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Glover Park History

Historical Sketches of Glover Park, Upper Georgetown, and Georgetown Heights by Carlton Fletcher

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  • Neighborhood
    • Neighborhood Histories
    • Neighborhood Images
    • Family Album
    • Oral History and Reminiscences
    • Residential Development Before 1926
    • Residential Development Since 1926
    • Investors & Developers
  • Population
    • Settlement
    • Kinds of Work
    • Settlers
    • Slavery
  • Geography
    • Maps, Places & Features
    • Streets
  • Estates & Farms
    • Alliance Farm
    • Burleith
    • Cedars
    • Clifton
    • Greenwood
    • Hillandale
    • Mount Alto
    • Normanstone
    • North View
    • Tunlaw Farm
    • Weston
  • Institutions
    • Former Institutions
    • Present Institutions
  • Cemeteries
    • Burial Grounds of Georgetown
    • Holy Rood Cemetery
    • Buried in Holy Rood
  • Civil War
    • The Civil War on Georgetown Heights
    • Local People in the Civil War
  • Appendix
Home » Neighborhood » Neighborhood Images » Stoddert Field House, 1958

Stoddert Field House, 1958

 

Stoddert Field House, 1958. 

 

In the era of the District Commissioners, when Washingtonians were obliged to bring their requests for municipal improvements to Congress, this modest structure made the news!

“Chairman Louis C. Rabaut (D., Mich.) of the House District Appropriations sub-committee, today said he will not let any “gold-domed antelope houses” creep into the District’s 1958-59 budget. He was referring specifically to a request to build a $712,000 structure for the National Zoo’s antelopes; but he made it clear he also was talking generally about all appropriation requests he heard yesterday.”

“Forty-four persons testified. There were officers from P-TA groups, colleges, medical schools and societies, citizens associations, patriotic groups, industries and Government agencies. Requests ranged from elimination of the food sales tax… which Mr. Rabaut indicated the subcommittee favors… to the building of a new field house at Stoddert Elementary School in Glover Park.”

“Charles H. Hillegeist, chairman of the Glover Park Citizens Association’s recreation committee, told Congress this converted tool shed has served as a field house at Stoddert School Playground for 20 years, ‘without a toilet, electricity or central heating.'”

(“Rep. Rabaut Rides Herd on D.C. Budget”, Washington Daily News, June 4, 1958, p.9)

 

 

Years earlier, when the words “juvenile” and “delinquent” were frequently linked in the press, Charles H. Hillegeist, a Glover Park real estate dealer, had backed the acquisition of a used army barracks, to be located on the school grounds, as a “canteen for teen-agers”. The young organizers of the project were Herman P. Van Eckhardt, Ralph Tibbs, Grayson Jones, and Marjorie and Barbara Calloway, who undertook the project “for fun, and to keep boys and girls off the streets and out of beer joints”.   (“Glover Park Youngsters Start Own Canteen for Teen-agers”, Washington Times Herald, September 29, 1945)

 

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(“Glover Park Youngsters Start Own Canteen for Teen-agers”, Washington Times Herald, September 29, 1945)

 

 

 

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Carlton Fletcher

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The support of the Advisory Neighborhood Council (3B) is gratefully acknowledged.

 

Category: Neighborhood Images

Questions and corrections may be directed to moc.yrotsihkraprevolg@notlrac
The citation and acknowledgement of my research is greatly appreciated.
The support of the Advisory Neighborhood Council (3B) is gratefully acknowledged.

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