History

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Logan Circle has undergone a renaissance. Whole Foods Market celebrates its ten-year anniversary on the 1400 block of P Street this year, and hundreds of units of new housing have sprouted up across the street and throughout the neighborhood. New restaurants have opened their doors on 14th and P Streets, including Birch and Barley, Cafe Salsa, Cork Wine Bar, Ghana Cafe, Mid City Caffe, and Posto. Night life is further enhanced by new, cool destinations such as Mova, Chuchkey, and Stoney’s, where it seems “everyone knows your name.” And the neighborhood has become an arts and retail destination for the entire metro area.

It seems that on almost every block you can find at least one old Victorian brownstone being restored to its original grandeur. In recent years, the Studio Theatre at 14th and P has undergone a significant expansion and complete  facelift. Other arts venues, including 1409 Playbill Cafe, Miss Pixie’s back room, and Source Theatre, have been created or upgraded. The National Park Service also completed a major renovation of the Logan Circle Park. Once Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s “Special Place,” briefly home to General John A. Logan, and backdrop to Duke Ellington’s childhood, the only 100 percent residential circle in Washington, D.C. has come a long way from its original incarnation as “Blodget’s Wilderness” and home to a gallows for hanging civil war defectors!