Parts of F Street and 7th Street, N.W. and nearby blocks have historically been the heart of the Washington, D.C. Downtown shopping district. In the first half of the 20th century there were numerous upscale large department stores along and near F Street, while 7th Street housed more economical emporia and large retail furniture stores. [1] [2] The F street corridor stretches west from Downtown's Penn Quarter and Gallery Place towards 15th Street, while the 7th Street corridor includes the neighborhoods of Penn Quarter, Chinatown and Mount Vernon Square, and extends up to the border of Shaw.
Center Market, the city's largest public market, opened in 1872, operating until 1931 on the site of today's National Archives Building. Its northern end faced Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 9th Streets. Transportation by Washington, D.C.'s streetcars, first horse-drawn, then electrified, notably the busy transfer point at F and 9th, helped solidify this area as D.C.'s most popular shopping district during that time. [3]
Although Macy's is the only traditional department store left, the district is home to four discount department stores, three small malls or shopping centers, and many on-street retail stores, including H&M, Anthropologie, and others.
From north to south and east to west:
From north to south and east to west:
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 7th Street north of F, as far as O Street in today's Shaw district, was home not only to several of the more economical large department stores such as Goldberg's and Harry Kaufman's, but to the city's concentration of furniture retailers. These included (from north to south): [12]
*site
15th to 14th | 14th to 13th | 13th to 12th | 12th to 11th | 11th to 10th | 10th to 9th | 9th to 8th | 8th to 7th | 7th to 6th |
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Goldberg's* | ||||||||
K Street | ||||||||
Hahn's* Goldberg's* |
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I Street | ||||||||
CityCenterDC | King's Palace* | |||||||
H Street | ||||||||
Gallery Place | ||||||||
Macy's (Hecht's*) | Palais Royal* (1893-1946) |
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G Street | ||||||||
Woodward & Lothrop*; now Forever 21, H&M, Zara |
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Garfinckel's* | T. J. Maxx | |||||||
F Street | ||||||||
Marshall's | Hecht's* | |||||||
District Center ( Nordstrom Rack, Saks Off Fifth) |
Hecht's* (1941 expansion) | |||||||
E Street NW | ||||||||
Lansburgh's* | ||||||||
D Street NW | ||||||||
National Place | Palais Royal* (1877-1893) | Kann's* | The Hub (furniture) | |||||
Kann's* — A. Saks & Co.* | ||||||||
Pennsylvania Avenue NW | Navy Memorial Plaza formerly Market Space) | |||||||
Center Market |
F Street is perhaps the principal shopping and theater district of Washington...included in the general F Street shopping district is G Street
Transportation by street cars, at first horse drawn, then electrified, hastened the trend and made this street Washington's fashionable shopping district. By the 1920s the intersection of F and Ninth Streets was the busiest 19 transfer point
Parts of F Street and 7th Street, N.W. and nearby blocks have historically been the heart of the Washington, D.C. Downtown shopping district. In the first half of the 20th century there were numerous upscale large department stores along and near F Street, while 7th Street housed more economical emporia and large retail furniture stores. [1] [2] The F street corridor stretches west from Downtown's Penn Quarter and Gallery Place towards 15th Street, while the 7th Street corridor includes the neighborhoods of Penn Quarter, Chinatown and Mount Vernon Square, and extends up to the border of Shaw.
Center Market, the city's largest public market, opened in 1872, operating until 1931 on the site of today's National Archives Building. Its northern end faced Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 9th Streets. Transportation by Washington, D.C.'s streetcars, first horse-drawn, then electrified, notably the busy transfer point at F and 9th, helped solidify this area as D.C.'s most popular shopping district during that time. [3]
Although Macy's is the only traditional department store left, the district is home to four discount department stores, three small malls or shopping centers, and many on-street retail stores, including H&M, Anthropologie, and others.
From north to south and east to west:
From north to south and east to west:
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 7th Street north of F, as far as O Street in today's Shaw district, was home not only to several of the more economical large department stores such as Goldberg's and Harry Kaufman's, but to the city's concentration of furniture retailers. These included (from north to south): [12]
*site
15th to 14th | 14th to 13th | 13th to 12th | 12th to 11th | 11th to 10th | 10th to 9th | 9th to 8th | 8th to 7th | 7th to 6th |
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Goldberg's* | ||||||||
K Street | ||||||||
Hahn's* Goldberg's* |
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I Street | ||||||||
CityCenterDC | King's Palace* | |||||||
H Street | ||||||||
Gallery Place | ||||||||
Macy's (Hecht's*) | Palais Royal* (1893-1946) |
|||||||
G Street | ||||||||
Woodward & Lothrop*; now Forever 21, H&M, Zara |
||||||||
Garfinckel's* | T. J. Maxx | |||||||
F Street | ||||||||
Marshall's | Hecht's* | |||||||
District Center ( Nordstrom Rack, Saks Off Fifth) |
Hecht's* (1941 expansion) | |||||||
E Street NW | ||||||||
Lansburgh's* | ||||||||
D Street NW | ||||||||
National Place | Palais Royal* (1877-1893) | Kann's* | The Hub (furniture) | |||||
Kann's* — A. Saks & Co.* | ||||||||
Pennsylvania Avenue NW | Navy Memorial Plaza formerly Market Space) | |||||||
Center Market |
F Street is perhaps the principal shopping and theater district of Washington...included in the general F Street shopping district is G Street
Transportation by street cars, at first horse drawn, then electrified, hastened the trend and made this street Washington's fashionable shopping district. By the 1920s the intersection of F and Ninth Streets was the busiest 19 transfer point