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1907 Map of Washington Heights (Adams Morgan) and the National Zoo

1907 map of Washington Heights, the area which would become Adams Morgan.
Photo shows a horse-drawn sleigh carrying what may be Melinda and Elise Painter across 14th St. at F St. in front of the Ebbitt House hotel. The modest buildings to the right of the grand hotel housed Newspaper Row, and just across the street at number 501 was Painter's office as Washington correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. (Source: Ison article on Painter, 1990)
Washington, D.C., circa 1918. "Old house, Mass. Ave. N.E. Built by Thomas Taylor in 1876."

Look at all the empty lots in what would become weekend crazytown for drunk 20-somethings.

1907 map of Washington Heights
1907 map of Washington Heights

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