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A Look at the Transformation of the Washington Manual Training High School to the Asbury Dwellings Apartment Building

Take a look at the transformation of Washington Manual Training High School to the Asbury Dwellings Apartment Building in this post. See the 1895 perspective sketch of the school and the current Google Street View of the corner today.
Circa 1924, "Metropolitan Methodist Church, C Street, Washington, D.C." And the Ford building next door. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size. The church, at C Street NW and John Marshall Place, was abandoned and razed after the congregation moved to its Nebraska Avenue location in the 1930s. The 1905 Ford Motor Co. building on Pennsylvania Avenue was torn down in 1980.
young women exercising with dumbbells at Western High School
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Below is a great drawing of the Washington Manual Training High School around 1895. Today, this building is the Asbury Dwellings apartment building.

Perspective sketch - Washington Manual Training High School, Henry Ives Cobb, Architect (1895-1898)
Perspective sketch – Washington Manual Training High School, Henry Ives Cobb, Architect (1895-1898)

Here is the Google Street View of the same corner today.

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