Dusty and desolate: 16th Street NW wasn’t always a prestigious thoroughfare. A new ‘biography’ recounts its history.
veritable cardiologists of the asphalt. They are the authors of the new book “Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, D.C.’s Avenue of Ambitions.”“Washington went through this phase of being enamored with wood blocks,” DeFerrari said. Portions of 16th Street were paved with them.“They learned their lesson pretty quickly on that,” DeFerrari said. “Definitely in a humid environment, wood doesn't hold up that long.”Said Sefton: “They had a tendency to rot on you.
“Until nearly the end of the 19th century, Massachusetts Avenue was the upper limit of developed Washington,” DeFerrari said.
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