| 词条 | Oscar W. Underwood House |
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| name = Oscar W. Underwood House | nrhp_type = nhl | image = Oscar Underwood House.JPG | caption = | location= 2000 G Street, NW Washington, D.C. | coordinates = {{coord|38|53|53|N|77|2|43|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = United States Washington, D.C. central#Washington, D.C.#USA | built = c. 1870 | architect = Unknown | architecture = Second Empire | designated_nrhp_type = December 8, 1976[1] | added = December 8, 1976[2] | governing_body = George Washington University | refnum = 76002132 }} The Oscar W. Underwood House is a historic house located at 2000 G Street in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood Northwest, Washington, D.C.. It is nationally significant both for its association with Alabama politician Oscar Underwood (1862-1929) who lived here 1914-25, and also as the first long-term home of the Washington College of Law, the nation's first law school founded and run by women. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[1][3] The building presently houses a legal aid clinic operated by George Washington University. Description and historyThe Oscar Underwood House stands in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood, at the southwest corner of G and 20th Streets NW. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a mansard roof providing a full third floor over its main block. It is one of three similar row houses extending along G Street. Its main facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the rightmost bay. The entrance and windows are set in segmented-arch openings with bracketed and eared stone hoods, the windows with bracketed sills. The mansard roof is pierced by dormers on both the front and side, with round-arch windows framed by pilastered and pedimented gables. The interior retains some of its original finishes, with larger rooms subdivided into offices.[3] The house is the only known residence to survive relatively intact from the period of its association with Oscar Underwood. Underwood was a rare conservative Southern Democrat at the height of his influence in the first decades of the 20th century. He served in major leadership positions in both houses of Congress, and was several times a serious contender for the Democrat nomination for President of the United States. In 1926 he retired to the Woodlawn plantation.[3] After Underwood left the house, it was acquired by the Washington College of Law. It was founded in 1898 by Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma Gillett, who were both refused admission to several law schools but eventually entered the bar despite that handicap. Working with limited financial resources, the school occupied a number of inadequate quarters for the first quarter century of its existence, eventually raising funds in 1920 for its first permanent home on K Street. It soon outgrew that, and purchased this building from Senator Underwood in 1924. It remained the school's home until 1952, having merged into the American University in 1949. Some of the school's many early female graduates were instrumental in legal aspects of gaining women's suffrage in the 1910s and 1920s.[3] See also
References{{Commons category|Oscar W. Underwood House}}1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1692&ResourceType=Building|title=Oscar W. Underwood House |accessdate=2008-05-12|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service}} 2. ^{{NRISref|2007a}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{Cite journal|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Oscar W. Underwood House / Art Department Building, George Washington University|url={{NHLS url|id=76002132}} |format=pdf|date=March 1976 |author=George R. Adams and Ralph Christian |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NHLS url|id=76002132|title=Accompanying two photos, exterior, from 1976|photos=y}} {{small|(32 KB)}} External links
5 : George Washington University buildings and structures|Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.|National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.|Second Empire architecture in Washington, D.C.|Foggy Bottom |
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