Banneker Recreation Center

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Banneker Recreation Center
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Banneker Recreation Center in 2011
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Location2500 Georgia Ave., NW
Washington, D.C.
Coordinates 38°55′20″N77°1′25″W / 38.92222°N 77.02361°W / 38.92222; -77.02361
Built1934
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No. 86000876 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 28, 1986
Designated DCIHSDecember 18, 1985

Banneker Recreation Center is an historic structure located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The building was built in 1934 and was named for Benjamin Banneker, a free African American who assisted in the survey of boundaries of the original District of Columba in 1791. It was known as a premier African American recreation center in the city. [2] It was listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 1985 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1] [3] [4] The structure currently houses the Banneker Community Center, a unit of the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation. [5]

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A United States postage stamp and the names of a number of recreational and cultural facilities, schools, streets and other facilities and institutions throughout the United States have commemorated Benjamin Banneker's documented and mythical accomplishments throughout the years since he lived (1731–1806). Among such memorializations of this free African American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics, astronomy and natural history was a biographical verse that Rita Dove, a future Poet Laureate of the United States, wrote in 1983 while on the faculty of Arizona State University.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Banneker Recreation Center". National Trust for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-11-15.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. "District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites". DC Preservation. Archived from the original on July 1, 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-15.
  4. Friedlander, Bernice; Bowers, Martha: Louis Berger & Associates, Inc., Washington, D.C. (1984-08-31). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory — Nomination Form: Banneker Recreation Center" (PDF). United States Department of the Interior: National Park Service. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2012-09-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. "Banneker Community Center". District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27. Retrieved 2012-09-11.

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