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Intersection of 31st St. and Legation St. NW, July 2021, in Chevy Chase In the late 1880s, then-Representative Francis G. Newlands of Nevada and his partners began to buy up farmland in northwest Washington, D.C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland , to develop a residential streetcar suburb .
The Edmund Burke School, founded in 1968, is located on Upton Street, in the building that was originally occupied by Devitt Prep. The Hillwood Museum , located in a house that once belonged to philanthropist and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post , contains her collection of decorative objects, including several Fabergé eggs .
At one time, it was called Canal Street, while a street named Washington Drive existed along a part of the National Mall. Along with Adams Drive, it was converted to a dirt path from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. 0.4 miles (0.64 km) West Virginia Avenue: NE: Street running from K Street NE to New York Avenue NE.
This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the central area of Washington, D.C. For the purposes of this list central Washington, D. C. is defined as all of the Northwest quadrant east of Rock Creek and south of M Street and all of the Southwest quadrant.
Blair Circle – intersection of 16th Street, Eastern Avenue, Colesville Road, and North Portal Drive; circle is split between North Portal Estates and Silver Spring, Maryland Chevy Chase Circle – intersection of Western and Connecticut Avenues, Chevy Chase and Magnolia Parkways, and Grafton Street; circle is only half within the District ...
Connecticut Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., and suburban Montgomery County, Maryland.It is one of the diagonal avenues radiating from the White House, and the segment south of Florida Avenue was one of the original streets in Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's plan for Washington. [1]
Washington Union Station is a major intermodal hub, combining the busiest station in the Metrorail system; rail service by Amtrak, MARC, and Virginia Railway Express commuter rail systems. Bus services are provided by Greyhound, Peter Pan, Trailways, Megabus, and other companies. The DC Streetcar's H Street NE/Benning Road Line also serves the ...
Columbia Heights is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. Bounded by 16th Street NW, W Street NW, Florida Avenue NW, Barry Place NW, Sherman Avenue NW, Spring Road NW, and New Hampshire Avenue NW. neighborhood is an important retail hub for the area, as home to DC USA mall and to numerous other restaurants and stores, primarily along the highly commercialized 14th Street.