Petworth, Washington, D.C.
Encyclopedia : P : PE : PET : Petworth, Washington, D.C.
Petworth is a neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Two sets of real estate developers purchased the lands of the Petworth estate and the Marshall Brown estate. The neighborhood bloomed with the expansion of the streetcar line up Georgia Avenue (then known as Seventh Street Extended or Brightwood Avenue) from Florida Avenue (Boundary Street) to the Washington DC line at Silver Spring, Maryland.
Many of the thousands of similar brick row houses in the neighborhood were constructed by Caffritz Builders and also by D.J. Dunigan Company in the 1920s. Dunigan personally donated the land that became the site for St. Gabriel's Church and School adjacent to Grant Circle.
Today, the neighborhood is primarily residential with a mix of townhouses and single-family homes. It is served by the Georgia Ave-Petworth station on the Washington Metro Green line.
External links
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.