Ward 5 Heritage Guide: A Discussion of Ward Five Cultural and Heritage Resources

Fletcher, Patsy; Elliott, Kim

From introduction: "Bordered roughly by Eastern Avenue and the Anacostia River on the east, Benning Road and Florida Avenue on the south, New Jersey Avenue and Park Place on the west, and Rock Creek Church Road, North Capitol Street and Riggs Road on the north, Ward 5 is one of the largest in the District of Columbia. Two railroad lines and several of Washington's major arterial streets such as New York, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Michigan Avenues traverse the area, which is also served by the Red, Green, and Yellow Lines of the Metrorail System. As a result, Ward 5 has served almost from the infancy of the national capital as an ''edge city"for Washington, housing the largest concentration of industrial land uses in the city along its many transportation routes. Amidst these uses are federal facilities, hospitals, cemeteries, the city's fresh produce and wholesale market district, many small shops and local businesses, and numerous religious institutions and hospitals mostly associated with the Catholic Church.The residential community that sprang up along the byways boasts a diversity of housing stock and architectural styles from the single family homes of Woodridge and Brookland, the rowhouses of Edgewood, to the apartment buildings that characterize Carver-Langston. This guide is intended to identify historic or culturally important places in Ward 5 and to provide a framework for developing strategies necessary to capitalize on and, if necessary, protect these historic resources." Funding for this project was provided in part through a fiscal year 2014 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the D.C. Historic Preservation Office (project number DC-14-024, grant number P14AF00180) administered by the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Ward 5 Heritage Guide: A Discussion of Ward Five Cultural and Heritage Resources

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