MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE
Union Station to Lincoln Park
4th to 6th Streets NE (Stanton Park)

Sanborn, 1904	Today	Cross Section (South Park shown here)

Stanton Park, North Edge	SE View into Stanton Park

Row houses, churches, and offices surround the Park and combine to form a sense of enclosure and of civic place. Traffic circulates around the Park, which features an equestrian statue of Revolutionary War general Nathanial Green. Around the turn of the century, the Park was surrounded by row houses and also featured the Peabody Public School on the south side, a small coal yard on the north side, and the Eastern Methodist Church in the northeast quadrant. Today, the Peabody School contin ues to exert its presence on the south side of the Park and is now used as a day care. The north side of the Park contains numerous row houses that have been converted into office use and features the 518 C Street N.E. building, which was designed by Wei nstein Associates in 1991. The building responds to the churches around the Park through its use of a rounded corner-tower and numerous brick screens on the facade. The nearby 317 Massachusetts Avenue, also designed by Weinstein Associates in 1985, furt her corresponds with the row house character of this section through its use of gabled bays, brick, and patterned stringcourses. The Imani Temple, which was formerly the Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church, occupies the eastern side of the Park.