stanton_square

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About Me

Apparent hobby is to provide textual documentation of Shorpy photos with emphasis on early 20th century architectural, industrial and transportation infrastructure.

Interested in exploring history and "sense of place" of the locations I have lived for the purposes of the seemingly never-ending quest to understand the context of my life: such places include the Chesapeake Bay, Appalachia, the Great Lakes, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, San Diego, Washington D.C. and Cape Cod.

Born in the waning years of the baby boom. Descendent of (1) pre-revolutionary Chesapeake watermen, (2) Pennsylvania Dutch, and (3) Swedish and Finnish sailors who jumped ship at New York City in the late 1800s.

Most of my research for Shorpy is conducted using my library card and the free ebook section of google books.

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Stanton: E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Lincoln Administration.

Square: A rectangular plot of public land within the tidewater of the Potomac on the Chesapeake. Located within the Capitol Hill Historic District in the North East quadrant of the District of Columbia.

A few Google Map mash-ups of Shorpy photos in Washington DC.

• Architecture (below)
• Transportation
• People, Store Fronts, etc..

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Stanton Square (aka Stanton Park) is a public space on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Originally laid out as part of L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the Federal City, the area was mostly a muddy field until after the Civil War. Located a few blocks NE of the Capitol, the neighborhood is now part of the Capitol Hill Historical District and home to a mixed-use community of residential, commercial, office, and school buildings. An equestrian statue of Revolutionary War major general Nathanael Greene marks the focal point of the square.

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