April 12, 2024
1892 Map of NW DC- Shaw/U St. Corridor - Rare large property specific detail.
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Up for sale is a great, large, antique map of a small set of blocks in N.W. DC. This map has property specific detail of the area between T Street and Florida Avenue and stretches from 16th Street to 13th Street. This area is currently known at the Shaw neighborhood (named after Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The Stretch from 16th Street to 14th along U Street is also part of the "U Street Corridor".This map measures approximately 28 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches, including the border area. Property specific detail. Map is in color. VERY RARE . This map is from the Real Estate Plat-Book of Washington, District of Columbia. Vol. 1. "Comprising the entire North-West Section from the Original Plats of Squares & Subdivisions and Additions upon record in the office of the Surveyor of the City of Washington". Constructed under the direction of and published in 1892 by Griffith M. Hopkins, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Maps this early and showing this much detail of Washington D.C. are VERY SCARCE . The map has fantastic coloring to it. Lots of color coding to represent various attributes (white/stone building, pink/brick building, yellow/frame building, if it looks like an envelope/a stable or shed, and black & white dotted/green house etc.. ). Map in generally good
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