Columbia Heights, DC Photographs: Then and Now

This photograph, from 1948, shows the Tivoli theater and the street car on 14th street. This theater was important because it was one of the only theaters in a largely African-American neighborhood in or around DC. Today, as the Latino population of the neighborhood grows, many performances are given in Spanish, and modern metro buses run past the same spot:

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This is the corner of 14th and Park in 1949. After the riots, the area was for a time an empty lot prior to the recent construction of a shopping center:


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This is a photograph of a mansion at 3101 14th St. in Columbia Heights in 1904. This later became the financial area of Columbia Heights following the introduction of the streetcar. As best I could determine, the site is very close to the current metro and is the location of many new stores and is very close to the metro:

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