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Massachusetts Avenue Park and Heights, Washington, D.C. map – Vintage Map Wall Art

Massachusetts Avenue Park and Heights, Washington, D.C. map — antique map
Massachusetts Avenue Park and Heights, Washington, D.C. map. Antique map from the Washington DC collection.

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Step back in time with Massachusetts Avenue Park and Heights, Washington, D.C. map, an antique map rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Massachusetts Avenue Park and Heights, Washington, D.C. map

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Massachusetts Avenue is one of the diagonal boulevards Pierre Charles L'Enfant laid out in his 1791 plan for the federal capital, cutting across the city's grid and linking the Capitol with the outlying districts to the northwest. This map shows the avenue's route through the park and heights area, where the street climbed toward higher ground and the lots were gradually built up with large houses. Maps like this one were used by surveyors, property owners and city officials to track street lines, grades and development as the capital grew through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Original scan1,464 × 1,183 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217729

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