General Description: The Setting and the Layout of the Historic District The Tuscany- Canterbury Historic District is situated on gentle rolling hills bordered by the Stony Run stream and two major thoroughfares, North Charles Street (formerly North Charles Street Avenue) and West University Parkway. The District is located between two National Register- listed Historic Districts: Guilford to the northeast and Roland Park to the west, and north of the Homewood campus of The Johns Hopkins University. The land was once countryside with farms and mill sites. Historic District Boundaries The Historic District is bounded on the south by West University Parkway and on the north by properties on the south side of Warrenton Road. It is bounded on the east by North Charles Street and on the west by the Stony Run Stream. Layout of Roads Early trails that followed the contours of the land are the basis for two major peripheral arteries (North Charles Street and University Parkway) as well as the only major road through the center of the District, West 39th Street. Many secondary roads had their basis in early pathways
Landscape Design and Street Patterns West University Parkway and North Charles Street Avenue predate the development of the District. These main thoroughfares afford wide vistas and set a tone of grandeur and importance. The present course of 39th Street appears to have been charted before 1905. Parts of Linkwood Road and Stony Run Lane were also in use before the development of the District. Canterbury and Highfield Roads were part of the earlier gridiron design of nearby streets, and Cloverhill Road was established in the same manner. Canterbury Road and Cloverhill Road follow a gridiron pattern and provide the setting for the English Cottages. Tuscany and Ridgemede Roads, laid out in the late 1920s, follow the contour of the land in Olmstedian tradition and provide the setting for Old World half-timbered Tudors. Stony Run Lane is one of the early roads in this section and appears to be part of a former country lane. Prior to the development of the District, this lane led to a quarry which became the site of the Gardens of Guilford Condominiums.
Character of the District As the District has no stand-alone commercial buildings, it is residential in character. What commercial activity exists in the District, e.g. restaurants, cafes, flower shop, takes place inside apartment buildings. Even with one of the highest concentrations of multi-storied, communally owned private residences in Baltimore, the District maintains a sense of intimacy. It reflects a successful integration of townhouses, multistoried apartments, condominiums and cooperatives, along with a scattering of detached houses. Well represented in the District are the following architectural styles: English Style Rowhouse, Half-Timbered Tudor Revival, and various early 20th century revival styles. The District is strongly reminiscent of architectural designs from certain parts of Europe, especially of England and Germany. Most of the buildings along Ridgemede and Tuscany Roads evoke a village in southwest Germany. Cloverhill Road and part of Canterbury Road suggest an English garden suburb in the late 1800s. The grouping of the Tuscany and Lombardy Apartments and the secluded Gardens of Guilford suggest European neighborhoods close to the Mediterranean.
The scale along North Charles Street is a mixture of single, detached houses, mid-rise and high-rise apartments, and condominiums. The first high-rise apartment house is the 1927 Warrington. The scale of the earliest buildings along West University Parkway is mid-rise. The materials of the buildings (brick, stucco, stone, and glass) are sympathetically used.
Although ranging from one story to eighteen stories, the scale changes are mollified by the excellent proportions. The composition of rowhouse sections and apartment and condominium buildings are interwoven comfortably with a few institutional and religious buildings . Buildings The district incorporates 175 contributing resources, predominantly rowhouse residences in several popular early 20th century revival styles. Secondary structures include 12 contributing garages. There are 31 groups of houses (cluster houses) , 9 semi-detached houses, 11 detached houses, 2 religious institutions, 1 school, 14 apartment buildings and 15 condominiums or cooperatives (three stories or higher) . There are only 12 non- contributing resources in the district. A complete inventory of resources within the district is attached to this nomination. Building functions are domestic, religious, educational and commercial. Materials used are brick, stone, stucco and glass. The oldest building standing is a circa 1892 Victorian Style house on West Highfield Road; this reflects the rural beginnings of the District. The
The first building initiating the suburbanization of the District was started in 1911 Tand the development was substantially complete by 1940. Eighty two percent of the contributing and non- contributing resources are houses, sixteen percent are apartment houses or condominiums and two percent religious and educational. Resources characterized by architectural styles are as follows: 31% of the buildings reflect the English Style Rowhouse, 18% of the buildings reflect the Tudor or Half -Timbered Tudor Revival Style, 18% reflect the Federal Revival style, 9% reflect the Georgian Revival Style, 6% reflect the Spanish Eclectic Style, 4% reflect the Italian Renaissance Style, 3% reflect the Neo-classical style, 11% reflect a variety of other styles. Although the work of at least 16 architects is represented, that of the architect John A. Ahlers and that of the designers who worked for the builder George R. Morris are predominant.
ARCHITECTURAL STYLES REPRESENTED IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT: English Style Rowhouse Gables and porches break up the facades and give each house the impression of distinctiveness. Red brick, stuccoed, and half-timbered designs feature stylish deep hooded and pedimented entryways, paired and triple sash, and wide, shed-roofed dormers set on the slate roof. These houses are two rooms wide and two rooms deep giving daylight to each room; the term Daylight Houses was coined by developers of the period to describe this plan. There are twenty-seven buildings of this style which contain ninetyfour houses. Tudor Revival Roofs typically have a steep pitch. These houses employ irregular massing, multiple gables and a variety of surface textures and materials employing stone, brick and stucco. A single house usually has windows varying in size and shape, some employing leaded glass casement style windows. Halftimbering and carved wood or stone elements are used for decoration. There are seventeen buildings of this style in the district; of this group, nine buildings contain thirty-three houses.
Federal Revival: This style primarily is based on Classical architectural orders. This category also includes early Federal-period stylistic subtypes, in part influenced by the Adam brothers. Thirteen buildings of this style are found in the District. Georgian Revival This term describes a broad range of architecture that includes design elements found in colonial settlements of the Eastern seaboard. Common features include straightforward, rectangular massing, simple, gable roofs, and symmetrically organized facades. Massing variations involve either a linear arrangement of secondary volumes or a perpendicular arrangement with subsidiary volumes to the side or rear. Front facades are almost always symmetrical with a central entry. Character defining features include double-hung, multi-pane windows placed in vertical, rectangular openings. Ornamentation is usually applied to window and door openings, eaves, cornice lines, and gable ends. In many cases elaborate decorative treatments are focused on the main entry, with a full or broken pedimented surround, transoms, side and fanlights, sometimes enhanced with a portico based on the classical orders. Cornices are often detailed with dentils, entablatures and friezes. There are nine examples in the District.
Spanish Eclectic Style: The characteristic red or green-tiled roofs of low pitch are found on all examples, usually with little or no overhang. Walls are plastered, a variety of textures being employed; columns or pilasters flank doorways. Balconies with railings of wrought iron or wood are common. On a single elevation, windows vary in size and they are asymmetrically disposed with broad expanses of wall between them. There are two buildings in the district of this style. 100 Tuscany Road is a single detached residence and the Gardens of Guilford on Stony Run Lane is a linked collection of five apartment buildings. Italian Renaissance Revival Style These buildings have a low pitch gable roof or low pitch truncated hip roof. They have rectangular massing and symmetrical facades. Semi-circular topped window openings are frequently used and there may be different shaped window openings on each floor. Full-length first story windows with arches above is an identifying characteristic. There are four buildings in this style in the District. Classical Revival (Neoclassical) This style has the front facade dominated by a full height porch roof supported by classical columns. Front facades are symmetrically balanced. There are three buildings in this style in the District.
French Eclectic: This style incorporates tall, steeply pitched hip roofs. Massing is usually asymmetrical; doors in asymmetrical houses are usually set in simple arched openings . Doors in symmetrical and formal houses may be surrounded by stone quoins or more elaborate Renaissance detailing (pilasters, pediments) . Windows may be either double hung or casement, the latter with small leaded panes. Dormers used are hipped-roof or gabled. There are two buildings of this style in the District. French Renaissance Revival Buildings in the French Renaissance Revival style show definite planned formalism with rectangular massing and symmetrical facades. Semi-circular topped window openings are typical. Distinguishing characteristics are the highly ornamented front entrance and a massive, steeply pitched hip roof. There is one building of this style in this district.
Dutch Colonial Revival: This type includes design elements used in Dutch colonial settlements of the Eastern seaboard. All examples have a gambrel roof. Fagade designs freely borrow from Georgian and Federal style elements. One building of the District is of this style. REPRESENTATIVE CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS The following paragraphs describe selected representative examples of architectural styles that characterize the district. The attached inventory presents an exhaustive listing of contributing and noncontributing resources. English Style Rowhouse 3919, 3917, 3915 Canterbury Road. These Daylight Houses are two rooms wide and two rooms deep. Gables and a wide variety of porches and porch hoods break up the facades and give the illusion that each house is different. Half -Timbered Tudor 301-303 Tuscany Road; 206-204-202-200 Ridgemede Road. This group of houses is designed around the corner and down the slope without a hint of awkwardness. John A. Ahlers ‘ characteristic use of second floor overhang and curved slate porch roofs, and the usual mixed material for walls creates a masterful expression. 100 West 39th Street – Canterbury Hall. This 1912 apartment house was designed by Edward H. Glidden, Sr. and has interesting two story bays and a two story balcony pair. Italian Renaissance 102 West 39th Street – The Berkely House. This four story apartment building with an H plan, semi -circular topped windows, and ornate front entrance, makes a very formal statement. S
Spanish Eclectic: 100 Tuscany Rd. This example uses as a focal point the second floor balconet. An irregular Y plan also has a unique roof dormer projecting from the entrance bay. Nearby in Guilford (2 St. Martin’s Road and 8 East Bishop’s Road) are Edward H. Glidden, Jr. -designed Spanish Eclectic Style houses with similar treatments . Neo-Classical Revival 102 West University Parkway – The First Church of Christ Scientist. There are closely coupled ionic capped columns at each c corner of a front porch giving extra support to the corners of the triangular gable. The balustraded wall in front of the porch gives an extra note of formality. Federal Revival 103 West 39th Street – The Hamlyn. Paired end chimneys, keystone lintels and semi-circular window tops indicate the Adam influence. INTEGRITY OF THE BUILDINGS AND THE LANDSCAPE There is a high level of resource integrity in this District. The Calvert School at 105 Tuscany Road has been extensively altered in several recent campaigns so that its early form is compromised and it overwhelms its site. With that exception, modifications and additions to resources in the District are generally consistent with the architecture of the buildings. NON-CONTRIBUTING RESOURCES Non-contributing resources represent only about 6% of the built environment in the District, and their overall effect on the character of the District is minor. Most are small houses or low-rise complexes whose siting and setbacks effectively reduce their impact. Several high-rise apartment and condominium buildings were constructed in the western section of the District after the period of significance.
Summary Statement of Significance:
The Tuscany -Canterbury Historic District is significant under Criterion A for its association with the suburban development of Baltimore in the early 20 th century. Through its valuable array of historic resources, the District preserves a record of North Baltimore’s transformation through stages that were sequentially rural, suburban, and urban. Evidence of this pattern of transformation, which occurred in many major cities along the Eastern seaboard, is especially well-preserved in Tuscany- Canterbury . A circa 1892 Victorian cottage survives to reflect the area’s rural origins. Other resources reflective of suburban trends began to be added in stages from as early as 1911, including rowhouses, detached houses, and apartment buildings in a variety of revival styles typical of the period. The district derives additional significance under Criterion C for the high quality of its architecture, the work of many of Baltimore’s most prominent and accomplished designers of the period. The period of significance extends from 1892, the date of the earliest resource in the district, to 1940, by which date the development of the district was substantially complete.
Resource History and Historic Context: Baltimore was incorporated as a city in 1797. Prior to 1888, its northern boundary was essentially at North Avenue and the area north of the City was heavily wooded and sparsely settled. In fact, these northern outskirts consisted mostly of a number of large country estates. The area that is now Tuscany- Canterbury, land owned by Charles Merryman (and later by John Merryman) lay close to the small stream known as Stony Run. John Merryman is the first person known to have cleared the land along the valley of Stony Run and to farm the land, land that he called Clover Hill. In the late 1800s, Stony Run powered a mill in the area. Located close to what is now known as Merryman ‘s Lane was a quarry. Linkwood Road, which follows the course of Stony Run, was the western boundary of Clover Hill Farm. Legend has it that starting as a trail used by Susquehannock Indians and later used as a wagon path, Charles Street had modest beginnings. Because Charles Street originally led from the harbor in central “Baltimore Town” northward to the forest, its earliest recorded name was Forest Street. Two other major arteries leading into the District are University Parkway and Highfield Road. In the 1880s and 1890s, a number of great mansions were built along Charles Street, with six on the west side of Charles from
University Parkway to Highfield Road having been built by 1894. An additional mansion was constructed here in 1907 for Henry P. Duker on the present site of the Scottish Rite Temple, though it was later moved diagonally across the street to the Northeast corner of 39th Street and North Charles Street to make room for the Temple. Roland Park, located to the west and north of Tuscany-Canterbury, began to be developed in 1890 and the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University, located immediately to its south, was laid out by the Olmsteds (the foremost landscape architects in the country at that time). Construction began on the university’s Oilman Hall in 1904. With the establishment of University Parkway by the Olmsteds on the northern periphery of the campus by 1908, access to Clover Hill Farm was greatly facilitated. These developments, coupled with the beginning of Guilford by the Roland Park Company in 1912 (to the east of the District), set into motion forces which drew great attention to strategically located Clover Hill Farm. Though the Merrymans were not initially interested in selling their farmlands, in time, portions of their property began to be acquired for the construction of residential housing and the suburbanization of Clover Hill Farm began to take place. Fostered by the growth of public transportation, the transition from farmland to suburb that was underway here was mirrored in some other parts of Baltimore City.
By the early twentieth century, two housing trends in Baltimore began to impact the District. One trend resulted from demands for rowhouses that would be more luxurious than those of the central city, rowhouses that open up the interior to more light and flowing space and which would successfully compete in the market with the more costly suburban cottages. The second housing trend was a growing market for luxury apartments in mid-rise buildings. By 1910, this later trend had resulted in luxury apartments in downtown Baltimore. Within two years, it spread to the suburbs when the Canterbury Hall Apartments were built in rustic Clover Hill. Canterbury Hall was designed by the architect Edward H. Glidden, Sr., who had recently returned from four years of studying architecture in Paris. About the same time a Georgian Revival Style brick house (c. 1913) was constructed at 212 Stony Run Lane and the first building on the section of University Parkway south of the District began rising. Though work on architect Charles Cassell’s First Church of Christ Scientist was not completed until 1913, its cornerstone had been laid in 1911.
As lands in Clover Hill were being purchased from the Merrymans, section by section, projects of the Roland Park Company were underway to the east, the north, and the west. This was a time of economic prosperity in many parts of the nation and by the spring of 1912, the Roland Park Company had laid rail lines to bring construction materials into Guilford. As building in the District was spreading to the west of Canterbury Hall, the Italian Renaissance Style Lombardy Apartments by Clyde N. Friz were constructed. In 1916, two houses designed by Laurence Hall Fowler were constructed nearby on Oak Place. Remarkably, construction started on the Tuscany Apartments at 221 Stony Run Lane during World War One. At the intersection of University and Charles, the Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy during the same year erected a statue dedicated to Confederate Women of Maryland by the sculptor J. Maxwell Miller. Guilford Manor Apartments began to rise near the intersection of West University Parkway and North Charles Street and the Italian Renaissance Style Apartment Buildings at 104 and 106 W. University Parkway were begun at the War’s end in 1919. In July of the same year, University Homes Company, with George R. Morris at its head, received building permits to construct houses on Cloverhill Road. Morris gave special attention to constructing houses he considered to be technologically advanced. In fact, his were the first large group of Baltimore houses to be heated by manufactured gas and they provided mechanical refrigeration as well.
Morris’ rowhouses were influenced by Edward L. Palmer’s row of five houses constructed at 835-843 West University Parkway in 1909. These houses introduced to Baltimore a four-square “daylight” floor plan where houses were two rooms wide and two rooms deep. Palmer later used this daylight plan in a village-like setting in a section of Roland Park called Meadow Block. The daylight houses, also had steeply-pitched gables, unornamented stucco surfaces, and crisp, geometric openings. These houses greatly influenced the ones built in the District by Morris. Other nearby architectural precedents that might have influenced Morris were the Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival groups of houses along the West side of York Road as a part of the Guilford development built in 1913 . These are known as the York Courts. In the same year, Palmer designed Bretton Place in the Half-Timbered Tudor Style. In 1914 Phillip C. Mueller purchased Oakenshawe, a country estate on the edge of Guilford, and hired Flournoy and Flournoy to design his English Style Rowhouses.
The rate at which large apartments were being constructed in Baltimore began increasing rapidly following World War One, and this trend was especially pronounced in Tuscany-Canterbury. Eight new apartment houses were constructed between 1920 and 1927 alone. Continuing this trend, large single detached houses on the west side of Charles Street gradually began to be demolished and to be replaced by apartment buildings of monumental proportions. The Colonel George Washington Hyde Mansion (built in 1880) made way for the 1927 Warrington Apartments. The 1907 Duker House was moved across the street to provide a corner site for the 1930 Scottish Rite Temple . While this high-density development was taking place along Charles Street on the east side of the District, development was moving much more slowly in the western sector. However, the Robinson and Slagle Construction Company hired John A. Ahlers to design group houses that would fit the rolling contour of the land available in the northwest Tus cany -Canterbury in 1928. Ahlers drew on the Half -Timbered Tudor with second floor overhang design he was familiar from his childhood in Oberhausen, Germany. The result was masterly design and remarkable ingenuity.
ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS WHO INFLUENCED THE DESIGN OF TUSCANY -CANTERBURY
John A. Ahlers (1895-1983)
Born in Oberhausen Germany in 1895,John Ahlers came to the United States at the age of 9 in 1915 with his parents. His education consisted of elementary school in Baltimore [Saint Alphonsus Elementary at Saratoga and Park Ave. (1904-1910)], a preparatory school in upstate New York [St. Bonaventure (1910-1914)], and St. Boniface College in Winnipeg, Manitoba where he received a B.A. degree (1915-1919). After graduating from college he returned to Baltimore and began work as a draftsman for the General Contractor John T. Bramble (1920-1922) . The prominent Baltimore architect, Joseph Evans Sperry saw his work and invited him to join his firm. Ahlers worked 5 years as Designer and Senior Draftsman in Sperry’s office (1923 to 1928). During that time Ahlers studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute in New York City. Ahlers graduated from the Beaux-Arts Institute of Architectural Design in New York while employed in Sperry’s Office.
In 1928 he opened his own office and was employed by the Robinson and Slagle Company to design the “Tuscany Row Houses” in Tuscany-Canterbury. The success of that project brought him to the attention of Edward Bouton, president of the Roland Park Company, who employed Ahlers in 1929 to design Northwood. Ahlers designed the first 50 houses for Northwood, thus setting the character of that community. Ahlers designed in Northwood 86 houses, in Homeland 49 houses, in Guilford 12 houses and in TuscanyCanterbury 33 houses for a total of 180 in those communities. Others are found in The Orchards and Hursleigh. In 1935 he became the supervising architect for the Roland Park Company and exercised design approval for houses in Homeland and Northwood. Ahlers returned to private practice late in 1941. He designed the Gothic Revival style recitation building that was added to Loyola High School in 1933. In association with Frank Murphy of Washington B.C. and James R. Edmunds of Baltimore he designed the St. Mary’s Catholic Church at York and Tunbridge Roads in Homeland (1941). In association with Harvey Warwick of Washington B.C. he designed the Northwood and Pentridge apartment complexes (1938 & 1940). Ahlers designed the chapel for the motherhouse of the School Sisters of Notre Bame (Villa Assumpta) located on Charles Street and Bellona Avenue (1955) . He contracted the art deco sculptor Lee Laurie do a large madonna for this commission.
George R. Morris, working c.1905 to 1921
He was a builder and possibly the architect of rowhouses and apartment houses. Morris came to Baltimore from Pennsylvania after the 1904 fire to capitalize on the construction needed after the fire. By 1916 he had purchased the property on the West side of Charles Street north of University Parkway. Together with others, including Colonel George W. Hyde, he formed the University Homes Company. A deed dated Becember 20, 1917, records the sale of land east of Oak Place by University Homes Company to Morris; this tract minus two lots was reconveyed to University Homes. There is a 1919 building permit for the first six homes on Cloverhill and their construction began in July of 1919. In 1926 Morris organized a real estate company that owned and managed over 300 apartment houses.
Clyde N. Friz (1867-1942)
Architect of the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Cathedral Street(1933) , the Scottish Rite Temple of Freemasonry(1930). Born in Michigan he studied architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for various architectural firms in St. Louis before moving to Baltimore in 1900 where he joined the office of Wyatt and Nolting. He opened his own office in 1925. Friz designed two houses in Guilford (1923 & 1926), 3 apartment buildings and one house in TuscanyCanterbury (1915-1922). Edward H. Glidden, Sr. (1873-1924) One of the sons of the founder of the Glidden Paint Company, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, studied architecture in Paris for four years, and came to Baltimore in 1911 and was appointed Inspector of the Works on the new Court House then being constructed. He briefly worked with Clyde Friz (1911-1913) and later went into independent practice. He designed the Canterbury Hall on 39th Street (1912), the Washington Apartments on Mount Vernon Place and the 1917 Furness House on South Street. He designed four houses in Guilford between 1919 and 1921 and was working with Hobart Upjohn of New York at the time of his death. His son, Edward H. Glidden, Jr. worked as an architect designing ten houses in Guilford and Homeland from 1926 to 1940.
Laurence Hall Fowler (1877-1971)
Born in Catonsville, he graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1898, studied briefly at Columbia University before returning to Baltimore to practice architecture. He worked with Wyatt and Nolting and then opened his own office in 1906. Most of Fowler’s work was private homes. He designed approximately eighty houses in the mid-Atlantic states. He designed 6 houses in Tuscany-Canterbury and the original Calvert School (1923). He designed his own residence in TuscanyCanterbury at number 10 West Highfield Road. He served on the architectural review committee of the Roland Park Company during the construction of Guilford and Homeland: designing many houses in both of those developments. 18 in Guilford 1913-1929, 3 in Homeland 1929-1930 and 6 in Tuscany-Canterbury. Kenneth Gameron Miller (1897-1975) born in Millvile, N.J. moved to Baltimore in his teens, attended Baltimore Public Schools and the Maryland Institute. He began work as an engineer with J.K.E. Diffenderfer in 1922. In 1927 he started his career as an architect with Harold A. Stillwell. He started work with Joseph Meyerhoff (Monumental Properties) in the 1930’s and was one of the principal architects for that Corporation. Miller designed Eastport Mall, Westport Mall and hundreds of homes in Homeland, Northwood and many other parts of Northeast Baltimore. William G. Nolting (1866-1940). Born in Baltimore and educated in Richmond, Virginia, Nolting began his architectural career in Richmond, continued in Washington, D.C., and finally returned to Baltimore where he joined the office of J. B. Wyatt, who later made him a partner. J
James Boswell Noel Wvatt (1847-1926)
He spent his youth in Baltimore and in 1865 his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where Wyatt graduated from Harvard in 1870, studied architecture at M.I.T. and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to Baltimore in 1874 and worked briefly for E. Frances Baldwin who had in turn been trained by a student of Benjamin H. Latrobe, Jr. By 1889, Wyatt had formed a partnership with William G. Nolting. Architects trained in his office included Clyde Friz, Edward H. Glidden, Sr., William Lamdin, James R. Edmonds, Jr. and Laurence Hall Fowler. Friz , Glidden and Fowler designed many important buildings in Tuscany-Canterbury. Buildings in Baltimore designed by Wyatt and Nolting included the Baltimore Courthouse (1900), the Fifth Regiment Armory, buildings for The Johns Hopkins University, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. J
John Russell Pope (1874- 1937)
One of America’s most distinguished architects, the designer of many buildings of outstanding character both here and abroad, nearly all of them in the classical tradition. He studied architecture under Professor Willis R. Ware at Columbia’s School of Mines. This was followed by two years of study at the American Academy in Rome. Then he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Completing his degree in 1900. He returned to New York where he was greatly influenced by Charles McKim. He was the architect of the Temple of Scottish Rite, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the University Baptist Church on Charles Street and the Henry Swann Frick Mansion in Guilford. In Washington, D.C. he designed the National Archives Building, the National Gallery of Art, Constitution Hall, the National Christian Church on Thomas Circle and the Jefferson Memorial.
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