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Author: Robert Malesky

  • LOCAL LORE

A Short History of Brookland

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on March 29, 2022April 1, 2022

A short, photo-rich history of the Brookland neighborhood in Washington DC.

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  • HISTORIC PLACES

“Man-Punishing” Fire at the Brookland Bowling Alley

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on November 22, 2021November 24, 2021

Brookland once had a bowling alley with 28 lanes. The Brookland Recreation Center may not have survived, but at least the Art Deco building did.

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  • HISTORIC PLACES

Creating McMillan Park

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 5, 2021October 19, 2021

Turning an industrial site into a public park in the early 1900s.

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  • HISTORIC PLACES

Building the Filter

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 24, 2021November 2, 2021

Bringing Water to Brookland, Pt. 2 As I mentioned in my last post on the…

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  • LOCAL LORE

Bringing Water to Brookland

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on December 2, 2020August 27, 2021

It wasn’t as if Brookland didn’t have enough water. The land upon which Brookland developed…

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  • BLACK AND WHITE IN BROOKLAND

Walking the Color Line in 1909

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on May 21, 2020January 14, 2021

Little 7-year-old Isabel Wall, blonde and blue-eyed, bounced along beside her mother as they walked…

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  • LOCAL LORE

The Enslaved Families Who Worked This Land

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 12, 2020May 19, 2021

If you’re interested in the local history of this area, you probably know some of…

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  • ON THIS SPOT

Fort Slemmer and the Angry Florist

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on January 24, 2020December 22, 2020

In July of 1861, the loss at the first battle of Bull Run and the…

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  • ON THIS SPOT

Brookland in 1910

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 31, 2019December 23, 2020

The DC Public Library contains some fabulous online materials for those interested in Washington history.…

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  • PORTRAITS

Roy Deferrari, Breaker of Barriers

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on June 13, 2019December 23, 2020

I’ve written before about Brookland’s good fortune in attracting Howard University faculty to the neighborhood.…

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Featured Posts

Creating McMillan Park

Bringing Water to Brookland

O’Leary Column Prompts Telling Response from Sterling Brown

The Legacy of Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants

How the Monroe Street Bridge Changed the Face of Brookland

The Fascinating History of Edgewood

Building the Filter

The Brookland Childhood of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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