The Chinatown Gate is located on H Street, just east of 7th Street. The characters on the archway, read from right to left as zhongguo cheng, mean Chinese city or Chinese quarters - that this is Chinatown (photo 2000).
West Side of 7th Street Looking North from H Street NW, August 2000.
Photo credit: Historical Society of Washington, DC, John P. Wymer Collection
West Side of 7th Street Looking North from H Street NW, 1949.
Photo credit: Historical Society of Washington, DC, John P. Wymer Collection
East Side of 7th Street Looking North from H Street NW. The street as it looked on October 23, 1949. Julius Germuiller's building at 819-821, once Grogan's Furniture, has become Peerless Furniture by 1949.
Blick von der H Street NW in nördlicher Richtung auf die Westseite der 7th Street. Das Schuhgeschäft an der Ecke ist von einer Starbucks-Filiale ersetzt worden (das Gebäude wurde von Julius Germuiller entworfen), und G.C. Murphy’s 5 & 10 befindet sich südlich von der Stelle, wo heute das Goethe-Institut zu finden ist.