The area is made up of row houses constructed rapidly by speculative builders and real estate developers in response to the city's high demand for housing following the Civil War and the growth of the federal government in the late 19th century.
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G. Byron Peck's mural to Duke Ellington on the side of the building, overlooks the U Street Metro station.
U Street Music Hall has hosted the Washington D.C. debuts of Disclosure, Hudson Mohawke, Rudimental, Flume, RL Grime, Aeroplane, Joy Orbison, Fred Falke and Nina Kraviz, among many others.