Why was this wing added to join these two houses a century ago? Undoubtedly it was designed to deal with the socially awkward problem of a dependent divorcee.
The Mystery of Conjoined Houses in the 3800 Block of Legation Street NWRead More
The Stories Houses Tell: Windows into a Community
Walls do talk, and if you know how to navigate their language, they have a lot to say. They are witness to generations of habits and activities, and through their windows they watch history walk by, year after year. With these first four initial house histories, it is our hope at HCCDC to curate a collection of house histories done of our neighbors' homes as another way to capture local history.
3506 McKinley Street NW
A Centennial ‘Glocal’ History, 1919-2019 By Carl LankowskiNovember 2019 Abstract This house history is about one bungalow in Washington DC, property square No. 1996. But it also addresses the questions of where the bungalow came from as an architectural style, why the structure was built where and when it was, and how the structures in …
About the Author: 3506 McKinley Street NW
Carl LankowskiCarl Lankowski left his home town of Milford, Connecticut in 1967 to become an undergraduate at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. After initial military training, he spent most of the 1970s shuttling between Manhattan and Europe as a Columbia University graduate student and earned a PhD in Political Science with a dissertation on …
