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The Maine Avenue Fish Market has been in continuous operation since 1805, [5] making it the oldest operating fish market in the United States and 17 years older than New York City's Fulton Fish Market, [6] [1] which was moved to the Bronx in 2005. The Maine Avenue Market was moved a few blocks along the Washington Channel in the 1960s.
In the 19th century, much of present-day Indiana Avenue was named Louisiana Avenue. 0.4 miles (0.64 km) Maine Avenue: SW: A diagonal avenue that begins Independence Avenue and 17th Street, runs along the Southwest Waterfront, has an interchange with Interstate 395, and ends at 6th and M Streets. 1.2 miles (1.9 km) Maryland Avenue SW, NE
Maine Avenue begins at 17th Street SW and Independence Avenue SW and continues southeast, parallelling the Tidal Basin to 12th Street SW where it crosses under Interstate 395. Continuing southeast, it runs parallel to the Washington Channel and Water Street SW, where it crosses 7th Street. At 6th Street SW, Maine Avenue ends, becoming M Street SW.
These buildings were built in 1920–1923 to the Colonial Revival design of Washington architect Snowden Ashford. Local contractor George H. Wynne constructed the buildings for $766,200. By 1924 it had been featured in the journal Modern Hospital and was also described in 1928 in the standard text The American Hospital of the Twentieth Century. [2]
The Moderne building, was designed by John Stokes Redden and John G. Raben in 1941. Tenleytown was transformed on October 2, 1941, when Sears Roebuck opened its department store on Wisconsin Avenue at Albemarle Street. At the time the store was notable for its size, and for its 300 car rooftop parking lot.
C Street looking northeast. The Henry J. Daly Building (previously known as the Municipal Center and also referred to as 300 Indiana and the Daly Building) is located at 300 Indiana Avenue, NW, and 301 C Street, NW, in the Judiciary Square neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
Montgomery Sq. and Dahlgren Ave., SE., Washington, District of Columbia Coordinates 38°52′23″N 76°59′43″W / 38.87306°N 76.99528°W / 38.87306; -76
The hotel was opened in February 1963, [3] by President John F. Kennedy. [4] When opened, it was Washington's first modern luxury hotel, with rooms renting at the then-unheard-of rate of $27 a night. In 1978, Coyne opened The Dolley Madison Hotel across M Street from the main hotel.