Here’s a great old photo of Washington back in the 1920s. You’re looking down 11th St. NW from L St.
Source: National Archives
And here is what it looks like today on Google Street View. You can still see the church in the foreground.
Several blocks south of this view, the same 11th Street ran past the Hotel Harrington at 11th and E Streets NW, which had just opened a decade earlier and would keep its doors open for another century.