I'm busy getting ready for vacation, so this will be a quick one. It's from my old neighborhood in Washington, DC. If you've lived in the area for a long time, you'd probably call the neighborhood Shaw. If you are a realtor trying to market a property, you'd probably call it Logan Circle or Convention Center, because you like a little puffery and somehow Shaw's proud history as a center of African American culture sadly doesn't sell.
Anyway, this just south of O St. in an alley called Naylor Court NW. The location always makes me scratch my head because as you can see in these other photos, the alley has undergone some recent renovations and now features lovely brick paving. It looks great these days. But I could swear that back in 2002 when I served on a DC grand jury, we heard evidence in a horrific violent crime in an alley with a similar name. I may be misremembering, or I may not and gentrification has set in.
Unfortunately I don't know much about the J.P. Turner or his Hospital for Horses and Dogs, but it's a safe bet that they are long gone.
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