BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Shaw neighborhood

BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Shaw neighborhood DC -- Shaw neighborhood:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SHAW_230903_05.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2023_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (8 photos from 2023)
  Cecilia Penny Scott (1918 - 2004) Cecilia Penny Scott was a pioneering Shaw entrepreneur, community activist, philanthropist, and mentor. In 1953, Scott opened Cecilia's at 2002 12th Street, NW. The restaurant featured Southern cuisine and attracted notables from social, entertainment, and sports circles. In 1958, she purchased the Stage Door restaurant at 618 T Street, NW, across Wiltberger Street from the Howard Theatre, and renamed it Cecilia's. She also operated a rooming house above the restaurant that served traveling entertainers. Cecilia's served area residents and celebrities alike until its closing in 1969. Cecilia's many celebrity customers included James Brown, Cab Calloway, Sam Cooke, Redd Foxx, Billie Holiday, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Dinah Washington, and Jackie Wilson. Scott was a founding member of Banneker Plaza, Inc., a Seventh Street business association; Hospitality House, a family residential center; School Shoes, a fund for Shaw neighborhood children; and CRM Development Corporation, the first African American woman-owned real estate development company in the city. She also served in leadership positions in numerous organizations, including the DC Chamber of Commerce, Model Cities Commission and the Shaw Project Area Committee. Cecilia Scott was the recipient of many awards, including Business Woman of the Year from the DC Chamber of Commerce.
2. SHAW_200809_008.JPG: Seventh Street Savings Bank
3. SHAW_200809_013.JPG: Black Lives Matter "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. SHAW_200809_055.JPG: Phyllis Wheatley YWCA Inc. A Proud Legacy of Providing a Safe Haven for Women in Washington DC
5. SHAW_200809_061.JPG: African American Heritage Trail, Washington, DC Phyllis Wheatley YWCA 901 Rhode Island Avenue, NW This was the city's first Young Women's Christian Association and the nation's only independent Black YWCA. It was organized in Southwest Washington as the Colored YWCA in 1905 by members of the Book Lovers Club, a Black women's literary group led by Rosetta Lawson, one of the co-founders of Frelinghuysen University. The founders sought to provide affordable housing and services to African American women and girls flocking to the city to seek employment. In 1920, after a number of moves, the YWCA opened here. The group changed its name to honor Phillis [sic] Wheatley (ca. 1755-1784), considered the first published African American poet.
6. SHAW_200809_071.JPG: I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly
7. SHAW_200809_108.JPG: Shiloh Remembers Congressman John Lewis 1940-2020
8. SHAW_200809_113.JPG: Shiloh Baptist Church We are closed (until May 15). Please forgive any inconvenience. [This photo was taken August 9.]
9. SHAW_200809_131.JPG: Shiloh Baptist Church (of Washington DC) Dedication -- March 22, 1998 The Reverend Dr. Wallace Charles Smith, Pastor
10. SHAW_200809_140.JPG: Shiloh Baptist Church (of Washington DC) Organized year 1863 Reconstructed Year ...
11. SHAW_200809_163.JPG: For lease
12. SHAW_200809_179.JPG: I've been curious what the street seam is for.
13. SHAW_200809_195.JPG: Modern Liquors was one of the only places here that was boarded up. Liquor stores continued to be hit hard by looters.
14. SHAW_200509_033.JPG: Kennedy Recreation Center
15. SHAW_200509_035.JPG: CLOSED All DPR Facilities, including Recreation Centers, Aquatic Centers, and Playgrounds, as well as Gated Parks and Athletic Fields ARE CLOSED.
16. SHAW_200509_038.JPG: Viruses don't discriminate and neither should we. coronavirus.dc.gov
17. SHAW_200509_041.JPG: Monday, March 16 - Tuesday, March 31, 2020 This Facility is Closed
18. SHAW_200509_044.JPG: Kennedy Recreation Center August 2003
19. SHAW_200509_069.JPG: @ShawMainStreets #ArtBoxDC
20. SHAW_200509_072.JPG: #LoveShaw #Shawsome
21. SHAW_200509_076.JPG: Covid-19 Barbers are only accepting clients by appointment only! No more than 10 persons inside the shop at one time! Restrooms are only for clients getting serviced!
22. SHAW_200509_083.JPG: Bread for the City
23. SHAW_200509_091.JPG: Keep Calm and Avoid Coronavirus Scams
24. SHAW_200509_109.JPG: We are open! Weekdays: 7am-2pm Weekends: 7am-4pm During this time of uncertainty, it is a privilege to still be here for you. This cafe will be open everyday for carry-out. As we continually clean and sanitize our cafes, please be mindful to keep a safe distance between yourself and others. Thank you for your understanding about our reduced hours. We look forward to serving you Real Good Coffee and appreciate you all. <3
25. SHAW_200509_112.JPG: The Passenger God Save the District
26. SHAW_200509_146.JPG: Asbury Dwelling
27. SHAW_200509_167.JPG: UNCF
28. SHAW_200509_173.JPG: KISS
29. SHAW_200509_187.JPG: Not sure if any of these guys have masks on.
30. SHAW_200509_193.JPG: African American Heritage Trail, Washington, DC Dunbar Theater/Southern Aid Society 1901-1903 Seventh Street, NW The Southern Aid Society, one of the nation's oldest black insurance companies, opened this building as its headquarters in 1921. At the street level it housed the Dunbar Theatre, a popular movie house owned by the Murray family. Offices occupied the second floor, and apartments the third. The building's architect, Isaiah T. Hatton, graduated from M Street High School in 1905, then studied steam engineering and worked as a draftsman in the office of architect William Sidney Pittman. Hatton also designed the Whitelaw Hotel (1839 13th Street, NW), the Industrial Savings Bank (12th and U streets), the Murray Palace Casino (918 U Street), and a number of churches and private residences.
31. SHAW_200509_196.JPG: Dunbar
32. SHAW_200509_207.JPG: Chuck Brown Way
33. SHAW_200509_257.JPG: IIHFA [Weirdly, the first two characters are just decoration. It stands for HFA -- Housing Finance Agency]
34. SHAW_200417_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2020_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (134 photos from 2020)
35. SHAW_200417_25.JPG: Blanche K. Bruce House has been designated a National Historic Landmark This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America 1977 National Park Service United States Department of the Interior
36. SHAW_190920_24.JPG: Seaton Elementary School
37. SHAW_190327_002.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (34 photos from 2019)
38. SHAW_190327_034.JPG: New Bethany Baptist Church "Jesus Never Fails"
39. SHAW_190327_046.JPG: We Still Have a Dream Cooperative
40. SHAW_190327_056.JPG: 937 M Street NW, Washington, DC In the movie "Being There" (1979), this was the house that was used for exterior shots as Peter Sellers leaves his former employer.
41. SHAW_190327_064.JPG: If you watch the Peter Sellers movie "Being There" (1979), this is the house that Chance the Gardnener leaves when his employer dies. It's located at 937 M Street NW, Washington, DC. When the movie was made, the house wasn't blocked by this big-ass tree that's there now.
42. SHAW_190327_090.JPG: R.D. Grymes Memorial Hall
43. SHAW_190327_114.JPG: Center City Public Charter Schools Shaw Campus
44. SHAW_170929_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2017_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (4 photos from 2017)
45. SHAW_160516_127.JPG: Asbury Apartments
46. SHAW_160516_136.JPG: New Bethel Baptist Church
47. SHAW_160516_143.JPG: New Bethel Baptist Church
48. SHAW_160516_147.JPG: New Bethel Baptist Church
49. SHAW_160516_154.JPG: Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, Inc
50. SHAW_160516_161.JPG: African American Heritage Trail, Washington, DC Phyllis Wheatley YWCA 901 Rhode Island Avenue, NW This was the city's first Young Women's Christian Association and the nation's only independent Black YWCA. It was organized in Southwest Washington as the Colored YWCA in 1905 by members of the Book Lovers Club, a Black women's literary group led by Rosetta Lawson, one of the co-founders of Frelinghuysen University. The founders sought to provide affordable housing and services to African American women and girls flocking to the city to seek employment. In 1920, after a number of moves, the YWCA opened here. The group changed its name to honor Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1755-1784), considered the first published African American poet.
51. SHAW_160516_168.JPG: I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly
52. SHAW_160516_204.JPG: Hospital for Horses and Dogs. J.P. Turner, VMD
53. SHAW_160229_06.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2016_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (50 photos from 2016)
54. SHAW_130309_49.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2013_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (4 photos from 2013)
55. SHAW_120930_09.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2012_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (11 photos from 2012)
56. SHAW_110612_10.JPG: Apparently Bishop Adam J Richardson's Nissan 370Z
57. SHAW_110612_16.JPG: The Joseph Columbus McKinney Office Building, African Methodist Episcopal Church.
58. SHAW_110327_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2011_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (36 photos from 2011)
59. SHAW_110327_010.JPG: Zalmon Richards House, National Historic Landmark
60. SHAW_110327_135.JPG: Studio Theatre
61. SHAW_110327_157.JPG: Mid-City Fish Market
62. SHAW_100703_17.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail #8 Reading and Riting and Rithmetic Seventh and R Streets, NW Wrapping the corner of Seventh and Rhode Island is Asbury Dwellings for senior citizens. In 1901 the building opened as the city's white-only McKinley Technical School, memorializing slain President William McKinley (1843-1901). In 1928 the "colored" school system took over the building for a new Shaw Junior High, honoring Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw was the white commander of the Civil War Union Army's 54th Massachusetts regiment of black soldiers. Shaw's acclaimed faculty included abstract artist Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978), who taught there from 1924 until 1960. Today her paintings hang in renowned art museums worldwide. As time passed, the school became overcrowded and rundown, and parents protested for better accommodations. Finally in 1977 a new Shaw Junior High opened on Rhode Island Avenue. Asbury United Methodist Church opened the rehabilitated Asbury Dwellings for senior housing in 1982. During the segregation era (1880-1954), the Shaw neighborhood was a center of black education.M Street High School, the nation's first high school (1870) for black students, operated nearby. Three important high schools succeeded M Street -- Cardozo (business), Dunbar (academic), and Armstrong (technical). Thousands of southern families migrated here specifically for the schools, where teachers with advanced degrees found work denied them by discriminatory colleges and universities. The library building at Rhode Island Avenue and Seventh St. honors plumbing businessman Watha T. Daniel (1911-1973). Daniel was a leader of the Model Inner City Community Organization, an early 1960s coalition founded by Revs.Walter Fauntroy and Ernest Gibson to ensure that the poor would have a say in the urban renewal of Shaw.
63. SHAW_100620_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2010_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (23 photos from 2010)
64. SHAW_090905_010.JPG: Gonzaga College High School
65. SHAW_090322_007.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2009_DC_Shaw DC -- Shaw neighborhood (114 photos from 2009)
  Kennedy Recreation Center. Stop #10 on the Shaw Heritage tour: Community Anchors: Seventh and O Streets, NW At Seventh and O Streets stands the tower of the O Street Market.When the market opened in 1881, and refrigerators had not yet been invented, people shopped here daily for everything from live chickens to fresh tomatoes. At first the vendors were German immigrants. By the 1960s, most were African American. Damaged in the riots of 1968, the market was restored in 1980 but lost its roof in a 2003 snowstorm. On the east side of Seventh, landscaper John Saul began planting fruit trees in 1852. His son, B. Francis Saul, later opened a real estate business that became the B.F. Saul Company and Chevy Chase Bank. During the Civil War, the Union Army camped here at Wisewell Barracks and Hospital. Rowhouses facing Sixth Street eventually replaced Wisewell Barracks, sharing the square with the Henry, Polk, and Central High schools for white students. Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, class of 1913, is Central's best-known graduate. Central High School moved in 1916 to a grand new facility astride the 13th Street hill (now Cardozo High School). In the 1950s, the entire block was leveled for a playground. Completed in 1964, the playground was dedicated to the memory of President John F. Kennedy. Kids eager for play space clambered on its 1888 steam locomotive, a tugboat, and two surplus Air Force jets. But after the riots of 1968 burned neighboring buildings, much of the playground's equipment was removed, and the facility became crime-ridden. Friends of Kennedy Playground led clean-up efforts in the 1990s, and a new recreation center opened here in 2003.
66. SHAW_090322_127.JPG: Seventh Street Savings Bank. Stop #11 on the Shaw Heritage Trail: Seventh Street Develops: Seventh and N Streets, NW In 1864, St. Patrick's Parish opened a new mission church -- Immaculate Conception Church -- for Catholics living far from St. Patrick's downtown F Street home. The current imposing, Gothic style building opened a decade later. Renowned actress Helen Hayes was baptized here in 1900. Immaculate Conception's community work included its Washington Catholic Hour radio show on WOL (1921-1962). For 99 years, until 1964, the church operated Immaculate Conception School for boys at 711 N Street. It is now an elementary school. Girls attended Immaculate Conception Academy nearby at Eighth and Q streets until 1954. After much of this area was destroyed in the 1968 riots, Monsignor Joshua Mundell of Immaculate Conception worked to stabilize the neighborhood, encouraging church and federal government collaborations to build modern apartments. The Seventh Street Savings Bank building is a remnant of the block's business era. The combination bank/residential building opened in 1912. After many mergers, it closed for good in 1983. Seventh Street developed as a business street because of good transportation. Back in 1810, Congress chartered the Seventh Street Turnpike from Pennsylvania Avenue to Rockville,Maryland. At first omnibuses (horse-drawn wagons) carried passengers along Seventh. Then in 1862 Congress chartered street railways, with a Seventh Street line. Leading abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner made sure that the charter prohibited segregation on the streetcars. The first electric streetcars (1888) ran along New York Avenue to Seventh, but in 1962 were replaced by buses. The latest innovation, Metro's Green and Yellow lines, opened in 1991 after seven disruptive years of construction.
67. SHAW_090322_202.JPG: The Alley at Naylor Court. Stop #4 on the Shaw Heritage Trail: Alley Life: O Street and Naylor Court, NW The lanes of Naylor Court , laid out in the 1860s, were among hundreds of intersecting alleys that were hidden behind DC houses, especially in Shaw. Stables, workshops, sheds, and cheaply built two-story houses filled these alleys. While many of Naylor Court's original dwellings are gone, a few remain. Naylor Court's alleys form half of today's Blagden Alley-Naylor Court Historic District. Starting with the Civil War housing crisis, builders crammed scores of dwellings into tight spaces such as these. Most dwellings lacked running water, plumbing, or electricity, and they quickly became dilapidated. Yet the need for shelter was desperate. In 1908 more than 300 people filled 50 Blagden Alley dwellings, averaging seven per household and paying $6 a month in rent. In 1900 Nochen Kafitz, a Lithuanian immigrant, opened a grocery in his house a few blocks away on Glick Alley. (The alley, now gone, once lay between Sixth, Seventh, and S streets and Rhode Island Avenue.) His son, Morris (1887-1964), changed his name to Cafritz and became a key DC real estate developer and philanthropist. New alley dwelling construction was outlawed in 1934, and many alleys were cleared of housing. But some hidden alleys lingered, attracting prostitutes, gamblers, drug dealers, and speakeasies. Others, though, were tightly knit communities, where people who just happened to be poor looked out for one another. Since the 1980s, the alley's small dwellings, former carriage barns, and horse stalls have housed artists' studios and residences as well as working garages. In 1990 the city moved its archives to the former Tally Ho Stables, built in 1883.
68. SHAW_090322_351.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail #3 Power Brokers Ninth and M Streets, NW A post-Civil War building boom brought grand new houses and important people to Midcity. By 1881 Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, lived on this block. Born enslaved in Virginia, Bruce (1841-1898) escaped from slavery, attended Oberlin College, and then became rich buying abandoned plantations in Mississippi after the Civil War. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1875, Bruce worked to aid destitute African Americans and improve government treatment of Native Americans. Later he served as register of the U.S. Treasury and recorder of deeds for Washington, DC. Bruce and his wife, Josephine Willson Bruce (1852-1923), a founder of the National Association of Colored Women (1896), lived in the Second Empire French style house at 909 M Street. Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) and his family moved to 910 M Street (since demolished) in 1881 after he took over the U.S. Geological Survey. Powell had lost his right arm during a Civil War battle. Nonetheless he led the first official survey of the Grand Canyon in 1869, and promoted Native American rights. After 1910, small houses, commercial buildings, apartments, and immigrant churches developed here. The affluent gradually moved on, and their mansions were divided into apartments or rooming houses. So long as racially restrictive housing covenants limited opportunities, Shaw was a mixed-income, black neighborhood. Then in the 1960s, with new "open housing" laws, many people of means left, bringing a temporary decline to the area. In the 1960s many buildings on the east side of Ninth Street were cleared for urban renewal, but the resulting lot remained empty. In 2003 the Washington Convention Center opened on the site.
69. SHAW_090322_363.JPG: McCullough Haven
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Wikipedia Description: Shaw, Washington, D.C.
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Shaw is a neighborhood in Northwest, Washington, D.C. It is roughly bounded by M Street NW to the south; New Jersey Avenue NW to the east; Florida Avenue NW to the north; and 11th Street NW to the west--although there is a westward panhandle that extends to 16th Street between S Street and Florida Avenue. Shaw once included the areas of smaller neighborhoods, such as Logan Circle and Truxton Circle, but in recent years those neighborhoods have grown into their own and become separate from Shaw.

History:

Shaw grew out of freed slave encampments in the rural outskirts of Washington City. It was named after Civil War Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

Shaw thrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the pre-Harlem center of African-American intellectual and cultural life. Howard Theological Seminary received its first matriculates in 1866; by 1925, Professor Alain Locke was advancing the idea of "The New Negro," and Langston Hughes was descending from Le Droit Park to hear the "sad songs" of 7th Street. The most famous Shaw native to emerge from this period—sometimes called the Black Renaissance of DC—was Duke Ellington.

Following the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968, riots erupted in many D.C. neighborhoods, including Shaw, Columbia Heights, and the H Street NE Corridor. The 1968 Washington, D.C. riots marked the beginning of a decline in population and development that would condemn much of the inner city to a generation of economic decay.

Shaw, like Logan Circle, is a mostly residential neighborhood of 19th century Victorian row houses. The allure of these houses, Shaw's central location, and the booming D.C. housing market have begun to transform Shaw through gentrification. According to Census records from 1970, 92% of Shaw's residents were black; in 2000, 56% were black . Shaw's notable ...More...
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