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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...
Greenbelt Museum Staff
Jan 20, 20201 min read
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"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...
Greenbelt Museum Staff
Aug 7, 20181 min read
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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...
Greenbelt Museum Staff
Jul 10, 20181 min read
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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...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
May 25, 20181 min read
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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...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
May 11, 20181 min read
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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...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
May 5, 20181 min read
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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...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Apr 28, 20181 min read
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Museum Week: Heritage
Greenbelt, Maryland was a planned community with cooperative businesses such as a food store, gas station, barber shop and theater. Its...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Apr 26, 20181 min read
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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...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Apr 25, 20181 min read
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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...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Mar 30, 20181 min read
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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...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 16, 20181 min read
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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...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 9, 20181 min read
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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...
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 2, 20181 min read
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