| Southwest Washington, D.C. Contributor(s): Williams, Paul K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738542199 ISBN-13: 9780738542195 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Southwest Washington, D.C., is a defined neighborhood even without a proper name; the quadrant has a clear border southwest of the U.S. Capitol Building, nestled along the oldest waterfront in the city. Its physical delineations have defined it as a community for more than 250 years, beginning in the mid-1700s with emerging farms. By the mid-1800s, a thriving urban, residential, and commercial neighborhood was supported by the waterfront where Washingtonians bought seafood and produce right off the boats. In the 1920s and 1930s, an aging housing stock and an overcrowded city led to an increase of African Americans and Jewish immigrants who became self-sufficient within their own communities. However, political pressures and radical urban planning concepts in the 1950s led to the large-scale razing of most of SW, creating a new community with what was then innovative apartment and cooperative living constructed with such unusual building materials as aluminum. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical |
| Dewey: 975.3 |
| LCCN: 2005935864 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.56" W x 9.22" (0.71 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
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| Publisher Description: Southwest Washington, D.C.: A defined neighborhood even without a proper name. The quadrant of Southwest Washington, D.C. has a clear border southwest of the U.S. Capitol Building, nestled along the oldest waterfront in the city. Its physical delineations have defined it as a community for more than 250 years, beginning in the mid-1700s with emerging farms. By the mid-1800s, a thriving urban, residential, and commercial neighborhood was supported by the waterfront where Washingtonians bought seafood and produce right off the boats. In the 1920s and 1930s, an aging housing stock and an overcrowded city led to an increase of African Americans and Jewish immigrants who became self-sufficient within their own communities. However, political pressures and radical urban planning concepts in the 1950s led to the large-scale razing of most of SW, creating a new community with what was then innovative apartment and cooperative living constructed with such unusual building materials as aluminum. Author and local historian Paul K. Williams provides and in-depth look at it all. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, Paul K.: - Images of America: Southwest Washington, D.C., includes nearly 200 vintage images that document a dramatic change. Archival etchings, maps, and photographs combine to illustrate early settlers, the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators at the U.S. Penitentiary, the famous slavery escape on the schooner Pearl, a thriving African American community, and the widespread urban renewal that demolished most of its physical history and the innovative buildings that replaced it. This is the 12th Arcadia title by author Paul K. Williams, a local historian and proprietor of Kelsey & Associates, an architectural history firm. |