Cleaning services in
Dupont Circle & Logan Circle, DC.

L'Enfant's 1791 plan set both circles, the Army Corps of Engineers began building the western one — then called Pacific Circle — in 1871, and Alexander "Boss" Shepherd's 1870s public works turned the surrounding ground fashionable; what filled in is mostly pre-1900 Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque rowhouses, with 135 late-19th-century residences in the eight blocks around Logan Circle alone and larger 1895-to-1910 dwellings on the diagonal avenues now cut into apartments and condominiums — original plaster and hardwood taking spring pollen off the street trees, humid-summer mildew at basement and garden level, and salt tracked in from brick sidewalks all winter.

Connecticut Avenue has been commercial in character since the 1920s and now strings offices and storefronts toward the 43-block Golden Triangle business district, which runs from the White House's north side up to Dupont Circle between 16th and 21st Streets NW, while 14th Street NW carries the restaurant, gallery and theater trade through a 105-acre historic district roughly bounded by 12th, 15th, N and S Streets NW, and converted mansions hold embassies — Colombia's ambassadorial residence in the Thomas T. Gaff House and Indonesia's embassy in the Walsh-McLean House among them.