GoDCers, we need your help. Where is this? The photo was sent in by Ben this week and we’d love to help him identify the location. I’m guessing that there’s a fifty percent chance they still stand today, but if they do, please let us know in the comments below where you think these are. Thanks!
Source: Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
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These houses look fairly ornate and substantial but with what looks to be a big building off to the far right makes me think closer to what think of as downtown. I want to think more Logan/Dupont Circle or maybe Mt. Vernon Square, and not the Hill or Columbia Heights, Petworth etc.
Looks like a few houses I know of near Columbia Heights, between 13th and 14th Streets, just a few blocks north of Columbia Road
I still feel like this is Dupont, Logan, or maybe Mt. Vernon. What do you think?
I think it might be the north side of the 900 block of M street, NW.
Could also perhaps be K street NW (west of McPherson Square). As a little kid (early 1950s), I remember there were still lots of substatial red houses there before they were torn down for office buildings.
Yes.