Tenleytown is a historic neighborhood in Northwest , Washington, D.C.
68-417: In 1790, locals began calling the neighborhood "Tennally's Town" after area tavern owner John Tennally. Over time, the spelling has evolved and by the 19th century the area was commonly known by its current name, although the spelling Tennallytown continued to be used for some time in certain capacities, including streetcars through the 1920s. The area is the site of Fort Reno , one of the forts that formed
136-638: A side-bearing rail that could be laid flush with the street surface , allowing the first horse-drawn streetcar lines. The technology began to spread and on May 17, 1862, the first Washington, D.C., streetcar company, the Washington and Georgetown Railroad was incorporated. The company ran the first streetcar in Washington, D.C., from the Capitol to the State Department (then housed at
204-429: A baseball field and a soccer field. Due to the high altitude, the neighborhood is home to nearly all of the city's radio masts and towers including the studios and/or towers for WRC-TV, WTTG , WUSA , WETA-TV , WHUT-TV , WDCA , WPXW-TV , WJLA-TV , and radio stations WAMU and WTOP-FM . American Tower started to build an even higher tower, 756 feet (about 230 meters) tall, which could support 169 transmitters, but
272-426: A blue-ribbon panel was convened by PBS to discuss the station's problems; that year, it had to suspend production of Evening Exchange for four months because it had lost revenue from the rights to produce D.C. Lottery drawings. In 1996, the station stopped running pledge drives when they became too expensive for the funds they raised—and would not try again until eight years later. The call letters were changed to
340-495: A cable system, the last cable car system built in the United States. They built a new cable car barn and began operating the system on March 9, 1895. It became clear that the underground electrical system was superior, so it quickly abandoned cable cars and switched to electrical power on July 22, 1899. The last cable car in the city ran the next day. Using electricity from the power plant built to power its cable operation,
408-478: A line was added running south on 3rd St NW and west on Kennedy St NW to Colorado Avenue where it connected to Capital Traction's 14th Street line. On March 14, 1914, it changed its name to the Washington and Maryland Railway. The East Washington Heights Traction Railroad was incorporated on June 18, 1898. By 1903 it ran from the Capitol along Pennsylvania Avenue SE to Barney Circle , and by 1908, it went across
476-532: A park, and a water tower . The Reno School building, built in 1903 for African-American students , is one of the few remaining traces of this community. Within the park boundaries lies the highest natural point in the District of Columbia, 409 feet above sea level. Fort Reno also hosts community gardens, free rock concerts in the summer , sledding in the winter, and tennis courts, playing fields, and dog-walkers year round. Jackson-Reed HS baseball now uses
544-584: A ring around Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War to protect the capital against invasions. It proved to be the crucial lookout point for preventing a siege of Washington, because it is the highest natural elevation point in the District of Columbia . Fort Reno was decommissioned with the surrender of the Confederate army . The last remains of Fort Reno were removed about 1900, when
612-688: A route that ran up from M Street NW up 32nd Street NW and then onto the Georgetown and Rockville Road (now Wisconsin Avenue NW ) to the extant village of Tenleytown . That same year, the Tennallytown and Rockville Railway received its charter and began building tracks from the G&;T's northern terminus to today's D.C. neighborhood of Friendship Heights and the Maryland state line. Finally,
680-403: A successful crusade against the use of overhead wires strung along streets to transmit electricity from steam-driven power stations to the streetcars themselves. Instead of this method, common in other cities but which the editor found aesthetically displeasing, D.C. would adopt a far more expensive and finicky system involving an electrical conduit laid between rails in the street. In 1890,
748-517: A test market for Mobile DTV , and WHUT was one of the participating stations. WHUT-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 32, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 33, using virtual channel 32. WHUT-TV commenced ATSC-M/H (Mobile DTV) broadcasting on February 27, 2011. WHUT-TV
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#1732772665422816-540: A variety of standard PBS programming, as well as programs produced by Howard University, and international programs focusing on regions such as the Caribbean and Africa . On June 25, 1974, Howard University was granted a construction permit to build a new television station on channel 32 in Washington, D.C. It was more than six years before the station signed on November 17, 1980. WHMM-TV (whose call letters stood for Howard University Mass Media ) turned Howard, owner of
884-476: Is St. Ann's Catholic Church, a large imposing stone church which serves area Catholics. On the opposite side of the circle is Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church. American University's Washington College of Law , on the site of the former Immaculata School, also bounds the western edge of the circle. The area is served by the District of Columbia Public Schools . Tenleytown is zoned to: Tenleytown
952-462: Is located in the heart of the neighborhood at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Albemarle Street. Metrobus routes 31, 32, 36 , 33, 30S, 30N, 37, D32, H2, H3, H4, M4, W45, and W47 serve the neighborhood, all making stops at the station. The neighborhood is defined by Tenley Circle which lies at the intersection of Nebraska Avenue, Wisconsin Avenue , and Yuma Street. On Tenley Circle itself
1020-764: Is now Mount Rainier on the Maryland line in 1897. At its southern terminus it connected to the Eckington and Soldier's Home. The first electric streetcar to operate in Anacostia was the Capital Railway. It was incorporated by Colonel Arthur Emmett Randle on March 2, 1895, to serve Congress Heights . It was to run from Shepherds Ferry along the Potomac and across the Navy Yard Bridge to M Street SE. A second line would run along Good Hope Road SE to
1088-617: Is the location of several independent schools, including National Presbyterian School (PS-6) and Georgetown Day School , whose 2021 campus expansion allowed its lower and middle schools to join the high school in Tenleytown. The District of Columbia Public Library system operates the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library , whose 2011 building sits at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Albemarle Streets. Several Tenleytown landmarks are listed on
1156-542: Is the secondary PBS member television station in Washington, D.C. The station is owned by Howard University , a historically black college , and is sister to commercial urban contemporary radio station WHUR-FM (96.3). WHUT-TV's studios are located on the Howard University campus, and its transmitter is located in the Tenleytown neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of Washington. WHUT airs
1224-689: The District of Columbia government reversed its position, and the incomplete tower was demolished in August 2006. Tenleytown and adjacent American University Park are served by the Tenleytown–AU stop on the Washington Metro Red Line . American University offers a free shuttle bus between campus and the Tenleytown metro station at 40th and Albemarle Street, runs between the Metro stop and American University 's main campus. The station
1292-467: The Eckington Car Barn at 4th and T Streets NE via Boundary Street NE, Eckington Place NE, R Street NE, 3rd Street NE and T Street NE. Another line ran up 4th Street NE to Michigan Avenue NE. A one-week pass cost $ 1.25. In 1889, the line was extended along T Street NE, 2nd Street NE and V Street NE to Glenwood Cemetery , but the extension proved unprofitable and was closed in 1894. At
1360-742: The Eldbrooke United Methodist Church and its adjoining Methodist Cemetery . There are two educational properties listed on the NRHP: Jackson-Reed High School and Janney Elementary School . https://mobilitylab.org/transportation-demand-management/commuter-services/how-washington-dc-universities-get-commuters-out-of-cars/https://mobilitylab.org/transportation-demand-management/commuter-services/how-washington-dc-universities-get-commuters-out-of-cars/ Streetcars in Washington, D.C. Streetcars in Washington, D.C. transported people across
1428-634: The Metro station is at the front of the building across from Whole Foods Market. In 2010, the Top of the Town: Tenleytown Heritage Trail opened. Starting at the Tenleytown–AU metro station , the trail passes neighborhood landmarks such as American University , Fort Reno Park , and the studios of WRC-TV , Washington's NBC -affiliated station. The neighborhood is home to the highest point in Washington, Fort Reno Park , which houses
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#17327726654221496-624: The National Archives ) in downtown. It also expanded up Nichols Avenue past the Government Hospital for the Insane (now St. Elizabeths Hospital ). The last streetcar company to begin operation during the horsecar era was the Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway . It was incorporated on March 3, 1875, and began operation later that year. It ran on a circular route around downtown D.C. A track on P Street NW
1564-703: The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Residential listings include the N. Webster Chappell House , Dumblane , and Grant Road Historic District . Commercial properties listed on the NRHP include the Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store and Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Cleveland-Emerson Exchange . Religious listings include Convent de Bon Secours , the Immaculata Seminary Historic District , and
1632-501: The Potomac River into the District helped expand the city's dense downtown core into today's Washington metropolitan area . By 1901, a series of mergers dubbed the "Great Streetcar Consolidation" had gathered most local transit firms into two major companies: Capital Traction Company and Washington Railway and Electric Company . In 1933, a second consolidation brought all streetcars under one company, Capital Transit. Over
1700-722: The Treasury Building . In 1863 the 7th Street line was extended north to Boundary Street NW. The Washington and Georgetown's monopoly didn't last long. On July 1, 1864, a second streetcar company, the Metropolitan Railroad , was incorporated. It opened lines from the Capitol to the War Department along H Street NW. In 1872, the railroad built a line on 9th Street NW and purchased the Union Railroad (chartered on January 19, 1872). It used
1768-626: The Washington and Rockville Electric Railway was incorporated in 1897 to extend the tracks into Maryland line and onward to Bethesda and Rockville. Controlling interest in the companies was obtained first by the Washington Traction and Electric Company , then in 1902 by the Washington Railway and Electric Company . Streetcar service was replaced with buses in 1935. Two more Washington, D.C., streetcar companies operating in Maryland were incorporated by acts of Congress in
1836-506: The bridge to Randle Highlands (now known as Twining ) as far as 27th St SE. By 1917 it had been extended out Pennsylvania Avenue past 33rd Street SE., but the company ceased operations by 1923. On July 5, 1892, the District of Columbia Suburban Railway was incorporated to run streetcars on Bladensburg Road NE from the Columbia Railroad tracks on H Street NE to the Maryland line and from Brookland to Florida Avenue NE. It
1904-588: The Brightwood Railway Company to electrify the Metropolitan's streetcar line on Seventh Street Extended NW or Brightwood Avenue NW (now known as Georgia Avenue NW ) and to extend it to the District boundary at Silver Spring . In 1890, they bought the former Boundary and Silver Spring line from the Metropolitan, but continued to operate it as a horse line. In 1892 it was ordered by Congress to switch to overhead electrical power and complete
1972-521: The Columbia won permission in 1898 to build a line east along Benning Road NE, splitting on the east side of the Anacostia. One branch ran to Kenilworth , and the other, built in 1900, connected at Seat Pleasant with the terminus of the steam-powered Chesapeake Beach Railway . In 1896, the Belt Railway tried out compressed air motors . The compressed air motors were a failure, and in 1899
2040-400: The District authorized companies to sell stock to pay for the upgrades. In 1892, one-horse cars were banned within the city, and by 1894 Congress began requiring companies to switch to something other than horse power. By 1888, Washington was expanding north of Boundary Street NW into the hills of Washington Heights and Petworth . Boundary Street was becoming such a misnomer that in 1890 it
2108-518: The District boundary. The line was built during the Panic of 1896 despite 18 months of opposition from the Anacostia and Potomac River. In 1897 it experimented with the "Brown System", which used magnets in boxes to relay power instead of overhead or underground lines, and with double trolley lines over the Navy Yard Bridge. Both were failures. By 1898, the streetcar line ran along Nichols Avenue SE to Congress Heights , ending at Upsal Street SE. At
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2176-711: The District of Columbia across Maryland to the Pennsylvania border. On June 8, 1896, it was given permission to enter the District of Columbia and connect to the spur of the Brightwood line that ran on Butternut St NW. In 1897, the railroad began construction on a line, known locally as the Dinky Line, that began at the end of the Brightwood spur at 4th and Butternut Streets NW, traveled south on 4th Street NW to Aspen Street NW and then east on Aspen Street NW and Laurel Street NW into Maryland. Between 1903 and 1917,
2244-483: The District's government authorized every streetcar company in Washington to switch from horse power to underground cable or to electricity provided by battery or underground wire. At least two D.C. streetcar companies would install cable mechanisms at great expense only to switch to electric power. Others moved straight to electrically powered trolleys. But the editor of the Washington Star newspaper led
2312-460: The March 2, 1889, D.C. law passed, the Washington and Georgetown began installing an underground cable system. Their 7th Street line switched to cable car on April 12, 1890. The rest of the system switched to cable by August 18, 1892. In 1892, they extended their track along 14th to Park Road NW. On October 18, 1888, the day after the Eckington and Soldier's Home began operation, Congress authorized
2380-614: The Metropolitan Railroad, carrying passengers from 16th and T Streets NW to 22nd and G Streets NW. It began operations on May 1, 1897, with a car barn at 1914 E Street NW. In 1904, it became its own corporation. Horsecars , though an improvement over horse-drawn wagons, were slow, dirty and inefficient. Horses needed to be housed and fed, created large amounts of waste , had difficulty climbing hills and were difficult to dispose of. Early horsecar companies soon began looking for alternative means of motive power. For example,
2448-895: The Union's charter to expand into Georgetown . In 1873, it purchased the Boundary and Silver Spring Railway (chartered on January 19, 1872) and used its charter to build north on what is now Georgia Avenue. In June 1874, it absorbed the Connecticut Avenue and Park Railway (chartered on July 13, 1868; operations started in April 1873) and its line on Connecticut Avenue from the White House to Boundary Avenue. By 1888, it had built additional lines down 4th Street NW/SW to P Street SW, and on East Capitol Street to 9th Street. Chartered by Congress on May 24, 1870 and beginning operations
2516-685: The Washington and Georgetown experimented with a steam motor car in the 1870s and 1880s which was run on Pennsylvania Avenue NW near the Capitol several times, but was never placed in permanent use. On February 2, 1888, the first successful electric streetcar system in the United States began to operate in Richmond, Virginia . The Richmond Union Passenger Railway was the result of five years of work by Frank Sprague , an 1878 Naval Academy graduate who had resigned his commission to work for Thomas Edison . Richmond's example drew intense interest from many cities, including Washington. On March 2, 1889,
2584-692: The Washington and Georgetown's Pennsylvania Avenue route. After three years, streetcars forced the chariots out of business. This was followed almost immediately by the Herdic Phaeton Company . The electric streetcar, however, was too much for the company to compete with and when its principal stockholder died in 1896, it ceased operations. After the Herdic Company went under, the Metropolitan Coach Company began running horse-drawn coaches in conjunction with
2652-419: The auction in order to alleviate longstanding financial issues at the university. The station was entered into the auction when it began in March 2016. Because of WHUT-TV's status as the only black-owned public television station in the United States, the decision attracted sustained opposition from faculty and community members who feared the loss of a rare minority voice in public media. Howard announced WHUT-TV
2720-400: The ball field for its home games. Tenleytown was transformed on October 2, 1941, when Sears Roebuck opened its department store on Wisconsin Avenue at Albemarle Street. At the time the store was notable for its size and for its 300-car rooftop parking lot. In the 1990s, Sears abandoned its retail operation at the location and the building was used by Hechinger hardware until its demise in
2788-407: The cars were equipped with the standard underground power system. The Anacostia and Potomac River switched from horses to electricity in April 1900. This was the last horse-drawn streetcar to run in the District. Two electric trolley companies serving Northern Virginia also operated in the District; a third received permission to do so, but never did. WHUT-TV WHUT-TV (channel 32)
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2856-652: The centers of O and P Streets NW between 33rd and 35th Streets NW in Georgetown . Remnants of tracks and conduit also remain visible near at an M Street door of the Georgetown Car Barn . Public transportation began in Washington, D.C., almost as soon as the city was founded. In May 1800, two-horse stage coaches began running twice daily from Bridge and High Streets NW (now Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW ) in Georgetown by way of M Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW/SE to William Tunnicliff's Tavern at
2924-513: The city and region from 1862 until 1962. The first streetcars in Washington, D.C. , were horse-drawn and carried people short distances on flat terrain. After brief experiments with cable cars , the late-19th-century introduction of electric streetcars opened development of the hilly terrain north of the old city and in Anacostia into streetcar suburbs . The extension of several of the lines into Maryland and of two Virginia lines across
2992-431: The city. The compressed-air motors were a failure; three years later, the company would switch to standard underground electric power conduit . The Rock Creek Railway , the second electric streetcar company incorporated in D.C., was incorporated in 1888 and started operations in 1890 on two blocks of Florida Avenue east of Connecticut Avenue. After completing a bridge over Rock Creek at Calvert Street on July 21, 1891,
3060-519: The control of two companies, "The Union Line" and "The Citizen's Line." In 1860, these two merged under the control of Vanderwerken and continued to operate until they were run out of business by the next new technology: streetcars. Streetcars began operation in New York City along the Bowery in 1832, but the technology did not really become popular until 1852, when Alphonse Loubat invented
3128-521: The current Treasury Building ) starting on July 29, 1862. It expanded to full operations from the Navy Yard to Georgetown on October 2, 1862. Another line opened on November 15, 1862. It was built along 7th Street NW from N Street NW to the Potomac River and expanded to the Arsenal (now Fort McNair ) in 1875. A third line ran down 14th Street NW from Boundary Street NW (now Florida Avenue ) to
3196-519: The home bought the house and still own it today. After the American Civil War , what is now Fort Reno Park developed into an African-American community. This community existed in tension with the white residents of Tenleytown, as well as major landholders. Eventually, a coalition of groups persuaded the unelected government of D.C. and the Federal Government to clear the community for segregated neighborhood resources: Deal Middle School,
3264-583: The land owned by the Dyer family was being prepared for a reservoir. Due to its elevation it is also the site of the oldest home in Washington, D.C., Charles Jones's home, called “The Rest,” is believed to have originally been built around 1700 and significantly expanded around 1800. This home stayed in the Jones family until 1920 when the Magruders (local grocers) bought the home. In 1974, the current family owning
3332-412: The late 1990s. In the 2000s, the building was converted to a mixed-use development complex called Cityline at Tenley, with luxury condominiums (The Cityline) on the top levels, a Best Buy (later closed and replaced by a Target store) and The Container Store at street level, and an Ace Hardware underground, located within the parking garage that serves the aforementioned stores. The west entrance to
3400-539: The line never ran further than an extension to Berwyn Heights, Maryland . The route was planned to promote development of company-owned land adjacent to the tracks, but it never successfully competed with established rail lines in the same area. Noting its diminished ambitions, it became the Washington Interurban Railway on October 12, 1912, and changed the Railway to Railroad in 1919. After
3468-476: The line was extended through Adams Morgan and north on Connecticut Avenue to Chevy Chase Lake in Maryland. In 1893, a line was added through Cardozo/Shaw to 7th Street NW. A trio of streetcar companies provided service from Georgetown north and ultimately to Rockville, Maryland. The first one was the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway , chartered on August 22, 1888, and just the third D.C. streetcar company to incorporate. It began operations in 1890 on
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#17327726654223536-447: The line. The next year, the streetcar tracks reached Takoma Park via a spur along Butternut Street NW to 4th Street NW. In 1898, the Brightwood was ordered to switch to underground electric power on pain of having its charter revoked. The Metropolitan experimented with batteries in 1890 but found them unsatisfactory. On August 2, 1894, Congress ordered the Metropolitan to switch to underground electrical power. It complied, installing
3604-510: The next decades, the streetcar system shrank amid the growing usage of the automobile and pressure to switch to buses. After a strike in 1955, the company changed ownership and became D.C. Transit, with explicit instructions to switch to buses . The system was dismantled in the early 1960s; the last streetcar ran on January 28, 1962. Today, some streetcars, car barns , trackage , stations, and rights-of-way exist in various states of usage. Visible remnants of tracks and conduit remain intact in
3672-597: The only radio station owned by an HBCU at the time, into the owner of the first Black-owned public television station. At the outset, the station suffered from some problems with its antenna and the need to train staff on the job. It also faced issues carving out an identity for itself and its mission, with standard PBS fare airing during much of the day; in 1983, its budget was one-third that of WETA-TV . However, within its first decade, it produced 1,000 Howard graduates trained in television production. The long-running Evening Exchange public affairs program, which debuted with
3740-520: The present WHUT-TV in 1998 to increase channel 32's identification with the university. At the time it had signed on, the WHUT call letters belonged to a radio station in Anderson, Indiana and were not available to Howard. Soon after the start of preparations for the 2016-17 spectrum reallocation auction , Howard University announced that it was considering the sale of WHUT-TV's channel 33 allocation in
3808-465: The same time the Capital Railway was incorporated, the Washington and Marlboro Electric Railway was chartered to run trains across the Anacostia River through southeast Anacostia to the District boundary at Suitland Road and from there to Upper Marlboro , but it never laid any track. The Baltimore and Washington Transit Company was incorporated before 1894, with authorization to run from
3876-554: The same time, an extension was built along Michigan Avenue NE to the B&;O railroad tracks. In 1895, the company removed its overhead trolley lines in accordance with its charter and attempted to replace them with batteries. These proved too costly and the company replaced them with horses in the central city. In 1896, Congress directed the Eckington and Soldier's Home to try compressed air motors and to substitute underground electric power for all its horse and overhead trolley lines in
3944-583: The same year, the Columbia Railway was the city's third horse car operator. It ran from the Treasury Building along H Street NW/NE to the city boundary at 15th Street NE. The company built a car barn and stable on the east side of 15th Street just south of H Street at the eastern end of the line. The Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad was chartered on May 5, 1870. It wasn't given approval by Congress until February 18, 1875, but it
4012-611: The site now occupied by the Supreme Court Building . Service ended soon after it began. The next attempt at public transit arrived in the spring of 1830, when Gilbert Vanderwerken 's Omnibuses, horse-drawn wagons , began running from Georgetown to the Navy Yard . The company maintained stables on M Street, NW. These lines were later extended down 11th Street SE to the waterfront and up 7th Street NW to L Street NW. Vanderwerken's success attracted competitors, who added new lines, but by 1854, all omnibuses had come under
4080-420: The station, became a station staple; it was hosted by Kojo Nnamdi between 1985 and 2011. Budget cuts at Howard in the late 1980s and 1990s prompted staff cuts in operations. Even as the station tried to significantly step up fundraising, its treatment as another academic department, requiring a different style of management, often hurt WHMM-TV. Staff levels were cut from 90 in 1988 to 65 five years later, when
4148-602: The summer of 1892. Congress approved the Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway Company 's charter on July 28, 1892, permitting the company to build an electric streetcar line from Georgetown to Cabin John, Maryland . Its tracks reached the District–Maryland line on September 28, 1895 and Cabin John in 1897. Congress approved the Maryland and Washington Railway's charter on August 1, 1892. That railroad's tracks ran on Rhode Island Avenue NE from 4th Street NE reaching what
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#17327726654224216-697: The underground sliding shoe on the north–south line in January 1895. The Metropolitan switched the rest of the system to electric power on July 7, 1896. In 1895, the Metropolitan built a streetcar barn near the Arsenal and a loop in Georgetown to connect it to the Georgetown Car Barn . In 1896, it extended service along East Capitol Street and built the East Capitol Street Car Barn. It also extended its service from Connecticut Avenue to Mount Pleasant, running up Columbia Avenue and Mount Pleasant Road to Park Road. The Columbia decided to try
4284-535: Was added in 1876. In 1881, the route was extended north and south on 11th Street West and tracks were rerouted across the Mall. It changed its name to the Belt Railway on February 18, 1893. During this time, streetcars competed with numerous horse-drawn chariot companies. Starting on March 5, 1877, the date of President Hayes' inauguration , single-horse carriages began running on a route roughly parallel to
4352-607: Was constructed that year. The streetcars traveled from the Arsenal and crossed the Navy Yard Bridge to Uniontown (now Historic Anacostia) to Nichols Avenue SE (now Martin Luther King Avenue) and V Street SE where a car barn and stables were maintained by the company. In 1888 the Anacostia and Potomac River expanded from the Navy Yard to Congressional Cemetery , and past Garfield Park to the Center Market (now
4420-565: Was never built. But the route was reused by the final streetcar company to form in D.C.: the Washington, Spa Spring and Gretta Railroad. It was chartered by the state of Maryland on February 13, 1905, and authorized to enter the District on February 18, 1907. Construction began by March 22, 1908. In 1910, the company began running cars along a single track from a modest waiting station and car barn near 15th Street NE and H Street NE along Bladensburg Road NE to Bladensburg . Although initially planned to go as far as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ,
4488-539: Was renamed Florida Avenue . Climbing the hills to the new parts of the city was difficult for horses, but electric streetcars could do it easily. In the year following the successful demonstration of the Richmond streetcar, four electric streetcar companies were incorporated in Washington, D.C. The Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railway was the first to charter, on June 19, 1888, and started operation on October 17. Its tracks started at 7th Street and New York Avenue NW, east of Mount Vernon Square , and traveled 2.5 miles to
4556-610: Was the last remaining Washington-market broadcaster to broadcast an M/H signal. The signal nominally contained a feed of its main programming in standard definition on 32.1 and an audio feed of WAMU on 32.2, although neither stream contains audio or video data. WHUT became the Washington market's second ATSC 3.0 lighthouse station on December 15, 2021, joining Sinclair Broadcast Group 's WIAV-CD (channel 58). WHUT's ATSC 3.0 signal carries its own main programming feed as well as those of Washington's four major network affiliates. As required by FCC rules, WHUT's two subchannels relocated to
4624-450: Was withdrawn from the auction on February 16, 2017; the official reason was that the station's asking price had become low enough through the reverse auction process that it was apparent selling would not produce sufficient proceeds to justify ending operations. The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the multiplexed signal of WJLA-TV : WHUT began broadcasting in digital in 2007. In July 2009, Washington, D.C. TV stations became
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