Eckington Real Estate Maps 1903, 1907, 1913, 1921

Here's the Baist real estate Plat map of Eckington from 1903.

It's interesting to see how the trains lines were reconfigured.  Note that the yellow blocks are wooden buildings, the red blocks are brick buildings.You can see a large detailed image of this HERE
1907

large version HERE


1913

Large version HERE


1921


Large version HERE

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I wanted to add a link to a PDF version of a brochure on the history of Eckington.

North Capitol Street Urban Design & Transportation Study * Now with location

The Office of Planning and the District Department of Transportation, in coordination with the National Capitol Planning Commission (NCPC), will conduct an urban design and transportation study of North Capitol Street from Michigan Avenue to Hawaii Avenue, NE , and Irving Street/Michigan Avenue from First Street NW to their point of union, approximately one block east of North Capitol Street .

The purpose of the study is to:

1. Develop strategies to improve the gateway qualities of North Capitol Street by including civic spaces, memorials, and enhancing the public streetscapes.
2. Explore alternative intersection configurations for the cloverleaf at Irving and North Capitol Streets and automobile ramps at Michigan and Irving .
3. Develop recommendations for improving safety, connectivity and transportation operations.

The neighborhoods that are included in or are adjacent to this area are: McMillan Sand Filtration site, Washington Hospital Center, Armed Forces Retirement Home, Brookland, Petworth, Eckington, Parkview and Bloomingdale.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Pryzbyla Center
Catholic University of America
Great Room A





North Capitol Street Urban Design & Transportation Study
Public Meeting #1

Brown Line?

Richard Layman has a post about Michael Shade's proposed Brown Line



I'd love to see more lines catering to intracity travel.

map of dc with bloomingdale in red.

from the wikipedia entry for bloomingdale.

historic districts

here is a post about historic districts in the district

and it has a great map.

Map O No MA

here is a great map of the proposed and planned and slated and already built projects in Noma.

Its a PDF

looks like there will be a road between ATF and the Hotel Eckington ( which seems to sit adjoining the tracks)

we know that the fairfield project is nixed.

Enron?


Jamal's Gateway? why isnt anything happening there yet? He owns it and its HUGE. is he waiting for the tunnel to 395 to be built?

Capitol Square? could we possibly lose that car wash..... damn i need a picture of that before its gone!


granted this map is a year old... so i dont know how much has changed.