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How Dupont Circle was built, from DC's historic building permits, and what the newspaper said about it a hundred years ago this week.
| Decade | Buildings |
|---|---|
| 1870s | 45 |
| 1880s | 345 |
| 1890s | 458 |
| 1900s | 192 |
| 1910s | 158 |
| 1920s | 76 |
| 1930s | 20 |
| 1940s | 14 |
| 1950s | 3 |
| 2010s | 1 |
Each record is one building listed on a historic DC building permit; a single permit can cover many buildings. The busiest decade is highlighted in the chart.
In 1889, Darby & Davis built 23 buildings on the 1700 block of Q Street NW under 1 permit, designed by T. Franklin Schneider. The largest permit covered 23 buildings at an estimated $250,000 in total.
Mentions of Dupont Circle in the Evening Star, October 31 – November 6, 1926. Searched for "Dupont Circle", "Du Pont Circle".
“Several nicely arranged apartments in this modern fireproof building, splendidly located between Dupont Circle and 16th st. Living room, dining room, bedroom, tiled bath, kitchenette and porch: the living and din ing rooms can be used as one large room: stationary tub in kitchen; ample closet …”See page 108 at loc.gov ↗
“Inst one square from Dupont Circle in an exclu sive urban location.”See page 46 at loc.gov ↗
“Just one square from Dupont Circle in an exclu sive urban location.”See page 56 at loc.gov ↗
Clips are machine-read text (OCR) from scanned Evening Star pages on the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, lightly cleaned (line-break hyphens rejoined, stray symbols removed); misspellings are the scanner's. Newspapers this old are public domain. Each clip links to its page at loc.gov. Clips that mention race, covenants, deed restrictions or slurs are skipped automatically (keyword list: race, races, racial, colored, coloured, negro, negroes, white only, whites only, for whites, white people, white persons, white residents, caucasian, segregation, segregated, covenant, covenants, restricted, restriction, restrictions, plus a list of slurs), because they need an editor's context; legal notices and lists of private individuals are skipped too.
We haven't found a recorded oral history about Dupont Circle in a public archive yet.
Search the archives yourself: The People's Archive, DC Public Library · Historic Chevy Chase DC Oral History Archive · Humanities Truck Community Archive, American University · Tenleytown Historical Society · Boundary Stones (WETA). Summaries are ours; the recordings and their rights stay with each archive.