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revitalization efforts, promotion of neighborhood businesses and business districts, design and economic revitalization. The approach includes an underlying historic preservation ethic and provides local organizations with a mechanism to manage their neighborhood commercial districts and a structure to implement commercial revitalization activities that will achieve the stakeholders' goals for the commercial district.
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Congress Heights experienced great urban neglect after World War II. However, in the 21st century, Congress Heights has received a great deal of attention from the city and urban developers. Nineteen development projects worth a total of $ 455 million are underway or completed in Congress Heights as
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The rapid development of Congress Heights and the areas adjacent to the streetcar line on Nichols Avenue led the government of the District of Columbia to extend South Capitol Street into the area east of the Anacostia River. The topography of the area largely dictated the route. Beginning near St.
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made Randle a majority owner of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railway. Randle sold his interest in the Capital Railway in 1899, and used this fortune to buy a large section of land known as "East Washington Highlands" at the foot of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. This became the development of
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company founded in March 1875. On March 2, 1895, Randle founded the Capital Railway Company to construct streetcar lines over the Navy Yard Bridge and down Nichols Avenue to Congress Heights. The Belt Railway was purchased on June 24, 1898, by the Anacostia and Potomac River Railway Company. This
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led by a combination of community development professionals and local volunteers. The main street program is based on the National Trust for Historic Preservation nationally proven model The Main Street Four Point Approach which includes in emphasis in the areas of: organization of commercial
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Elizabeths Hospital, a line of bluffs extended roughly southward until it reached what is now Chesapeake Street SW. (Fort Greble sat atop the southernmost of these cliffs.) To the west of these bluffs were broad, flat lowlands which provided pleasant views of the Potomac River and the city of
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Prior to its development, the area known as Congress Heights was forest and farmland. The bay between Poplar Point and Giesborough Point was open water, and would not be filled in and reclaimed for use until the 1880s. The area was served primarily by the Navy Yard Bridge (now known as the
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Destination Congress Heights (Congress Heights Main Street) was chartered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation Main Street program in January 2016. Destination Congress Heights is a program created by Congress Heights Community Training & Development Corporation, a nonprofit
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Asylum Avenue/Nichols Avenue was the only major southward road through the area until the development of Congress Heights itself. The only other major street was a military road (now known as Alabama Avenue SE) which ran in an east-northeasterly direction toward other Civil War forts.
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gun emplacements to defend Washington from air attack. After the war, the U.S. Army built a military reserve facility in the central part of Congress Heights. Many early residents worked at the U.S. Naval Gun Factory, which stopped production about 1960, or at the U.S.
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housing development for freed slaves opened in 1867 on the north side of the St. Elizabeths campus and was rapidly occupied. Asylum Avenue was named Nichols Avenue in 1879 in honor of St. Elizabeths Hospital superintendent Charles Henry Nichols.
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Congress Heights itself was founded in 1890. Colonel Arthur E. Randle, a successful newspaper publisher, decided to found a settlement east of the river which he called Congress Heights. The Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge (which was replaced by the
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Designation of Malcolm X Avenue: Section 2 of D.C. Law 9-225 provided that the Council of the District of Columbia designates the portion of Portland Street, S.E., between 9th Street, S.E. and South Capitol Street, S.E., as Malcolm X
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Map showing the Congress Heights area in 1865, with the bluffs which give the area its name denoted with hatch-marks. Where the two red roads converge is the current intersection of South Capitol Street and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Congress Heights was the location of the last working farm within the District of Columbia. George Lindner had been growing vegetables on his farm for over 50 years and it had been in the family since the
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The Capitol, North O Street, and South Washington Railway Company was chartered by Congress on March 3, 1875. By act of Congress enacted on February 18, 1893, it changed its name to the Belt Railway.
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Department of Homeland Security Headquarters Consolidation at St. Elizabeths Master Plan Amendment, East Campus North Parcel: Environmental Impact Statement
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From the 1930s until the 1950s, Congress Heights was an almost all-white working-class neighborhood. Many of these white working-class people were rural
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The development was immediately successful. To ensure that his investment continued to pay off, Randle invested heavily in the Belt Railway, a local
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for the area around the Congress Heights Metro station; and a planned redevelopment of Camp Simms as a mixed-use project, including a new
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The Anacostia and Potomac River Railway Company was founded on May 19, 1872, but not chartered by Congress until February 18, 1875.
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of November 2006. Among these are a redevelopment of St. Elizabeths West Campus for federal use; a request for proposals from the
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The Reports of the Committees of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-Third Congress, 1893-94. Vol. 4
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called Randle's developments "among the largest real estate enterprises ever successfully carried through in the District."
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on the southeast; and Wheeler Street SE and Alabama Avenue SE on the east. Commercial development is heavy along
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campus, Lebaum Street SE, 4th Street SE, and Newcomb Street SE on the northeast; Shepard Parkway and
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that began just west and adjacent to Asylum Road. After the war, the 375-acre (1,520,000 m)
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on the west; Atlantic Street SE and 1st Street SE (as far as Chesapeake Street SE) on the south;
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Washington At Home: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in the Nation's Capital
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Tindall, William (1918). "Beginnings of Street Railways in the National Capital".
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Map of Washington, D.C., with the Congress Heights neighborhood highlighted in red
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Congress Heights at the Intersection of 1st and Wayne Pl. SE, April 2018
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on 90 acres (360,000 m) of land on Giesborough Point. Two forts,
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Congress Heights advertisement – May 17th, 1902 (Washington Times)
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Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
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Benedetto, Robert; Du Vall, Kathleen; Donovan, Jane (2001).
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Evelyn, Douglas E.; Dickson, Paul; Ackerman, S.J. (2008).
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Additional construction in the area occurred during the
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On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C
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Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (1894).
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and Malcolm X Avenue (formerly Portland Street, SE).
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DC Neighborhood Profiles 2014 (via Wayback Machine)
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Congress Heights, Washington, D.C.
Congress Heights Station
Lenox Avenue
Utica Avenue
Map of Washington, D.C., with the Congress Heights neighborhood highlighted in red
38°50′25.5948″N 077°00′00″W / 38.840443000°N 77.00000°W / 38.840443000; -77.00000
Trayon White

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Washington, D.C.
St. Elizabeths Hospital
South Capitol Street
Oxon Run Parkway
Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue

11th Street Bridges
Uniontown
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue
American Civil War
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Fort Greble
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Congress Heights advertisement – May 17th, 1902 (Washington Times)
John Philip Sousa Bridge
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