I thought this was a bit odd and also very cool. It is randomly on the side of rowhome by the park at 11th and Monroe. Apparently it is of a trolley from 1890. A bit random, yeah? Anyone know if there was a trolley line on 11th Street back in the day?
People seemed to like the historical photos from DDOT so I thought it was worth mentioning all the cool photos on the windows of CVS. This one is from 14th Street by the PN Hoffman building. Seriously, take a second next time you walk by there are some really incredible photos.
Thanks to a reader for sending. This one is of Florida Ave and 9th Street from 1958. There are quite a few more here at the DDOT Web site.
From a reader:
“DCPL seeks citywide nominations for threatened buildings, landmarks, landscapes, etc.
If you want to know more about the Most Endangered Places program, feel free to visit our website at www.dcpreservation.org. There, you can download an application and look at lists from former years.”
Here is a list of most endangered places from 2008.
Seems like a great program. Anyone have any recommendations?
While the house itself is a little obscured by the bushes, you can tell it’s a pretty sweet spot. Note the old horse fence. I also find it’s unusual to find mini houses or any houses for that matter, set back from the curb like this. I’m a fan.
The 7th Street Savings Bank building located at 7th and N is a classic. Anyone know if it is still a functioning bank? Regarding the building itself – thumbs up or down?
I live in a house that was built in 1895. Sometimes when I putter around in my kitchen, I wonder about the people who first bought the house, or I think about how life changed through the course of its existence. As some of you may know, I make my living crawling around old houses, and particularly like working with the ones that contain as much of the original details as possible. I love hearing old house stories, like the one from a PoP reader, who discovered an outhouse in the back yard.
The only item I have ever bid for aggressively at a silent auction benefit party was a house history package from Kelsey and Associates. (Unfortunately, my strategy was not very successful and I lost it in the end to some guy who popped up out of nowhere after the two minute warning.) Kelsey and Associates is run by Paul Kelsey Williams, an architectural historian with bases in both DC and Baltimore.
If you have any interest in the history of Washington, DC neighborhoods, you’ve come across Paul’s work. He has written numerous articles and books, including more than a dozen of the Arcadia Press series. What interests me is that instead of focusing on generic monument views or writing about famous people, he goes back in time to showcase local neighborhoods through exhaustive research and collections of photographs.
I was very excited about meeting Paul Williams in person. I’m not sure exactly what I expected, but he told me to meet him at the former public comfort station in Dupont Circle. If you’ve ever needed a bathroom in the middle of Dupont Circle, or if you’ve ever taken the bus to New York from Dupont, you know the building of which I speak. As the current executive director of the Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets, Paul works out of the renovated historic building, which, fortunately, no longer looks at all like a public restroom on the interior. Continues after the jump. (more…)
“So you may know this but I thought this an odd little fact, I was getting some google directions and this is what came up for T Street NW:
Turn left at Duke Ellington Ave/T St NW
You are out and about the city all of the time, any idea when that happened?”
I had heard that Duke Ellington lived on T Street at one point (the residence pictured above is from 13th Street). But I hadn’t known they renamed part of T Street after him until I read your email. So I did a bit of searching around and the great Washington Post writer, Marc Fisher, found the answer back in Oct. 2007. He writes:
“D.C. Council member Jim Graham is proposing to rename two streets in Shaw for Duke Ellington and Chuck Brown, creating the possibility that you could one day, as a prelude to a kiss, or if you just need some money, head over to the corner of Ellington Avenue and Chuck Brown Way. That would be at the current intersection of Seventh and T streets NW.”
Super cool.
But honestly what I think is the coolest is the great old photos from the neighborhood that they have in the windows.
More old photos after the jump. (more…)
I’ve always loved this church on 18th Street. Religious or not, it is has a very peaceful courtyard. I didn’t know that the previous church burned down due to arson.
