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The The Beall-Dawson House is a historic home located at Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2 ⁄2-story Federal... house, three bays wide by two deep, constructed of Flemish bond brick on the front facade and common bond elsewhere. Outbuildings on the property include an original brick dairy house and a mid-19th century one-room Gothic Revival frame doctor's office which was moved to the site for use as a museum. The house was constructed in 1815. It serves as the headquarters of the Montgomery County Historical Society which maintains the house as an early 19th century period historic house museum. The house also include indoor slave quarters, and two rooms with changing exhibits of local history. The Beall-Dawson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The property also includes the Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine, a one room doctor's office with medical and pharmaceutical tools, furniture, and books from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Dawson Farm is a historic property with two homes located at Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland. The property contains two dwellings: the 1874,... 2⁄2-story, frame Dawson Farmhouse and a large 2⁄2-story hip-roofed frame house dating to 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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The Rockville Railroad Station is a historic building located at Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a brick Victorian picturesque... structure with some Eastlake detailing, particularly in the roofline and gable decoration. It was built in 1873, and is one of the few survivors of the many picturesque county stations built along the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and other 19th century American railroads. The architect was E. Francis Baldwin, who also designed the adjoining freight house, built in 1887. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, although it continued to serve as an Amtrak station until 1981, when the 400-ton station was moved about 50 meters to the south to make way for the Rockville Metro station.
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Glenview Farm is a historic home and surrounding property located at Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland. The house is a 1926 Neo-Classical... Revival style house on 65 acres of landscaped ground. The five-part mansion incorporates the remnants of the 1838 house called "Glenview." Since 1957, the house and grounds have been owned by the City of Rockville, and are used for various civic, cultural and social events, and is known as Rockville Civic Center Park. The house also includes the Glenview Mansion Art Gallery. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for... his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the co-writer/director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. He is well known also for his music video collaborations with Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Björk. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. He also co-founded Directors Label with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry. Spiegel was born in Rockville, Maryland, and raised in Bethesda, Maryland and in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania. His father, Arthur Spiegel III, was a distant relation of the Spiegel catalog family and founded APM Management Consultants. His mother, Sandy Granzow, is a writer, communications consultant in developing countries, and artist.
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Paula Marshall is an American actress. In 1992, Marshall had a three-episode guest role on The Wonder Years and later guest-starred on shows such as... Seinfeld, Nash Bridges, Grapevine and Diagnosis: Murder. In 1994, she got her first sitcom role on Wild Oats. After a few years in B movies, Marshall gained a role on a second series, 1997's Chicago Sons. In the same year, she landed a recurring role on Spin City and starred alongside Bette Midler and Dennis Farina in the film That Old Feeling, where her character fell in love with one played by Danny Nucci. Marshall has also been cast in several pilots that were not picked up, including the Elizabeth Lackey series Cooking Lessons and Rob Thomas's Sticks. Marshall's third television series, Rob Thomas's Cupid, premiered in 1998. It featured her as Dr. Claire Allen, a psychiatrist supervising a man named Trevor who thinks he is Cupid. Marshall then joined David E. Kelley's Snoops, about an unconventional detective agency.
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Elden Henson is an American actor. He is best known for playing Fulton Reed in the Mighty Ducks trilogy with Emilio Estevez, and playing Lenny Kagan... in The Butterfly Effect. Henson was born Elden Ryan Ratliff in Rockville, Maryland to a professional photographer mother. His siblings are actors Garette Ratliff Henson and Erick Ratliff . Elden's Father George Ratliffe was an actor and his mother took the young boys for commercial auditions. They lived for a number of years in Weehawken, NJ. Henson attended Emerson College.
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Raja Jean Fenske is an American actor, probably best known for his role as Jake Behari in Nickelodeon's Unfabulous alongside Emma Roberts and Malese... Jow. He is sometimes credited as RJ Fenske. Fenske was born in Rockville, Maryland. His mother is originally from Chennai, India, while on his father's side, he has German and Norwegian ancestry. He had dreams of becoming a professional basketball player in the NBA. Fenske attended Thousand Oaks High School in California. In September 2007 he began his freshman year at California State University, Northridge. He also guest starred in an episode of Lizzie McGuire. From 2004 to 2007 Fenske played Jake Behari on the Nickelodeon show Unfabulous. In 2008 he began production on a movie called Days of Wrath, scheduled for release in 2010.
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Michael Davis is an American film director and screenwriter born in Rockville, Maryland. His films include the campy horror film Monster Man and the... big-budget action film Shoot 'Em Up starring Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, and Monica Bellucci.
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Jason Kravits is an American actor. His film credits include The Stepford Wives and Sweet November. Kravits has served more often as a television... guest star. He can be seen in episodes of shows such as Friends; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Everybody Loves Raymond; Yes, Dear; and Gilmore Girls. He also performed in the Broadway show The Drowsy Chaperone with his brother Garth Kravits and in Relatively Speaking. He got his start playing Lolo Knopke on the short-lived 1982 PBS series Powerhouse He played the District Attorney Richard Bay in the Emmy Award-Winning drama Series The Practice from 1999 to 2001. After almost three years of being a nemesis to the firm who would stop at nothing to get a conviction, his character was gunned down by associates of a man he successfully prosecuted. In 2000, he was a regular panelist on the Oxygen Network revival of I've Got a Secret. In the early 1990s, he was a company member at Round House Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was also a counselor at Green Acres Camp in Rockville, Maryland, where he played guitar and performed skits for campers.
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