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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1896/02/00 John Dos Passos Home Lucy Madison hires a nanny to help with her at 1201 19th Street NW, Washington, with a new born son, John, who she calls Jack.
1896/02/00 Lucy Sprigg Madison Dos Passos Home After an absence of several months, Lucy Madison buys her first house, 1201 19th Street NW in Washington, DC. She tells people that she adopted an infant, John, from an unwed mother at a Chicago hotel.
1896/05/00 Edith Wilson Home Edith and Norman Galt first live at the groom's father brownstone before they move into a modest brick house in the Dupont Circle neighborhood at 1404 21st St.
1901/06/30 Maj Carroll Mercer Home Carroll Mercer receives an honorable discharge. Due to a dwindling fortune, the Mercer family moves to 1761 N Street in Washington, DC.
1904/00/00 Edith Wilson Life Norman Galt gives his wife, Edith Galt, an Columbia Elberon Victoria Mark XXXI. As the first woman in DC to drive an electric car, Mrs Galt will enjoy the independence of movement that provides over the other womanly conveyance, a bicycle.

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Particulars for Dupont Circle Historic District South:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Architectural Style Late 19th and 20th century revivals
Architectural Style Late Victorian
Historic Use Multiple dwelling
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History
Historic Use Specialty Store




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