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Org Map # 39: GM Hopkins Map of Georgetown, DC 1887
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A Rare Opportunity on eBay! 1887 Griffith M. Hopkins Map Washington, DC A Complete Set of Surveys and Plats of Properties in the City of Washington , District of Columbia Compiled and Drawn From Official Records and Actual Survey's Published by the Author and Proprietor G.M. Hopkins, C.E. 320 Walnut Street, Philadelphia , Engraved by Walter S. MacCormac 1887 I'm selling my duplicate copies of individual and ORIGINAL Hopkins Map pages from their esteemed 1887 color map of Washington, DC. I'll be listing 33 Map pages in all, sold by the page (see below for other page numbers). These are the original, hand colored maps that were the first finely detailed maps produced of the city. I've not seen these on any digitized CD's, and I've also never seen them before on eBay! They show many, many buildings long gone, many lot owners names from 1887, building addresses, lot sizes and back buildings (carriage houses, fuel sheds, etc), and even many wood frame houses on lots now occupied by Victorian townhouses. You've no doubt used the tiny, black and white, microfilmed versions with their many flaws, scratch lines, and small print outs, but now you can own the original! These always bring lots of attention when and wver I lecture in Washington on house history, and would be especially nice framed on your wall if your house falls on one of the many delineated city squares and blocks. I bought two incomplete sets at great expense from a Historical Society of Washington sale about ten years ago, and only recently combined them for a complete set for myself. The 33 pages I'll be listing in auctions over the next two weeks could give you a nearly complete set yourself; only about ten would be missing! SIZE: Each of the map pages is double sized, folded in the middle and all measures an impressive 2 feet, seven and-one-half inches wide by 1 foot, ten-and-a-half inches tall . Condition of all is good; paper is not brittle, but conditions vary on each page (described below). ************************************************* This Auction: Page (Map) No. 39 Map 39 Bordered By: Rock Creek on the East, 37th Street on the west, Potomac River on the south to R Street on the north (with additional Wisconsin Avenue extension), NW Particular Map 39 Inclusions of Note (1887): If your interested in Georgetown maps, this is the key map for you. It includes the vast majority of Georgetown, save the southeast corner that is included in our auction for map #38 (east of 31st, south of O Streets). These two maps cover the entire Georgetown area as depicted in 1887. This map includes many interesting Georgetown buildings and houses, many of which are long gone; including most of the waterfront, that was then populated with mills, boathouses, bottling plants, etc. Map shows the aqueduct bridge (Key Bridge today), mansion such as Tudor Place, burying grounds, Oak Hill Cemetery, and even a jump across the Rock Creek to include Lyons Mill. Many old wooden homes now replaced with brick townhouses; find out if your lot had a pre-existing structure! This map also includes an extension up Wisconsin Avenue from R Street to approximately Calvert Street, with homes, the Industrial School, and the Catholic cemetery all delineated; includes a portion of Burleith, then named and subdivided into vacant lots. Map also has the old and Street names used before the numerical system was in place, O Street was the old Beall Street, for example). Lots and lots of owners names printed on houses and lots, many of which are now further coveredor filled in with many more rowhouses. Included Map 39 Squares (or old Blocks): (read from upper right to upper left in rows) This map includes the old Georgetown block numbers; ask us to find if your house or interest is included in this map! Note that these are the old Georgetown block numbers, later changed to difference Square numbers used today. Please ask if you need to learn your old block... 
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