Eastland Gardens is a small residential neighborhood, located in

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It is bounded by Eastern Avenue NE to the north, the Watts Branch Tributary to the south, CSX Transportation tracks to the east and the

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to the west. Eastland Gardens is in Ward Seven of Washington, D.C. Many of its 300 homes were designed by African-American architects or constructed by African-American builders including Lewis W. Giles Sr., John B. Holloway Jr.,

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, and Romulus C. Archer. Development began in 1927.Eastland Gardens Flower Club. 2011. ''Images of America: Eastland Gardens''. Charleston, South Carolina:

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