Virginia Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: This avenue was designed to emanate from the site indicated for a monument to George Washington. Interrupted by the Monument Grounds, it is divided into two distinct, unconnected segments, both of which have been vastly affected by development in the twentieth century. The northwest segment was redeveloped in the 1960s. The southeast and southwest segments encroached upon as early as the 1870s by railroad tracks have been largely compromised by the high-speed Southeast/Southwest Freeway built in the 1960s-70s.
Survey number: HABS DC-712