Then: Reservation 151 at the intersection of M Street and Rhode Island Ave., NW, just east of Connecticut. Photographed on June 8, 1927, this area was still a residential neighborhood. In the reserve is the Nuns of the Battlefield Memorial, which had been erected three years before.
Now: The memorial is still there, but the rest of the neighborhood has a distinctly commercial bent. If you’d like to learn a little more about the memorial, of see more images of it, you can go to this post.
Here’s another former police call box that’s been artistically transformed. There are several like this in Crestwood, but to date, this is the only one I know of in 16th Street Heights. I found it at the intersection fo Webster and 14th Street.
I’m really not sure if Kahn is the artist or not, but would like to know if there are any more like this around.
According to an article in the Washington Business Journal, the National Trust for Historic Preservation will put its own historic building at Massachusetts Ave & 18th Street on the market this month. Its been located in the former McCormick Apartments since 1976.
While a list price has not yet been announced, the Trust’s broker, Jeff Zell, has stated the property is “priceless.”
Here’s a question I have for you. If you owned a Porche, would you spend the money painting your garage door letting everyone who saw your garage know you owned a Porche?
That aside, you don’t often find a tromp l’oeil garage door.
The Post reported yesterday that the streetcar project is running behind schedule, pushing plans to run a red-and-gray trolley in Anacostia from late this year to sometime in 2012. The project is among several streetcar and light-rail systems planned for the Washington region.
I’m particularly keen to see this project get underway, as future expansion includes H Street and Georgia Ave. — all areas that would greatly benefit from this service.
The recent delays seem to be due to route changes and the permitting process. Neither are enough to threaten the streetcar’s eventual completion.
The Washington Printmakers Gallery hosts Fleming Jeffries’ opening tonight from 5-8 p.m.
The exhibit of Jeffries’ works on paper began on March 31st, and runs through April 26th.
For more information on the Washington Printmakers Gallery or to see other works by the artist, go here>>
Due to the National Cherry Blossom Parade and the Japanese Street Festival, the following Traffic Advisory has been issued. From the looks of things, I’d advise you make your life easier and rely on Metro as much as possible. Cars and Cherry Blossoms don’t mix.
***TRAFFIC ADVISORY***
National Cherry Blossom Parade and Japanese Street Festival This Weekend
Street Closings and Parking Restrictions
Heavy Pedestrian Traffic Anticipated, Visitors Encouraged to Take Metro
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This weekend, parking restrictions and street closings will be in effect to facilitate the National Cherry Blossom Parade and the Japanese Street Festival in downtown DC. Read more »
April 3, 1901: Gen. Harry B. Carrington, of Hyde Park, Mass., soldier and historian, was a caller at the White House. Gen. Carrington was seventy-eight years of age, and retired from the regular army in the 1870′s because of severe wounds received in an Indian campaign. He was adjutant general of Ohio from 1857 to 1861, and while serving in that capacity made out and signed the volunteer commissions of both ex-Presidents Hayes and Garfield.
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