Welcome to Historic Mount Pleasant!

 We are a volunteer-based membership organization

Membership is open to everyone, so please join! 

BOARD MEMBER OPPORTUNITIES

 On  During 2011, the Board of Historic Mount Pleasant, Inc., lost two members through resignations.  As a result, there are currently seven Board members (the By-laws provide that the Board is to consist of "at least six and no more than twelve members in good standing of the Corporation....").

Serving on the Board provides opportunities to shape the organization's activities during the year, as well as to meet and interact with neighbors from throughout the Historic District and beyond.  The Board typically meets about 10 times per year, but other time commitments can be accommodated to personal schedules.

Board member terms generally begin following the Annual Meeting, wihich will be held in February or March 2012.  Please consider joining the Board of Historic Mount Pleasant and helping to make a difference in your community.  

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MT. PLEASANT’S STREETCAR ROOTS SHOWCASED AT 2011 ANNUAL MEETING                                                  

Historic Mount Pleasant's  Annual Meeting of the membership was held on March 5, 2011 at Stoddard Baptist Home.  President Fay Armstrong briefly reviewed HMP’s activities over the past year and provided the written 2010 Annual Report (for the report, click here: 2010_Annual_Report).   She was joined by Gabriela Mossi of the Mt. Pleasant Business Association, who summarized the results of efforts funded by the Neighborhood Investment Fund grant awarded to the Association and HMP last year; and by Steve Dryden of the Friends of Peirce Mill, who outlined the status of the mill’s restoration and plans for reopening.  The proposed slate of officers for 2011 was elected.  Eric Madison, a volunteer with the National Trolley Museum, then presented a fascinating history of streetcar service in Mount Pleasant, from its turn-of-the-20th century origin up until end of service about 1961.  His talk was accompanied by a number of vintage photos and, best of all, a motion picture shot in the late 1950s showing the number 42 streetcar traversing its entire route.

MP'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONTINUES WITH PUBLICATION ON HISTORY OF COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR

In June 2010, HMP was awarded a $2,000 grant from the Humanities Council of Washington D.C. to develop a history of the Mount Pleasant Street commercial corridor.  HMP volunteers combed the National Archives and Records Administration, the Washingtoniana Collection of the D.C. Public Library, the D.C. Recorder of Deeds, the D.C. Surveyors Office, and the Historical Society of Washington D.C. for information on the land and buildings comprising Mount Pleasant Street, as well as the businesses that have operated here.

The fruits of that research are available in a summary brochure,  The_Architectural_Legacy_of_Mount_Pleasant_Street .  This document has been published and distributed to businesses currently located in the commercial corridor.  More detailed information is available here on the website.  Clicking on the links will bring up the indicated documents.

MP_Street_North_to_South   provides information, by street address, on building permits.  Included are the permit/construction date; type of building; the builder; the owner; and the architect.

     ROD_North_to_South  provides information about the “chain of title”—that is, records of the sale or transfer of each property over time. (While these records employ square and lot number to legally define each parcel, HMP has arranged them so that the progression follows Mt. Pleasant Street from north to south.)

MP_St_Businesses_1900_to_1919   provides information taken from Boyd’s City Directories about the businesses listed at each address each year.  (Information prior to 1914 is not complete because prior to that year there was no separate street listing in the Directories.)  Three additional files provide similar information for the indicated years:

MP_St_Businesses_1920_to_1929 

MP_St_Businesses_1930_to_1939 

MP_St_Businesses_1940_to_1954 

[Note:  in the latter four files, the notation "nc" (for "no change") is used to indicate that the entry is the same as that for the preceding year.]

Also as part of the anniversary celebration, a few articles highlighting HMP's own history are being added to the website.  The first, outlining the organization's origins (HMP was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia on April 2, 1985) may be accessed by clicking on the following link:

 Anniversary_Article_No._1.pdf

Happy reading....and stay tuned for more!

http://www.historicmtp.citymax.com/f/Quarterly_Report_(September_2010).pdf