Historical Markers in Mount Pleasant, District of Columbia
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On 18th Street Northwest near Kenyon Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west.
As dust from the Civil War settled, the nation's capital entered a new phase of growth. The expanding government needed more workers, who in turn needed more housing. An entrepreneur named Samuel Brown bought a large tract of land outside . . . — — Map (db m130884) HM
On Kilbourne Place Northwest at 17th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west on Kilbourne Place Northwest.
Even before the United States entered World War II in 1941, thousands of workers from across the country streamed into Washington to fill new military and government jobs. The swelling population needed more housing, and, to accommodate them, . . . — — Map (db m111891) HM
On 16th Street Northwest at Newton Place Northwest when traveling south on 16th Street Northwest.
To your left is Canaan Baptist Church. Its relocation here from Georgia Avenue in 1963 was the fulfillment of pastor Rev. M. Cecil Mills's dream to preside over the first African American church on this avenue of churches. The congregation . . . — — Map (db m130869) HM
On Park Road Northwest at 17th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west on Park Road Northwest.
In May 1864, a year before the Civil War ended, Union and Rebel troops clashed in a series of bloody battles in Virginia. Steamships loaded with the wounded traveled up the Potomac River to Washington where stretchers piled ashore for days and . . . — — Map (db m111885) HM
On Park Road Northwest at 18th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east on Park Road Northwest.
Around 1900 this successful suburb attracted successful business leaders, who set a grand standard for home building. Printer Byron S. Adams commissioned architect Frederick Pyle to design 1801 Park Road in the Colonial Revival style. Pyle . . . — — Map (db m130876) HM
On Pierce Mill Road Northwest at Park Road Northwest, on the right when traveling north on Pierce Mill Road Northwest.
Like the Latino immigrants of recent times, Europeans left the political and economic hardships of home for a better life in the United States. Following the 1948 communist coup of Czechoslovakia a "Czech Row" or "Prague Road" enclave . . . — — Map (db m152976) HM
On Park Road Northwest just east of 19th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east.
In 1948 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of houses to individuals of certain races could not be enforced. Two years later, Dr. Robert Deane became the first African American to purchase a house in Mount . . . — — Map (db m130875) HM
On 16th Street Northwest just north of Harvard Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north.
Today's 16th Street from the White House to Silver Spring, Maryland is one of the city's key gateways. But through the 1890s it jogged left where Mt. Pleasant Street runs today and then dead-ended at the edge of today's Rock Creek Park. . . . — — Map (db m130861) HM
On 16th Street Northwest north of Harvard Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south.
His continuous journey through cities, villages and settlements from 1771 to 1816 greatly promoted patriotism, education, morality, and religion in the American Republic—Act of Congress
The Prophet of the Long Road
If you seek for the . . . — — Map (db m111856) HM
On Kenyon Street Northwest west of 19th Street Northwest.
By the late 17th century, English colonial settlements and tobacco plantations had reached what is now Washington, DC. By the 1750s the ports of Alexandria and Georgetown were built, and soon afterward a series of mills expanded along Rock Creek . . . — — Map (db m112586) HM
On Mount Pleasant Street Northwest just north of Lamont Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south.
In 1903 a street car line arrived on Mt. Pleasant Street and so did new businesses. In this block were Sophia Weiss's notions shop, Domenico Pappalardo's shoe shop, and Lee Sing's laundry. The block's first commercial building (3215) was . . . — — Map (db m130880) HM
On 16th Street Northwest at Lamont Street Northwest on 16th Street Northwest.
When the Mount Pleasant Library, behind you, opened in 1925, crowds flocked to the Classical style building. Many had campaigned long and hard for this community centerpiece. The Carnegie Corporation, funder of public libraries in Mount Vernon . . . — — Map (db m130864) HM
On Mount Pleasant Street Northwest at Kenyon Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south on Mount Pleasant Street Northwest.
During the second half of the 20th century, housing in Mount Pleasant was relatively affordable. Recent immigrants, students, young professionals, and families from diverse economic backgrounds populated the neighborhood. In 1986, residents . . . — — Map (db m130883) HM
On Newton Street Northwest near 18th Street Northwest.
In 1609 Captain John Smith sailed from the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and up the Potomac River as far as Little Falls. He found 13 Indian villages along the Potomac, including one called Nacotchtank. These villagers farmed small plots . . . — — Map (db m130871) HM
On 16th Street Northwest at Park Road Northwest, on the right when traveling south on 16th Street Northwest.
Set back from the street at 1621 Park Road, to your left, is an elegant old house, once the all-girls Sacred Heart Academy. The Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters of Wisconsin founded the Academy in 1905 and went on to operate it with Sacred Heart . . . — — Map (db m130865) HM
On Mount Pleasant Street Northwest at Lamont Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south on Mount Pleasant Street Northwest.
Lamont Park, across from the number 42 bus stop, was once the turnaround for the numbers 40 and 42 streetcars. Back in the 1940s, "when the conductor called 'end of the line,' passengers stepped onto a yellow wooden platform," recalled former . . . — — Map (db m130881) HM
On Mount Pleasant Street Northwest south of Kilbourne Place Northwest.
The 1960s saw this neighborhood develop a Latino presence, and this became its Main Street. The storefront at 3161 Mt. Pleasant Street once housed Casa Diloné , the first bodega (grocery) here. From 1962 until 1998, Casa Diloné sold . . . — — Map (db m130882) HM
On Newton Street Northwest, 0.1 miles east of 19th Street Northwest, on the left when traveling east.
Ingleside, the grand house to your left, once anchored a 139-acre estate. Thomas Ustick Walter (1804-1887), architect of portions of the U.S. Capitol, designed Ingleside in 1851. Today it is Mount Pleasant's oldest structure.
New York . . . — — Map (db m184985) HM
On Mount Pleasant Street Northwest at Hobart Place Northwest, on the right when traveling south on Mount Pleasant Street Northwest. Reported damaged.
Until 1900 Mount Pleasant was still a small village of wood-frame houses about a mile outside the City of Washington. In 1903 the city extended and broadened 16th Street, separating what is now Columbia Heights from Mount Pleasant. At about the . . . — — Map (db m114769) HM
On Mount Pleasant Street Northwest at Kenyon Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south on Mount Pleasant Street Northwest.
Harry Townsend, who passed away at the age of 102 in 2004, had lived in the 1700 block of Kenyon Street since 1956. He was a well-known local figure who worked in construction. Townsend was still helping neighbors with repairs at age 90. . . . — — Map (db m179596) HM
On 18th Street Northwest at Newton Street Northwest on 18th Street Northwest.
Just like Mount Pleasant, Bancroft School is known for its ethnic and racial diversity. "at one of the spring fairs in the early 1970s, we asked people to bring native dishes, and I bought 27 little flags to mark the food," parent Gloria . . . — — Map (db m130872) HM
On 16th Street Northwest north of Irving Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north.
Beginning in the late 1950s, the community leadership of Mount Pleasant changed from the exclusive Citizens Association to an array of new players. Mount Pleasant Neighbors Association was the first alternative group. It presented festivals and . . . — — Map (db m148598) HM
On Oakwood Terrace Northwest at 17th Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north on Oakwood Terrace Northwest.
This was the western edge of Samuel P. Brown's Mount Pleasant Village. Across the street and a few steps ahead at 3423 Oakwood Terrace is "Oakwood," an original village house built in 1871 for city politician J.W. Buker. Brown reserved the . . . — — Map (db m130870) HM
On Rosemount Avenue Northwest at Klingle Road Northwest, on the right when traveling north on Rosemount Avenue Northwest.
This secluded building on the edge of Rock Creek Park was built in 1911 as the House of Mercy. It provided, as its founders wrote "a refuge and reformatory for outcast and fallen women," especially unwed mothers and girls entangled in . . . — — Map (db m130874) HM
On Park Road Northwest at Mount Pleasant Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east on Park Road Northwest.
The mansion of Samuel P. Brown, Mount Pleasant's founder once stood in the middle of the block to your left. During the Civil War, Brown bought 73 acres here for a song from William Selden, a former U.S. treasurer. Selden believed the . . . — — Map (db m130877) HM
