Reviving a Great Grand Avenue - Washington DC's Historic Mass Ave
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Reviving A Great Grand
AvenuePresentation by
Deborah Shapley, authorA Grand Avenue Revival: Massachusetts Avenue
Landscape History & Design Guide
The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
December 6, 2014
©Restore Mass Ave 2014
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L’Enfant’s Grand Plan
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Post-Civil War GreeningWashington population was 60,000 in 1860; grew to 110,000 by 1870.
Huge public works program 1871-73 under Alexander “Boss” Shepherd. Paving, utilities, 60,000 trees.
“Parking” was created on public land between sidewalk and buildings.
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Why these people built fancy driveways….
(Not everybody lived like this.)
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Connecting Long Views
Continuous lawn framed by trees
creates a flowing public “parked”
space.
Long axis to focal point
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Current projects: 2211 Mass Ave.Greek Embassy
&
2209 Mass Ave.Reza Ghassabeh, new owner (pictured)
Historic landscape project so far…
“We’ve begun”
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JOIN US in A Grand Avenue Revival
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