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Date 1939-07-01-01, sorted by date, descending

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1939 Wilmette;IL
193-		 The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of United States and Canada relocated the National Office from New York to Wilmette. The National Spiritual Assembly Secretary and his wife/assistant, Horace and Doris Holley, moved from their cramped apartment at 119 Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, to the building on Sheridan Road across the street from the Temple that was built as the studio and residence of Temple architect, Louis Bourgeois. Henceforth the building was referred to as the Hazírátu'l-Quds, the headquarters of the National Assembly.
  • Because the Hazírá lacked sufficient space for more than the office of the Secretariat, an apartment in a residential building was rented. Within a few years a small frame, two-room building was erected on the Temple grounds that served as office space for more than fifty years.
  • About six months later the offices of the Treasury and the Publishing Committee were relocated from New York as well.
  • In 1940 Sophie Loeding was hired as the first full-time staff member of the secretariat. [IH282-286]
    		•  Doris Holley; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Horace Holley; Louis Bourgeois
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