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AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING: What’s new in history — the neighborhoods of Silver Spring

We like thinking of history as a series of layers. The layers are the different eras, events and people of our past that can be peeled back to discover the Who, What, and Why of our current condition. Knowing our …

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Inside the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING: A community arts center for East Silver Spring

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • STEVE KNIGHT AND KAREN BURDITT As some of you may know, the police station on Sligo Avenue will be closing and relocating

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AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING: Preserving a sense of place (The paths of preservation, part 2)

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY STEVE KNIGHT AND KAREN BURDITT Last month our column focused on the two types of historic preservation familiar to most of

Silver Spring Train Station by Steve Knight and Karen Burditt

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING: The different paths of preservation

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY KAREN BURDITT & STEVE KNIGHT We have found the word “preservation” often evokes strong feelings, both for and against. On the

The Bowman residence on Gist.

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING: Staying put in East Silver Spring — Part 1

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY STEVE KNIGHT & KAREN BURDITT When we moved into our East Silver Spring bungalow we thought it would be a starter

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AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING: Fate of historic bank building uncertain

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY STEVE KNIGHT & KAREN BURDITT We’ve made many trips past the blockish modern stone building on the corner of Georgia Avenue

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AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING: The eyes of your house

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY STEVE KNIGHT & KAREN BURDITT The windows on your house not only bring light and air into your life; they are

Gist Avenue

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING: A Silver Spring streetscape

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY STEVE KNIGHT & KAREN BURDITT Urban Planners and Architects use a term when talking about urban communities: Streetscape. Much like a landscape,

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