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==Early History==
From a January 1954 issue of "Light and Liberty" on the life of Benjamin Bradford, "In the Nation's Capital, Mr. Bradford and Mr. Sam McEwen found an open door in cottage meetings and later in tent meetings. As a result of their labors, souls were saved and an assembly planted in 1916, now the Chillum Heights Assembly."
The assembly now meeting at [[New Hampshire Avenue Gospel Chapel, MD|New Hampshire Avenue Gospel Chapel]], Silver Spring, [[Maryland]] began in April 1916 at Frank Gustava Ruebsam’s house at 5224 Illinois Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC. The assembly moved in January 1917 to N. Fillmann’s home, 1422-22nd Street, SE, Washington, where it remained for a time.
The assembly moved to a rented building at 1420 H Street, NE, and later to a rented building at 245-15th Street, SE. In 1938, the assembly constructed a chapel at 5720 South Dakota Avenue, NE, in Washington.
After the chapel at South Dakota Avenue was sold, the assembly services were held in the SDA’s church building on Riggs Road in Adelphi, Maryland on a rental basis, during the construction of the New Hampshire Avenue Gospel Chapel at 12608 New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, still its current location. Among those who assisted with the building's design, included [[Donald William Kuester]] (1921-1963), who while serving as Sunday School superintendent, held influence over determining the size of the building, its style of architecture, and interior finishing, before drowning in a sunken submarine while on a Navy mission.
The first services in the present building were held in the chapel on May 24, 1964, and according to Letters of Interest (1966-June/July), "the following Sunday, a number saved in the Sunday school, who were waiting with real anticipation for the new building, were baptized.
* [https://www.nhagc.org/ NHAGC's website]
* Letters of Interest: 1966-June/July
* Light & Liberty: 1954-1; 1963-June6