BaancBlog

Blagden Alley and Naylor Court Jesting

Is This Really Naylor Alley?

Mari of InShaw forwarded a couple of pictures she found of Naylor Alley. The editor forwarded them to a denizen of Naylor Court, which used to be Naylor Alley (in living memory). Confused, think Instanbul and Constantinople. E.g., here.

Now the fun part begins. Said denizen, who prowls the alleys of the Court as Caretaker Filch prowls the halls of Hogwarts, said that he could not match the pictures with any of what he has seen in the Court.

So, class, see if you can do any better.
Here is the first picture

and here is the second


Just for completeness, the containing pages: are here and here.

For extra credit, what structures lie beyond the alleys, and in what direction?

The editor has no idea.

Blagden Alley and Naylor Courts' Stable CharacterPhotos, Old and New. Part I

Comments

Unregistered user Tuesday, May 5, 2009 9:50:56 PM

tonysmallframe writes: The building in the background of the second picture looks to be the Northern Liberty Market - it was on the East side of 5th between K and L streets. That would have this alley to be either in the City Vista area, or across the street. The architect was James H. McGill, it was built in 1874. It burned down in 1949, and was rebuilt as a lower one story structure, without the arched roof. Last use was a wax museum from 1966 to 1974. A good picture of the market can be seen on page 264 of Capital Losses.

Unregistered user Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:56:58 PM

Anonymous writes: Was poking through the historical society photos and saw the following description assoicated with one of the pictures above of "Naylor's Alley": Scene in Naylor's Alley NW between 4th and 5th, K and L Streets NW. Caption on photograph reads: "No. 73, Naylor's Alley, Jan'y 3, 1936, Alley Dwelling Authority of the District of Columbia."

Write a comment

New comments have been disabled for this post.

May 2013
M T W T F S S
April 2013June 2013
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31