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This Was Once A Functional School- Langston School
Among the Library of Congress photographs were photographs of the John Mercer Langston School, which sits on the unit block of P St NW in Truxton Circle. I discovered photographs of the Langston School...
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Armstrong Became A Functional School Again
Earlier I looked at Langston which, as far I know, is still a husk of a building. Langston was a school where African American children learned and played. But despite being on the Register of Historic...
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WSIC-1950 Sell Off- 124 Q Street NW
The Washington Sanitary Improvement Company (WSIC) was a late 19th century charitable capitalism experiment that ended in the 1950s. This blog started looking at the homes that were supposed to be sold...
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Memory Lane: Billboards on New Jersey Ave
Taken 11/15/2008. Looking north on the 1400 Block of New Jersey Ave NW If you look where the condos at P and 4th/New Jersey NW are, there are two highway billboards. I believe one is advertising the...
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Memory Lane: December 26, 2005 1600 Blk of 4th St NW
Taken December 26, 2005. View of 300 Block of Q St NW from 1600 blk of 4th. Happy Boxing Day. A quick look at this photo taken in 2005 shows the block before the Fourth St Friendship Seventh Day...
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Memory Lane: 1500 Block of 1st St NW January 5, 2008
When I took this photo back in 2008 I did not know that the corner house had history. That it was the home of the notable Pocahontas Pope. Taken Jan. 5, 2008. 1500 block of 1st St NW. So much has...
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Memory Lane: Watha Daniels Shaw Library
This photo was taken back in February 2010 of the construction that was to be the Shaw library at Rhode Island Ave and 7th St NW.
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Black History Month meet Memory Lane: Carter G. Woodson’s House
Looking at some of the photographs I’ve taken I get to go down memory lane. Since it is Black History Month, let’s look at the father of Black History, Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s house at 1538 9th St NW....
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Black History Month 2024: First Class- Ch. 12 New School
This year for Black History Month we’ll review chapter by chapter Alison Stewart’s First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School. This is more Truxton Circle related then...
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Memory Lane- New York/M Street Firehouse
211 M St NW. Taken August 28, 2004 or 2005 This is a close up of the old firehouse at 219 M Street NW, but it could just as well be on New York Avenue NW. Twenty years ago neighborhood had a lot of...
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