Mount Vernon Seminary students enjoy a piano recital in the late 1930s.
With the removal of most of its families, Reno School’s enrollment dwindled to six students before it closed in 1950. Now an official DC Historic Site, the school sits next to Deal Junior High as one of the few remnants of Reno City. Tenleytown has continued to host important defense facilities. American University lent its campus to train soldiers and sailors during both world wars. And in the early 1940s the U.S. Navy took over Mount Vernon Seminary and estab- lished a top-secret, code-breaking center. Another development during the 1940s gave Tenleytown a new landmark and further ensured its place in the history of communica- tions. Western Union built “Tenley Tower” to transmit telegrams and also to relay newly invented television signals. Several years later WTOP’s Broadcast House went up adjacent to Tenley Tower, adding several
World War I Army engineers trained at American University.
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