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Glen Echo Park is an arts and cultural center in Glen Echo, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Located about northwest of the city's downtown area, the park's site was initially developed in 1891 as a National Chautauqua Assembly.[1]

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  1. 69 relations: African Americans, American Red Cross, Amusement park, Baby boomers, Ballroom, Brass ring, Bureau of American Ethnology, Cabin John, Maryland, Carousel, Chances Are (film), Chautauqua, Clara Barton, Clara Barton National Historic Site, College Park, Maryland, Contra dance, Cybill Shepherd, Dentzel Carousel Company, Disneyland, District Department of Transportation, Fairground organ, Flickr, General Services Administration, George Washington Memorial Parkway, George Washington University, Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Glen Echo Park (Maryland), Glen Echo Park Aquarium, Glen Echo, Maryland, Google Books, Griffin v. Maryland, Historical Society of Washington, D.C., Historically black colleges and universities, Howard University, Jews, John Philip Sousa, Liberalism, Library of Congress, List of folk festivals, Maryland Historical Trust, Montgomery County, Maryland, National Capital Planning Commission, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, PastPerfect Museum Software, PCC streetcar, Potomac River, Racial segregation in the United States, Richardsonian Romanesque, Robert Downey Jr., Salsa (dance), ... Expand index (19 more) »

  2. Amusement parks closed in 1968
  3. Arts centers in Maryland
  4. Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
  5. Defunct amusement parks in Maryland
  6. Event venues on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
  7. Historic American Landscapes Survey in Maryland
  8. National Park Service areas in Maryland
  9. Shingle Style architecture in Maryland
  10. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the United States
  11. Streamline Moderne architecture in Maryland

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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American Red Cross

The American National Red Cross, is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States.

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Amusement park

An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes.

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Baby boomers

Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom.

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Ballroom

A ballroom or ballhall is a large room inside a building, the primary purpose of which is holding large formal parties called balls.

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Brass ring

A brass ring is a small grabbable ring that a dispenser presents to a carousel rider during the course of a ride.

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Bureau of American Ethnology

The Bureau of American Ethnology (or BAE, originally, Bureau of Ethnology) was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America from the Department of the Interior to the Smithsonian Institution.

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Cabin John, Maryland

Cabin John is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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A carousel or carrousel (mainly North American English), merry-go-round (international), Galloper (international) or roundabout (British English) is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders.

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Chances Are (film)

Chances Are is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan O'Neal, and Mary Stuart Masterson in Panavision.

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Chautauqua

Chautauqua is an adult education and social movement in the United States that peaked in popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Clara Barton

Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross.

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Clara Barton National Historic Site

The Clara Barton National Historic Site, which includes the Clara Barton House, was established in 1974 to interpret the life of Clara Barton (1821–1912), an American pioneer teacher, nurse, and humanitarian who was the founder of the American Red Cross. Glen Echo Park (Maryland) and Clara Barton National Historic Site are historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland.

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College Park, Maryland

College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located approximately from the northeast border of Washington, D.C. Its population was 34,740 at the 2020 United States census.

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Contra dance

Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a form of folk dancing made up of long lines of couples.

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Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress, singer and former model.

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The G.A. Dentzel Company was an American builder of carousels in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Disneyland

Disneyland is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.

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District Department of Transportation

The District Department of Transportation (DDOT, stylized as d.) is an agency of the government of the District of Columbia, in the United States, which manages and maintains publicly owned transportation infrastructure in the District of Columbia.

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Fairground organ

A fairground organ is a musical organ covering the wind and percussive sections of an orchestra.

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Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States.

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General Services Administration

The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.

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George Washington Memorial Parkway

The George Washington Memorial Parkway, colloquially the G.W. Parkway, is a limited-access parkway that runs along the south bank of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, Virginia, northwest to McLean, Virginia, and is maintained by the National Park Service (NPS). Glen Echo Park (Maryland) and George Washington Memorial Parkway are national Park Service areas in Maryland.

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George Washington University

The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress and is the first university founded under Washington D.C.'s jurisdiction.

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Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)

Georgetown is a historic neighborhood and commercial district in Northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River.

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Glen Echo Park (Maryland)

Glen Echo Park is an arts and cultural center in Glen Echo, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Located about northwest of the city's downtown area, the park's site was initially developed in 1891 as a National Chautauqua Assembly. Glen Echo Park (Maryland) and Glen Echo Park (Maryland) are amusement parks closed in 1968, arts centers in Maryland, buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland, Defunct amusement parks in Maryland, event venues on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland, historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland, historic American Engineering Record in Maryland, historic American Landscapes Survey in Maryland, historic district contributing properties, historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland, national Park Service areas in Maryland, Queen Anne architecture in Maryland, Shingle Style architecture in Maryland, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the United States and streamline Moderne architecture in Maryland.

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Glen Echo Park Aquarium

The Glen Echo Park Aquarium is a small public aquarium located on the premises of Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland.

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Glen Echo, Maryland

Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Griffin v. Maryland

Griffin v. Maryland, 378 U.S. 130 (1964), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the convictions of five African Americans who were arrested during a protest of a privately owned amusement park by a park employee who was also a deputy sheriff.

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Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., also called the DC History Center, is an educational foundation dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of Washington, D.C. The society provides lectures, exhibits, classes, and community events.

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Historically black colleges and universities

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving African Americans.

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Howard University

Howard University is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., located in the Shaw neighborhood.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches.

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Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of folk festivals

A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music.

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Maryland Historical Trust

The Maryland Historical Trust is an agency of Maryland Department of Planning and serves as the Maryland State Historic Preservation Office.

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Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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National Capital Planning Commission

The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) is a U.S. government executive branch agency that provides planning guidance for Washington, D.C., and the surrounding National Capital Region.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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PastPerfect Museum Software

PastPerfect Museum Software is an application for collections archiving.

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PCC streetcar

The PCC (Presidents' Conference Committee) is a tram design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s.

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

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Racial segregation in the United States

Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations.

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Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886).

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Robert Downey Jr.

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor.

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Salsa (dance)

Salsa is a Latin American dance, associated with salsa music. It originated in the late Eastern Cuba and gained popularity in New York in 1960.

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SEPTA

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolleybus services for nearly four million people throughout five counties in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Sit-in

A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.

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Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s.

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Streamliner

A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Swing (dance)

Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era".

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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Trolley park

In the United States, trolley parks, which started in the 19th century, were picnic and recreation areas along or at the ends of streetcar lines in most of the larger cities.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army.

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United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Waltz

The waltz, meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple (4 time), performed primarily in closed position.

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WAMU

WAMU (88.5 FM) is a public news–talk station that services the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area.

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Washington Aqueduct

The Washington Aqueduct is an aqueduct that provides the public water supply system serving Washington, D.C., and parts of its suburbs, using water from the Potomac River.

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Washington Railway and Electric Company

The Washington Railway and Electric Company (WRECo) was the larger of the two major streetcar companies in Washington, D.C., and its Maryland suburbs in the early decades of the 20th century.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Woodstock

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock.

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Wurlitzer

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer.

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See also

Amusement parks closed in 1968

  • Glen Echo Park (Maryland)

Arts centers in Maryland

Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

Defunct amusement parks in Maryland

Event venues on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

Historic American Landscapes Survey in Maryland

National Park Service areas in Maryland

Shingle Style architecture in Maryland

Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the United States

Streamline Moderne architecture in Maryland

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Echo_Park_(Maryland)

Also known as Carousel at Glen Echo Park, Chautauqua Tower, Edward Baltzley, Edwin Baltzley, Glen Echo Park Historic District, Glen Echo Park, Maryland.

, SEPTA, Sit-in, Streamline Moderne, Streamliner, Supreme Court of the United States, Swing (dance), The Washington Post, Tram, Trolley park, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Department of the Interior, Victorian architecture, Waltz, WAMU, Washington Aqueduct, Washington Railway and Electric Company, Washington, D.C., Woodstock, Wurlitzer.