A Guide to Civil War Washington, D.C.: The Capital of the Union
Lucinda Prout Janke is a longtime resident of the Capitol Hill Historic District in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Wellesley College, she holds a master of arts degree in museum studies from the George Washington University. Now an independent historian, she was curator of the Kiplinger Washington Collection and collections manager at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. She has served on the boards of a number of nonprofit organizations, including the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., the Association to Preserve Historic Congressional Cemetery and the local chapter of the Victorian Society. She has given numerous lectures and tours and written articles including "The President's Park" in White House History and, with Ruth Ann Overbeck, "William Prout, Capitol Hill's Community Builder" in Washington History. She wrote the text for photographer George Ross Jezek's 2011 book,Washington, D.C., Views of the Past and Present. In 2012, she co-authored "The Kiplinger Washington Collection Finds a New Home, The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., Receives 4,000 Images Documenting the City's History" with Heather Riggins, also in Washington History. From upstate New York, near the homes of John Garret Dixon and William Seward, she lives in a Civil War-era house with a clock that belonged to Dixon's parents.