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TIMELINE 1894 BUILT
BY CHRISTIAN HEURICH (1842-1945), GERMAN IMMIGRANT, AMERICAN CITIZEN, PATRIARCH
OF THE WASHINGTON BUSINESS COMMUNITY, PHILANTHROPIST, AND WORLD’S OLDEST
BREWER...CONSTRUCTED OF POURED CONCRETE AND REINFORCED STEEL, IT IS
WASHINGTON’S FIRST FIREPROOF HOME 1955 DONATED
BY HEURICH’S WIDOW, AMELIA KEYSER HEURICH, TO THE COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
(NOW THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, D.C.), AND SERVED AS THE SOCIETY’S
FIRST HEADQUARTERS 1969 DESIGNATED
A CATEGORY II LANDMARK ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 1974 BECAME
THE FIRST HISTORIC SITE IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL TO BE PROTECTED THROUGH THE
TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS TO AN ADJACENT PROPERTY 2002 HISTORIC
DESIGNATION EXPANDED TO INCLUDE PROTECTION OF THE MUSEUM’S ORNATE INTERIOR 2003 PURCHASED BY THE HEURICH HOUSE FOUNDATION TO ENSURE THE SITE’S PROTECTION FOR PERPETUITY [BACK] |
