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2023.055.3.0377Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of several cars driving down a street lined with a few trees, several buildings can be seen on the left and in the distance. Above the image "37" is printed, below the image "32250 Sixteenth St., "The Avenue of the Presidents," Washington, D. C." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
32250
HTE NEW DIPLOMATIC SECTION ON NORTH 16TH STREET WASHINGTON, D. C.
Until the epoch of the World War most of the legations of foreign nations in Washington were located near the White House, on some of the pleasant streets or avenues of the older residential sectio. But since the Capital has expanded into a great city of approximately a half million people, while distance is almost annihilated by modern means of transportation, there has developed a marked tendency to carry the legations further out, into the less crowded regions in the vicinity of Meridian Hill Park and Rock Creek Park.
We now find ourselves on upper 16th St., about a mile N. of Scott Circle. In reaching this point we have gradually ascended so that we are nearly 200 ft. above the Potomac and from meridian Hill Park, which extends along the street for several blocks immediately at our right hand, there is an inspiring view embracin the city and the valley of the Potomac S. of us. A short distance up the street, at our left, are a number of large and handsome buildings of quite recent construction which are occupied by foreign diplomatic representatives. The one with the massive square tower is the legation of the young republic of Lithuania, the one beyond that belongs to the Cuban legation and the next one to the embassy of Italy. Almost directly across the street from us is the home of the French embassy, resembling a mansion picked up bodily from one of the residential boulevards of Paris. Great Britain's embassy is still housed in its expansive old building at Connecticut Ave. and N St., near Dupont Circle, but it will soon move into a more palatial home further from the heavy of the city. No less than fifty-five nations maintain embassies or legations in Washington.
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