Carver Langston is a cluster of two neighborhoods, Carver and Langston, just south of the
United States National Arboretum
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in
Northeast Washington, D.C.
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The two neighborhoods are most often referred to as one, because they are two small triangular neighborhoods that together form a square of land on the western bank of the
Anacostia River
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Carver is the smaller and northernmost neighborhood of the two, bordered by Bladensburg Road to the west, M Street NE to the north, and Maryland Avenue to the southeast. Langston is bordered by Maryland Avenue to the northwest, 22nd and 26th Streets NE to the east, and Benning Road to the south. Directly east of the neighborhood on the very edge of the river is the
Langston Golf Course, listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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as the first course in the
United States
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to allow blacks; boxing champion
Joe Louis was one of its most frequent visitors.
Carver is named after
George Washington Carver, a famous black inventor. Langston Terrace is named after
John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department ...
who served as the first black American from Virginia to serve in the United States Congress. Langston Terrace is famous because it is the city's first federally funded public housing program to be built in 1938. The housing projects were explicitly designed for African American residents, since the District was rigidly segregated at the time.
Carver Langston is a middle-income residential neighborhood populated by retirees, families, young professionals and renters. Although now it is starting to gentrify particularly on its western and southern edges.
The area's main retail center is Hechinger Mall, with its namesake having been closed since the late 1990s. The entire area is part of Ward 5.
Gallery
Image:Carver - Washington DC.jpg, Carver, intersection of 18th St and L St NE, September 2018
Image:Carver neighborhood Washington DC.jpg, Carver, intersection of 19th St and M St NE, September 2018
Image:Langston Washington DC.jpg, Langston, intersection of 21 St and I St NE, September 2018
1938 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Neighborhoods in Northeast (Washington, D.C.)
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