Vietnam protesters from May of 1971 were photographed sleeping in Dupont Circle by Washington Star photographer Brig Cabe on May 1, 1971.

Female students of the Fairmount School included instructional portrait painting. It was one of many finishing school for young women

Photographed in 1963, this section of 17^{th Street between Q and Corcoran Street hosted Annie’s Steak House, a popular restaurant}

Department store and real estate magnate Levi P. Leiter built his large house at 1500 New Hampshire Avenue on the Circle in 1891.

The church of the Covenant at 18th and N Street suffered a tower collapse on August 22, 1888

The Chasteleton Apartment building at 1701 16th Street was built in two stages, beginning in 1920. It was designed by Philip Jullien.

The 1500 block of Connecticut Avenue, like blocks to the north, was originally built as private townhouses.

The dupont fountain was installed in 1922, designed by Bacon and French, replacing the Samuel DuPont statue that had been in the center of the Circle

Streetcars once rounded the Circle

Before 1882, DuPont Circle was known as Pacific Circle, and lined with provate homes.

Built between 1902 and 1905, the Larz Anderson house at 2118 Massachusetts Ave was designed by Little and Brown

Florida Avenue looking north from Massachusetts Ave

Alexander Graham Bell, who built a house at 1331 Connecticut Avenue in 1881.

Buffalo Bridge, which carries Q Street over Rock Creek Park, was built in 1914, to the designs of Glenn and Brown.

Charles A. Lindbergh is seen here entering the Patterson House at 15 Dupont Circle, which then served as the temporary Coolidge White House

This image, taken August 28, 1895, shows the wood frame Methodist Church in its rural setting at 15th and R Street.

Department store magnate Levi P. Leiter built this large house at 1500 New Hampshire Avenue in 1891. It was razed in 1950 for the Dupont Plaza hotel

Architect Jules Henri de Sibour's design for 1746 Massachusetts Avenue.

Maine Senator James G. Blaine, who built the mansion at 2000 Massachusetts Ave

Perry Belmont, a congressman from New York, who built the mansion at 1618 New Hamsphire Ave in 1909 for $1.5 million

Architect Jules Henri de Sibour's designs for the McCormick apartment building (1785 Mass), now home to the National Trust.

Pioneer TV inventor Charles Jenkins demonstrates the main transmitting panel of the radio broadcasting station at 1519 Conn Ave, established in 1928.

Mrs. William Howard taft photographed in 1910; following their time in the White House, they resided at 2115 Wyoming Ave from 1921 to 1930

President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft was a long time resident of Dupont Circle

Phoebe A. Hearst, the wife of millionaire George Hearst, was photographed in 1905 when she lived at 1400 New Hampshire Avenue.

Wealthy art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen shown with his wife and daughter Dorothy in 1926. He rented an apartment at 1785 Mass with $21 million in art

Mabel Boardman resided at 1801 P Street when she helped organize the American Red Cross

Dupont Circle is named after Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont, who lived from 1803 to 1865.

Author and Reverend Bishop William F. McDowell resided at 2107 Wyoming Ave from 1923 to 1931.

Ida Grant, at left, was the wife of Frederick Dent Grant, the son of US President U.S. Grant, built the house at 1711 New Hampshire Ave

This 1910 view of the Visitation School was taken just before it was torn down, now the site of the Mayflower Hotel

The Dupont Circle metro was designed in 1969

The Riggs bank Building (now PNC) on Dupont Circle replaced the mansion known as Stewart Castle.

Workers celebrated the first entrance of the trolley car under Dupont Circle in 1949.

The 1969 design for the Dupont Metro station

The 1969 design for the north entrance of the Dupont Metro station

Wisconsin Senator Philetus Sawyer, who built a house at Conn and R Street in 1888, replaced by the building housing LaTomate today

The Patterson mansion at 15 Dupont was designed by Stanford White and built in 1903 for Mrs. Robert "Sissy" Patterson

The Highlands apartment building at Connecitcutt Ave and Wyoming Avenue

The Dupont Plaza Hotel replaced the Leiter mansion in 1950

Sarah Adams Whittemore had architect Harvey Page design her house at 1526 New Hampshire Ave in 1892

The octagon house at 1830 Phelps Place was built in 1865; it was demolished in 1950

The house at 2253 R Street, designed by Wood, Donn & Deming

Evalyn Walsh McLean, who resided at 2020 Massachusetts Avenue, and the owner of the famed Hope Diamond.

Completed in 1951, the large office building at Connecticut Ave and M Street was designed by William Lescaze

The "Temple Heights" estate was once located where the Hilton Hotel is now located, and was the site of the Treaty Oak

Dupont Circle strollers around the turn of the nineteenth century

Rock Creek Park and Florida Avenue in the 1890s

The most expensive private house built in the city at the time it was built in 1903 was the Percy Belmont winter home at 1618 NH Ave

Following the riots in 1969, Dupont Circle and other areas of the city were guarded by the National Guard

The Walsh mansion, built by Thomas F Walsh at 2020 Mass Ave, built at a cost of $800,000

The Dupont Circle Building, built in 1931 at Conn and Dupont Circle, built as a 700 unit apartment building

The Samuel Dupont Statue, which was at the center of Dupont Circle until 1923

Samuel Francis DuPont.

The installation of the DuPont fountain in 1923

Dupont Circle, 1923

The trolley underpass design, circa 1949

The 1700 block of Q Street

The 1700 block of Q Street

Rock Creek park and Florida Avenue in the 1890s