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Forest Hills (DC) (Images of America) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Margery L. Elfin, Paul K. Williams, Forest Hills Neighborhood Alliance
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1093667
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0738542997
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.3
EAN: 9780738542997
ASIN: 0738542997
Publication Date: September 20, 2006
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Product Description
The Forest Hills neighborhood is set within a heavily treed, rolling landscape adjoining Rock Creek Park and was first home to the Piscataway Indian tribe and later to Civil War encampments. Threshing mills and large rural estates gradually gave way in the early 1900s to a residential community in close proximity to the National Bureau of Standards where many of the residents worked. Diplomats, politicians, and many prominent Washingtonians now inhabit many of the splendidly designed houses found in Forest Hills today. 0Images of America: Forest Hills includes nearly 200 vintage images that document the long and fascinating history of the community. Etchings, maps, and photographs combine to illustrate Native American settlers; architect-designed residences; and the homes of Presidents Truman and Johnson, infamous FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and Post cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. The book also highlights Connecticut Avenue, the neighborhoods main street; apartment buildings; and well-known artists and authors who have called Forest Hills home.
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 Fantastic Read! February 27, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just a great all around book that shows what amount of history can be found in any given neighborhood, even if one thinks none exists on the surface. Their book is full of rarely exposed history and fascinating tidbits.
 Forest Hills: Images of America January 5, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In tracing the history of a distinctive area in Washington. D. C, the authors have compiled a fascinating document that should interest even readers who don't live in the area. Assiduously reseached and fluently written, the book follows the transformation of a country landscape into a neighborhood and of a neighborhood into a community. Chapters on outstanding residents and significant architecture are intrinsically interesting. Changes through the decades are displayed in a rich trove of photos and documents. Residents of DC will find this book indispensable, as will historians and chroniclers of Americana.
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