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Wolf Blitzer's House
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The journalist and author lives here. He has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast "The Situation Room" and the Sunday talk show "Late Edition". Blitzer previously hosted Wolf "Blitzer Reports", which was replaced by "The Situation Room".

Gizelle Bryant's House
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Gizelle Bryant is a women's shapewear company owner and is the ex-wife of Baltimore pastor, Jamal Bryant.
She will be appearing on the upcoming Bravo TV series, Real Housewives of Potomac.

Thomas Friedman's house
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The Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, columnist and author, Thomas Friedman, lives here. Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues. He has been criticized for his staunch advocacy of the Iraq War and unregulated trade and his early support of Saudi Royal Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Friedman joined the London bureau of United Press International after completing his master's degree. Only a year later he was sent to Beirut, where he lived from June 1979 to May 1981 while covering the Lebanon Civil War. He was hired by The New York Times as a reporter in 1981 and re-dispatched to Beirut at the start of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. His coverage of the war won him the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. In June 1984, Friedman was transferred to Jerusalem, where he served as the New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief until February 1988. That year he received a second Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, which cited his coverage of the First Palestinian Intifada. He wrote a book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, describing his experiences in the Middle East, which won the 1989 U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction. Friedman covered Secretary of State James Baker during the administration of President George H. W. Bush. Following the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, Friedman became the White House correspondent for the New York Times. In 1994, he began to write more about foreign policy and economics, and moved to the op-ed page of The New York Times the following year as a foreign affairs columnist. In 2002, Friedman won the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2011 He was let go from the New York Times, due to poor performance. Largely discredited, but still the holder of his awards, not much has been heard from him in the public sphere since.
Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times, for works of great importance. Each drew extensive criticism, but the contribution to journalism could not be denied. Additionally, in 2005 he was elected as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board
Friedman won the Pulitzer for the following coverage:
1983: for his coverage of the war in Lebanon. A distinguished example of international reporting
1988: for coverage of Israel: a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs
2002: for his commentary illuminating the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat
Friedman’s net worth is estimated to be between $1-$5 million given his success in journalism. Not much is known exactly however about specific amounts.

David Rubenstein's house
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The co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an American private equity firm lives here.

Karen Huger's House
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Karen Huger is set to appear on Bravo TV's newest series, Real Housewives of Potomac.
Karen is married to President and CEO of Paradigm Solutions International, Inc., Raymond Huger.

John W. Marriott Jr.'s house
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The Chairman and CEO of Marriott International and son of founder J. Willard Marriott lives here.

Scott Van Pelt's House
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Scott Van Pelt is an American sportscaster and sports talk show host. He co-anchored the 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter on ESPN, served as the co-host of SVP & Russillo alongside Ryen Russillo on ESPN Radio, and hosts various golf events for the network. In June 2015, Van Pelt left his radio show to become a solo anchor for a midnight edition of SportsCenter.
He purchased the home from James Underhill, executive managing director for the Washington, D.C. area for Cushman & Wakefield.

Mike Tyson's House (former)
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Tyson owned this estate in the late 90s/early 00s. Today his ex-wife (2nd wife) Monica Turner is the registered owner.

José Andrés' House
José Andrés is a Spanish-American chef, often credited with bringing the concept of tapas to the United States. He has restaurants in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami Beach, Texas, and Puerto Rico.
Andrés famously withdrew a contract he had to open a restaurant at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. after Donald Trump made disparaging remarks about Mexicans.
In the BEV of his home, in the back yard, you can see what appears to be Chef Andrés' herb garden.

Merrick Garland's House
Merrick Garland is Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Garland is President Obama's nomination for Supreme Court Justice following the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Cokie Roberts' House
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The journalist and author lives here. She is the contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a regular round table analyst for the current "This Week with George Stephanopoulos".

Eduardo DePandi's House
Eduardo DePandi is the father of celebrity news personality Guiliana DePandi-Rancic.
Edouard DePandi is a master tailor. The DePandi family owns Bruno Cipriani, a high-end mens clothing store in the White Flint Mall in North Bethesda, Maryland.

David Marriott's House
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An heir to the Marriott hotels fortune owns this 15,500 sq. foot home. Marriott Corp. was founded by his grandfather in 1927.

Tim Kurkjian's House
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The Major League Baseball analyst on ESPN's Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter lives here. He is also a contributor to ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com. He guests on Mike & Mike in the Morning on Thursdays at 7:44 AM, discussing the latest in happenings in Major League Baseball. This home is currently for sale.

Congressional Country Club
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The 18-hole "Blue" course at the Congressional Country Club facility in Bethesda, Maryland features 7,245 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 70. The course rating is 75.6 and it has a slope rating of 142 on Bent grass. Designed by Donald J. Ross, ASGCA, the Blue golf course opened in 1924.
PGA Tour Event Official Site

LDS Temple - Washington D.C.
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From kjfitz:
I always think of Oz when I travel west on this section of the beltway and see the temple above the trees. Be sure to click the "more info" link to see what this building looks like.

Lois Lerner's House
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Lois Lerner is the former Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations division.

Rod Rosenstein's House
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Rod Rosenstein is the Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. department of Justice.

Abe Pollin's house
The owner of the Washington Wizards lives here.

Fred Grandy's House
The former actor who became a member in 1986 of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa lives here. He is best known for playing the ship's purser Burl "Gopher" Smith for nine years on the American television series "The Love Boat".

Little Falls Dam and Snake Island
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From http://www.chesapeakebay.net/info/littlefall.html:
Little Falls Dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) in 1959 as a water supply facility for the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It is located in Maryland just upriver from the District of Columbia. Since the dam would block upstream fish movement, a vertical slot fishway was built at the same time at Snake Island near the center of the dam. Unfortunately, this fishway never passed migratory fish, mainly because its entrance is too far downstream from the dam, and its maintenance needs were too high due to the large amount of debris carried by the Potomac River. Its operation was abandoned in 1964.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) designated a new fishway at Little Falls Dam as one of its highest priority fish passage projects in 1988. Stimulated by the interest of U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes, an intergovernmental task group was formed in 1992 to help MD DNR and COE plan and obtain funding for a new fishway at Little Falls Dam. The task group, led by staff from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS), is part of the Chesapeake Bay Program's Fish Passage Workgroup.

Terrance Coakley' House
Terrance Coakley is the CEO of Coakley & Williams Construction which offers building, restoration and renovation, construction management, general contracting, and interior construction services. The firm has built schools, churches, courthouses, parking garages, medical facilities, and government and corporate office buildings. Past clients include federal agencies, the State of Maryland, Mantech, Allstate, and Amtrak.

Mitchell Racoosin's House
Mitchell Racoosin is the CEO of Associated Custom Builders, a luxury custom home builder located in McLean, VA.

Antawn Jamison's house
The professional basketball player is selling his house.

Timothy Helmig's House
Timothy Helmig is Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Monday Properties. Helmig oversees project development for the company and is head of the metropolitan Washington, D.C. region. He plays a key role in acquisitions and major leasing due to his deep market knowledge. With two decades of experience in commercial real estate, Mr. Helmig has become a recognized market leader in leasing, development, and project management.

Alan Cohen's House
Alan Cohen is principal of Cohen Siegel Investors.

Candy Crowley's House
The CNN political correspondent, specializing in U.S. presidential, gubernatorial, and Senate elections, lives here.

Mark Schaszberger's House
Mark Schaszberger is Founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President at IMAKE Software & Services, Inc.

Paul Dell'Isola's House
Paul Dell'Isola is Senior Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets at FBR.

Malon Wilkus' House
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Wilkus is the founder and CEO of American Capital, one of the world's largest private equity firms ($21.2 billion AUM).

Laura Zaimi's House
Laura Zaimi is the widow of the late Shariar Zaimi who was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Primary Integration.

Little Falls Pumping Station
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From www.dcwasa.com:
Raw water supply, piping, and treatment facilities of the Washington Aqueduct's water system include the Great Falls Intake on the Potomac River; two raw water conduits from Great Falls to the Dalecarlia Reservoir; the Little Falls Intake and Pump Station on the Potomac River; the Dalecarlia and McMillan Reservoirs and Water Treatment Plants; the Georgetown conduit and raw water reservoir; the Washington City Tunnel; and the East Shaft Pump Station.

American Legion Memorial Bridge
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From Wikipedia:
The American Legion Memorial Bridge, also known as the American Legion Bridge, is a
bridge in Montgomery County, Maryland, U.S.A.. It carries the Capital Beltway across the Potomac River between Montgomery County and Fairfax County, Virginia.
The American Legion Memorial Bridge has five traffic lanes in each direction. However, the outermost lane in each direction is an exit-only lane. The outermost northbound lane is exit-only onto the Clara Barton Parkway, while the outermost lane in the southern direction is exit-only onto the George Washington Memorial Parkway and Georgetown Pike (Virginia State Highway 193).
Traffic camera images can be obtained at www.dpwt.com.

H. Jason Harrison's House
H. Jason Harrison is Director of Vigilant Video.

Marc Abrams' House
Marc Abrams is an executive with Oxford Realty Financial Group in Bethesda, MD.

Josiah Henson's Cabin, the Inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin
From www.washingtonpost.com:
Montgomery County has agreed to buy an 18th-century house with an attached log cabin that was once home to a former slave whose autobiography inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," county officials said.
The Montgomery Planning Board is expected to approve the $1 million contract today for the three-bedroom home and acre on Old Georgetown Road, just south of Tilden Lane in Rockville. A log cabin off the dining room was once a detached "summer kitchen" where Josiah Henson and other slaves lived in the late 1700s and early 1800s as part of a 3,700-acre plantation owned by Isaac Riley.
The county signed a contract Dec. 23 to buy the home from the estate of Hildegarde Mallet-Prevost, 100, who died there in September; she and her husband, Marcel, who died in 2000, had owned it since 1962. The family had two other "firm" offers, said real estate agent Pat Haley, a grandson of the Mallet-Prevosts'.
Haley declined to comment on the other two offers, but Gries said, "I was told there was another offer of $1 million, and I had to match it if we wanted to buy it."
For the past 40 or so years, the cabin has served as a small living room, office, occasional bedroom and favorite gathering spot for the Mallet-Prevost family. The dirt floor that Henson wrote about from his slave days has been replaced by creaky pine floorboards, but the same stone fireplace stands at one end of the 13-by-17-foot room.
Greg Mallet-Prevost, 64, and Susanne Haley, 68, said their mother would have liked for the family to have held onto the home. Still, they said, their parents would be happy to know it will be preserved and open to the public.

Stephen G. Canton's House
Stephen G. Canton is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of iCore Networks, Inc.

'Maryland Residence' by Cesar Pelli
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"Wissioming Court" by Robert Gurney
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This rectangular home, located in the Glen Echo Heights section of Bethesda, Maryland, was featured on Forbes website and on Yahoo! in an article on futuristic homes for sale. The editors rounded up a selection of futuristic abodes that challenge traditional McMansion layouts. Some are relatively new homes designed with green living in mind while others are the decades-old brick and mortar visions of celebrated artists.
This brightly-hued, rectangular 10,000-square foot manse, built in 2010, was designed by architect Robert M. Gurney, FAIA sits overlooking the Potomac River and boasts heated floors, glass bridges, a five-car garage and an infinity pool. There are 4 bedrooms,5 full bathrooms, and 2 half bathrooms. The home is currently for sale for $6,999,000. The home appears to be in the construction phase from when the images were taken in the BEV.
Here is a link providing more information and photographs:

Vivian Schiller's House
Tthe former president and CEO of National Public Radio lives here.

Jeff Halpern's House
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The NHL player owns this house near his hometown of Potomac.

National Naval Medical Center
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Marriott Corporation Headquarters
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Marriott International, Inc., is a leading lodging company. Its heritage can be traced to a root beer stand opened in Washington, D.C., in 1927 by J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott. Today, Marriott International has more than 3,200 lodging properties located in the United States and 66 other countries and territories. All the Marriott corporate information you need can be found here.

Alonzo Mourning's House (former)
The former professional basketball player sold this 5-bed, 6-bath, 6,043 sq ft home in May of 2009 for $1.5M, according to public records. Most of his current and former real estate portfolio is also featured on this site.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Formerly the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).

Exceptionally high tower
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Fiona Hill's House
Fiona Hill is a British-born American foreign affairs specialist and national security official specializing in the former Soviet Union and Russian and European affairs. She has served under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. On 14 October 2019, Hill testified for ten hours before Congress as part of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.

"Wissioming Residence" by Robert Gurney
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This house, located in the Glen Echo section of Bethesda, Maryland is sited on a heavily wooded lot overlooking the Potomac River. Glen Echo stands as a rare enclave of modern houses, several miles North West of Washington, DC. The home is a two-story contemporary home that was designed in 2008 by architect Robert M. Gurney, FAIA. It was the winner of the AIA Custom Home Award for 2008. It is located next door to a newer contemporary home that the architect also designed.
The new house occupies the footprint of a pre-existing house in an effort to minimally disturb the site, removing no mature hardwoods in the process. A new swimming pool is suspended twenty feet above grade to further reduce the impact to the steeply sloping site. In an effort to lessen his dependence on the automobile, the owner/ builder required that his office become part of his residential compound. The office is located on the ground floor of a detached structure separated from the main residence by a reflecting pool. That structure also contains a garage on the first level and a guest suite above. Translucent glass and panels of Kalwall are used to allow the building to serve as a lantern to the main house at night.
Structural pre-cast concrete planks are employed throughout the project in effort to expedite the construction process, span large open areas and to provide the ability to heat the house hydronically. Combined with a 5” concrete slab and terrazzo flooring the structural system provides additional passive heating. Large overhangs on the glazed southern wall and the tree canopy minimize solar gain in the summer.
Wood siding is combined with soft gray terne coated stainless steel and black steel window frames to provide an exterior material palette that fits comfortably in the landscape. Bluestone, gravel and water complete the palette.Interior materials such as white terrazzo flooring, white oak cabinetry and aluminum compliment the light filled and minimally detailed space. The creation of this atmosphere refocuses one’s attention outward, allowing the owner to reconnect with the inherently picturesque site already preserved through the design.
Project Architect: Brian Tuskey
Contractor: Bloom Builders
Interior Designer: Therese Baron Gurney, ASID
Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
The home has 5,166 square feet of living space on a 0.82 acre lot. It has 3 bedrooms, 6 full bathrooms, and 1 half bathroom It last sold on 03/12/2008 for $6,600,000, down from the original price of $7,100,000. The urrent value of the home is $2,930,000 according to property records.

'Kelly/Tahir House' by Hugh Newell Jacobsen
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2005

Michèle Flournoy & W. Scott Gould's House
Michèle Flournoy is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy under President Clinton and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under President Obama, serving as a principal advisor to U.S. Secretaries of Defense Robert Gates and Leon Panetta from February 2009 to February 2012.
W. Scott Gould is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Feeder Dam No. 1
From www.nature.nps.gov:
Along the Potomac River, adjacent to C&O Canal, numerous dams were constructed,
including several built to produced backwater for recharging the canal at various locations (Feeder Dams). The following is a list of these dams; (1) Feeder Dam 1 (approx. CHOH milepost 5.5)... A recent breaching of Feeder Dam 1, at Little Falls, opened 10 miles of river habitat upstream to Great Falls. The breaching provided a new fish passage at the 12-foot-high dam designed to meet the needs of shad and other regional migratory fish.

WMAL transmitter site
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Transmitter site and former studio site of WMAL 680 kHz

'Krieger House' by Marcel Breuer
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1957-1958

Robert Llewellyn Wright House by Frank Lloyd Wright
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'Beacon' by Mary Mears

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Lock 5

Sycamore Island Canoe Club
You can just make out the wire for the "trolley" that shuttles members back and forth to the canal towpath.
For a picture see: www.mcmullans.org

Wendy Sherman's House
Wendy Sherman is Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group. She served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. Department of State, from September 2011 to October 2015. She has formerly worked as a social worker, the director of EMILY's list, the director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and the founding president of the Fannie Mae Foundation. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Counselor of the United States Department of State and Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State and North Korea Policy Coordinator. In the latter role, she was instrumental in negotiations related to North Korea's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs. She was also the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Lock 14

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Lock 13
Shown in the thumbnail protruding from underneath the American Legion Bridge.

Rosa Rios' House
Rosa Rios is the 43rd and current Treasurer of the United States, best knoown for her spearheading the effort to have a woman put on US currency for the first time in over 100 years.
She and her husband paid $980,000 for this home in 2010.

National Institutes of Health
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The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.

Robert Briskman's House
Robert Briskman is Technical Executive of Sirius XM Radio. He was the Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, Engineering of Sirius Satellite Radio since its founding in 1991.

Bethesda Theatre
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Historic Streamline Moderne movie theater built in 1938 and designed by the firm of the world-renowned "Dean of American Theatre Architects," John Eberson.

Welcome to Bethesda
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Bentley Dealer
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Rolls Royce Phantom parked in front.

Original District of Columbia Boundary Marker NW6
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Boundary Marker Northwest #6
The Boundary Markers of the Original District of Columbia are the 40 milestones that mark the four lines forming the boundaries between the states of Maryland and Virginia and the square of 100 square miles (259 km²) of federal territory that became the District of Columbia in 1801. A survey team led by Major Andrew Ellicott placed these markers in 1791 and 1792; among Ellicott's assistants was astronomer and surveyor Benjamin Banneker. Today, 36 of the original marker stones survive as the oldest federally placed monuments in the United States. Due to the return of the portion of the District south and west of the Potomac River to Virginia in 1846, some of these markers are now within Virginia.

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Google Business photographer (female)
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Google Photographer
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Microsoft Word
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2004-2005 Subaru WRX STi
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The WRX STi has developed a reputation as the highest-performing trim of the Impreza. An all-wheel drive sports sedan, it had also gained popularity in rally races such as WRC. This model was also the first of the WRX STis to be officially sold in the U.S. Market.
Imae date: December 2007

'Trager House' by Hugh Newell Jacobsen
1960
Jacobsen's first solo house
addition by George Hartman 1965
renovation by Ben Van Dusen 2014

Landon School
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The Landon School is a private school for boys grades 3-12 in Bethesda, Maryland.

'Hampden Lane House' by Robert Gurney
2010

Jigsaw Residence
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Designed by David Jameson

'Shorb House' by Hugh Newell Jacobsen
1964 Arch Record House

'Branscomb House' by Hugh Newell Jacobsen
earliest, extant HNJ house

'Nathan House' by Hugh Newell Jacobsen

The Elm and The Wilson
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These are the tallest buildings in Bethesda