Sixteenth Street NW

John DeFerrari is a native Washingtonian with a lifelong passion for local history, which he writes about on his blog, Streets of Washington. He is the author of Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, DC; Historic Restaurants of Washington, DC: Capital Eats; and Lost Washington, DC. Douglas Peter Sefton is an architectural historian, creator of the preservation website Victorian Secrets of Washington, DC, and a member of the board of trustees of the DC Preservation League.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Planning a Grand Avenue 2. Sixteenth Street from the Gilded Age to the "City Beautiful" 3. Mary Foote Henderson and the Rise of Meridian Hill 4. Sixteenth Street in the Automobile Age 5. Moderne and Modern: The 1930s and 1940s 6. Mid-Century Upheaval Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors