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Adams Morgan Information
Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., centered at the intersection of 18th Street NW and Columbia Road NW. Adams Morgan is considered the heart of Washington's Latino community, and is a major night life area with many bars and restaurants, particularly along 18th Street, the main commercial street. It is also the most densely populated and developed neighborhood in Washington. Much of the neighborhood is composed of 19th- and early 20th-century row houses and apartment buildings. Despite recent improvements in public safety and revitalization efforts, crime remains a significant problem in the neighborhood.
Dupont Circle is located to the south of Adams Morgan, while Mount Pleasant
is to the north, and Columbia Heights is to the east. The neighborhood is
bounded by Connecticut Avenue NW to the west, Rock Creek Park to the northwest,
Harvard Street to the north, 16th Street to the east, and U Street and Florida
Avenue NW to the south.
The name Adams Morgan, once hyphenated, is derived from the names of two,
formerly segregated area elementary schools - the older, all-black Thomas P.
Morgan Elementary School (now defunct) and the all-white John Quincy Adams
Elementary School. Pursuant to the 1954 Bolling v. Sharpe Supreme Court ruling,
District schools were desegregated in 1955. The Adams-Morgan Community Council,
comprising both Adams and Morgan schools and the neighborhoods they served, was
formed in 1958. The city drew boundaries of the neighborhood through four
preexisting neighborhoods — parts of Shaw, Kalorama Heights, and Reed-Cooke, as
well as all of Lanier Heights — naming the resulting area after both schools.
In the late 1960s, a group of forward-thinking residents organized and worked
with city officials to plan and construct a new elementary school and
recreational complex that was conceived as a community hub, a concept that 40
years later has become a favored one in public school facilities design. The
development was named the Marie H. Reed Learning Center after Bishop Reed, a
community activist, minister and leader. It featured a daycare center, tennis
and basketball courts, a solar-heated swimming pool, health clinic, athletic
field and outdoor chess tables.