Wesley Heights
Wesley Heights | |
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 Map o Washington, D.C., wi Wesley Heights hielichtit in reid | |
| Coordinates: 38°55′44″N 77°05′22″W / 38.928978°N 77.089542°WCoordinates: 38°55′44″N 77°05′22″W / 38.928978°N 77.089542°W | |
| Kintra | Unitit States |
| Destrict | Washington, D.C. |
| Ward | Ward 3 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Councilmember | Mary Cheh |
Wesley Heights is a smaw neebourheid o Washington, D.C. situatit sooth o Tenleytown. It is bordered bi New Mexico Avenue (on the east), Nebraska Avenue (on the north), Battery-Kemble Park (on the wast) an Glover Parkway (on the sooth). Foxhall Road is the main roadwey passin throu Wesley Heights. Wesley Heights is in Northwest, in Ward 3 an Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D.
Wesley Heights wis developit in the 1920s bi W.C. and A.N. Miller, who developit the neebourin commonties o Spring Valley an American University Park. It wis ane o the first maister planned commonties in the Unitit States an featured such services as a shuttle tae the Wisconsin Avenue streetcar an a commonty club house. It remains a wealthy residential enclave.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Shaw, Diane (2010). ""Wesley Heights and Spring Valley: Persistency and Consistency"". In Katharine Smith (ed.). Washington At Home. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 415–432, 492–493.
