Sixteenth Street certainly isn’t Washington’s most famous thoroughfare, but the street has a fascinating past.
Sixteenth Street certainly isn’t Washington’s most famous thoroughfare, but the street—which basically runs north from the door of the White House—has a fascinating past. A new book written by historians John DeFerrari and Douglas Peter Sefton,, tracks how it originated as nothing more than a dirt road and eventually grew into a well-known urban destination for a variety of prominent architecture, many diverse houses of worship, and history-making protests.
Developer Mary Henderson, who built it, was inspired by Italian villas. In the 1960s, it was a hub for police-brutality protests and is now often called Malcolm X Park.Henderson suggested the site for the Lincoln Memorial. She was worried—presciently—about Tidal Basin flooding.Henderson and her husband, Senator John B. Henderson, built this wild home. Although the mansion was torn down in 1949, a property wall remains.
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