Historical Marker Search

You searched for Postal Code: 20010

Page 2 of 4 — Showing results 11 to 20 of 36
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2451_mount-pleasant-street-ca-2004_Washington-DC.html
9 Mount Pleasant Street, ca. 2004 During the second half of the 20th century, housing in Mount Pleasant was relatively affordable. Recent immigrants, students, young professionals, and families from diverse economic backgrounds populated the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244M_czech-row_Washington-DC.html
Front of marker: Like the Latino immigrants of recent times, Europeans left the political and economic hardships of home for a better life in the United States. Following the 1948 communist coup of Czechoslovakia a "Czech Row" or "Prague Road" en…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244L_voices-at-vespers_Washington-DC.html
Front of marker: This secluded building on the edge of Rock Creek Park was built in 1911 as the House of Mercy. It provided, as its founders wrote "a refuge and reformatory for outcast and fallen women," especially unwed mothers and girls entangl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244J_defying-the-restrictive-covenants_Washington-DC.html
Front of Marker: In 1948 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of houses to individuals of certain races could not be enforced. Two years later, Dr. Robert Deane became the first African American to purchase a house in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244I_changing-fashions_Washington-DC.html
Front of Marker Around 1900 this successful suburb attracted successful business leaders, who set a grand standard for home building. Printer Byron S. Adams commissioned architect Frederick Pyle to design 1801 Park Road in the Colonial Revival st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244H_war-and-peace_Washington-DC.html
Front of marker: The mansion of Samuel P. Brown, Mount Pleasant's founder once stood in the middle of the block to your left. During the Civil War, Brown bought 73 acres here for a song from William Selden, a former U.S. treasurer. Selden believe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244G_main-street_Washington-DC.html
Front of marker: In 1903 a street car line arrived on Mt. Pleasant Street and so did new businesses. In this block were Sophia Weiss's notions shop, Domenico Pappalardo's shoe shop, and Lee Sing's laundry. The block's first commercial building (3…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2449_casualties-arriving-at-mount-pleasant-general-hospital-may-1864_Washington-DC.html
In May 1864, a year before the Civil War ended, Union and Rebel troops clashed in a series of bloody battles in Virginia. Steamships loaded with the wounded traveled up the Potomac River to Washington where stretchers piled ashore for days and nig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM243U_mount-pleasant-library_Washington-DC.html
Front of Marker When the Mount Pleasant Library, behind you, opened in 1925, crowds flocked to the Classical style building. Many had campaigned long and hard for this community centerpiece. The Carnegie Corporation, funder of public libraries in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM243T_village-life_Washington-DC.html
Front of marker: This was the western edge of Samuel P. Brown's Mount Pleasant Village. Across the street and a few steps ahead at 3423 Oakwood Terrace is "Oakwood," an original village house built in 1871 for city politician J.W. Buker. Brown re…
PAGE 2 OF 4