The area bordering P Street passed through several hands, with the property becoming more and more fragmented over time.

"I'm gon' try P Street," the driver said, heading downtown again.

The home on P Street still exists and has recently been renovated as a commercial property.

A new structure was built in 1821, and the church later relocated to P Street the 1870s.

P Street was even more crowded at that hour than the parkway had been.

The apartment was two bedrooms and two baths forced into a very tight space that overlooked P Street.

Our apartment was the third floor of a rowhouse on P Street in Georgetown.

"You should be able to make it to P Street in under three minutes at a steady jog."

I hung up, fixed coffee, and drank a cup staring out the bedroom window, watching the traffic crawl along P Street, still covered with snow.

In 1980 the P Street Festival Committee formed to take over planning.