The publication includes a rundown of the advantages of living in Columbia Heights, some of which haven’t changed for over a century: "street railway facilities" and "attractive residences will all the modern improvements." It also has photos of houses and row homes in the neighborhood. Some of the East-West streets have different names, for instance Roanoke is now Euclid. Does anyone know of other examples?
UPDATE: Flickr comes through with a map of Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, and Pleasant Plains from 1887
The full booklet is available to view online here: http://www.archive.org/details/statementofsomeo00colum
And, of course, a post about Columbia Heights history is nothing without one of my favorite photos from 1926 of 14th and Irving.
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I love the section called A Wise Man's Summary, which lists five reasons to buy a house in Columbia Heights: "Second, it is free from malaria." Hopefully that is still true!
I hope so, too! I have gotten some nasty mosquito bites on summer evenings in the neighborhood.
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