Kim Bender

If you haven’t read the 1619 Project, here’s a summary

Lawrence Gichner (who replaced the turret roof) was born in DC in 1907 to Ernest and Helen Gichner. His father apprenticed in metalwork in Vienna, Austria starting at 14 years old. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1888 and opened a DC shop DC with the slogan: “everything in sheet metal.”

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The former Armstrong Rubber Company building in New Haven, Connecticut, was designed by architect Marcel Breuer. Completed in 1970. r/brutalism

Also, was he a tiny man?

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Naughty

Why is he always wearing the same outfit?

This is amazing

D.C. breweries worry about effects of a bottle-deposit bill Lawmakers are considering the measure to help clean up the Anacostia River.

Right Proper brewery co-founder Thor Cheston knows that advocating against D.C.'s proposed bottle bill might put him on the wrong side of environmentally conscious customers: "We have to take that risk to be judged in the court of public opinion because if we do not fight this, we do not exist.”

Main Michael Shannon as James A. Garfield Matthew Macfadyen as Charles J. Guiteau Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur Betty Gilpin as Lucretia Garfield Bradley Whitford as James Blaine Shea Whigham as Roscoe Conkling Recurring Barry Shabaka Henley as Blanche Bruce Paula Malcomson as Franny Scoville Tuppence Middleton as Kate Chase Sprague Laura Marcus as Mollie Garfield Vondie Curtis-Hall as Frederick Douglass Željko Ivanek as Doctor Willard Bliss

Just a reminder that the Game of Thrones guys have used their overall at Netflix to get a miniseries about the assassination of James Garfield greenlit. It is showrun by the screenwriter of the Hugh Jackman movie Bad Education and boasts an all star cast.

Imagine it’s 1987: You step inside the Heurich mansion, which looks like a time capsule to the 1890s. The halls are lively and filled with chatter - 60 guests mingle to celebrate the 50th birthday of Don King, one of the Heurich grandchildren.

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That fireplace is 🤩😍

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

Contractor James T. Kenyon and architect Appleton P. Clark Jr. led the Conservatory roof replacement. 👷

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The permit specified: “remove the…glass roof to [the] conservatory and replace [it] with wood construction.” On May 16, 1923, the Heurich family began the process, costing $2,000 - over $38,300 today, to install a new tile and tin mansard roof with a coffered oak ceiling.

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Step into the Conservatory on a sunlit day. Golden light streams through the glass, filling the space with warmth. After wandering the hushed, shadowed rooms of the mansion, the sudden brilliance is dazzling — so radiant it takes a moment for your eyes to catch up. ☀️

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Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection

Virginia Interior https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64383/

🏗️ From the Heurich Brewery to today’s job sites. Did you know the Heurich family often hired German immigrants – as brewery workers, artisans, and even household staff – to build both their business and their home?

➡️ Our research mission: find subcontractors that Heurich mansion architect John Granville Meyers typically worked with.
➡️ Our hope: Identify some DC-based manufacturers in the late 19th century.

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12 million people immigrated to the U.S. between 1860-1900, many seeking job opportunities. Though the large businesses and the factory system were growing, subcontracting brought together an intricate network of competing small-scale manufacturers.

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Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy

The migrants arrived in great numbers http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78539

1870: 3.5 million industrial workers in the U.S.
1910: 14 million industrial workers in the U.S.

Labor Historian David Montgomery noted that around the turn of the 20th century “[p]refabrication of molding, doors...other building parts was concentrated in large planing and rolling mills”

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What does your home reveal? Does it match how you want to be seen? What stays, and what goes? (1/4) 🗃️

What do Washington, Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Longfellow, Schiller, Von Humboldt, Homer, and Raphael have in common?

They’re all men. And - according to whoever chose them - all distinguished (at least in Western tradition)

The Builders

The Builders https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/the-builders-1947

Happy 183rd Cristian Heurich! 🍺🎂

📸 Amelia Heurich's Diary from Sunday, September 12, 1915. Heurich House Museum collection.

🍻 History & Hops: Heurich Revival Edition is ONE WEEK AWAY on Thursday, September 18th from 6–8pm! Step back into DC’s brewing past and raise a glass to the revival of three historic Chr. Heurich Brewing Co. beers! ✨

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If you stand and look up in the Heurich mansion’s Reception Room - originally designed to be a Library - you’ll notice a series of faces along the top of the walls. 📚🗃️

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Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S. On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today? — % Good thing - - % Bad thing 100% 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 79 17 2001 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 The percentages who volunteer that the effects are "mixed" or who do not have an opinion are not shown. GALLUP®

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago