Sixteenth Street NW
![]() 312 pp., 6.5 x 9.5 Hardcover ISBN: 9781647121563 (1647121566) February 2022 Sales Rights: World EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Reviews |
Sixteenth Street NW
Washington, DC's Avenue of Ambitions
John DeFerrari and Douglas Peter Sefton
A richly illustrated architectural "biography" of one of DC's most important boulevards Sixteenth Street NW in Washington, DC has been called the Avenue of the Presidents, Executive Avenue, and Avenue of Churches. From the front door of the White House, this north-south artery runs through the middle of the District and extends just past its border with Maryland. The street is as central to the cityscape as it is to DC's history and culture. John DeFerrari is a native Washingtonian with a lifelong passion for local history, which he writes about on his blog, Streets of Washington. He is the author of Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, DC; Historic Restaurants of Washington, DC: Capital Eats; and Lost Washington, DC.
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"Sixteenth Street is one of the grand avenues of the L'Enfant Plan, a cardinal axis through the city from the White House to its northern border, but its history is anything but linear. DeFerrari and Sefton compellingly weave together a complex history of people and events that unexpectedly and intentionally crisscross and overlap the avenue as it courses through the city and time."—Kim Prothro Williams, architectural historian and author Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Planning a Grand Avenue 2. Sixteenth Street from the Gilded Age to the "City Beautiful" 3. Mary Foote Henderson and the Rise of Meridian Hill 4. Sixteenth Street in the Automobile Age 5. Moderne and Modern: The 1930s and 1940s 6. Mid-Century Upheaval Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors |