Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0363Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large white building, a car is parked on the street in front of it. Above the image "28" is printed, below the image "32245 National Home of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D. C." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
32245
MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL OF THE D. A. R., Washington, D. C.
A few steps from the Pan-American Union buiding bring us, in the adjoining block on the N., to the imposing national home of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, completed in 1907 and said to be the only building in the world entirely planned and bult by women. It is made of white Vermont marble, on the classic order of architecture popular in theAmerican colonial era. Our standpoint is a spot on the Executive Grounds, S. E. of the Continental Hall and across 17th St. from it. From here we have an excellent view through the trees of the semi-circular South Portico, to our left, rsting upon a noble marble terrace, and of the East Portico, beneath which is the main entrance, fronting on the street. The 13 fluted Ionic columns supporting the roof of the South Portico represent the 13 original states, and were the gifts either of the D. A. R. organization or the legislature of those states. All the interior furnishings, inlcuidng a number of busts of great Americans of the Revolution, paintings, flags, emeorial bronze doors, and the decorations and furniture of the various rooms, have ben presented by different chapters of th is great hereditary patriotic organizaiton of American woen, numberin gin the neighborhood of 125,000 members. The largest apartment in the Continental Hall is the Auditorium, which has a seating capacity of 2,000 persons. It rises throughout the height of the building and is lighted by a ground glass ceiling. In the Auditorium occurs the annual Congress of the D. A. R., attended by large delegations from the chapters in the various states, insular possessions, and foreign countries. In 1921 it was also used for the opening and closign meetings of the Ineternational Conference on the Limitation of Armaments.
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