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Truxton Circle
Truxton Circle, sometimes known as East Shaw, is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. History Truxton Circle is named for the former Thomas Truxtun traffic circle, which was constructed at the intersection of Florida Avenue and North Capitol Street around 1900."Truxton Circle Hazard To End This Summer". ''Evening Star''. March 24, 1947. p. 5. The circle was named after US Navy Commodore Thomas Truxtun. It was part of the Shaw School Urban Renewal Area, later known as the Shaw neighborhood. A fountain was moved from the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street NW to Truxton Circle in 1901. A police officer conducted traffic at the traffic circle until a traffic light was installed in 1925. Because the traffic circle was a site of traffic jams and accidents, it was demolished in 1947 at a cost of $500,000. The adjacent fountain was removed at the same time. The neighborhood of Truxton Circle contains late 19th-century houses and historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Neighborhoods Of The District Of Columbia By Ward
Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States, are distinguished by their history, culture, architecture, demographics, and geography. The names of 131 neighborhoods are unofficially defined by the D.C. Office of Planning. Neighborhoods can be defined by the boundaries of wards, historic districts, Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, civic associations, and business improvement districts (BIDs); these boundaries will overlap. The eight wards each elect a member to the Council of the District of Columbia and are redistricted every ten years. As the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.'s local neighborhood history and culture is often presented as distinct from that of the national government. List of neighborhoods by ward Ward 1 :Council of the District of Columbia, Ward 1 Councilmember: Brianne Nadeau :Population (2022): 88,846 *Adams Morgan *Columbia Heights (Washington, D.C.), Columbia Heights *Howard University *Kalorama Triangle Historic District, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunbar High School (Washington, D
Dunbar High School can refer to: * Former Dunbar High School (Bessemer, Alabama) in Bessemer, Alabama * Dunbar High School (Little Rock, Arkansas) in Little Rock, Arkansas * Dunbar Vocational High School in Chicago, Illinois * Dunbar High School (Dayton, Ohio) in Dayton, Ohio * Dunbar High School (Fort Myers, Florida) in Fort Myers, Florida * Dunbar High School (Livingston, Texas) in Livingston, Texas * Dunbar High School in Quincy, Florida Quincy is a city in and the county seat of Gadsden County, Florida, United States. Quincy is part of the Tallahassee metropolitan area, Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,970 as of the 2020 census, almost eve ... * Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.) in Washington, D.C. * Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Baltimore, Maryland) in Baltimore, Maryland See also * Dunbar School (other) * Paul Lawrence Dunbar School (other) {{schooldis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NoMa
Noma, NoMa, or NOMA may refer to: Places * NoMa, the area North of Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C., US ** NoMa–Gallaudet U station, on Washington Metro * Noma, Florida, US * NOMA, Manchester, a redevelopment in England * Noma District, Ehime, a former district in Iyo Province, Japan * Noma Station, Mihama, Aichi, Japan People Given name * Noma, a diminutive of the Russian name Avtonom * Noma Bar (born 1973), Israeli-British artist * Noma Dumezweni (born 1969), Swazi-British actress * Noma Gurich (born 1952), American judge * Noma Shepherd (1935–2023), New Zealand community leader Surname * Akiko Noma (born 1980), Japanese musician * Akinori Noma, Japanese electrophysiologist * Hiroshi Noma (1915–1991), Japanese author * Seiji Noma (1878–1938), Japanese writer and publisher Arts, entertainment, and media * Noma Prizes, Japanese literary awards ** Noma Award for Publishing in Africa Biology * ''Archipsocus nomas'', a barklouse of the family Archipsocidae * ''Euxo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Vernon Square
Mount Vernon Square is a town square, city square and neighborhood in the Northwest (Washington, D.C.), Northwest Address (geography)#Quadrants, quadrant of Washington, D.C. The square is located where the following streets would otherwise intersect: Massachusetts Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Massachusetts Avenue NW, New York Avenue (Washington, D.C.), New York Avenue NW, K Street (Washington, D.C.), K Street NW, and 8th Street NW. Attributes Mount Vernon Square is bounded on the east by 7th Street (Washington, D.C.), 7th Street NW, on the west by 9th Street NW, on the north by Mount Vernon Place, and on the south by a two-block section of K Street NW that is slightly offset from the rest of K Street. In the center of the square is the Carnegie Library of Washington D.C., finished in 1903, as a gift of industrialist Andrew Carnegie. The white marble Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts building was originally the central library for Washington, D.C. The building now houses the Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckington (Washington, D
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Eckington may refer to: England * Eckington, Derbyshire * Eckington, Worcestershire *Eckington, a former name of the village now called Ripe, East Sussex United States * Eckington (Washington, D.C.), a neighborhood of Washington, D.C. See also *Heckington Heckington is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Sleaford and Swineshead, Lincolnshire, Swineshead Bridge, and south of the A17 road (England), A17 road. Heckington, with 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LeDroit Park
LeDroit Park ( or ) is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C. located immediately southeast of Howard University. Its borders include Florida Avenue NW, Bryant Street NW, Georgia Avenue NW, and 2nd Street NW .LeDroit Park is known for its history and 19th century protected architecture. The community's diversity entices new residents to the community, as well as its close proximity to the Shaw–Howard University Metro station and many dining options. History The neighborhood was founded in 1873 by Amzi Barber, a businessman who served on the board of trustees of neighboring Howard University. Barber named the neighborhood after his father-in-law, LeDroict Langdon, but dropped the ⟨c⟩. As one of the first suburbs of Washington, LeDroit Park was developed and marketed as a "romantic" neighborhood with narrow tree-lined streets that bore the same names as the trees that shaded them, differing from the street names used in the rest of the city. Extensive focus was placed on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomingdale (Washington, DC)
Bloomingdale is a neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., less than two miles (3 km) north of the United States Capitol building. It is a primarily residential neighborhood, with a small commercial center near the intersection of Rhode Island Avenue and First Street NW featuring bars, restaurants, and food markets. Most of Bloomingdale's houses are Victorian-style rowhouses built around 1900 as single-family homes. Today, they remain primarily single-family residences, with some recently converted to two-unit condominiums. Geography Bloomingdale is bounded to the north by Channing Street NW, to the east by North Capitol Street, to the south by Florida Avenue NW, and to the west by Second Street NW. The neighborhoods bordering Bloomingdale are LeDroit Park to the west, Shaw to the southwest, Truxton Circle to the south, Eckington to the east, and Stronghold to the northeast. To the north sit the McMillan Sand Filtration Site and the McMillan Reservoir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Avenue (Washington, D
New York Avenue may refer to: Places * New York Avenue (Washington, D.C.) ** NoMa–Gallaudet U station, formerly known as New York Ave-Florida Ave * New York Avenue (LIRR station) or Union Hall Street, a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line at Union Hall Street at York College in Jamaica, Queens, New York City * New York Avenue, an avenue in Brooklyn, New York City to which the Nostrand Avenue Line (surface), Nostrand Avenue Line runs parallel * New York Avenue, an avenue in western Suffolk County, New York, much of which is part of New York State Route 110 * East New York Avenue, a continuation of Jamaica Avenue in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City Games * New York Avenue, an orange-shaded property in many U.S. ''Monopoly (game), Monopoly'' game versions See also * Streets of New York (other) {{disambiguation, road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Historic districts in the United States, districts, and objects deemed worthy of Historic preservation, preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". The enactment of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing property, contributing resources within historic district (United States), historic districts. For the most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the United States Department of the Interior. Its goals are to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
