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The Offices of the PSO
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Welcome to the vitual tour of the office installations of The Policy Studies Organization. Please click the link below to start the Tour. We hope you enjoy your virtual visit! We are located on New Hampshire right between the Mozambique and Botswana embassies, across from Jurys Hotel. Some excellent information about the Dupont Circle vicinity is here. We are active in Dupont neighborhood groups and very much enjoy our friendships with other societies and institutions in what is one of the most diverse and interesting districts of any city anywhere. 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW The Dupont Circle area where our headquarters is located is a vibrant community. On warm days you can find chess players both in the park around the Dupont fountain, and in the cafe area of the Books A Million book shop just a block from our building, a the corner of New Hampshire and the Circle. The vicinity is chock full of unusual shops, interesting ngos, historic sites and musuems. A Dupont Circle civic association takes an interest in the enriching of the locale. If you like history and architecture, then visiting our offices has a bonus in store for you. We are right in the middle of the famous Dupont Circle Historic District. Just a couple minutes down the street is the German Historical Institute, in the Second Blair House, with its outstanding library. The Dupont Circle area of Wahsington where our offices are located is one of the most vibrant cityscapes you ever encounter. For a photo tour of the neighborhood see here. The area near our headquarters has one of the largest concentrations of art galleries in the world. There are many hotels available near by. Two very close to us that we frequently use for functions are Jurys and the Carlyle Suites. At 1527 New Hampshire its not hard to be Greek -- besides Phi Beta Delta, the building houses the headquarters of Pi Sigma Alpha; just around the block is Phi Beta Kappa, and just a block away is Delta Sigma Theta. We are located within three blocks of a dozen embassies. Remember that we are between Mozambique and Botswania at 1527 New Hampshire. To view which embassies are located right by us, see embassy.org. An interesting neighbor is the Belarus Embassy at 1619 New Hampshire.
Authors Near Headquarters Washington, and the Dupont Circle area, have been the stamping grounds for a large number of authors. A tour can include the residences at one time or another of Henry Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Stephen Vincent Benet, Ambrose Bierce, Sterling Bown, Francies Hodgson Burnett, james M. Cain, Rachel Carson, John Dos Passos, Lloyd C. Douglas, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edward Everett Hale, Edith Hamilton, Bret Harte, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances Scott Key, Sinclair Lewis, Clare Booth Luce, Archibald MacLeish, Joaquin Miller, Toni Morrison, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Mary Roberts Rinehart, E.D.E.N. Southworth, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, Walter Whitman, Herman Wouk, and Elinor Wylie. Someone has remarked that "If you call out Author! while walking along New Hampshire Avenue, everyone within hailing distance will shout Here!" Little Lord Fauntleroy Our headquarters is a five minute walk from the house on Massachusetts Avenue that Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) built with the profits from her book and play "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1886). Married to an occult leader, Swan Burnett, she later divorced Burnett and lived in England and on Long Island. She is also remembered for "The Little Princess" (1888) and "The Secret Garden" (1911) She was a notable defender of the copyright privileges of authors and a lady of decidedly modern views on personal relations. When 1527 was the Admiral's Thanks primarily to the Burlington (Iowa) Library and to Arlington National Cemetery historians Micaeel Patterson and Michael Stein, we now know more about the headquarters building, and as usual the story of 1527 New Hampshire doesn't disappoint. In 1926, 1527 was rented from the Samuel Gompers family by the Remeys, who moved in with their Irish maid (according to the census). Admiral George Remey was a notable military figure and his son, Charles Remey, eventually became a world head of the Baha'i faith: Remey, George Collier(August 10, 1841 - February 10, 1928), naval officer, was born in Burlington, Iowa, the second son of William Butler and Eliza Smith (Howland) Remey. He was a descendant of Abram Remy, a Huguenot who came to Virginia in 1700, and of John Howland, a pilgrim who came in the Mayflower. He entered the United States Naval Academy on September 20, 1855, the youngest and also the smallest of his class, and was graduated fourth among the twenty members of the class of 1859. A cruise in the Hartford to China and Japan preceded active Civil War service. He was in the gunboat Marblehead, operating in Virginia waters during the Peninsular Campaign from March to July, 1862, and afterward on the Charleston blockade. In April 1863, he became executive of the Canandaigua; commanded for ten days the Marblehead during attacks on Fort Wagner; and had charge of a battery of heavy naval guns on Morris Island from August 23 to September 7. On the night of September 7-8 he commanded the second division in an ill-fated boat attack on Fort Sumter. His boat, the only one of his divisions to make shore, was smashed by gun-fire on landing, and about an hour and a half later Remey and his party were compelled to surrender under the walls of the fort. Of the total force of about 450 only 104 got ashore, and all these were captured. With other officers taken in the attack he was imprisoned during the next thirteen months in the jail at Columbia, South Carolina, making one almost successful attempt at escape by a tunnel under the prison walls. After his exchange he was executive in the De Soto, fitting out at Baltimore, till the close of the war. He was one of six officers assigned to the White House for two days after Lincoln's assassination, and acted as aide to Farragut at the President's funeral. From then until the Spanish-American War his service followed routine lines, including duty off Chile during the Spanish bombardment of Valparaiso in 1866, as second in command of a surveying expedition in Tehuantepec in 1870-71, and in the Mediterranean during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. His first command in the grade of captain (1885) was the flagship Charleston, Pacific Squadron, 1889-92. At the outbreak of the War with Spain he was called from the command of the Portsmouth navy yard to take charge of the naval base at Key West, Florida. This duty carried heavy responsibilities, including the supply and repair of all naval forces in Cuban waters, the command of vessels within the administration of the base, which included the Dry Tortugas, and the organization of the convoy for Shafter's army to Cuba. Shortly after peace was concluded he resumed command of the Portsmouth yard. He was made Rear Admiral in November 1898, and assumed command of the Asiatic station in April 1900, a highly important assignment in view of the Philippine warfare and the Boxer uprising in China. In his flagship Brooklyn he was off Taku from July to October 1900, during the march on Peking, and in 1901 he visited Australia at the opening of its first parliament. After a year as chairman of the Lighthouse Board, he retired Aug. 10, 1903, and lived subsequently in Washington, D. C., and Newport, Rhode Island. He died in Washington and was buried at Burlington, Iowa. He was married on July 8, 1873, to Mary Josephine, daughter of Charles Mason, and had two daughters and four sons. Though not selected for the highest command in the war with Spain, his assignment to Key West and later to the Asiatic was--to quote the Secretary of the Navy's notice at his death--a recognition of the "good judgment and unflagging close attention to duty" which marked his whole career. Here are the details of his career:
George Collier Remey was born in Iowa in 1841 and died in 1928.J He was buried with full military honors in Section 15 of Arlington National Cemetery.J His wife, Mary Mason Remey (1845-1938) is buried with him. Rear Admiral George Collier Remey - This bronze bust of native Burlingtonian Admiral Remey (1841-1928) was presented by his son, Charles Mason Remey, in 1933. Admiral Remey was prominent during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War as the first United States admiral born west of the Mississippi River. CHARLES MASON REMEY of Washington, D.C. Architect with a diploma from the French Government; Became the evered Second Guardian or Head of the BahaUi World Faith: was born at Burlington, Iowa, on May 15, 1874, the eldest son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey, U.S.N., and. Mary Josephine Mason Remey (daughter of Charles Mason, the first Chief Justice of Iowa). The Admiral's brother, John Terry Remey, Lieutenant (jg) United States Navy is also buried -- in Section 15 -- of Arlington National Cemetery.J Buried in this section are other relatives:J John Winthrop Wadleigh, Major, United States Marine Corps, and George Remey Wadleigh, Lieutenant, United States Navy, and Foreign Service Officer. The Garfield Collection The Policy Studies Organization maintains a collection of memorabilia related to President James Garfield and the Garfield family because of their connection with the headquarters building. David Merchant, executive director of the PSO, is the Curator of the Garfield Collection and works with the Williams College Club to encourage interest in the Garfields. President Garfield was on his way to a Williams alumni reunion when he was shot at the Washington railway station, and his son, Harry Garfield, was one of the most distinguished presidents of Williams. |
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