Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...
The 1861 plan for Prospect Park included an elliptical plaza at the intersection of Flatbush and Ninth avenues. [5] In 1867, the plaza was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as a grand entrance to the Park to separate the noisy city from the calm nature of the Park.
The 377–379 Flatbush Avenue building is a 3.5-story masonry structure with a commercial ground floor, apartments above, and a distinctive corner tower with pyramidal roof. It features a mansard roof. The 375 Flatbush Avenue building is a commercial/residential structure identical in form to 377–379 Flatbush Avenue, but without a mansard roof.
The name "Federal Triangle" appears to have been a journalistic invention. [2] The press wrote of a "Pennsylvania Avenue Triangle" as early as November 18, 1926, [3] and use of this name continued as late as June 1929, [4] [5] [6] but by 1927, it was more common for the news media to refer to the area as "the Triangle". [7]
The oppressive need for housing during the war, brought by a massive influx of federal workers to the capital, led to extensive development of the region and the linking of the area encompassed by the Anacostia Historic District with other parts of Southeast D.C. [23] Only 16 percent of the homes in Southeast Washington below Pennsylvania ...
After the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s original line opened as far as Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, the New York City government began planning new lines.As early as 1903, William Barclay Parsons, chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission, had proposed constructing a four-track extension of the IRT line under Flatbush Avenue, running southeast from Atlantic Avenue to Grand ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Beth El Jewish Center of Flatbush. May 29, 2009 ... Buildings at 375–379 Flatbush Avenue and 185–187 Sterling Place
A map of Washington, D.C., with the Atlas District highlighted in maroon. Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street, NE. The Atlas District (also known as the Atlas or the H Street Corridor) is an arts and entertainment district located in the Near Northeast neighborhood of Washington, DC.