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Org Map # 40: GM Hopkins Map of Washington, 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. 40 Map 40 Bordered By: This page includes a L shaped map broken into two parts, as well as a map of Takoma park, Maryland. Southern boundary is Boundary Street (Florida Avenue), NW from 7th Street to Massachusetts Avenue; western boundary is Rock Creek Park from Mass Ave to today's Connecticut Ave Bridge; eastern boundary is 7th Street (Georgia Avenue); northern boundary is Harvard Street (Lanier Heights), and Girard and Fairmont Streets in Columbia Heights. Takoma Park MD Map: boundary includes old village subdivision, on both sides of the District line. Blair Road on the south, both sides of maple Street on the east, both sides of Chestnuut Street on the west, and about two block north of Tulip Avenue on the north. Particular Map 40 Inclusions of Note (1887): This page includes an oddly shaped area at the then boundary of NW Washington, just above Boundary Street (Florida Avenue), and includes the populated areas or recently subdivided communities located from 7th Street (Georgia Avenue) all the way to Rock Creek Park, and then curving south to Massachusetts Avenue. The map includes the areas of north Dupont Circle (before Connecticut Avenue was cut north of Florida Avenue), the entire Lanier heights subdivision (Harvard Street on the north), the entire Kalorama and kalorama Triangle sections (east and west of Conn Ave, west to Rock Creek Park), Massachusetts Avenue and eventual Embassy Row from Florida Ave west to Rock Creek bridge, Sheridan Circle, a large section of emerging Columbia heights, from 7th to 18th Streets and Florida Ave to Fairmont, Girard, and Columbia Road (including the future site of Meridian Hill Park), old Columbian College grounds, Garfield Memorial Hospital, Amzi Barber's mansion at 13th and Clifton, Central HS site, Wayland Seminary, Adams Morgan (when 18th Street was a grassland owned by William Kellogg!), today's Mount Pleasant,Holt House, Duke ... 
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