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In 1861, Maine Avenue was a small street north and parallel to Maryland Avenue near Capitol Hill. Interstate 695 was planned to be extended west of Interstate 395 along Maine Avenue. That project, like many proposed interstate highways in the District of Columbia, was canceled. [1]
DC Genealogical Database; National Capital Planning Commission; D.C. Guide; Washington DC, street by street (historic and modern photographs) Street map of Ward 4. Office of Councilmember Muriel Bowser.
El Cielo is a restaurant in Washington, D.C., United States. Sometimes referred to as "El Cielo DC", the restaurant is a branch of Colombian chef Juan Manuel "Juanma" Barrientos' Medellín-based restaurant, with sibling establishments in Bogotá and Miami. [1] [2] [3] The Washington, D.C. restaurant has received a Michelin star. [4]
El Torito was founded in 1954 by Larry J. Cano. [2] Cano had served tours in the U.S Army in Europe and Korea, earned a business degree and worked tending bar. In 1954 he was managing a Polynesian restaurant. When the restaurant’s owner died, his widow gave Cano the restaurant.
The main segment runs from Massachusetts Avenue to Columbia Road, but another short segment runs from 19th Street to Florida Avenue, one block east from the main segment. The longer street was originally T Street until it was renamed in 1901. [11] The shorter segment was originally V Street until it was renamed in 1911. [12]
Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States. The "Traditional Downtown" has been defined as an area roughly between Union Station in the east and 16th Street NW in the west, and between the National Mall on the south and Massachusetts Avenue on the north, including Penn Quarter.
In 1727, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, then governor of the Province of Maryland, awarded a land grant for present-day Mount Pleasant to James Holmead. This estate, later named "Pleasant Plains", included the territory of present-day neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Meridian Hill, and Pleasant Plains (which only covers a portion of the original estate of the same name).
The Shops at National Place was a three-level, indoor shopping mall located in downtown Washington, D.C. in the 16-story National Place Building. [1] It is located on the block bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, F Street, between 13th and 14th Streets NW, the former site of the Munsey Trust Building.