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Massachusetts Avenue Heights, Washington, DC.
After 1886, when the District Commissioners approved the extension of Massachusetts Avenue, rural properties on the avenue between Rock Creek and the Washington Cathedral saw a wave of real estate interest. This map was used by a realtor to show perspective lot buyers their options, and has some lots stamped "sold." A smaller insert map within Observatory Circle shows the Massachusetts Avenue Heights area in relation to the greater northwest quadrant of Washington.
DJ Howell, artist; Thomas J. Fisher & Co., Washington, DC, publisher, lithograph, 1900 |