Committee of 100 on the Federal City records (part I), 1932-1997 (bulk 1950-1987).

Nolen, John, 1869-1937

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John Nolen (June 14, 1869 – February 18, 1937) was an American landscape architect, planning consultant, founding member of the American City Planning Institute and a writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nolen was orphaned as a child and placed in Girard College. After he graduated first in his class in 1884, he worked as a grocery clerk and secretary to the Girard Estate Trust Fund before enrolling in the Wharton School of Finance and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1891. ...

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1881-1968

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Ulysses Simpson Grant III (July 4, 1881 – August 29, 1968) was an American army officer, civil engineer and architect. The grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, he was born on the Fourth of July and attended Cutler School (1895-1897) and Columbia University (1898), both in New York City. He left in 1898 to fight in the Spanish-American War, and in 1899 entered West Point where he was a classmate of Douglas MacArthur. In 1907 he married Edith Root, daughter of Elihu R...

Delano, Frederic Adrian, 1863-1953

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Army officer and railroad officer. From the description of Frederic Adrian Delano papers, 1917-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982936 Frederic Adrian Delano (1863-1953), uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was born in Hong Kong, China. His father, Warren Delano, II, was at that time a partner in the shipping firm of Russell and Company based in that city. A few years later the Delano family returned to Algonac, the family home near Newburgh, New York, and Delano spent muc...

American Planning and Civic Association. Committee of 100 on the Federal City

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Founded in 1923 by the American Planning and Civic Association to study problems facing Washington, D.C. Serves as citizen forum on D.C. planning issues. Incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1965. Significant figures include: Peter S. Craig, Frederic A. Delano, Harlean James, Ulysses S. Grant III, Dorn McGrath, John Nolen, Jr., Constance Green, Polly Shackelton. From the description of Committee of 100 on the Federal City records (part I), 1932-1997 (bulk 1950-1987). (Unknown...

Craig, Peter Stebbins

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Peter Stebbins Craig was a lawyer in Washington, D.C. who led legal challenges against the construction of interstate highways through the city in the 1960s abd 1970s. Taking the side of residents whose homes would be razed for new freeways, Craig successfully battled developers, business leaders, and members of Congress to block seven multilane highways that would have destroyed 200,000 housing units within the city. In 1960, as part of the Northwest Committee for Transportation Planning, Craig...

McGrath, Dorn C.

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Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation

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Old Post Office and Clock Tower (Washington, D.C.)

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Green, Constance Mclaughlin 1897-1975

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Born Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1897. A.B. Smith College, 1919; M.A. Mt. Holyoke College, 1925; Ph.D. Yale, 1937. Married Donald Ross Green. Taught history at the University of Chicago, and Mt. Holyoke and Smith Colleges. Authored the two-volume Washington: A History of the Capital, 1800-1950 (1962-63), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize for history. Other books include: American Cities in the Growth of the Nation (1965); Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology (1956); The Rise of Urba...

Shackelton, Polly.

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James, Harlean, 1877-

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