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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Columbia Heights
Columbia Heights and Vicinity
▶ Washington (1957) ▶ Montgomery County, Maryland (529) ▶ Prince George's County, Maryland (523) ▶ Alexandria, Virginia (297) ▶ Arlington County, Virginia (368) ▶ Fairfax County, Virginia (474)
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| On Sherman Avenue Northwest just south of Girard Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south. |
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Edward Kennedy Ellington Residence
1919 - 1922
"I Love You Madly"
Dedicated This Day, April 28, 1990
Marion Barry Jr., Mayor — — Map (db m142334) HM |
| On 11th Street Northwest north of Monroe Street Northeast. |
| | For nearly a century, between 1862 and 1962, streetcars in Washington, D.C. carried people across the District. The first streetcars were drawn by horses and could only carry people short distances, but the introduction of the electric streetcars, . . . — — Map (db m111927) HM |
| On Park Road Northwest at 14th Street Northwest, on the right on Park Road Northwest. |
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Columbia Heights by the mid 1920s was a center of white elite activity and commerce. The elegant, Neoclassical style Riggs Bank branch and the Italian Renaissance style Tivoli Theater opened to great acclaim. Soon after, radio station WRC . . . — — Map (db m130743) HM |
| Near 16th Street Northwest at W Street Northwest, on the right when traveling north. |
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Since Meridian Hill Park opened in 1936, Washingtonians from the diverse neighborhoods surrounding the park have gathered here for performances, community events, and political protest.
When tens of thousands of people flocked to Washington, . . . — — Map (db m156670) HM |
| On 16th Street Northwest at Euclid Street Northwest, on the right when traveling north on 16th Street Northwest. |
| | It is perhaps no surprise that Commodore David Porter, hero of the War of 1812, chose Meridian Hill on which to build his estate. From this knoll, Porter had a direct line of sight to the President's mansion. Though no match for the grand buildings . . . — — Map (db m63740) HM |
| On 14th Street Northwest at Monroe Street Northwest, on the right when traveling north on 14th Street Northwest. |
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When the smoke cleared after the civil disturbances of April 1968, Columbia Heights lay devastated. Many residents and businesses simply left. Others remained to pick up the pieces. But who would help rebuild?
Citizen groups, church . . . — — Map (db m152929) HM |
| On 14th Street Northwest at Kenyon Street Northwest, on the right on 14th Street Northwest. |
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The intersection of 14th Street and Park Road has been the center of community life since at least 1871, when the neighborhood was called Mount Pleasant and storekeeper George Emery made his living on the northwest corner to your left. . . . — — Map (db m130744) HM |
| On 15th Street Northwest north of Chapin Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Thomas Jefferson believed the surveyor's of the nation's capital city should set a new American Meridian, a north-south line running through both poles and the American continent.
This reference line, longitude 0° 0°, would aid navigation, . . . — — Map (db m63770) HM |
| Near 16th Street Northwest north of Crescent Place Northwest, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Congress ordered sculptures installed at Meridian Hill Park long before the park's completion. So many sculptures were authorized that Horace Peaslee, the park's architect, called for a moratorium on installations. He told the Commission of the . . . — — Map (db m63658) HM |
| Near 15th Street Northwest at W Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m24150) HM |
| Near 15th Street Northwest south of Euclid Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north. |
| | President Monroe singed a charter in 1821 that established Columbian College on a site north of Florida Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets, Columbian College moved to Foggy Bottom in 1912 and became George Washington University, but the original . . . — — Map (db m63771) HM |
| On Sherman Avenue Northwest south of Morton Street Northwest, on the right. |
| | Dr. Charles R. Drew (1904-1950), renowned for his blood plasma research, was associated with Howard University College of Medicine during most of his career. In 1941 Drew joined a national effort to set up a blood banking process but left because . . . — — Map (db m65523) HM |
| On 15th Street Northwest at Chapin Street Northwest, on the right when traveling north on 15th Street Northwest. |
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Wayland Seminary opened in Foggy Bottom just after the Civil War to train formerly enslaved people and others as “preachers and teachers for the South” and as missionaries to evangelize Africa. In 1875 it moved here, later merging . . . — — Map (db m130745) HM |
| On Otis Place Northwest at 14th Street Northwest on Otis Place Northwest. |
| | Harry Wardman, Washington's prolific developer, built nearly all of the 300 houses to your right between Monroe Street and Spring Road. Wardman, an English immigrant and self-made millionaire, became known for his rowhouses, whose front porches . . . — — Map (db m130746) HM |
| Near 15th Street Northwest north of Chapin Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north. |
| | At the beginning of its second century, the nation's capital was changing dramatically. In 1902, the United States Senate adopted a number of recommendations from the Senate Park Commission, popularly known as the McMillan Commission. By 1910, a . . . — — Map (db m63940) HM |
| Near 15th Street Northwest north of Chapin Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Limited funds and dramatic change in elevation at the Meridian Hill Park site -- falling 75 feet from north to south -- challenged the Commission of Fine Arts and their designers. The 16th Street edge required massive retaining walls to transition . . . — — Map (db m63944) HM |
| Near 14th Street Northwest at Fairmont Street Northwest. |
| | The Drum and Spear Bookstore, founded in 1968 by Charlie Cobb, a former secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, specialized in books written by black authors, and books on Asian, African, and African American subjects. Growing . . . — — Map (db m85756) HM |
| On 16th Street Northwest at Meridian Place Northwest, on the right when traveling north on 16th Street Northwest. |
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Youth from the Latin American Youth Center - Art + Media House used cameras and microphones to explore the changing faces of Columbia Heights people and places. Collaborating with community artists, youth researched neighborhood history, . . . — — Map (db m126148) |
| On 15th Street Northwest near Columbia Road Northwest. |
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Youth from the Latin American Youth Center–Art + Media House used cameras and microphones to explore the changing faces of Columbia Heights' people and places. Collaborating with community artists, youth researched neighborhood history, . . . — — Map (db m111852) HM |
| On Clifton Street Northwest west of 11th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Organized September 1928 at M Street and New York Avenue
Moved February 19, 1933
to Ninth Street and Rhode
Island Avenue, N.W.
Moved August 1950 to Thirteenth
and Clifton Street, N.W. — — Map (db m23651) HM |
| On Girard Street Northwest at 11th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west on Girard Street Northwest. |
| | The 1100 and 1200 blocks of Girard Street once were home to a “Whos Who” of African American leaders. This and nearby “double-blocks” are the heart of John Shermans Columbia Heights subdivision. By placing all houses . . . — — Map (db m130747) HM |
| On Meridian Place Northwest at Center Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east on Meridian Place Northwest. |
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Youth from the Latin American Youth Center - Art + Media House used cameras and microphones to explore the changing faces of Columbia Heights people and places. Collaborating with community artists, youth researched neighborhood history, . . . — — Map (db m126149) |
| On Monroe Street Northwest at 13th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west on Monroe Street Northwest. |
| | This spot once was the center of the Holmead family estate, "Pleasant Plains." The property stretched from today's Spring Road to Columbia Road, and from Georgia Avenue to Rock Creek. In 1740 the Holmeads built a house near here.
In 1802, . . . — — Map (db m150253) HM |
| Near 16th Street Northwest north of W Street Northwest, on the right when traveling north. |
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Buchanan was our only bachelor president and relied upon his orphaned niece, Harriet Lane, to act as his First Lady during his years in the White House (1857 to 1861). In her estate, Harriet Lane Johnson made a bequest to fund a memorial to her . . . — — Map (db m156671) HM |
| On Euclid Street Northwest at 13th Street Northwest, on the left when traveling east on Euclid Street Northwest. |
| | These elegant 13th Street houses were constructed when racial separation was legal and widely accepted. In 1910 the deeds for many houses across 13th Street had covenants banning “any negro or colored persons.” Those on this side . . . — — Map (db m130748) HM |
| On 16th Street Northwest just south of Harvard Street Northwest, on the right when traveling north. |
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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the invention of the bicycle:
Las Bicicletas
Gilberto Aceves Navarro
— — Map (db m150234) HM |
| On Harvard Street Northwest west of 14th Street Northwest. |
| | "A Black world in which a wonderful democracy of conditions prevailed — waitresses, doctors, preachers, winos, teachers, numbers runners and funeral directors, prostitutes and housewives, cabdrivers and laborers all lived as neighbors."
. . . — — Map (db m130749) HM |
| On Irving Street Northwest at 14th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east on Irving Street Northwest. |
| | Fourteenth Street has always been the business backbone of Columbia Heights. Beginning in the 1890s, electric streetcars dropped passengers at nearly every corner, attracting commerce. By 1925 storefronts occupied the blocks between Euclid and . . . — — Map (db m130750) HM |
| On 15th Street Northwest south of Euclid Street Northwest, on the right when traveling north. |
| | On your right is Josephine Butler Parks Center, home of Washington Parks & People, a network of groups devoted to DC and its parks. The network's 1927 mansion, which once housed the Hungarian delegation, was part of an embassy row envisioned by . . . — — Map (db m130751) HM |
| On Florida Avenue Northwest east of 11th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west. |
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Youth from the Latin American Youth Center—Art + Media House used cameras and microphones to explore the changing faces of Columbia Heights' people and places. Collaborating with community artists, youth researched neighborhood history, . . . — — Map (db m129069) HM |
| On Park Road Northwest at 16th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west on Park Road Northwest. |
| | Low cost housing in Mount Pleasant in the decades following World War II made it an ideal place for immigrants to the area. Refugees fleeing World War II and the Cold War in Eastern Europe were the first group to arrive. A small Czech community . . . — — Map (db m130866) HM |
| On Spring Road Northwest east of 13th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Youth from the Latin American Youth Center—Art + Media House used cameras and microphones to explore the changing faces of Columbia Heights' people and places. Collaborating with community artists, youth researched neighborhood history, . . . — — Map (db m129027) HM |
| On 11th Street Northwest north of Kenyon Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south. |
| | For Nearly 50 Years, this corner was home to Nob Hill Restaurant, one of the nation's first openly gay bars for-and run by-African Americans.
Started in the 1950s as a private social club, Nob Hill went public in 1957. Patrons enjoyed . . . — — Map (db m86014) HM |
| On Clifton Street Northwest east of 13th Street Northwest. |
| | In the days of legally segregated public education (1862-1954), this school building was Central High, the gem of the School Boards white division. But by 1949, it had few students, as the post-World War II suburban housing boom had drawn . . . — — Map (db m130752) HM |
| Near 15th Street Northwest north of Chapin Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Noted landscape architects George Burnap and Horace Peaslee, who worked in the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, designed Meridian Hill Park under the guidance of the Commission of Fine Arts. By 1914, Burnap had completed his basic design: a . . . — — Map (db m63952) HM |
| On 15th Street Northwest at Belmont Street Northwest on 15th Street Northwest. |
| | The Pitts Motor Hotel, formerly located at 1451 Belmont Street, lingers in memory for two reasons. In the 1960s it was a gathering place of Civil Rights movement leaders. Later it became a "welfare hotel."
In March 1968 the Reverend Dr. Martin . . . — — Map (db m63706) HM |
| On 16th Street Northwest south of Harvard Street Northwest. |
| | Straight ahead is All Souls Church, Unitarian, long known for its social activism, starting with abolitionism in the 1820s and ranging through nuclear disarmament and interracial cooperation. During the segregation era, All Souls was one of the . . . — — Map (db m130753) HM |
| On Newton Street Northwest just from 16th Street Northwest, on the left when traveling east. |
| | [Front:]
1957: First integrated Episcopal church in DC
1969: Began Loaves & Fishes feeding program; hot meals still served every Saturday and Sunday at Noon
1975: Ordained four women to the priesthood, resulting in the . . . — — Map (db m142192) HM |
| On Belmont Street Northwest east of 15th Street Northwest, on the left when traveling east. |
| | In 1920, Washington D. C. was home to the largest African American Community in the country. Numerous venues in the U Street area showcased prominent musicians and politicians of the day. On this site stood the Pitts Motel and its Red Carpet Lounge. . . . — — Map (db m63678) HM |
| On Columbia Road Northwest at 14th Street Northwest on Columbia Road Northwest. |
| | This block is home to some of the largest Latino organizations in the city, all founded as migration from Central America and the Caribbean increased in the 1970s. Several began with a boost from Cavalry United Methodist Church at 1459 Columbia . . . — — Map (db m130754) HM |
| Near Irving Street Northwest east of 15th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east. |
| | To The Glory of God
And in grateful memory of one of his servants
This building devoted to Christian education
Is named for
Woodrow Wilson
President of Princeton University 1902 — 1910
Governor of the state of New Jersey . . . — — Map (db m82615) HM |
| On Irving Street Northwest near 15th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west. Reported damaged. |
| | On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court made its historic decision in Brown vs. Board of Education to end segregation in public schools. One of the lawsuits that made up this decision involved the DC schools, and the following September, . . . — — Map (db m130863) HM |
| On Clifton Street Northwest just west of 13th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west. |
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On your left once stood Belmont, an impressive stone mansion built in 1883 by entrepreneur Amzi L. Barber, "America's Asphalt King." Barber headed the Education Department at Howard University at the time of its founding in 1867. He soon . . . — — Map (db m152933) HM |
| Near 15th Street Northwest north of Chapin Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Meridian Hill Park might never have been built had it not been for the determination of Mary Foote Henderson (1846 - 1931). For 22 years, she lobbied Congress for funds to buy the land and build the park. Congress's 1910 vote to authorize . . . — — Map (db m63934) HM |
| Near 16th Street Northwest north of Crescent Place Northwest, on the right when traveling north. Reported missing. |
| | The stone marking the Washington Meridian was formerly located 52 feet, nine inches west of this tablet which was presented by the Army and Navy Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. — — Map (db m82518) HM |
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