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Codman–Davis House
The Codman–Davis House is a four-story, red brick, 1906, classical revival house in Washington, D.C. at 2145 Decatur Place NW (in the Kalorama neighborhood). It was designed by Ogden Codman Jr. for his cousin, Martha Codman of Washington, DC and Newport, Rhode Island. She also commissioned his design of the Codman Carriage House and Stable, built nearby. It is listed on the 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 .... In 1995 the house served as the residence of the Thai ambassador. See also * Codman Carriage House and Stable References External links * Houses completed in 1906 Diplomatic residences in Washington, D.C. Neoclassical architecture in Washington, D.C. Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogden Codman Jr
Ogden may refer to: Places Canada *Ogden, Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta *Ogden, Quebec, a small municipality in the Eastern Townships *Ogdensville, British Columbia or Ogden City, alternate names for gold rush-era Seymour Arm, British Columbia *Ogden, British Columbia, an unincorporated locality in the Bridge River Country of British Columbia *Ogden Point, a landmark breakwater, lighthouse and port facility in Victoria, British Columbia * Ogden, Nova Scotia England *Ogden, West Yorkshire United States *Ogden, Arkansas *Ogden, Illinois * Ogden, Indiana *Ogden, Iowa *Ogden, Kansas *Ogden, Missouri *Ogden, New York *Ogden, North Carolina * Ogden, Ohio *Ogden, Utah ''(The largest city with the name)'' **Ogden Intermodal Transit Center *Ogden, West Virginia *Ogden Township, Michigan *Mount Ogden, Utah *Ogden Avenue, Chicago, Illinois *Ogden Theatre, Denver, Colorado *The Ogden, a condominium tower in Las Vegas, Nevada Rivers *River Ogden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom *Ogden Cree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Codman Karolik
Martha Catherine Codman Karolik (July 24, 1858 – April 21, 1948) was a philanthropist and American art collector based in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1939 and 1947 she and her husband Maxim Karolik donated two major collections of early American furniture, paintings, and prints and drawings to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston Fine Arts Museum, which built a new wing to house it. While the couple had purchased many of the nineteenth-century paintings and other works of their 1947 donation, much of the first collection donated in 1939 consisted of works she had inherited, which were collected by family and colonial ancestors. Biography Martha Catherine Codman was born on July 24, 1858, in a family whose wealth was built largely from the Russian and China clipper trade. She was the only surviving child of John Amory Codman (1824–1886) and Martha Pickman Rogers (1829–1905). She grew up in Newport, Rhode Island, and Boston. She was the great-great-granddaughter of me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington, DC
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Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, south of Boston, and northeast of New York City. It is known as a New England summer resort and is famous for its historic Newport Mansions, mansions and its rich sailing history. It was the location of the first U.S. Open tournaments in both US Open (tennis), tennis and US Open (golf), golf, as well as every challenge to the America's Cup between 1930 and 1983. It is also the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport, which houses the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and an important Navy training center. It was a major 18th-century port city and boasts many buildings from the Colonial history of the United States, Colonial era. The city is the county seat of Newport County, Rhode Island, Newport County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codman Carriage House And Stable
The Codman Carriage House and Stable is a historic building located at 1415 22nd Street NW (also listed as 1413-1415 22nd Street NW) in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The industrial building was constructed in 1907 as a carriage house and stable for socialite and art collector Martha Catherine Codman, who lived a few blocks north in her home, later known as the Codman–Davis House. She commissioned her cousin, Ogden Codman Jr., an architect and prominent interior decorator who also designed her home. He designed it in a Second Empire style. This building served as a carriage house and stable for ten years before it was converted into a garage. In addition to housing horses and later cars, the building contained living quarters for two of Codman's employees and their families. Codman later married and sold the building in 1940. It was expanded and remodeled as office space. For more than 25 years, the building housed a Goodyear store before the space was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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