BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Southeast -- Canal Park

DC -- Southeast -- Canal Park:

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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. CANALP_210731_014.JPG: Roof Garden
2. CANALP_210731_021.JPG: Green Roof at Canal Park, 202 M St SE
3. CANALP_210731_077.JPG: No dogs on this block or in the rain garden, please This area is designated for children's open play space -- thanks for sharing the park.
4. CANALP_210731_080.JPG: Rain Garden Water is reclaimed and recycled for irrigation and water features here. Please keep your dog out.
5. CANALP_210731_089.JPG: One of DC's Oldest Neighborhoods In 1815 the Washington City Canal, linking the Anacostia River to the Potomac via downtown Washington, was completed. The canal attracted businesses where it met the Anacostia River. Among the first was the eight-story sugar refinery of merchant Thomas Law. Law's refinery later became a brewery. James Barry traded here as well. (His farm across the Anacostia eventually was sold for the fabled Barry's Farm settlement of formerly enslaved men and women.) A tobacco inspection warehouse operated nearby. And, in the early years before the canal became polluted and unreliable, well-to-do Washingtonians built large houses near its banks. Soon the Navy Yard, with its steady employment, dominated the neighborhood. At first a center of ship building, the yard shifted to weapons production and became the Naval Gun Factory. By the 1840s the grand homes of the early merchants were giving way to modest worker housing. While Washington, DC expanded and modernized, this area, known as the Navy Yard section, saw little change. Small businesses and row houses gave the look of an aging small town. In the 1940s the city began replacing the old houses with affordable housing: the Carrollsburg (1941) and Arthur Capper (1956) Dwellings, and Carroll Apartments for seniors (1964). After the Southeast-Southwest Freeway isolated the area physically in the late 1960s, few outsiders ventured here. Light industries and garages operated alongside a small entertainment district. As elsewhere, the arrival of Metrorail in 1991 signaled new era. With the new NAVSEA Headquarters, U.S. Department of Transportation building, Nationals Park, and revitalization of the Carroll Apartments leading the way, the new neighborhood took hold.
6. CANALP_210731_093.JPG: The Navy Yard and, above it, the US Capitol can be seen in this 1833 view of the waterfront from across the Anacostia. In the circle is Thomas Law's former eight-story sugar refinery at the foot of the canal.
7. CANALP_210731_096.JPG: When this photo was made in 1940, the neighborhood along Second Street between I and H Streets was filled with workers' houses.
8. CANALP_210731_104.JPG: The original Arthur Capper Dwellings replaced these modest houses on Third Street, SE, seen here in the 1940s.
9. CANALP_210731_106.JPG: Merchant Thomas Law was among the early developers of this area. Thomas Law married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter of Martha Washington.
10. CANALP_210731_123.JPG: Waterline David Hess (c) 2012 Commissioned and original owned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities DC Creates! Public Arts Program
11. CANALP_210731_127.JPG: A Walk on the Canal You are standing on the site of the Washington City Canal. From 1815 to about 1880, the three blocks of Canal Park were part of an innovative, man-made waterways linking the Potomac River to the Eastern Branch of the Anacostia River. In the beginning, the nation's capital had only a few dusty dirt roads. Waterways were much more efficient for moving building materials and people so George Washington and Pierre C. L'Enfant planned to transform existing creeks and streams into a canal. Engineer and architect Benjamin Latrobe designed the canal to begin where Tiber Creek emptied into the Potomac near the White House. With stone shoring up its sides, the canal ran the length of today's Constitution Avenue, then turned southeast at the foot of the Capitol. Beyond the Capitol it divided into two branches to reach the Anacostia River . The northern branch came here, then continued on to the Anacostia near the Navy Yard. Another canal, the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O), began in Georgetown and followed the Potomac westward. In 1833 engineers linked the C&O Canal to the Washington City Canal. Near what is now 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, they built a stone house beside a lock connecting the two. This lock house is the only visible reminder of the Washington Canal.
12. CANALP_210731_133.JPG: The Washington City Canal route is highlighted (blue) in this 1862 map of Washington. Wharves that once operated nearby can be seen between the canal basin and Navy Yard. The area where Washington Canal Park now stands is shown in red.
13. CANALP_210731_136.JPG: This 1798 lottery ticket was part of a failed attempt to fund the canal. Ultimately, public funds were used.
14. CANALP_210731_140.JPG: Architect Benjamin H. Latrobe, designer of the Washington City Canal and portions of the US Capitol.
15. CANALP_210731_144.JPG: In this Civil War-era view taken from the Capitol, the whitewashed buildings of Armory Square Hospital on the Mall are visible at center, with the main portion of the canal (today's Constitution Avenue) to the right. The canal then turns left (southeast) at the foot of the Capitol on its way to the Anacostia. The tall building at center right is the Smithsonian Castle.
16. CANALP_210731_146.JPG: This 1861 view of the canal at the foot of the Capitol shows how sediment and trash had nearly filled the canal.
17. CANALP_210731_157.JPG: This rare photo of the canal southeast of the Capitol was made from South Capitol and G Sts., SE, in the late 1800s. The Capitol and Library of Congress are visible in the distance.
18. CANALP_210731_171.JPG: Waterline David Hess (c) 2012 Commissioned and original owned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities DC Creates! Public Arts Program
19. CANALP_210731_183.JPG: Waterline David Hess (c) 2012 Commissioned and original owned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities DC Creates! Public Arts Program
20. CANALP_210731_199.JPG: Water, water everywhere
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