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1. TRHHH_181016_004.JPG: Hub, Home, Heart Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail 2 Gateway to The Nation's Capital With its view of the Capitol and Senate office buildings, and with the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court just a short stroll away, Union Station truly is the gateway to the heart of the nation's government. The station is also where official Washington mixes with the local city. Before air travel became common in the 1950s, Union Station attracted enormous crowds to salute arriving presidents, watch protesters, or shriek at the Beatles disembarking for their first live American concert. Until the early 1950s, most of downtown Washington's public accommodations were segregated. Union Station was one of the exceptions. In its dining room, African American and white patrons could sit down and eat side by side. Traffic at Union Station peaked during World War II (1941-1945). Throngs of military men and women passed through en route to training camps and battlefronts. Civilians, especially young women, arrived to staff the enormous war effort. But as air travel expanded, Union Station's importance declined. When the station underwent major renovations in the 1980s, its grand concourse was reconfigured to hold inviting shops, restaurants, and entertainment. The 1990s brought the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, on this block, named for the Howard University-trained lawyer whose strategies helped end this country's legal segregation. Marshall later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
2. TRHHH_181016_014.JPG: A British delegation arrives to discuss World War I with U.S. officials, 1917.
3. TRHHH_181016_018.JPG: The Washington Senators (a.k.a. "Nats") greet cheering fans at the station after a 9-1 western road trip, 1949.
4. TRHHH_181016_021.JPG: Former President Theodore Roosevelt still drew admiring crowds, around 1918.
5. TRHHH_181016_025.JPG: Woman suffragists arrive in DC to demonstrate the vote, 1917
6. TRHHH_181016_030.JPG: Travelers throng the main concourse during World War II
7. TRHHH_181016_036.JPG: Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, right, confers with Spottswood W. Robinson III before arguing their school desegregation case before the Supreme Court. Robinson later became the first African American to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
8. TRHHH_181016_041.JPG: Hub, Home, Heart Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail Trains and streetcars created the Near Northeast neighborhood around H Street. The B&O Railroad's arrival in 1835 made this a center of energetic, working-class life. Workmen living north of the Capitol staffed the Government Printing Office, ran the trains, stocked the warehouses, and built Union Station. When a streetcar arrived linking H Street to downtown, new construction quickly followed. H Street bustled with shops and offices run by Jewish, Italian, Lebanese, Greek, Irish, and African American families. During the segregation era, which lasted into the 1950s, African Americans came to H Street for its department stores and sit-down restaurants. Most businesses welcomed all customers. Then came the civil disturbances in the wake of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Decades of commercial decline followed. Just off H Street, though, the strong residential community endured. The 2005 opening of the Atlas Performing Arts Center signaled a revival, building evocatively on H Street's past. Hub, Home, Heart is a bridge to carry you from that past to the present. Hub, Home, Heart: Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail is an Official Washington, DC Walking Trail. The self-guided, 3.2-mile tour of 18 signs offers about two hours of gentle exercise. Free keepsake guidebooks in English or Spanish are available at businesses and institutions along the way. For more on DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
9. TRHHH_181016_044.JPG: This 1986 aerial view shows Capitol Hill's major buildings
10. TRHHH_181016_056.JPG: Hub, Home, Heart Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail 3 Swampoodle This is the western edge of what once was the rough, working-class Swampoodle neighborhood. In the early days the marshy Tiber Creek ran between what are now North Capitol and First Streets, NE. Legend has it that lingering rain puddles ("poodles") led to the neighborhood's nickname. Swampoodle's earliest residents, mostly Irish immigrants and free African Americans, helped build this city. Their hands crafted the White House and the Capitol, among other buildings. Swampoodle grew during the Civil War (1861-1865), when more once-enslaved people arrived seeking work. In the 1880s Italian stonecarvers and masons found affordable lodging here while building the Library of Congress, Union Station, and the National Cathedral. In the early 1900s, Congress located Union Station in Swampoodle. Hundreds of homes and businesses disappeared as railroad tracks were laid and the station rose. Many of the displaced moved east, settling today's H Street corridor. Soon the city rezoned the remaining Swampoodle area for commercial/industrial use. Railroad, Government Printing Office, light industry, and Post Office jobs made nearby H Street Tiber Creek with bridges at G and H Sts. The Swampoodle neighborhood became dryer after the creek was diverted to an underground pipe in 1876. attractive to more families. Swampoodle's large immigrant Catholic population drew two institutions honorong Jesuit Saint Aloysius Gonzaga: St. Aloysius Catholic Church, dedicated in 1859, and Gonzaga College High School, founded in 1821 and relocated beside the church on North Capitol Street in 1871. In the early 1950s, Father Horace McKenna revived a shrinking St. Aloysius, refocusing it to serve the neediest. Father McKenna founded So Others Might Eat (some), Martha's Table, Sursum Corda Cooperative, and other enduring programs providing meals, clothing, child care, and shelter.
11. TRHHH_181016_060.JPG: Tiber Creek with bridges at G and H Sts. The Swampoodle neighborhood became dryer after the creek was diverted to an underground pipe in 1876.
12. TRHHH_181016_065.JPG: This 1903 map shows a portion of Swampoodle overlaid with a plan for Union Station. Swampoodle extended north to New York and Florida Aves., west to First St., NW, and east to Second St., NE.
13. TRHHH_181016_069.JPG: Thanksgiving Day, 1896, for Irish immigrants Patrick and Margaret Kennedy Lane, center, and their family at 515 H St. The house Patrick built was still there in 2012.
14. TRHHH_181016_072.JPG: The Whistle Bottling Works, formerly a Pabst brewery across from the GPO, employed nearby residents.
15. TRHHH_181016_075.JPG: Photographed around 1915 were Annie O'Neill Garner, daughter of Irish immigrants, with husband George and their nine children, all of 9 K St. NW, in Swampoodle. Eldest son Francis became a priest, serving St. Aloysius Church and Gonzaga College High School.
16. TRHHH_181016_080.JPG: More than 1,000 students of Gonzaga College High School and nearby Notre Dame Academy High School attended opening day mass at St. Aloysius Church, 1938.
17. TRHHH_181016_084.JPG: The Reverend Horace B. McKenna, S.J., founder of SOME (So Others Might Eat).
18. TRHHH_181016_092.JPG: Hub, Home, Heart Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail Trains and streetcars created the Near Northeast neighborhood around H Street. The B&O Railroad's arrival in 1835 made this a center of energetic, working-class life. Workmen living north of the Capitol staffed the Government Printing Office, ran the trains, stocked the warehouses, and built Union Station. When a streetcar arrived linking H Street to downtown, new construction quickly followed. H Street bustled with shops and offices run by Jewish, Italian, Lebanese, Greek, Irish, and African American families. During the segregation era, which lasted into the 1950s, African Americans came to H Street for its department stores and sit-down restaurants. Most businesses welcomed all customers. Then came the civil disturbances in the wake of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Decades of commercial decline followed. Just off H Street, though, the strong residential community endured. The 2005 opening of the Atlas Performing Arts Center signaled a revival, building evocatively on H Street's past. Hub, Home, Heart is a bridge to carry you from that past to the present. Hub, Home, Heart: Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail is an Official Washington, DC Walking Trail. The self-guided, 3.2-mile tour of 18 signs offers about two hours of gentle exercise. Free keepsake guidebooks in English or Spanish are available at businesses and institutions along the way. For more on DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
19. TRHHH_181016_097.JPG: Stonecarvers working on the Library of Congress, 1894
20. TRHHH_181016_110.JPG: Hub, Home, Heart Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail 4 Roll Out the Barrel Stuart-Hobson Middle School, one block to the east of this sign, was built in 1927 on the site of an old brewery, one of nearly two dozen that operated in DC after the Civil War. Almost all of the breweries were run by German immigrants who specialized in lager, a light alternative to the English-style ales widely produced by American brewers. George Juenemann opened his brewery and beer garden here in 1857, ten years after he came to the United States. For nearly 30 years Juenemann's Mount Vernon lager, dance pavilion, bowling alley, and dining hall entertained Washingtonians. German American families gathered here for food, drink, and fellowship that offered all ages a reminder of home. The Juenemann family lived nearby, and some employees lived on the site. Cincinnati brewer Albert Carry bought the complex after Juenemann's 1884 death, but sold it a few years later. The Washington Brewery Company, as its new owners renamed it, operated until Congress, with exclusive jurisdiction over DC, closed all city breweries in 1917, two years before Prohibition took hold nationwide. In 1830, when this area was still "country," Concordia (Lutheran Evangelical) Church, of the Foggy Bottom section of Northwest DC, established its cemetery here. Nearly 30 years later, the city passed an ordinance prohibiting burials within its limits (then Boundary Street, today's Florida Avenue, on the north). So Concordia dug up its burial ground and relocated the remains to Prospect Hill, about two miles away on North Capital Street.
21. TRHHH_181016_115.JPG: George Juenemann, in light-colored coat at center, poses with workers behind his brewery, around 1865.
22. TRHHH_181016_117.JPG: This City Directory ad of 1872 promotes Juenemann's business
23. TRHHH_181016_120.JPG: This ad for Washington Brewery shows its large facilities in 1892
24. TRHHH_181016_126.JPG: Stuart Junior High School Students, 1928
25. TRHHH_181016_129.JPG: A post card advertises a successor to Juenemann's venue
26. TRHHH_181016_132.JPG: An artist's rendition of a typical family Sunday at a German immigrant beer hall in New York City, 1872. Washington's beer halls offered a similar atmosphere.
27. TRHHH_181016_137.JPG: Hub, Home, Heart Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail Trains and streetcars created the Near Northeast neighborhood around H Street. The B&O Railroad's arrival in 1835 made this a center of energetic, working-class life. Workmen living north of the Capitol staffed the Government Printing Office, ran the trains, stocked the warehouses, and built Union Station. When a streetcar arrived linking H Street to downtown, new construction quickly followed. H Street bustled with shops and offices run by Jewish, Italian, Lebanese, Greek, Irish, and African American families. During the segregation era, which lasted into the 1950s, African Americans came to H Street for its department stores and sit-down restaurants. Most businesses welcomed all customers. Then came the civil disturbances in the wake of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Decades of commercial decline followed. Just off H Street, though, the strong residential community endured. The 2005 opening of the Atlas Performing Arts Center signaled a revival, building evocatively on H Street's past. Hub, Home, Heart is a bridge to carry you from that past to the present. Hub, Home, Heart: Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail is an Official Washington, DC Walking Trail. The self-guided, 3.2-mile tour of 18 signs offers about two hours of gentle exercise. Free keepsake guidebooks in English or Spanish are available at businesses and institutions along the way. For more on DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
28. TRHHH_181016_141.JPG: Leo Feldman was photographed in his corner grocery at 538 Third St., NE, around 1921. The house where he worked and lived with his family still stands to your left.
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