Mount Pleasant--Samuel P. Brown must have thought the 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 that Brown founded near
Fourteenth Street and Park Road just after the Civil War. Around
1900, the once-isolated village began its transformation into a
fashionable suburb after the city extended Sixteenth Street through
Mount Pleasant's heart, and a new streetcar line linked the area to
downtown. Developers constructed elegant apartment buildings and
spacious brick row houses 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 mostly 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 booming real estate market in
Washington, D.C.
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