Celebrate American Archives Month With an Exhibit on ASHA ’ s National Offices

ASHA’s second National Office at 9030 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland October can mean a lot of things … pumpkins, Halloween, apples, falling leaves … but here at ASHA (well at least in ASHA’s library) it means the start of American Archives Month! Last year, to celebrate American Archives Month, ASHA launched its archives website with an online exhibit about the founding of the association in 1925. This year, we added a new exhibit about the history of ASHA’s national offices. You’ll learn, for example, how ASHA had no national office until 1958. Before then, elected volunteers working out of their own offices at their respective colleges and universities carried out the association’s business. Here are some other interesting facts you can find in the exhibit: ASHA has operated out of five national offices (to go along with its five different names)! The first national office comprised only a handful of rooms on a rented floor in a downtown Washington, D.C., office building. The second national office won an architectural design award. The third national office was actually housed in a former convent. ASHA hosted two dedication ceremonies for the fourth national office—one for the original building and a second for the expansion of the building. The fifth and current national office became the first 501(c)(6) association building in Maryland history to earn the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold cer...
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