Manor Park, Washington, D.C.

Map of Washington, D.C., with Manor Park highlighted in red

Manor Park is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C.. The National Capital Planning Commission 1967 "District Communities" map indicates this neighborhood is roughly bounded by Fifth Street NW on the west, North Capitol Street and Blair Road on the east, Aspen Street to the north, and Missouri Avenue NW to the south. In 1940, the Manor Park Citizens Association deemed the boundaries to be Eighth Street, Whittier Street, North Capitol Street, and Concord Street (now Missouri Avenue).^[1]

Residential and not very suburban, Manor Park is largely characterized by rowhouses, detached and semi-detached houses, and small neighborhood businesses. Many of the homes were built in the 1920s.^[1] There are also swaths of park land cutting through the neighborhood, including Fort Slocum Park. In 1923, the Manor Park Citizens Association formed to improve the neighborhood.^[2] Manor Park had mostly dirt roads until at least 1926.^[3]^[4] For many years, Manor Park was not connected by road to Takoma until Fourth and Fifth Streets were extended to connect the two neighborhoods in 1926.^[5]

References

1 2 "Manor Park Citizens' Group Helped Develop Area of Homes". The Washington Post. November 3, 1940. p. 16.
↑ "Manor Park Citizens To Form Association". The Washington Post. October 10, 1923. p. 10.
↑ "Manor Park Seeks, In Citizens' Appeal, Improved Streets". The Washington Post. February 8, 1926. p. 2.
↑ "Prompt Relief Promised For Manor Park Streets". The Washington Post. February 9, 1926. p. 9.
↑ "Street Extension Through Hospital Grounds Favored". The Washington Post. March 15, 1926. p. 18.

Takoma

Brightwood
Fort Stevens Ridge

Riggs Park

Manor Park

Sixteenth Street Heights

Brightwood Park

Fort Totten

Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.

Ward 1	Adams Morgan Columbia Heights Kalorama LeDroit Park Mount Pleasant Park View Pleasant Plains Shaw Woodley Park

Ward 2	Burleith Chinatown Downtown Dupont Circle Foggy Bottom Georgetown Kalorama Logan Circle Mount Vernon Square Penn Quarter Shaw Southwest Federal Center West End

Ward 3	American University Park Berkley Cathedral Heights Chevy Chase Cleveland Park Colony Hill Forest Hills Foxhall Friendship Heights Glover Park Kent Massachusetts Heights McLean Gardens North Cleveland Park Observatory Circle The Palisades Potomac Heights Spring Valley Tenleytown Wakefield Wesley Heights Woodland Normanstone Woodley Park

Ward 4	Barnaby Woods Brightwood Brightwood Park Chevy Chase Colonial Village Crestwood Fort Stevens Ridge Fort Totten Hawthorne Manor Park North Portal Estates Petworth Queens Chapel Riggs Park Shepherd Park Sixteenth Street Heights Takoma

Ward 5	Arboretum Bloomingdale Brentwood Brookland Carver Langston Eckington Edgewood Fort Lincoln Fort Totten Gateway Ivy City Langdon Michigan Park North Michigan Park Pleasant Hill Queens Chapel Stronghold-Metropolis View Trinidad Truxton Circle Woodridge

Ward 6	Barney Circle Capitol Hill Judiciary Square Kingman Park Mount Vernon Triangle Navy Yard Near Northeast NoMa Southwest Waterfront Sursum Corda Swampoodle

Ward 7	Benning Benning Heights Benning Ridge Burrville Capitol View Central Northeast Civic Betterment Deanwood Dupont Park East River Heights Eastland Gardens Fairfax Village Fairlawn Fort Davis Fort Dupont Good Hope Greenway Hillbrook Hillcrest Kenilworth Kingman Park Lincoln Heights Marshall Heights Mayfair Naylor Gardens Penn Branch Randle Highlands River Terrace Twining

Ward 8	Anacostia Barry Farm Bellevue Buena Vista Congress Heights Douglass Fairlawn Garfield Heights Knox Hill Shipley Terrace Skyland Washington Highlands Woodland

Coordinates: 38°57′49″N 77°00′57″W / 38.9636°N 77.0158°W / 38.9636; -77.0158

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