Posts tagged Park View
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Then and Now: Monroe School auditorium
The auditorium of the old Monroe School ca. 1950 (left) and today (right). The Monroe School was built ca. 1899 and located west of, and on the same property as, the current Bruce-Monroe School. Reflecting Washington’s segregated history, the Monroe School was built as a White school. It was changed to a Black school in the mid-1940s and ultimately was desegregated with… Keep reading…
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Then and Now and Future: Park View/Petworth commercial corner
Then: Photographed in March, 1965, the southwest corner of Georgia Avenue and New Hampshire, NW. The store on the corner is the Orchid Dry Cleaners. (Historical Society of Washington, Emil A. Press Slide Collection, Buildings at the intersection of Georgia and New Hampshire Avenues NW, #PR 1086A). Now: This lot has been vacant at least since Metro initiated construction… Keep reading…
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