Why Is It Named...? / 15.05.2015
Why Is It Named Federal Triangle?
Do you know the origin of the name "Federal Triangle"? Did you know that at one point the area was called "Pennsylvania Avenue Triangle"?...
What a great shot of Federal Triangle, looking down Pennsylvania Ave. You can also see the Navy Memorial under construction. Aerial view of Washington, D.C., offering a good view of the "triangle" in...
Wow. This one is amazing. We dug this up looking around Shorpy this past weekend. Washington, D.C., circa 1931. "Department of Commerce under construction from top of National Press Building looking down 14th...
Wow. I think this photo speaks for itself. What an amazing shot of what would become Federal Triangle. Looking southeast at the Old Post Office Pavilion (far left), Southern Railway Building (middle), and...
The Department of Commerce's massive, beast of a building is bound by Constitution Avenue (why is it named Constitution Avenue?), 14th St., Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th St. Construction finished and it opened in 1932, at the...
Faces & Places of Yesterday, The Best Of / 29.03.2012
Rough-and-Tumble Lost Neighborhood of Murder Bay
The old neighborhood of Murder Bay intrigues me -- I'm sure the name itself piques your macabre interest -- and have seen a couple interesting posts on the subject lately, over at Kim Bender's The Location and WAMU.
If you're the kind of person that thinks walking home from Wonderland is sketchy, needs bars on your windows in Eckington or believes Petworth is a "fringe" neighborhood, you wouldn't stand a chance in Murder Bay.
Murder Bay was a dumpy, slummy, and most notably, terribly dangerous neighborhood just east of the White House. Within the confines of Murder Bay -- now occupied by the massive buildings of Federal Triangle -- was Hooker's Division, or "The Division," in which there were close to 100 houses of prostitution.