BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Penn Quarter neighborhood

DC -- Penn Quarter 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. PENNQT_200411_01.JPG: Empty streets with Covid-19.
2. PENNQT_200429_22.JPG: All of the dining area at the McDonald's restaurant are closed of course.
3. PENNQT_200429_26.JPG: Your safety and well being remain our highest priority Due to the recent Health Department order, we must restrict capacity to the restaurant in an effort to enable social distancing. Please help us by observing social distancing of at least 6 feet while in the restaurant. We appreciate your support in keeping our crew and guests safe.
4. PENNQT_200429_36.JPG: This is the corner of 13th and F Street, NW looking north at 3pm in the afternoon on a Covid-19 Wednesday.
5. PENNQT_200509_01.JPG: We Missed You
6. PENNQT_200509_10.JPG: We Are Open
7. PENNQT_200509_15.JPG: "Success is not final Failure is not Fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." [ -- Winston Churchill]
8. PENNQT_200509_19.JPG: We're Temporarily Closed. Because the safety of you, our employees and our community is our highest priority, and out of an abundance of caution, our location is closed temporarily. In the meantime, we're always ready to welcome you at bananarepublic.com/bananarepublic.ca Thanks for understanding and take care of one another!
9. PENNQT_200509_22.JPG: This Peet's Coffeebar location is Temporarily Close We have closed this location in an effort to keep our customers and employees safe during the ever-evolving COVID-19 situation.
10. PENNQT_200509_28.JPG: Your safety and comfort are important to us. While we are open for business, customer entry to our bakery cafe is temporarily suspended. If you are picking up an order an associate will be with your shortly. ... Thank you for your understanding.
11. PENNQT_200509_34.JPG: To our Macy's friends & family The health & safety of our customers, colleagues and communities is our top priority. As a result of the recent COVID-19 developments, we've decided to temporarily close our stores.
12. PENNQT_200509_47.JPG: Health, safety and well-being for our guests, employees and communities remain top priorities. Enhanced handling and packaging procedures are in place for pickup, takeout, delivery and catering to minimize contact with food, utensils and packaging. .... Cosi has been proudly serving guests as 12th & G for more than 20 years and will continue to be only a click or call away away [sic].
13. PENNQT_200509_58.JPG: Zaytinya by Jose Andres
14. PENNQT_200509_61.JPG: We are striving to support our community during the COVID19 shutdowns. If you are unable to pay at this time, please enjoy your meal free of charge. For those who can pay and are interested to 'pay it forward,' you can also purchase additional meals to donate to someone else.
15. PENNQT_200509_64.JPG: Thinkfood Group Employee Support Fund Gift Card Thank you to our guests who have asked how they can help us during this truly devastating time for our industry. We have created a special e-gift card where 100 percent of the proceeds go directly to our employees. These cards are currently 20% off and valid at most of our ThinkFoodGroup restaurants. For more information and to purchase, visit joseandres.com/giftcard or scan the QR code below
16. PENNQT_200509_69.JPG: #ChefsForAmerica World Central Kitchen
17. PENNQT_200530_05.JPG: Eating outside during Phase 1
18. PENNQT_200603_001.JPG: Boarded up because of BLM protests.
19. PENNQT_200603_003.JPG: DowntownDC What PPE Supplies Do You Need to Reopen Your Business? The DC BID Council and the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) are working with the ReOpen DC Committee to determine PPE supply needs for small businesses over the next three months.
20. PENNQT_200603_065.JPG: Installing more plywood
21. PENNQT_200603_077.JPG: And does Banana Republic remind you of anything about our country?
22. PENNQT_200603_093.JPG: Black Lives Matter Clyde's Restaurant Group
23. PENNQT_200603_110.JPG: We are open
24. PENNQT_200603_127.JPG: Matchbox Due to Covid-19 this area is reserved for our patio guests. Thank you for understanding! -- Matchbox Penn Quarter
25. PENNQT_200603_131.JPG: Jose Andres ThinkFood Group Employee Support Fund Gift Card Thank you to our guests who have asked how they can help us during this truly devastating time for our industry. We have created a special e-gift card where 100 percent of the proceeds go directly to our employees. These cards are currently 20% off and valid at most of our ThinkGoodGroup restaurants. For more information and to purchase, visit joseandres.com/giftcard or scan the QR code below.
26. PENNQT_200603_144.JPG: Jaleo Community Kitchen Free Hot Meals for Those In Need World Central Kitchen
27. PENNQT_200603_151.JPG: Loose boards from plywood set-up.
28. PENNQT_200603_159.JPG: ChopHouse & Brewery Temporarily Closed
29. PENNQT_200604_01.JPG: Boarded up because of BLM protests.
30. PENNQT_200604_07.JPG: World Central Kitchen #ChefsforAmerica COVID-19 Protocol
31. PENNQT_200604_15.JPG: Hill Country Open
32. PENNQT_200604_26.JPG: Installing plywood covers
33. PENNQT_200607_07.JPG: Boarded up because of BLM protests.
34. PENNQT_200609_08.JPG: Boarded up because of BLM protests.
35. PENNQT_200609_25.JPG: Boarded up because of BLM protests but still doing outside dining during Phase 1 reopening.
36. PENNQT_200613_19.JPG: Some businesses apparently picked up BLM placards either left or dropped off by protesters and put those up in their windows.
37. PENNQT_200621_17.JPG: I seem to remember this covered walk-way being thinner before. It would be cool to think they widened it for social distancing but I'm probably just remembering it wrong from before.
38. PENNQT_200621_25.JPG: I can't breathe Quis custdiet [sic -- should be custodiet] ipsos custodes? [Latin: Who watches the watchers?]
39. PENNQT_200624_06.JPG: Five Guys boarded up
40. PENNQT_200629_05.JPG: Due to the on-going Corona Virus scare, we are closing the store temporarily. We will [be] opening back again on Monday 23rd March. Sorry for your inconvenience. ["Scare"?]
41. PENNQT_200720_05.JPG: Sorry, we're still closed See associates inside? They're working hard to open our doors ASAP Please check out jcrew.com for store reopening updates
42. PENNQT_200720_12.JPG: Welcome back. We've missed you. Our main priority continues to be ensuring the health and safety of our colleagues and customers. After an update in local government and health official guidance, we have decided to re-open our H&M stores in select areas in the US with adjusted hours where appropriate. ...
43. PENNQT_200720_16.JPG: Max. occupancy 297 To ensure social distancing we are limiting the number of customers in the store.
44. PENNQT_200720_25.JPG: Abe's Cafe & Gifts Maskstoyou.com Pick up and Delivery Available! Quality reusable masks, 4 layers disposable masks and PPE
45. PENNQT_200720_33.JPG: Reporter from NTN24 Nuestra Tele Noticias NTN24 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NTN24 (shorter for Nuestra Tele Noticias 24) is a Colombian free-to-air television news channel, owned by Grupo RCN and operated by RCN Televisi�n. It was launched on 3 November 2008 with journalist Claudia Gurisatti appointed as the channel's first editorial director. Its main headquarters are located in Bogot�, Colombia.
46. PENNQT_200720_45.JPG: Welcome back! We missed you
47. PENNQT_200720_49.JPG: Please wear a mask when you are: * Entering * Exiting * Conversing with staff * Going to & from restrooms Mask Usage We know it is no fun to wear a mask while enjoying a night out, but our staff's safety is no laughing matter. We require all guests to wear a mask while moving about the restaurant, and when speaking to Old Ebbitt Grill employees. Masks have been a hot topic, with passionate views on all sides. With out team and their families' health at stake, we must err on the side of caution. We hope you will understand and look forward to the day, hopefully soon, when we can all throw our masks in the trash. Thank you for wearing your mask. Old Ebbitt Grill
48. PENNQT_200720_56.JPG: Site of Rhodes Tavern 1799-1984 Built in 1799, in the hope that the new capital would become a great city. Opened as a tavern and inn by William Rhodes, 1801. Washington's first 'town hall,' where White House architect James Hoban and other citizens met to petition Congress for representation and locally elected government, 1801. Polling place in first City Council election, 1802. Early boarding house used by members of Congress, 1807-1814. Spared the torch during the British burning of Washington, 1814. First home of the bank of the Metropolis, 1814-1836, and of Riggs Bank, 1840-1845. Washington Stock Exchange, 1881-1884. National Press Club, 1909-1914; visited by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Witness to every inaugural parade from Thomas Jefferson's in 1805 until Ronald Reagan's in 1981. Ballot initiative to preserve the building approved by Washington citizens, 1983. Razed, 1984. This marker placed by the Rhodes tavern -- DC Heritage Society, June 7, 1999, with the help of pennies collected by DC Public School students.
49. PENNQT_200720_59.JPG: Rhodes Tavern Site of Washington DC's first election, June 7, 1802 This marker placed by the Rhodes Tavern -- DC Heritage Society, June 7, 2002
50. PENNQT_200809_01.JPG: Calling all LOFTimists! We Are Open and can't wait to see you again Love, Loft
51. PENNQT_200809_22.JPG: District ChopHouse & Brewery Temporarily Closed due to Covid-19 restrictions
52. PENNQT_200809_45.JPG: We are excited to announce that Saint Germain Salon will be moving to our new location... in the month of September!
53. PENNQT_200809_49.JPG: Carmine's We Miss You! Can't wait to be cooking up some delicious meatballs for our community again. We'll be back soon!
54. PENNQT_200809_54.JPG: World Central Kitchen #ChefsForAmerica COVID-19 Protocol
55. PENNQT_200809_61.JPG: We look forward to welcoming you back soon! Due to COVID19, China Chilcano is hibernating until further notice. ...
56. PENNQT_200809_65.JPG: Protein bar & kitchen This location is Temporarily Closed. We'll see you again on March 30th [This sign was photographed on August 9.]
57. PENNQT_200912_13.JPG: It was unusual to see commercial advertising tacked up on a Metro station's grate.
58. PENNQT_200912_20.JPG: Treasure Trove Jewelers Rappaport Retail Space Available ... next to ... Bank of America We're in this together. We're here to help.
59. PENNQT_200912_26.JPG: Treasure Trove Jewelers Rappaport Retail Space Available
60. PENNQT_200918_07.JPG: This used to be one of my McDonald's.
61. PENNQT_200918_09.JPG: Effective August 15, 2020 This restaurant has been permanently closed. Thank You!
62. PENNQT_200918_34.JPG: Save Restaurants Independent Restaurant Coalition @IndpRestaurants | saverestaurants.com
63. PENNQT_200918_37.JPG: SEI After more than a decade SEI is closing. This will be our second farewell to an industry that we love and has been good to us for 12+ years. We are humbled to have been a small part of the beginning of DC's booming restaurant industry. SEI was the venue for numerous celebrations, met wonderful families, made forever-relationships, honored to serve such dignitaries and so many wonderful talented employees, managers and chefs. There are simply too many people to say thank you to and so many incredible experiences to recount. We are eternally grateful to those that have graced our tables and made SEI a true DC staple. So to our customers, friends and supporters, you have enhanced our lives for over a decade and we want to say THANK YOU for the journey.
64. PENNQT_201009_13.JPG: Patio Open! Entrance Masks required for all guests except when eating or drinking. Please keep 6 feet of distance from the guest in front of you using the masks on the ground. Should you need a mask, one will be provided and a $1 fee will be added to your bill. No one with a fever or symptoms of COVID-19, or known exposure to a COVID-19 case in the prior 14 days, is permitted in the establishment.
65. PENNQT_201009_23.JPG: Your health and safety mean so much more DowntownDC Resilient Wash your hands Wear a mask Practice social distancing
66. PENNQT_201021_043.JPG: SEI After more than a decade SEI is closing. This will be our second farewell to an industry that we love and has been good to us for 12+ years. We are humbled to have been a small part of the beginning of DC's booming restaurant industry. SEI was the venue for numerous celebrations, met wonderful families, made forever-relationships, honored to serve such dignitaries and so many wonderful talented employees, managers and chefs. There are simply too many people to say thank you to and so many incredible experiences to recount. We are eternally grateful to those that have graced our tables and made SEI a true DC staple. So to our customers, friends and supporters, you have enhanced our lives for over a decade and we want to say THANK YOU for the journey.
67. PENNQT_201021_059.JPG: "Together we rise." Jaleo 480 7th Street NW DowntownDC Resilient
68. PENNQT_201021_078.JPG: McDonald's Effective August 15, 2020 This restaurant has been permanently closed. Thank You!
69. PENNQT_201021_085.JPG: The building was around during Lincoln's assassination. According to https://www.fords.org/blog/post/assassination-eyewitness-carl-bersch-s-eyewitness-oil-painting-returns-to-the-scene/ ASSASSINATION EYEWITNESS: CARL BERSCH'S EYEWITNESS OIL PAINTING RETURNS TO THE SCENE While many depictions of the events surrounding President Abraham Lincoln's assassination exist, most are artist renditions, created well after the fact. As of April 14, 2016, visitors to the Ford's Theatre campus may now see the only known artistic representation of the Lincoln assassination created by an eyewitness. We are honored to commemorate the 151st anniversary of the Lincoln assassination at the historic site with the addition of a very special artifact in the Ford's Theatre Museum. Early in the morning on April 14, 2016, curators installed a very special painting by artist Carl Bersch entitled Lincoln Borne by Loving Hands. The painting is displayed in a specially-constructed exhibition case which is fully enclosed and climate-controlled, allowing us to keep the painting on long-term display. Lincoln Borne by Loving Hands is a very large oil-painting -- just over three-feet high by five-feet wide -- and it is the only depiction of the Lincoln assassination created by an eyewitness. German-born artist Carl Bersch immigrated to the United States in 1861 -- just as the Civil War was starting. He lived in a boarding house on Tenth Street in Washington, D.C., and made his living as a portrait artist in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Bersch became a U.S. citizen in 1866, the year following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, the 30-year-old artist was on his balcony, across from Ford's Theatre, and was sketching a torchlight procession that had made its way down Tenth Street as part of the city-wide celebrations marking the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant -- the beginning of the end of the Civil War. Suddenly, patrons rushed out from Ford's Theatre proclaiming that President Abraham Lincoln had been shot while attending a performance of Our American Cousin. Bersch was perfectly positioned to watch as soldiers carried the unconscious President Lincoln out of Ford's Theatre and onto Tenth Street, where nearby resident, Henry Safford, beckoned the men to carry the wounded president into the Petersen boarding house and into a back bedroom. There, Lincoln would die at 7:22 the following morning. Bersch captured the remarkable streetscape on his sketch pad and later painted the scene in oil on this large canvas. Bersch's daughter, Carrie Fischer, kept the painting for many years, loaning it in 1932 to the Lincoln Museum (today's Ford's Theatre Museum), where it was publicly displayed. His granddaughter, Gerda Fischer Vey, donated the painting to the White House in 1977, and it entered the National Park Service collection shortly thereafter. Except for brief periods of display, most recently in Russia in 2011 at a Moscow museum as part of an exhibition that compared Lincoln and Czar Alexander II, the painting has remained primarily in storage and was in need of conservation. In 2015, our National Park Service partners arranged for the much-needed conservation work as well as a fully-enclosed case that would allow for the display of the piece. Conservator David Olin was hired to work on the painting and, over the course of six months, painstakingly removed decades of dirt and varnish, and stabilized the painting for exhibition. While the conservation work went on, NPS staff turned a corner of the Museum near Booth's deringer and the displays of Lincoln's suit and the treasury flag from the Presidential Box, into a small construction site. For more than a month, NPS and an exhibition fabrication firm named ColorAd worked to move a water fountain from the concrete wall, paint and finally install the exhibit case that provides protection to Bersch's unique painting. Just in time for the 151st anniversary of the Lincoln assassination, the painting returned to Tenth Street, where it will receive the attention it deserves from the hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to Ford's every year.
70. PENNQT_201021_096.JPG: Tour buses in this time were still uncommon.
71. PENNQT_201021_107.JPG: Standing together by standing apart.
72. PENNQT_201021_110.JPG: We saved you a spot.
73. PENNQT_201021_113.JPG: Wait here for ATM access. One person in the vestibule at a time.
74. PENNQT_201107_06.JPG: Still boarded up windows
75. PENNQT_201114_02.JPG: Christmas stuff is coming out.
76. PENNQT_201120_08.JPG: Eating outside
77. PENNQT_201120_16.JPG: Carmine's We Miss You! Can't wait to be cooking up some delicious meatballs for our community again. We'll be back soon!
78. PENNQT_201120_19.JPG: Carmine's Established 1990 To Our Valued Guests, For over 30 years, Carmine's has been committed to providing the best hospitality & service to our patrons. These are unprecedented times and we have had to make the very difficult decision to temporarily close Carmine's Washington, DC. Please know that we will definitely re-open as soon as we can. Our top priority remains the health, safety, and well-being of our guests and staff. As we learn of more information throughout the coming days, we will share the latest updates at carminesnyc.com Our hearts are will everyone affected during this challenging time. We look forward to serving our loyal guests and communities soon! Sincerely, The Carmine's Family
79. PENNQT_201120_38.JPG: Congress Needs to Act Now! Save our restaurants. Save our bars. Save our jobs. Text restaurantrelief to 52886
80. PENNQT_201120_42.JPG: A view inside Carmine's.
Wikipedia Description: Penn Quarter
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Penn Quarter is a neighborhood in the East End of Downtown Washington, D.C. north of Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Its boundaries are not well established, but they appear to extend along F Street NW from 5th to 10th Streets, and approximately H Street on the north where Penn Quarter abuts or partially overlaps with Chinatown. Penn Quarter is southeast of the Metro Center shopping district. Penn Quarter has been rejuvenated over the past several decades, stimulated first by the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation (PADC) and later, following the recession in the 1990s, by the Verizon Center, a sports, concert and event arena that opened nearby at 7th and F streets in 1997 as the MCI Center. Penn Quarter now boasts a variety of entertainment and commercial establishments including museums, theaters, restaurants, bars, and contemporary art galleries. The area is also home to a popular farmers market and several food, wine, art, and culture focused festivals.

Revitalization

Penn Quarter's initial growth occurred under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation whose Pennsylvania Avenue Plan called for a mixed-use neighborhood. It was to include residences, offices, theaters and other cultural venues, retail, hotels, and restaurants in both new and renovated buildings framing new parks and plazas. Revitalization started with a number of developments west of the FBI Building to 15th Street, most significantly the renovation of what today is the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, and the creation of new parks and plazas, including Pershing Park, Freedom Plaza, and the Navy Memorial. Market Square, The Pennsylvania, and the former flagship store of Lansburgh's department store on 7th Street were at the forefront of the revitalization efforts east of the FBI Building beginning in the mid-1980s. The nearby Verizon Center, which opened in 1997, stimulated the revitalization of adjacent blocks to the north and east and the Penn Quarter neighborhood to the south.
Gallery Place at Night

Penn Quarter is home to many restaurants, cultural, and entertainment venues in Washington, D.C. On Thursday afternoons in spring, summer, and fall, the FRESHFARM Penn Quarter farmers market is open on 8th Street, just south of E Street. The Newseum is located at the intersection of 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. The building also includes offices and television studio space, The Source restaurant by Wolfgang Puck, and the Newseum Residences, an apartment rental community. The neighborhood is served by a variety of recreational and entertainment facilities including seven theaters, Lucky Strike bowling and several exercise clubs. Other neighborhood amenities include several coffee shops and a teahouse / restaurant on 8th Street; three salons with day spas; Penn Quarter Sports Tavern; the nearby Landmark E Street Cinema, which screens independent films; Regal Theater; and shops selling clothing, jewelry, ice cream, and books, among other things. Over the past thirty years the neighborhood has transformed from a sleepy, nondescript part of downtown into a vibrant 24-hour residential and commercial community.
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