The Gatsby Hotel on Pennsylvania Ave

Posted by Cunningb2 | Posted in | Posted on February 25, 2020

The National Hotel was across the street from MM White coffin shop and we have a family story of the White boys hearing of  Lincoln's assassination and a crowd forming at the hotel becasue that's where John Wilkes Booth lived at the time.

The Washington House Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, a headquarters for Native Americans Link 

The National Hotel LINK

 

 


 

Washington DC first Chinatown on south side Pennsylvania at 4 1/2 Street

Posted by Cunningb2 | Posted in | Posted on February 25, 2020

Great post from the blog Streets if Washington about "Little China " and Chinese restaurants in DC. This is MM White's exact block on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Rediscovering DC's Earliest Chinese Restaurants LINK

 


According to sociologist Esther Ngan-ling Chow, the first Chinese resident of Washington was a man named Chiang Kai, who settled on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1851. D.C.’s Chinatown, or “Little China” as it was originally called, began to develop in the 1880s. It was little more than a block long, on the south side of Pennsylvania at 4 1/2 Street NW, a stretch of road that now separates the National Gallery of Art’s east and west buildings. By the late 1890s, it was a small, self-contained community, and this is where the city's first Chinese restaurants opened.

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