,000 people gathered on the Mall. Millions more listened to her on the radio. Her concert pointed to the value of using the National Mall as a place to bring public attention to political and social issues. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1920-1949 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009013149/">View original photograph</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marian Anderson arts & culture politics & protest https://mallhistory.org/files/original/378b610a31feefebac1ea0e67224f5dc.jpg b6b408c70cb7bc6cac92db11f6b79e99 People An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc. Birth Date 12/11/1943 Birthplace Aurora, Colorado Occupation Politician Bibliography Kerry was born on December 11, 1943 at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado to Rosemary Forbes Kerry and Richard Kerry, a Foreign Service officer. He attended Yale University, then enlisted in the Naval Reserve and went to Officer Candidate School. He served 2 tours of duty in Vietnam, serving in combat as a Swift Boat skipper patrolling the rivers of the Mekong Delta, earning a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and 3 Purple Hearts. Upon returning to the US, Kerry began to speak out against the Vietnam War. Testifying at the invitation of Chairman J. William Fulbright before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry asked, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" His testimony and protest remains controversial. In 1972, Kerry began his political career and ran for a seat in the House of Representatives. He lost the election, and went to Boston College law school to become a prosecutor. By the 1980s, Kerry returned to politics and was elected as a Senator from Massachusetts. During his time in the Senate, he fought for veterans' benefits, including an extension of the G.I. Bill for Higher Education and improved treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. In 2004, Kerry was a failed Democratic nominee for president, after which he returned to his Senate seat. In 2013, he was nominated and confirmed as the Secretary of State. First Name for nav purposes John Last Name for nav purposes Kerry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Kerry Description An account of the resource In 1971, Secretary of the State, Senator, and US Navy veteran John Kerry <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/191">protested against the Vietnam War</a> in front of the US Capitol when he returned from his tour of duty. As a member of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, he accused the US military of committing war crimes in Vietnam and testified before Congress in April 1971. After testifying, Kerry and hundreds of other activists called for an end to the conflict in Vietnam by throwing military ribbons, medals, and pieces of their uniforms on the steps of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/59">US Capitol</a>. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950-1979 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kerry_Fulbright_Commission.jpg">View original image</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Kerry military history politics & protest https://mallhistory.org/files/original/81b6c8692b310e8801e2afb485610ac2.jpg 904e5a8d2426d8e051e277e9bdf78737 People An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc. Birth Date 11/01/1818 Birthplace New York City Death Date 06/23/1895 Occupation Architect First Name for nav purposes James Last Name for nav purposes Renwick Biographical Text James Renwick, Jr was born in New York to well-connected and well-educated parents. His father was a professor at Columbia College (today Columbia University) where James, Jr started at the age of 12. Renwick earned both a Bachelors and Masters degree from Columbia in engineering. After graduating, he was hired as a structural engineer for the Erie Railroad. In 1843, Renwick won a competition to design a new Grace Church, a wealthy Episcopal parish in New York City. Following its completion, Renwick received commissions to design and build other structures, including many churches, in New York City. Based on these successes, he was invited to enter the design competition held in 1846 to select an architect for the newly-created Smithsonian Institution. Renwick won the competition and designed the original building with features reminiscent of a Gothic European castle. Renwick continued to have a successful career, designing buildings in a variety of architectural styles. In addition to the Smithsonian Castle, Renwick is well known for designing Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James Renwick Jr. Description An account of the resource James Renwick Jr. won the 1846 competition to design the first <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/52">Smithsonian Institution building</a>. His design drew heavily from architectural styles of 12th-century Europe that gave the building a castle-like appearance. Although Renwick took pains to design the building to be fireproof, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/160">a fire destroyed part of the structure in 1865</a>. In 1874, he completed the first Corcoran Gallery located on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House. That building now bears his name and is part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Smithsonian Institution Archives. <a href="http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/documents/renwickengraving.htm">View original image</a>. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1830-1859 1860-1889 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Renwick Jr. museums https://mallhistory.org/files/original/339d9afab541673085b2f3bb9adb07a8.jpg 1b481da647395a0cd4fd0fc2ea656555 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 800 Bit Depth 8 Channels 1 People An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc. Birth Date 10/08/1941 Birthplace Greenville, South Carolina First Name for nav purposes Jesse Last Name for nav purposes Jackson Occupation Activist Biographical Text Jesse Jackson was born Jesse Louis Burns in Greenville, SC. His last name changed to Jackson when his mother, Helen Burns, married Charles H. Jackson when Jesse was one year old. <br /><br />After graduating high school, Jackson attended the University of Illinois for two semesters on a football scholarship. He then transferred to North Carolina A&amp;T, a historically black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. While at A&amp;T, Jackson became active in civil rights protests against segregation. He graduated in 1964 with a BA in Sociology, and moved to Chicago to study for a Masters of Divinity at Chicago Theological Seminary. However, he dropped out two years later in order to devote himself full-time to the Civil Rights Movement. <br /><br />Jackson had participated in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Marches, where he met <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/90">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> and other leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He helped establish a branch of the SCLC in Chicago that fall, and in 1966 was appointed head of the Chicago division of Operation Breadbasket, a civil rights economic program run by the SCLC. Jackson also worked on the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, during which he was city manager and mayor of Resurrection City, a tent city erected on the National Mall to bring attention to economic inequality in the United States.<br /><br />During the Poor People’s Campaign, Jackson frequently disagreed with <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/98">Ralph Abernathy</a>, who took over leadership of the Campaign and SCLC after King’s death. In 1971, conflicts with the leadership of the SCLC came to a head, and Jackson resigned from the organization to form his own, Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), dedicated to promoting economic opportunity for poor people of all races. <br /><br />He ran for President of the United States in 1984 and 1986, supported by the National Rainbow Coalition, a group he created to press for political empowerment and social policy change. In 1991, Jackson was elected shadow senator for the District of Columbia; he has been an advocate for DC statehood. Jackson has been active in national and international politics, written a weekly syndicated column, and hosted a television show on CNN. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on August 9, 2000. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jesse Jackson Sr. Description An account of the resource In May 1968, Jesse Jackson and other members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/270">gathered in Washington, DC</a>, to draw attention to poverty through the Poor Peoples' Campaign. Carrying on the work of <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/90">Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.</a> after his assassination in April of that year, the SCLC lobbied Congress to create laws that encouraged economic equality. To highlight issues of economic inequality, SCLC constructed a temporary encampment known as <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/207">Resurrection City</a> on the Mall near the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial</a>. Jackson served as city manager and mayor of the tent city for its six week existence. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950-1979 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003688127/"> View original photograph</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jesse Jackson Sr. politics & protest https://mallhistory.org/files/original/a8f173b54bbaed3cd70409adf4c1b089.JPG c5025c4272462e660ee5c1d73dc5d373 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sharon Styer Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maya_Lin_1.JPG">Wikimedia Commons</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 16 March 2007 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. People An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc. Birth Date 10/05/1959 Birthplace Athens, Ohio Occupation Architect Biographical Text Maya Lin was born in Athens, Ohio. Both of her parents were professors at Ohio University; her mother, a poet, taught Literature and her father, a ceramic artist, was Dean of the College of Fine Arts. Lin received a Bachelors of Arts in 1981 and a Master of Architecture in 1986 from Yale University. An artists as well as an architect, she has created outdoor installations across the country. In addition to her work on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Lin has designed many prominent pieces, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama and the Women's Table at Yale. In 2005, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the National Women’s Hall of Fame in New York state. Her studio, Maya Lin Studio, is based in New York City. First Name for nav purposes Maya Last Name for nav purposes Lin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maya Lin Description An account of the resource Maya Lin won the design competition for the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/63">Vietnam Veterans Memorial</a> in 1981. She was an undergraduate student majoring in architecture at Yale University when her design was chosen from nearly 1,500 entries. She proposed an abstract design in the shape of an open V, meant to look like a healing wound. Known as "the Wall," the Memorial was not liked by some members of Congress who expected a more traditional monument that looked like others present on the Mall. Lin defended her design before Congress, and visitors and veterans eventually embraced this design. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1980-1999 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wikimedia Commons. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maya_Lin_1.JPG">View original image</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maya Lin design & monuments https://mallhistory.org/files/original/f3f99c25ba34c4da8cced24ba0df10dc.jpg 18068f36283c48e55ef1c03cad862fd7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Detail of National Museum Building Committee, 1880 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Smithsonian Institution Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880 People An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc. Birth Date 07/14/1825 Birthplace Heilbronn, Germany Death Date 07/25/1905 Occupation Architect Biographical Text <p>Adolf Cluss came from a family of master builders in Heilbronn, Germany. Cluss left Heilbronn as a young man, working first as an itinerant carpenter and then as a junior draftsman on a railroad in Europe. His work on the railroad heightened his interest in workers’ rights.</p> <p>He met Karl Marx in the 1840s, and joined the early Communist movement. In spring of 1848, he became an important figure in the German revolutionary movement as a co-founder and secretary of the Workers' Council. Following the failure of the movement, Cluss emigrated to America along with many other revolutionary Germans. He settled in Washington, DC, remaining in contact with Marx, Friedrich Engels, and the Communist movement until the late 1850s. In 1859, he married Rosa Schmidt of Baltimore, with whom he had three daughters.</p> <p>Adolf Cluss worked in the US first as an engineer for the Navy and then in Washington as an architect. Beginning in the 1860's Cluss designed schools, museums, office buildings, private homes, and market halls. His work included schools for African Americans and women at a time when Washington institutions were segregated by race and gender.</p> <p>In the 1870s, Cluss served as Chief Engineer for the City of Washington and as a member of the Board of Public Works. He contributed to the intricate process of covering over Tiber Creek. By the 1890s, Washington was full of buildings designed by Cluss, although only a few remain standing today.</p> First Name for nav purposes Adolf Last Name for nav purposes Cluss Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Adolf Cluss Description An account of the resource In the late 1800s, Adolf Cluss designed four buildings on the National Mall, only one of which still stands today. In 1870, he designed the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/32">Center Market</a>. He also designed conservatories for the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/444">Department of Agriculture</a> and the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/37">Army Medical Museum </a>that stood on the south side of the Mall near what is now <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/312">Independence Avenu</a>e. The surviving Cluss building on the Mall is the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/56">Arts and Industries Building</a>, next to the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/52">Smithsonian Castle</a>, which Cluss designed with partner Paul Schulze to be a National Museum and house the Smithsonian collections after the Institution outgrew the space in the Castle. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Smithsonian Institution Archives. <a href="http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_10294">View original photograph</a>. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1830-1859 1860-1889 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Adolf Cluss https://mallhistory.org/files/original/ef371c188e584dbd95f45a74369840a8.jpg 026e4563e3e1ceec0098d31dd1201e9a People An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc. Birth Date 1950 Birthplace Bowie, Maryland First Name for nav purposes Jan Last Name for nav purposes Scruggs Occupation Activist Biographical Text Jan Scruggs was born the youngest of four children in Bowie, Maryland. Upon graduation from high school he enlisted in the army and served two years in Vietnam as part of the U.S. Army’s 199th Light Infantry Brigade. In 1969, wounded by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade, he returned to the United States. He enrolled at American University, completing both a bachelor's and a master's degree. During this period, he grew interested in the experiences of the war veterans. After completing his degrees, he went to work for the US Department of Labor. In 1979, he began working to create a memorial for the veterans of the Vietnam War. With a group of veterans, Scruggs founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation of a national memorial for those who served during the Vietnam War. Over the next three years, Scruggs and his supporters raised the funds to support the construction of the memorial, worked to receive congressional approval, and dealt with critics of the memorial's design. Known as "the wall," the memorial was dedicated in 1982. In 1985, the VVMF disbanded and Scruggs enrolled at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where he earned a law degree. In 1988, NBC aired a movie of the week titled “To Heal a Nation,” based on his efforts to build the Vietnam Memorial. In 1992, the VVMF formed again with Scruggs as President. The organization provides charitable support to children in Vietnam and aims to expand the Vietnam Memorial to include an education center, which will highlight the objects left at the wall. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jan Scruggs Description An account of the resource Decorated Vietnam veteran Jan Scruggs is the founder of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/63">Vie</a><span><a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/63">tnam Veterans Memorial</a> in Washington, DC. He conceived the memorial as a tribute to all who served during one of the longest wars in American history</span>. He started the project with $2,800 of his own money and collected nearly $8 million in private donations to fund the construction of the memorial. Scruggs currently serves as the President of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1980-1999 1950-1979 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Dane A. Penland (Smithsonian Institution) via Wikimedia Commons. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Scruggs#mediaviewer/File:Jan_C._Scruggs_at_the_Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial.jpg">View original</a>. 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He spent most of his adult life traveling in Europe conducting scientific research. In 1800, his mother died; her estate was divided equally between James and his half-brother Henry Dickinson. A year later, James changed his last name to Smithson, which had been his father’s name. Smithson died in 1829 in Italy. Unmarried and without heirs, Smithson left his money to a nephew with the requirement that if the nephew died without heirs, the money would go to the United States to establish a center of learning "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men" that would eventually become the Smithsonian Institution. Smithson's fortune of $500,000, together with his papers, became the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1904, Smithson's remains were moved to Washington D.C, where they were placed in a crypt inside the Smithsonian Castle. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James Smithson Description An account of the resource British scientist James Smithson provided the funding necessary to create the Smithsonian Institution. Born in France and educated at Oxford University in England, Smithson was a wealthy chemist and mineralogist. He never married or had any children. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/510">In his will</a>, he wrote that if his nephew, who was his only heir, died without heirs, then his entire estate should go to the United States to develop in Washington "under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Smithson's nephew died in 1835, and the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/52">Smithsonian Institution</a> was <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/162">founded in 1846</a>. 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Physical Description Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall. The size of a city block Type The nature or genre of the resource Government Offices Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eisenhower Executive Office Building Description An account of the resource Located next to the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66">White House</a>, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building currently houses offices for executive staffs of the President, Vice President, First Lady, and Second Lady. Designed in the French Second Empire architectural style, this massive granite building originally housed the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/476">State Department, War Department, and the Department of the Navy</a>. The building took 17 years to complete. It was the largest office building in the US when it opened with 553 rooms. Each office door contained a brass knob with the insignia of the State, War, or Navy department. The building has been renovated and is a National Historic Landmark. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred B. Mullett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1888 (building opened) 1871 (construction began) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1860-1889 military history work & play https://mallhistory.org/files/original/190dcf539ef044e11e28b5ddefd04580.jpg 3e8421ea82e3c431db415ca55004cf6d Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 800 Height 502 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Place Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.) Physical Description Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall. The size of several city blocks Type The nature or genre of the resource Government Offices Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource White House Description An account of the resource The White House is the official residence and office of the President of the United States. In 1792, the cornerstone was laid, and construction began with free and enslaved laborers doing much of the work. The building was designed in a Neo-Classical style with a sandstone exterior that was whitewashed, which is how it became known as "The White House." In 1800, when second President John Adams moved in as the first resident, the White House was unfinished. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/157">In 1814, the British burned the building</a> during the War of 1812. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/437">The building has grown and changed several times throughout its history.</a> Today, the White House contains 132 rooms. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Hoban Benjamin Henry Latrobe Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1800 (Completed) 1814 (Damaged by fire) 1901 (Enlarged) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-1829 presidents work & play