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TITLE:
Virginia Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

CALL NUMBER:
HABS DC,WASH,644-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 26   (4 x 5 in. and 5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 16 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS DC-712

Significance: This avenue was designed to emanate from the site indicated for a monument to George Washington. Interrupted by the Monument Grounds, it is divided into two distinct, unconnected segments, both of which have been vastly affected by development in the twentieth century. The northwest segment was redeveloped in the 1960s. The southeast and southwest segments--encroached upon as early as the 1870s by railroad tracks--have been largely compromised by the high-speed Southeast/Southwest Freeway built in the 1960s-70s.

SUBJECTS:
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--District of Columbia--Washington

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.dc0821

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. AERIAL VIEW LOOKING SOUTHEAST ALONG THE AVENUE FROM 27TH STREET.
2. AERIAL VIEW OF ELEVATED SOUTHEAST/SOUTHWEST FREEWAY AS IT RUNS ON AXIS WITH VIRGINIA AVENUE, LOOKING NORTHWEST FROM ABOVE THE U.S. NAVY YARD
3. AERIAL VIEW LOOKING NORTHWEST ON THE VIRGINIA AVENUE AXIS FROM THE ANACOSTIA RIVER TO THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. (Photograph enlarged from 4x5 negative.)
4. AERIAL VIEW OF SEGMENT OF VIRGINIA AVENUE BETWEEN SOUTH CAPITOL AND FOURTH STREET, SE, LOOKING EAST. VIEW INCLUDES GARFIELD PARK, RESERVATION NO. 17.
5. PARK BUILT IN AIR-RIGHTS SPACE OVER THE POTOMAC RIVER FREEWAY AT THE INTERSECTION OF VIRGINIA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUES, NW, LOOKING SOUTHWEST TOWARD THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.
6. VIEW SOUTHEAST ON VIRGINIA AVENUE AXIS FROM A MEDIAN NORTHWEST OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE INTERSECTION.
7. VIEW SOUTHEAST ON VIRGINIA AVENUE AXIS FROM A MEDIAN NORTHWEST OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE INTERSECTION.
8. VIEW NORTHWEST ON VIRGINIA AVENUE AXIS FROM THE 23RD STREET OVERPASS.
9. VIEW OF RESERVATION NO. 101 AND ON-GRADE LANES OF THE AVENUE AT THE 23RD STREET OVERPASS, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
10. VIEW SOUTHEAST ON VIRGINIA AVENUE AXIS FROM THE 23RD STREET OVERPASS
11. RESERVATION NO. 720 OVER E-STREET EXPRESSWAY AIR RIGHTS. VIEW NORTHWEST WITH STATUE OF BERNARDO DE GALVEZ IN BACKGROUND.
12. RESERVATION NO. 720 WITH STATUE OF BERNARDO DE GALVEZ, LOOKING NORTHWEST.
13. VIEW OF E STREET EXPRESSWAY UNDERPASS, LOOKING NORTHWEST
14. RESERVATION NO. 105 WITH 'DISCUSS THROWER' STATUE, LOOKING NORTHWEST
15. RESERVATION NO. 106 WITH JOSE DE SAN MARTIN MEMORIAL, LOOKING NORTHWEST
16. VIEW WEST ON VIRGINIA AVENUE FROM THE ROOF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AT 19TH STREET, NW
17. RESERVATION NO. 383 AT VIRGINIA AVENUE AND C STREET, NW, LOOKING SOUTHEAST FROM THE ROOF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
18. RESERVATION NO. 110 WITH STATUE OF JOSE ARTIGAS, LOOKING NORTHWEST
19. RESERVATION NO. 110 LOOKING SOUTHEAST TO CONSTITUTION AVENUE AND WEST POTOMAC PARK
20. VIEW NORTHWEST ON VIRGINIA AVENUE AXIS WITH RAILROAD TRACKS, FROM OVERPASS AT NEW JERSEY AVENUE, SE
21. VIEW NORTHWEST ON VIRGINIA AVENUE AXIS, FROM OVERPASS AT NEW JERSEY AVENUE, SE
22. VIEW SOUTHWEST ON VIRGINIA AVENUE AXIS SHOWING SOUTH SIDE OF GARFIELD PARK, NARROW ROADWAY, RAILROAD TRACKS ENTERING THE TUNNEL, AND THE SOUTHEAST/SOUTHWEST FREEWAY. TAKEN FROM THE NEW JERSEY AVENUE OVERPASS.
23. VIEW NORTHWEST ON VIRGINIA AVENUE AXIS SHOWING NEW JERSEY AVENUE OVERPASS AND WASHINGTON MONUMENT. TAKEN FROM UNDERNEATH THE SOUTHEAST/SOUTHWEST FREEWAY.
24. SITE OF RESERVATION NO. 128 AT M STREET SHOWING LACK OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTHEAST END OF VIRGINIA AVENUE, LOOKING WEST.
25. Photocopy of photograph (original print in the NPS Reservation Files, Washington, D.C.) 1927, unknown photographer RESERVATION NO. 98, LOOKING NORTHWEST
26. Photocopy of photograph (original print in the NPS Reservation Files, Washington, D.C.) 1927, unknown photographer RESERVATION NO. 99, LOOKING SOUTHEAST

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