Not Yet Disappeared: Some of the Small Business Buildings Around Us

6th and O St NW

Red Toque Cafe at 6th & RI Ave NW

Trinity Tax Man on RI Ave NE

Georgia Av at W St NW

BnJ Cafe 3rd at RI Ave NW

I've  sometimes written about how Washington DC is rapidly changing but I find myself photoing the older buildings that hold businesses.  Many of them are just brick or plain structures but it is their small street scale that attracts my eye. Many of them look as if they once were houses or apartments and have become businesses -- usually mom-and-pop or small business.  Most of them look like they were built early in the 20th century or maybe in the 1890s;  it's hard to tell as there's not usually a date on the building.  And they seem as if they could, and have, shifted from one or the other function quite easily over the past one hundred years through knocking out a few walls, widening doors or just changing the sign out front!