The watercolor below was painted by Montgomery Meigs in 1850. It depicts a slightly more bucolic and peaceful life on K St.

Take a look at a map of the area from 1888. This is the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of the area. You can see Franklin Alley in square 285.
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Also, we came across this old classified advertisement in the Baltimore Sun, published on Wednesday, December 8th, 1841.
