America’s most famous avenue connects the White House and the United States Capitol, but it hasn’t always been a grand thoroughfare. Pennsylvania Avenue and the surrounding neighborhood have been renovated, re-imagined and revitalized repeatedly. From Murder Bay, a center of crime, gambling, and prostitution in the mid-19th century to the stately boulevard of presidential inaugurations, Carolyn Muraskin, founder of DC Design Tours, unfolds a story of metamorphosis along what came to be known as America’s Main Street.
Sites highlighted include the White House; Eisenhower Executive Office Building; Blair House; Federal Triangle; the Willard Hotel; Old Post Office Tower; J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building; U.S. Navy Memorial; National Archives; and Temperance Fountain.
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