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organization had as its goal "collecting the scattered and rapidly disappearing records of events and individuals prominent in the history of the city and District." The main role of the early society was to serve as a forum for members to present historical research, which was then published in the
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The Columbia Historical Society was founded in 1894 by a group of 36 men and women, with the following mission: "Its objects shall be the collection, preservation, and diffusion of knowledge respecting the history and topography of the District of Columbia and national history and biography." The
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In 1975, a real estate transaction produced a significant endowment, which was used to hire the first full-time, professional historian as executive director, Perry Fisher. Fisher used the interest in the nation's past stimulated by the U.S. Bicentennial to increase the society's programs and
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The Carnegie Library houses the society's research library, rotating exhibits, and offices. Ninety percent of the society's historic collections, which include artworks, documents, maps, objects, and over 100,000 photographs, are stored on-site. A permanent exhibition,
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The growth of the collections presented difficulties. For more than 50 years, the society used rented and donated rooms to house its offices and library. Volunteers served as librarians and curators. In the late 1940s, a bill to finance reassembly of
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In 2017, the Historical Society moved to a temporary location to facilitate renovation of the Carnegie Library Building. The renovated building reopened on May 11, 2019. The Historical Society now shares space in the building with an
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announced the creation of the City Museum of Washington, D.C. in the Carnegie Library. The City Museum opened in May 2003, but closed in November 2004 because of a lack of funding and interest.
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In 2006, the society and the National Music Center entered into an agreement that permitted the Music Center to occupy a substantial portion of the Carnegie Library for three years.
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In 1954, the District of Columbia Public Library, which had been storing the society's collections, threatened to evict them because of its own space problems. The society's
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to seek federal funding for a City Museum of Washington, D.C. Congress appropriated $ 2 million in 1999 "provided that the District of Columbia shall lease the
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vetoed it for budgetary reasons. A professional appointed in 1947 promulgated a collecting policy and created the first catalog.
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The society provides lectures, exhibits, classes, and community events. It runs a museum, library, and publishes the journal
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In 1998, Monica Scott Beckham, vice president of the society's board of trustees, went before a subcommittee of the
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appealed to the membership for a home. In 1955, Amelia Keyser Heurich, widow of prominent Washington brewer
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In 1989, the society was renamed the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. and relaunched its magazine
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The society hired its first director in 1959, although the office of the board of trustees' president,
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By 1899, the new organization had 108 members. Of these, 95 were men, and 101 were residents of
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to the Society ... for 99 years at $ 1 per year". On July 14, 1999, District Mayor
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city's population, the membership of the Columbia Historical Society was all
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United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites
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Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
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Association for the Study of African American Life and History
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Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
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Carnegie Library building seen from the south in 2019
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Index

City Museum of Washington, D.C.

Carnegie Library building
Mount Vernon Square

Washington, D.C.
Carnegie Library of Washington D.C.
Beaux-Arts
Mount Vernon Square
District of Columbia Public Library
Carnegie libraries
peer-reviewed
Northwest Washington
African Americans
racially segregated
white
Francis Scott Key
Harry Truman
board of trustees
Christian Heurich
four-story mansion
Dupont Circle
Ulysses S. Grant III
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations
Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square
Anthony A. Williams
D.C. Public Charter Schools
Apple Store
Mary Stevens Beall
"Washington History"

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