Welcome to Historic Mount Pleasant!

 We our a volunteer-based membership organization

Membership is open to everyone, so please join! 

The Annual Membership Meeting of Historic Mount Pleasant was held at 10 am, Saturday, March 1, at the Stoddard Baptist Home, 1818 Newton Street. 

The meeting featured the presentation of our 2007 Annual Report and a presentation by Amy Levin, a new neighbor at 1834 Ingleside, who described the changes she has made there to obtain LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.   LEED -- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design -- is a program that provides independent third party verification that a building project meets the highest green building and performance measures.  Certification is not only good for the environment but entitles the owner to certain tax benefits.  Amy's house is the first in the District to receive this designation, and she will lead a tour of the house following the meeting.

Historic Mount Pleasant (HMP) provides this website for Mount Pleasant residents and business owners, as well as others, with interesting and practical information about living in our Historic District.  We especially aim to help you navigate the permit process and understand the benefits of living in an historic district.  We encourage you to visit our calendar which lists HMP's activities and other neighborhood events that make this such a great place to live and visit.

 

Email: historicmtp@aol.com
Phone: (202) 387-2734
1624 Hobart Street, N.W.; Washington, D.C. 20009

 

 

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'Images of America:  Mount Pleasant’   Author Mara Cherkasky, a Washington historian and writer, presents photos, maps, and other images to illustrate the fascinating chapters about our neighborhood in her recently published book ‘Images of America:  Mount Pleasant’.  The book is available for $20.00 plus tax at Pfeiffer’s Hardware Store.  You can also reach Mara directly at mcherkasky@verizon.net for a signed copy or purchase online at www.amazon.com.   Below is a short overview of our neighborhood’s history as presented in ‘Images of America:  Mount Pleasant’:

Mount Pleasant -- Samuel P. Brown must have thought this name perfect when he chose it for his country estate on a wooded hill overlooking Washington City. The name also suited the New Englanders who settled in the village Brown founded near 14th Street and Park Road just after the Civil War. About 1903 the once isolated village began its transformation to a fashionable suburb after the city extended 16th Street through Mount Pleasant’s heart, and a new streetcar line linked the area to downtown. Developers constructed elegant apartment buildings and spacious brick rowhouses on block after block, and successful businessmen built stately residences along Park Road.   Change arrived again with the Great Depression and then World War II, as the suburb evolved into an urban, exclusively white, working-class enclave that eventually became majority African American. In addition a Latino presence was evident as early as the 1960s. By the 1980s the neighborhood was known as the heart of D.C.’s Latino and counterculture communities. Today these communities are dispersing, however, in response to a hot real estate market in Washington.

* All Membership rates are a suggested amount.  We'd love to include all neighbors in our membership; so, if you can more easily budget a lower amount, please mail that amount in a  check with your membership form.