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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.
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.
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
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The District Wharf, commonly known simply as The Wharf, is a multi-billion dollar mixed-use development on the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, D.C. It contains the city's historic Maine Avenue Fish Market, hotels, residential buildings, restaurants, shops, parks, piers, docks and marinas, and live music venues.
Maine Avenue in Washington, DC. Date: 19 January 2018 (according to Exif data) Source: Own work: Author: Mx._Granger: Camera location: View this and other nearby ...
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.
John Shaw Billings: 1878 librarian of the New York Public Library, deputy of the US Army Surgeon General [34] [4] [1] Henry H. Bingham: 1881–1889 Congressman from Pennsylvania [1] Theodore A. Bingham: 1897–1898 U.S. Army General, superintendent of the public buildings and grounds at Washington [1] Claude Hale Birdseye