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- following the burning of the first Library of Congress in 1814. —Robyn Asleson Gibbs, James, 1728, A Book of Architecture (1739: xviii–xxv) “Plate LXVII15 KB (1,940 words) - 17:37, September 13, 2021
- now operates as an Underground Railroad museum open to the public. —Robyn Asleson Sansom, Hannah Callender, June 30, 1762, diary entry (2010: 182–83) back26 KB (3,226 words) - 13:56, August 11, 2021
- Woodville, The Seat of R. Beresford, Esq., c. 1810. Charles Fraser, Golden Grove, The Seat of Mrs. Sommers—Stono, 1810. Martha R. Severens and Charles L25 KB (3,329 words) - 18:47, August 17, 2021
- to reshape the Mall and its surroundings into the 21st century. —Robyn Asleson L’Enfant, Pierre-Charles, June 22, 1791, describing in a report to George34 KB (4,340 words) - 18:12, August 25, 2021
- things when my time is so taken up in telling others how to farm?" —Robyn Asleson Chastellux, François Jean, Marquis de, c. 1780–82, Travels in North America17 KB (2,188 words) - 17:13, September 28, 2021
- neighboring states, preserved and arranged by Cadwallader Colden.” —Robyn Asleson Colden, Cadwallader, c. December 1744, letter to Johann Frederic Gronovius25 KB (3,348 words) - 20:02, September 8, 2021
- business to be carried on by his sons John and William Bartram. —Robyn Asleson Bartram, John, May 1738, letter to Peter Collinson, describing sloe trees39 KB (5,119 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
- sold piece by piece at a great loss in order to settle his debts. —Robyn Asleson Morris, Robert, June 15, 1784, in a letter to George Washington, describing16 KB (2,129 words) - 13:37, September 27, 2021
- his ancestral home to be desecrated by approaching Union troops. —Robyn Asleson Wesley, John, April 15, 1737, journal entry (1909: 1:348) “I walked over16 KB (1,658 words) - 22:13, July 21, 2021
- which conferred on him the status of “unofficial federal architect.” —Robyn Asleson Mills, Robert, c. 1804, describing the National Mall (quoted in Gallagher31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
- neglected public and governmental site within the French Quarter. —Robyn Asleson Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, June 14, 1796, describing Horsdumonde, house of38 KB (4,911 words) - 18:08, September 16, 2021
- the landscape gardens of Capability Brown (1716–1783) (view text). —Robyn Asleson Gregory, G. (George), 1816, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences25 KB (3,864 words) - 17:46, September 13, 2021
- Manufactures. In March 1795 he wrote a letter to the group’s president, Robert R. Livingston with a detailed proposal for members “to collect and prepare a54 KB (8,005 words) - 21:40, September 15, 2021
- Revival house designed by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. —Robyn Asleson Ewald, Johann, October 19, 1777, journal entry describing military action24 KB (2,854 words) - 18:21, August 17, 2021
- Kathleen Lee, Jessica Ruse, Courtney Tompkins, Abby S. Whitlock Robyn Asleson, Elizabeth Athens, Lacey Baradel, Kathryn Barush, Alexander Brey, Barbara3 KB (293 words) - 18:14, September 15, 2021
- described the greenhouse as a “ruin” and the garden as overgrown. —Robyn Asleson Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1700, Circumstantial Geographical Description35 KB (4,404 words) - 17:33, August 26, 2021
- and mirth, now re-echo to the hoarse trumpet of the locomotive.” —Robyn Asleson Hiltzheimer, Jacob, July 17, 1787, diary entry (1893: 128) “In the afternoon48 KB (6,603 words) - 22:22, August 18, 2021
- anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill and other patriotic occasions. —Robyn Asleson Standing Committee of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, September 2420 KB (2,630 words) - 21:42, August 16, 2021
- butterflies, and wrote Cadwallader Colden that he would “be greatly obliged to you[r] Da[ugh]t[er] for any seeds or Insects that she can pick up” (view text). In47 KB (6,542 words) - 20:02, September 8, 2021
- Halesia and Gardenia. In a Letter from John Ellis, Esq. R.R.S., to Philip Carteret Webb, Esq, F.R.S,” The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society50 KB (7,213 words) - 21:12, September 9, 2021