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Tour of the historic Holt House
Photos taken for the Adams Morgan Advisory Neighborhood Commission, ANC 1C
In a walking tour on May 17, 2000, local activists and a National Zoo
spokesperson explained to community members the efforts to preserve the
historic Holt House on the Zoo grounds near Walter Pierce Park and the Adams
Mill Road entrance to the Zoo. For more information about this effort visit
the Holt House websites of the Holt House Preservation Task Force and the Smithsonian
Institution, or contact the tour leader Wanda Bubriski
wbubriski@yahoo.com or 202-232-6113,
Chair of the task force, or Barbara Bates, bbates9@juno.com or 202-244-2090, Vice Chair.
- Holt House preservation
activist Eddie Becker addresses the tour group at the Zoo entrance.
- The old Adams Mill Road,
now the Zoo's "Blue Route," winds downhill toward Rock Creek.
- The road to the Holt House
- A large group of neighbors
turned out for the tour.
- Our first view of the east
side of the house.
- East side.
- From the northeast.
- North side, center wing.
- Peak of center wing.
- Detail of center wing
- North side, west wing.
- From the northwest.
- Another view of the west wing.
- Detail of structural
deterioration.
- Barbara Bates addresses
the group.
- Wanda Bubriski shows
artist's reconstruction of north façade.
- Sarah Veerhoff retells
her great-grandmother's stories of playing at the Holt House in the 1890s.
- Another view of the west wing.
- From the west.
- The west wall.
- Overgrowth and rubbish on the west slope.
- Close-up.
- From the southwest.
- Detail of structural deterioration.
- East wing from the south.
- Center wing from the southeast.
- The group views the south side of Holt House.
- From the southeast.
- Stately oak tree estimated at 200 years old.
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Updated November 26, 2003.
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