The original owner of the building was John C. Walker, who created it in order to showcase automobiles manufactured by LaFayette Motors. During the same year Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States and Prohibition had just begun. It was also the year that the Women's Suffrage Movement gave women the right to vote. Each event depicted on this page occurred either at 1517 Connecticut Avenue (the ground floor of the building) or 1519 Connecticut Avenue (the upper 2 floors).
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1920
The Beginning
John C. Walker & LaFayette Motors
1922
Jenkins & Packard
First Still Pictures Transmitted In History- 2nd Floor
Warren G. Harding- 29th President Of The United States
Packard Showroom- 1517
1924
Herbert Hoover Wireless Photos
Herbert C. Hoover- Secretary Of Commerce & 31st President Of The United States
1925
First Motion Pictures Transmitted In History- 2nd Floor
1926
Radio Fights Back
Television and the Government
C. Francis Jenkins; David Sarnoff of RCA; Major General George O. Squier formerly of Signal Corps; and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover
Locomobile Showroom- 1517
1927
First Slow Motion Camera in History
Chronoteine camera
1928
First Television Program in History
$ 10,000,000 adjusted for inflation equals $ 148,539,884 dollars today.
North Pole Aeronautical Exhibit- 1517
1928 4AT-B Ford Trimotor- Now at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan
1929
First Televised Presidential Inauguration in History
March 4th
1930
Marmon Showroom- 1517
1932
Ford Trucks Exhibit
1933
General Air Conditioning Corp
1935
Hudson Air Conditioning Corporation
1938
Marion Dubrow Venable Dance
1941
Roadside Theater
1948
Peck & Peck
1976
Kramerbooks & Afterwards
1980
Andy Warhol
1981
Gallery 10
1987
Mary Chapin Carpenter
1998
Monica Lewinski
Kramerbooks Challenges Kenneth Starr Subpoena
2011
President Obama & Daughters
2016
HBO's Veep Season 5
... and the rest is history
1517-19 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20036