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11th Street NW from L Street in the 1920s: Then and Now

A 1920s National Archives photo looking down 11th Street NW from L Street, beside the same view today on Google Street View. The church is still there.

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Here’s a great old photo of Washington back in the 1920s. You’re looking down 11th St. NW from L St.

11th and L St. NW in the 1920s
11th and L St. NW in the 1920s (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.

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