Dana Ellyn www.danaellyn.com
Heritage Trail painting series
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Stop #5: 49th & Hayes ST NE
Suburban Gardens was a 7-acre park built in 1921 by architectural engineer Howard D. Woodson, writer John H. Paynter, theater magnate Sherman H. Dudley, and other investors of the black-owned Universal Development and Loan Company. It was the first and only amusement park within the District boundaries, providing a recreational haven for people who, due to racial segregation, were bartred from white-owned amusements parks such as Maryland’s Glen Echo.
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