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Expanding our Reach: Ghosts of DC Looks at Hillcrest Heights

Published August 31, 2012

We're expanding our reach at Ghosts of DC! Check out this real estate advertisement from Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, just outside the District border on Southern Ave. Se. Send us your suggestions for other neighborhoods and communities to explore!

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Several readers have suggested Ghosts of DC start focusing on a broader range of neighborhoods and communities and we agree. So continue sending those emails and suggestions to give us more ideas.

Below is an old real estate advertisement we came across in the Washington Post from 1961.

Hillcrest Heights real estate advertisement - September 23rd, 1961 — Hillcrest Heights real estate advertisement – September 23rd, 1961

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This is from Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, just outside the District border on Southern Ave. Se.

Posted in Old Ads & Classifieds
and tagged 1960s, Hillcrest Heights MD

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