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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. TRSHAW_190314_001.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail This neighborhood has always been "a place between places," where races and classes bumped and mingled as they got a foothold on the city. It has attracted the powerful seeking city conveniences as well as immigrants and migrants just starting out. By 1900 the Shaw neighborhood lay just north of the downtown federal offices and white businesses, and south of the African-American-dominated U Street commercial corridor and Howard University. Longstanding local businesses took root here, and leaders flourished: Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, John Wesley Powell, B. F. Saul, and A. Philip Randolph. The nation's finest "colored" schools were here too. By the 1930s the area was known as Midcity or Shaw (for Shaw Junior High School). Over time the shops of Seventh and Ninth streets became a bargain-rate alternative to downtown's fancy department stores. There were juke joints, Irish saloons, storefront evangelists, delicatessens, and dozens of schools and houses of worship. As the city expanded, Shaw's older housing became more affordable but crowded. In 1966 planners worked with local church leaders to create the Shaw School Urban Renewal District and improve conditions. Then in 1968, destructive riots followed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Years later the community has succeeded in creating the mix of new and old that you'll experience along Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail. Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail, a booklet capturing highlights of the 17 trail markers, is available in English and Spanish at local businesses along the way. To learn about other DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
2. TRSHAW_190314_005.JPG: Architect James McGill's innovative Convention Hall Market, 1909
3. TRSHAW_190314_015.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail 16 To Market, To Market After this neighborhood's original Northern Liberty Market on Mount Vernon Square was razed in 1872, a new Northern Liberty Market was built along Fifth between K and L streets. When owners decided that fresh farm products weren't drawing enough customers, they added a massive second-floor entertainment space. This was Convention Hall (1893), the city's first convention center, seating 6,000. While farmers did business on the first floor, the second floor hosted balls, banquets even bowling tournaments. Soon it was called Constitution Hall Market. When the Center Market downtown on Pennsylvania Avenue was razed in 1931 to build the National Archives, many vendors moved here. Convention Hall Market became New Center Market. Then in 1946 the building burned in a spectacular fire, visible for miles. Partially rebuilt with a low, flat roof, it continued to sell foodstuffs despite the arrival of modern supermarkets. But by 1966 the vendors were gone, and the building became the National Historical Wax Museum. When the museum closed, rock 'n' rollers flocked to "The Wax" for concerts. The city's second Convention Center opened in 1983 at Ninth and H streets, NW, and two years later the Wax Museum was demolished. As you walk to sign 17, notice the handsome rowhouses on your right. These are part of a full square of 53 houses designed and built in 1890 by the prolific T. Franklin Schneider. Developing an entire square, though common in most city neighborhoods, was unusual in Shaw, where most houses were built individually.
4. TRSHAW_190314_023.JPG: The convention hall was large enough to host a bowling tournament (1936) and a track meet (1912).
5. TRSHAW_190314_030.JPG: A five-alarm fire in 1946 nearly destroyed the market, above. Two days later, farmers set up stands to sell outside the dismantled building.
6. TRSHAW_190314_038.JPG: Architect T. Franklin Schneider and the Sixth St. side of his square of rowhouses, 1950.
7. TRSHAW_190314_044.JPG: By 1949, all that remained of the market was its original first floor. One day after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, the National Historical Wax Museum opened this exhibit.
8. TRSHAW_190314_053.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail 15 On the Path The wooden chapel here was completed in 1857 as a mission of the McKendree Methodist Church. Known as Fletcher Chapel, it may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. Washington's Anti-Saloon League began meeting at Fletcher Chapel in 1893 and later merged into the National Anti-Saloon League. The League helped persuade Congress to pass the 18th Amendment prohibiting alcohol sales and consumption in 1920. Two years later, though, Congress imposed Prohibition on Washington as a test case. Local and national Prohibition ended with the 18th Amendment repeal in 1933. In 1905 Fletcher Chapel was purchased by First Tabernacle Church of God and Saints of Christ. Across this intersection is Bible Way Temple. Founder Rev. Smallwood E. Williams began his preaching career outdoors on Seventh Street. At the time of his death in 1991, Williams led the more than 300 churches of Bible Way Church World Wide. Active in civil rights and city politics, Williams saved his church from demolition for highway construction in 1963. Today Interstate 395 bends around its site. Just up Fourth Street at the corner of N is the site of the first pharmacy opened by Roscoe Pinkett. The family's business went on to include John R. Pinkett, Inc., a real estate and insurance company based in Shaw from 1932 until 1992. As you walk to sign 16, notice the Yale Steam Laundry at 437-443 New York Avenue. Designed in 1902 to blend in with its residential neighbors, its state-of-the-art machinery washed, dried, and ironed uniforms, tablecloths, and linens collected at Yale's many DC storefronts.
9. TRSHAW_190314_057.JPG: Fletcher Chapel after its purchase by Church of God and Saints of Christ.
10. TRSHAW_190314_060.JPG: The National Anti-Saloon League celebrates passage of national Prohibition, 1920.
11. TRSHAW_190314_063.JPG: The Anti-Saloon League distributed this flyer to build support for Prohibition.
12. TRSHAW_190314_066.JPG: Rev. Smallwood E. Williams.
13. TRSHAW_190314_069.JPG: The Bible Way Church building, completed in 1946, anchors the expanded Temple.
14. TRSHAW_190314_077.JPG: Roscoe Pinkett's graduating class.
15. TRSHAW_190314_081.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail This neighborhood has always been "a place between places," where races and classes bumped and mingled as they got a foothold on the city. It has attracted the powerful seeking city conveniences as well as immigrants and migrants just starting out. By 1900 the Shaw neighborhood lay just north of the downtown federal offices and white businesses, and south of the African-American-dominated U Street commercial corridor and Howard University. Longstanding local businesses took root here, and leaders flourished: Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, John Wesley Powell, B. F. Saul, and A. Philip Randolph. The nation's finest "colored" schools were here too. By the 1930s the area was known as Midcity or Shaw (for Shaw Junior High School). Over time the shops of Seventh and Ninth streets became a bargain-rate alternative to downtown's fancy department stores. There were juke joints, Irish saloons, storefront evangelists, delicatessens, and dozens of schools and houses of worship. As the city expanded, Shaw's older housing became more affordable but crowded. In 1966 planners worked with local church leaders to create the Shaw School Urban Renewal District and improve conditions. Then in 1968, destructive riots followed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Years later the community has succeeded in creating the mix of new and old that you'll experience along Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail. Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail, a booklet capturing highlights of the 17 trail markers, is available in English and Spanish at local businesses along the way. To learn about other DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
16. TRSHAW_190314_088.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail 14 History in a House If a house could talk, what tales would it tell? The private residence at 415 M Street, to your left, would tell of hundreds of Shaw residents who came here to play and worship. The house at 415 was built in the 1860s for Joseph Prather, a butcher at nearby Northern Liberty Market. After Prather, the house became the first DC home of the Young Men's Hebrew Association (1913-1914), serving the recreational an spiritual needs of young local Jews. The YMCA evolved into today's Jewish Community Centers (DC; Fairfax, Virginia; and Rockville, Maryland). Next came the Hebrew Home for the Aged (1914-1923), which now operates in Rockville. From the 1920s until the 1940s, Shomrai Shabbos, an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, opccupied 415. In 1947 the Church of Jesus Christ moved in, remaining until 1980. This church was established by Mother Lena Sears after nearby Bible Way Church refused to let her preach, because she was a woman. Next came the Metropolitan Community Church, a Christian church with a special ministry to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community. It is now located one block north of here on Ridge Street. A quick detour to Ridge Street will show you a number of rare small frame houses from as long ago as the 1860s. (Shaw housing generally is brick.) At number 448 Ridge Street, the Northwest Settlement House has provided social and day care services since 1934. The Tuesday Evening Club of Social Workers, a group of African American Women, founded the social center "to extend a helping hand to friendless girls, deserted women and neglected children.
17. TRSHAW_190314_092.JPG: The Hebrew Home for the Aged at 415 M Street.
18. TRSHAW_190314_095.JPG: Athletes of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, 1913.
19. TRSHAW_190314_098.JPG: Detail from the restored Shomrei Shabbos mural.
20. TRSHAW_190314_100.JPG: If you had lived here in the 1950s,you might have seen musicians Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson drive by en route to visit her father's home on Fourth Street.
21. TRSHAW_190314_103.JPG: Opening day, Metropolitan Community Church, 1984.
22. TRSHAW_190314_107.JPG: Children gathered at Northwest Settlement House in the early 1950s to enjoy a new pastime: television.
23. TRSHAW_190314_110.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail This neighborhood has always been "a place between places," where races and classes bumped and mingled as they got a foothold on the city. It has attracted the powerful seeking city conveniences as well as immigrants and migrants just starting out. By 1900 the Shaw neighborhood lay just north of the downtown federal offices and white businesses, and south of the African-American-dominated U Street commercial corridor and Howard University. Longstanding local businesses took root here, and leaders flourished: Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, John Wesley Powell, B. F. Saul, and A. Philip Randolph. The nation's finest "colored" schools were here too. By the 1930s the area was known as Midcity or Shaw (for Shaw Junior High School). Over time the shops of Seventh and Ninth streets became a bargain-rate alternative to downtown's fancy department stores. There were juke joints, Irish saloons, storefront evangelists, delicatessens, and dozens of schools and houses of worship. As the city expanded, Shaw's older housing became more affordable but crowded. In 1966 planners worked with local church leaders to create the Shaw School Urban Renewal District and improve conditions. Then in 1968, destructive riots followed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Years later the community has succeeded in creating the mix of new and old that you'll experience along Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail. Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail, a booklet capturing highlights of the 17 trail markers, is available in English and Spanish at local businesses along the way. To learn about other DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
24. TRSHAW_190314_113.JPG: Church of Jesus Christ Sunday School.
25. TRSHAW_190327_001.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail This neighborhood has always been "a place between places," where races and classes bumped and mingled as they got a foothold on the city. It has attracted the powerful seeking city conveniences as well as immigrants and migrants just starting out. By 1900 the Shaw neighborhood lay just north of the downtown federal offices and white businesses, and south of the African-American-dominated U Street commercial corridor and Howard University. Longstanding local businesses took root here, and leaders flourished: Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, John Wesley Powell, B. F. Saul, and A. Philip Randolph. The nation's finest "colored" schools were here too. By the 1930s the area was known as Midcity or Shaw (for Shaw Junior High School). Over time the shops of Seventh and Ninth streets became a bargain-rate alternative to downtown's fancy department stores. There were juke joints, Irish saloons, storefront evangelists, delicatessens, and dozens of schools and houses of worship. As the city expanded, Shaw's older housing became more affordable but crowded. In 1966 planners worked with local church leaders to create the Shaw School Urban Renewal District and improve conditions. Then in 1968, destructive riots followed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Years later the community has succeeded in creating the mix of new and old that you'll experience along Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail. Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail, a booklet capturing highlights of the 17 trail markers, is available in English and Spanish at local businesses along the way. To learn about other DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
26. TRSHAW_190327_005.JPG: Members of the Street Car Men's union march past the AF of L building during its dedication ceremony, 1916.
27. TRSHAW_190327_016.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail 2 For the Working People "There is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish." -- Samuel Gompers. This large office building opened in 1916 as the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor. With 2.5 million members, this union was the nation's largest and most powerful. The building's design by Milburn, Heister & Co. symbolized the union's maturity and strength. The AF of L's first president was London-born Samuel Gompers (1850-1924). Gompers immigrated to New York in 1863, became a cigar maker and, in 1873, president of the Cigar Makers Union Local 144. When a number of unions formed the American Federation of Labor in 1886, they elected Gompers president, a position he held until his death. A memorial to Gompers is found nearby at 10th Street and Massachusetts Avenue. The AFL-CIO moved to 18th Street in 1956, and the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitters Industry took its place here. Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, across the intersection in 1917 for a congregation dating from 1869. In 1935 as the population of nearby Chinatown was peaking, the church invited the Chinese Community Church to share its space. A year later, the church developed the Mount Vernon Players. This drama group welcomed racially integrated audiences when most Washington theaters did not. Under Managing Director Edward Mangum and Assistant Managing Director Zelda Fichandler, the group evolved into Arena Stage. In 1950, Arena's first production opened in the former Hippodrome movie theater at 808 K Street, since demolished.
28. TRSHAW_190327_019.JPG: Samuel Gompers breaks ground for his union's new headquarters (The George Meany Memorial Archives).
29. TRSHAW_190327_022.JPG: Rev. Carroll Gunkel greets Alan and Beatrice Tok at the Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 1994 (The Washington Post).
30. TRSHAW_190327_025.JPG: Arena Stage founders Zelda Fichandler and Edward Mangum on opening night at the old Hippodrome movie theater, 1950 (The Washington Post).
31. TRSHAW_190327_035.JPG: Mount Vernon Players build a set for their outdoor theater production of Shakespeare in Shirtsleeves on the church plaza, 1947 (The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.).
32. TRSHAW_190327_042.JPG: On the AF of L's building, photographed in 1916, you can see the union's seal (The George Meany Memorial Archives).
33. TRSHAW_190327_055.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail This neighborhood has always been "a place between places," where races and classes bumped and mingled as they got a foothold on the city. It has attracted the powerful seeking city conveniences as well as immigrants and migrants just starting out. By 1900 the Shaw neighborhood lay just north of the downtown federal offices and white businesses, and south of the African-American-dominated U Street commercial corridor and Howard University. Longstanding local businesses took root here, and leaders flourished: Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, John Wesley Powell, B. F. Saul, and A. Philip Randolph. The nation's finest "colored" schools were here too. By the 1930s the area was known as Midcity or Shaw (for Shaw Junior High School). Over time the shops of Seventh and Ninth streets became a bargain-rate alternative to downtown's fancy department stores. There were juke joints, Irish saloons, storefront evangelists, delicatessens, and dozens of schools and houses of worship. As the city expanded, Shaw's older housing became more affordable but crowded. In 1966 planners worked with local church leaders to create the Shaw School Urban Renewal District and improve conditions. Then in 1968, destructive riots followed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Years later the community has succeeded in creating the mix of new and old that you'll experience along Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail. Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail, a booklet capturing highlights of the 17 trail markers, is available in English and Spanish at local businesses along the way. To learn about other DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
34. TRSHAW_190327_059.JPG: In 1983, the Convention Center site was a mix of cleared land and parking lots.
35. TRSHAW_190327_066.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail 3 Power Brokers A post-Civil War building boom brought grand new houses to this convenient area. By 1881 Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, and Major John Wesley Powell, pioneering director of the U.S. Geological Survey, lived on this block. Born enslaved in Virginia, Bruce (1841-1898) escaped from slavery, attended Oberlin College, then became rich buying abandoned plantations in Mississippi. The Mississippi Legislature elected Bruce to the U.S. Senate. From 1875 to 1881, Senator Bruce worked to aid destitute blacks and improve government treatment of Native Americans. Later, he served as register of the U.S. Treasury and recorder of deeds for Washington, D.C. 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, a scientist and war hero, lost his right arm during a Civil War battle. He led the first official survey of the Grand Canyon in 1869, and argued that Native Americans had the right to live according to their own traditions. Small houses, commercial buildings, and immigrant churches developed here after 1910. By the 1930s the rich had moved on, and landlords divided mansions into rooming houses. In the 1960s, many small buildings across Ninth Street were cleared for urban renewal construction that didn't happen. In 2003 the Washington Convention Center opened on the site.
36. TRSHAW_190327_075.JPG: By 1943 the Bruce house, left, had become a rooming house complete with fire escapes.
37. TRSHAW_190327_077.JPG: Sen. Blanche K. Bruce and Josephine Bruce.
38. TRSHAW_190327_080.JPG: This 1887 map shows the rowhouses and churches that once occupied the site of today's Washington Convention Center.
39. TRSHAW_190327_084.JPG: The six-story apartment house once stood at 1115 Ninth St. on the Convention Center site.
40. TRSHAW_190327_087.JPG: St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church once drew parishioners to its Eighth St. church, where the Convention Center is today.
41. TRSHAW_190327_090.JPG: St. George Syrian Orthodox Church, formerly located on Eighth St.
42. TRSHAW_190327_093.JPG: War hero and explorer John Wesley Powell with Tau-Gu, chief of Paiutes in Arizona, 1873. Powell and his family lived at 910 M St., since demolished.
43. TRSHAW_190327_096.JPG: War hero and explorer John Wesley Powell with Tau-Gu, chief of Paiutes in Arizona, 1873. Powell and his family lived at 910 M St., since demolished.
44. TRSHAW_190327_109.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail 10 Community Anchors Across the intersection stands the tower of O Street Market. When the market opened in 1881, and refrigerators had not been invented, people shopped here daily for everything from live chickens to fresh tomatoes. At first the vendors were German immigrants, but 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 snow storm. On this side of the street, landscaper John Saul began planting fruit trees in 1852. His son, B. Francis Saul, later opened a real estate 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 the camp, along 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 1926 to a grand new facility astride the 13th Street hill (now Cardozo High School). In the 1950s, this 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 in the following decades, 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 her in August 2003.
45. TRSHAW_190327_112.JPG: In the refurbished market of 1980, shoppers found fruit, fresh fish, and more. (Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library.)
46. TRSHAW_190327_116.JPG: In the refurbished market of 1980, shoppers found fruit, fresh fish, and more. (Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library.)
47. TRSHAW_190327_118.JPG: John Saul grew fruit trees here. (B. F. Saul Collection.)
48. TRSHAW_190327_121.JPG: The girls of Washington [later Central] High School class of 1886. By 1908 three schools, left occupied this block.
49. TRSHAW_190327_123.JPG: J. Edgar Hoover, Central High School's most famous graduate (1913), and the debate team. (Paul K. Williams, Kelsey and Associates Collection.)
50. TRSHAW_190327_125.JPG: The girls of Washington [later Central] High School class of 1886. By 1908 three schools, left occupied this block.
51. TRSHAW_190327_126.JPG: A young boy sat atop a surplus fire boat during a Kennedy Playground carnival, August, 1968. (Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library.)
52. TRSHAW_190327_136.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail This neighborhood has always been "a place between places," where races and classes bumped and mingled as they got a foothold on the city. It has attracted the powerful seeking city conveniences as well as immigrants and migrants just starting out. By 1900 the Shaw neighborhood lay just north of the downtown federal offices and white businesses, and south of the African-American-dominated U Street commercial corridor and Howard University. Longstanding local businesses took root here, and leaders flourished: Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, John Wesley Powell, B. F. Saul, and A. Philip Randolph. The nation's finest "colored" schools were here too. By the 1930s the area was known as Midcity or Shaw (for Shaw Junior High School). Over time the shops of Seventh and Ninth streets became a bargain-rate alternative to downtown's fancy department stores. There were juke joints, Irish saloons, storefront evangelists, delicatessens, and dozens of schools and houses of worship. As the city expanded, Shaw's older housing became more affordable but crowded. In 1966 planners worked with local church leaders to create the Shaw School Urban Renewal District and improve conditions. Then in 1968, destructive riots followed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Years later the community has succeeded in creating the mix of new and old that you'll experience along Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail. Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail, a booklet capturing highlights of the 17 trail markers, is available in English and Spanish at local businesses along the way. To learn about other DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
53. TRSHAW_190327_139.JPG: Bishop C. M. "Sweet Daddy" Grace and a mass baptism in the Potomac, 1934. Photograph by Scurlock Studio for United House of Prayer
54. TRSHAW_190327_147.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail 13 "Sweet Daddy" Grace Along this block is the world headquarters of the United House of Prayer for All People. Founded in 1919 in Massachusetts by Charles M. "Sweet Daddy" Grace, the church moved its headquarters to Washington in 1926. Soon after, it purchased a mansion where the church is today. The mansion had housed Frelinghuysen University, a night school headed by noted African American educator Anna J. Cooper. Bishop Grace's mass baptisms were legendary. One year he baptized 208 people in front of 15,000 onlookers here on M Street, with water provided by local fire fighters. At the time of the flamboyant, charismatic evangelist's death in 1960, his church claimed three million members in 14 states and the District. Bishop Grace was succeeded by Bishop Walter McCollough, who expanded the church's political influence. Under McCollough, the church purchased and built hundreds of units of affordable housing in Shaw and Southeast, as well as in North Carolina and Connecticut. The church is also known for its Saints Paradise Cafeteria, music, community service, and outreach to the poor. Over time nearly two dozen religious congregations have settled in Shaw. Congregations often traded spaces as their numbers grew or shrank, or they followed their membership to the suburbs. As you walk the trail you will see current and former houses of worship for A.M.E. Zion, Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Christian Evangelical, Greek Orthodox, Islamic, Jewish, and other faiths.
55. TRSHAW_190327_155.JPG: Mourners watch as Bishop Grace's casket is removed from of sic the original United House of Prayer on this block. (Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library.)
56. TRSHAW_190327_158.JPG: The decorated Bishop's House, North Portal Drive, NW, a Christmas season local landmark. (Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library.)
57. TRSHAW_190327_160.JPG: Bishop McCollough, center, leads a groundbreaking for a church expansion. (United House of Prayer for All People.)
58. TRSHAW_190327_162.JPG: This Second Empire style mansion was the original church headquarters, 1950. Grace Magazine, left, distilled the evangelist's message. (United House of Prayer for All People.)
59. TRSHAW_190327_166.JPG: Bishop Charles M. "Sweet Daddy" Grace preaches from an open car on M Street, around 1950. (United House of Prayer for All People.)
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2019 photos: Overnight trips this year: (May, August, October, December) Four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), (July) My 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah). (August) Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experie/nce rain in another state, and (August) Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.
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