Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: Dupont Circle

This block of T Street N.W. is full of great houses. Thankfully, the 1950's plan to replace T Street with a freeway never came to pass. Apparently, the idea was for the I-395 freeway to continue up New Jersey Avenue to T Street then west on T Street to Florida Avenue to hook up with an even more built-up Rock Creek Parkway.

Freedom Market, located at 1901 New Hampshire Avenue N.W. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built around 1880, the Italianate style, former row house is designated as a contributing property to the Strivers' Section Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Strivers’ Section was historically an enclave of upper-middle-class African Americans, often community leaders, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It takes its name from a turn-of-the-20th-century writer who described the district as "the Striver’s section, a community of Negro aristocracy." The name echoes that of Strivers’ Row in Harlem, a New York City historic neighborhood of black professionals. Among its most notable residents was Frederick Douglass, runaway slave, abolitionist, orator, writer, and civil servant; and Langston Hughes (1902–1967), the Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright, lived at 1749 S Street, N.W.

This statue of Mahatma Ghandi is situated across the street from the Embassy of India in Washington DC. It shows Gandhi in stride, as a leader and man of action evoking memories of his 1930 protest march against salt-tax. Through such non-violent protests, Ghandi led India to freedom from British rule in 1947. He is hailed as the father of the nation. Crusader for human rights and liberty, thinker, writer reformer, apostle of truth and non-violence (ahimsa), Gandhi succeeded in uniting millions of people of all faiths across India in a mass movement of civil disobedience. On Gandhi’s seventieth birthday, Albert Einstein wrote, "Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth". The statue is situated across the street from the embassy of India in Washington DC. It is a gift from the people of India and the Indian-American community. Created by Gautam Pal, the statue rises to a height of 8 feet 8 inches and is a gift from the people of India and the Indian-American community.