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Manor Park is a neighborhood in Ward 4 ofnorthwestWashington, D.C., United States.
TheNational Capital Planning Commission's 1967 "District Communities" map indicates that the neighborhood is roughly bounded between 8th Street NW to the west,North Capitol Street NW, Blair Road NW, and theRed Line train tracks to the east, Rittenhouse Street NW to the north, andMissouri Avenue NW to the south. Manor Park borders the adjacent neighborhoods ofTakoma,Brightwood,Brightwood Park, andRiggs Park neighborhoods. In 1940, the Manor Park Citizens Association deemed the boundaries to be Eighth Street, Whittier Street, North Capitol Street, and Concord Street (now named Missouri Avenue).[1]
Residential and not very suburban, Manor Park is largely characterized byrowhouses,detached andsemi-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, includingFort 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 toTakoma until Fourth and Fifth Streets were extended to connect the two neighborhoods in 1926.[5]
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