{"id":24773,"date":"2017-10-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foresthillsconnection.com\/?p=24773"},"modified":"2017-10-14T22:46:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T02:46:17","slug":"grant-road-the-historic-country-lane-in-dcs-modern-street-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foresthillsconnection.com\/style\/grant-road-the-historic-country-lane-in-dcs-modern-street-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Road: The historic country lane in DC’s modern street grid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 3000 block of Grant Road in Forest Hills, as viewed from 30th Street NW. (photo by Ann Kessler)<\/p><\/div>\n

by Ann Kessler<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout DC are several streets that run only a few blocks at a time. They don’t fit in the grid of numbered and alphabetical street names. They’re not the avenues named for the states. These are remnants of roads that were here before the city grew into the District of Columbia boundaries.<\/p>\n

One of these is Grant Road. Once a long, winding country road, it now exists only in unconnected segments: the hilly road entering Rock Creek Park at the intersection of Davenport and Broad Branch Road; the 3000 to 3200 blocks between the rear of the apartment building at 4701 Connecticut Avenue and 30th Street NW; the 3700 block near Nebraska Avenue at Davenport Street; and the 4400 and 4500 blocks of Grant Road, off of present-day Albemarle Street near Wisconsin Avenue.<\/p>\n