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National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

National Park Seminary, Aloha House, North of Linden Lane near corner of Beech Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Aloha House, North of Linden Lane near corner ...

Significance: Aloha was constructed in 1898 as part of the school's first building campaign. It served as the Cassedy family residence and then became a dormitory for juniors. The original shingle-sided bunga... More

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Sprin...

Significance: The Indian Mission building was the clubhouse for the Theta Sigma Rho sorority. The building's design was inspired by eighteenth-century Franciscan mission churches of the Far West. The early co... More

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Sprin...

Significance: The Indian Mission building was the clubhouse for the Theta Sigma Rho sorority. The building's design was inspired by eighteenth-century Franciscan mission churches of the Far West. The early co... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloha House, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloh...

Significance: Housing the gymnasium in one of the campus' most prominent and ornate building illustrated the importance of athletics at the school. It was, perhaps, an attempt to relate the ancient world's cel... More

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Swiss chalet was the home of the Zeta Eta Theta sorority. The Swiss chalet was a common form of bungalow design. The form appeared in A.J. Downing's "Architecture of Country Houses," 1850, a... More

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Japanese bungalow is one of the oldest buildings on campus. It was begun in 1898, the first year of the Cassedys' building campaign, and completed in 1899. The clubhouse has a combination of... More

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Japanese bungalow is one of the oldest buildings on campus. It was begun in 1898, the first year of the Cassedys' building campaign, and completed in 1899. The clubhouse has a combination of... More

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Colonial House was the Phi Delta Psi sorority house. Its Classical or Colonial Revival design was popular in the late nineteenth century because of the nationalism stirred up by the Bicentenn... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The causeways' design echoed the forms of Main. The design is vaguely Gothic. It is another fantasyland-like feature on the campus. Its rather large girth and length made it a prominent part of... More

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The causeways' design echoed the forms of Main. The design is vaguely Gothic. It is another fantasyland-like feature on the campus. Its rather large girth and length made it a prominent part of... More

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The causeways' design echoed the forms of Main. The design is vaguely Gothic. It is another fantasyland-like feature on the campus. Its rather large girth and length made it a prominent part of... More

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The causeways' design echoed the forms of Main. The design is vaguely Gothic. It is another fantasyland-like feature on the campus. Its rather large girth and length made it a prominent part of... More

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

National Park Seminary, Japanese Pagoda, 2805 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Japanese Pagoda, 2805 Linden Lane, Silver Spri...

Significance: The Japanese pagoda is one of the landmark campus buildings. Even before its upturned eaves were removed, the Japanese bungalow looked austere compared to this ostentatious structure next door. ... More

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capitol Beltway (I-495), Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capito...

Significance: The dormitory was added in 1907 to accommodate an expanding student population. In this regard, it is a testament to the school's success and popularity. Its Italianate design is one of the many... More

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Sprin...

Significance: The Indian Mission building was the clubhouse for the Theta Sigma Rho sorority. The building's design was inspired by eighteenth-century Franciscan mission churches of the Far West. The early co... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Chapel, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Chapel, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery...

Significance: The chapel was one of the first buildings constructed on the campus. Its rustic, shingle-style form complimented the Queen Anne inn and the natural surroundings. The structure's bell tower, stai... More

National Park Seminary, Chapel, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Chapel, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery...

Significance: The chapel was one of the first buildings constructed on the campus. Its rustic, shingle-style form complimented the Queen Anne inn and the natural surroundings. The structure's bell tower, stai... More

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver ...

Significance: The American bungalow is one of five buildings erected during the Cassedy's first year of construction in 1898. It was the first of eight sorority houses on campus. It was the home of the Alpha ... More

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver ...

Significance: The American bungalow is one of five buildings erected during the Cassedy's first year of construction in 1898. It was the first of eight sorority houses on campus. It was the home of the Alpha ... More

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver ...

Significance: The American bungalow is one of five buildings erected during the Cassedy's first year of construction in 1898. It was the first of eight sorority houses on campus. It was the home of the Alpha ... More

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver ...

Significance: The American bungalow is one of five buildings erected during the Cassedy's first year of construction in 1898. It was the first of eight sorority houses on campus. It was the home of the Alpha ... More

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver ...

Significance: The American bungalow is one of five buildings erected during the Cassedy's first year of construction in 1898. It was the first of eight sorority houses on campus. It was the home of the Alpha ... More

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver ...

Significance: The American bungalow is one of five buildings erected during the Cassedy's first year of construction in 1898. It was the first of eight sorority houses on campus. It was the home of the Alpha ... More

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Japanese bungalow is one of the oldest buildings on campus. It was begun in 1898, the first year of the Cassedys' building campaign, and completed in 1899. The clubhouse has a combination of... More

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Si...

Significance: The castle is one of the NPS clubhouses. The fanciful, medieval fortress for the Pi Beta Nu sorority counterbalanced the symmetrical architectural forms, such as the villa and the Colonial House,... More

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Si...

Significance: The castle is one of the NPS clubhouses. The fanciful, medieval fortress for the Pi Beta Nu sorority counterbalanced the symmetrical architectural forms, such as the villa and the Colonial House,... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The causeways' design echoed the forms of Main. The design is vaguely Gothic. It is another fantasyland-like feature on the campus. Its rather large girth and length made it a prominent part of... More

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

National Park Seminary, Japanese Pagoda, 2805 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Japanese Pagoda, 2805 Linden Lane, Silver Spri...

Significance: The Japanese pagoda is one of the landmark campus buildings. Even before its upturned eaves were removed, the Japanese bungalow looked austere compared to this ostentatious structure next door. ... More

National Park Seminary, Aloha House, North of Linden Lane near corner of Beech Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Aloha House, North of Linden Lane near corner ...

Significance: Aloha was constructed in 1898 as part of the school's first building campaign. It served as the Cassedy family residence and then became a dormitory for juniors. The original shingle-sided bunga... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Swiss chalet was the home of the Zeta Eta Theta sorority. The Swiss chalet was a common form of bungalow design. The form appeared in A.J. Downing's "Architecture of Country Houses," 1850, a... More

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Swiss chalet was the home of the Zeta Eta Theta sorority. The Swiss chalet was a common form of bungalow design. The form appeared in A.J. Downing's "Architecture of Country Houses," 1850, a... More

National Park Seminary, Chapel, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Chapel, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery...

Significance: The chapel was one of the first buildings constructed on the campus. Its rustic, shingle-style form complimented the Queen Anne inn and the natural surroundings. The structure's bell tower, stai... More

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver ...

Significance: The American bungalow is one of five buildings erected during the Cassedy's first year of construction in 1898. It was the first of eight sorority houses on campus. It was the home of the Alpha ... More

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, American Bungalow, 2885 Dewitt Circle, Silver ...

Significance: The American bungalow is one of five buildings erected during the Cassedy's first year of construction in 1898. It was the first of eight sorority houses on campus. It was the home of the Alpha ... More

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Japanese bungalow is one of the oldest buildings on campus. It was begun in 1898, the first year of the Cassedys' building campaign, and completed in 1899. The clubhouse has a combination of... More

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Japanese bungalow is one of the oldest buildings on campus. It was begun in 1898, the first year of the Cassedys' building campaign, and completed in 1899. The clubhouse has a combination of... More

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Si...

Significance: The castle is one of the NPS clubhouses. The fanciful, medieval fortress for the Pi Beta Nu sorority counterbalanced the symmetrical architectural forms, such as the villa and the Colonial House,... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

National Park Seminary, Service Buildings, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Service Buildings, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The service buildings were essential for the operations of the school. Some of them, including the power plant and fire house, still are. Even though the buildings were utilitarian in function, ... More

National Park Seminary, Service Buildings, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Service Buildings, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The service buildings were essential for the operations of the school. Some of them, including the power plant and fire house, still are. Even though the buildings were utilitarian in function, ... More

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Sprin...

Significance: The Indian Mission building was the clubhouse for the Theta Sigma Rho sorority. The building's design was inspired by eighteenth-century Franciscan mission churches of the Far West. The early co... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloha House, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloh...

Significance: Housing the gymnasium in one of the campus' most prominent and ornate building illustrated the importance of athletics at the school. It was, perhaps, an attempt to relate the ancient world's cel... More

National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloha House, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloh...

Significance: Housing the gymnasium in one of the campus' most prominent and ornate building illustrated the importance of athletics at the school. It was, perhaps, an attempt to relate the ancient world's cel... More

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Swiss chalet was the home of the Zeta Eta Theta sorority. The Swiss chalet was a common form of bungalow design. The form appeared in A.J. Downing's "Architecture of Country Houses," 1850, a... More

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Swiss chalet was the home of the Zeta Eta Theta sorority. The Swiss chalet was a common form of bungalow design. The form appeared in A.J. Downing's "Architecture of Country Houses," 1850, a... More

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Swiss chalet was the home of the Zeta Eta Theta sorority. The Swiss chalet was a common form of bungalow design. The form appeared in A.J. Downing's "Architecture of Country Houses," 1850, a... More

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Si...

Significance: The castle is one of the NPS clubhouses. The fanciful, medieval fortress for the Pi Beta Nu sorority counterbalanced the symmetrical architectural forms, such as the villa and the Colonial House,... More

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Si...

Significance: The castle is one of the NPS clubhouses. The fanciful, medieval fortress for the Pi Beta Nu sorority counterbalanced the symmetrical architectural forms, such as the villa and the Colonial House,... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

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