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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.

Carl and Pam Lankowski in front of McKinley Street NW House Chevy Chase DC

3506 McKinley Street NW

November 22, 2019

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 …

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About the Author: 3506 McKinley Street NW

November 21, 2019

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 …

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Photo of Flack's House

3125 Northampton Street NW

October 15, 2019

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J. Kirkpatrick Flack

About the Author: 3125 Northampton Street NW

October 2, 2019

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5417 31st Street

5417 31st St. NW

March 11, 2017

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3513 Livingston Street

3513 Livingston St. NW

May 11, 2004

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