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Greenbelt Museum Staff
Jan 20, 20201 min read
Lecture Series: Iconic Communities
Greenbelt scholars Mary Corbin Sies and Isabelle Gournay (along with Robert Freestone), are the editors of the new book Iconic Planned...
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Greenbelt Museum Staff
Aug 7, 20181 min read
"The City" Screening & Walking Tour
This past Sunday, August 5, the Greenbelt Museum partnered with the Old Greenbelt Theatre for a special screening of the 1939 documentary...
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Greenbelt Museum Staff
Jul 10, 20181 min read
Museum to Be Featured in Upcoming Podcast
Award-winning podcaster Hannah Hethmon visited Greenbelt on July 9. She recorded an interview with director Megan Searing Young, took a...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
May 25, 20181 min read
Preservation Month: Parkbelt Homes
For our last post for Preservation Month, let's take a look at Parkbelt Homes! In 1938, General Houses of Chicago built 10 experimental...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
May 11, 20181 min read
Preservation Month: Greenbelt's Civic & Commercial Buildings
Let's look at the buildings of Greenbelt, Maryland's historic civic and commercial core! First up is the Community Center, completed in...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
May 5, 20181 min read
Preservation Month: Greenbelt's Housing
The month of May is Historic Preservation Month! Let's talk about the types of homes in historic #Greenbelt, Maryland! The original 1937...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Apr 28, 20181 min read
Museum Week: Kids
The Greenbelt Museum Historic House is GREAT for kids! We're actually hands on! No ropes! Whether it is dressing up, doing activities...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Apr 26, 20181 min read
Museum Week: Heritage
Greenbelt, Maryland was a planned community with cooperative businesses such as a food store, gas station, barber shop and theater. Its...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Apr 25, 20181 min read
Museum Week: Cities
We often hear "Wait...your historic house museum is MODERN!" It IS and it's a 1937 gem! The Greenbelt Museum Historic House is an...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Mar 30, 20181 min read
Women's History Month: Lenore Thomas Straus
Our last Women's History Month post is about artist Lenore Thomas Straus, whose seminal sculptures are found throughout Greenbelt, such...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 16, 20181 min read
African American History Month: Rossville Rural Development Homesteads
This c. 1937 Lenore Thomas Straus photograph is of African American laborers at what is now the Community Center. Her "Promote the...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 9, 20181 min read
Black History Month: Aberdeen Gardens
Another African American New Deal community in the mid-Atlantic region is Aberdeen Gardens in Hampton, VA. It was originally named...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 2, 20181 min read
African American History Month: Langston Terrace Dwellings
Did you know that there are African American New Deal communities in our region too? Let's learn more about the Langston Terrace...
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