The two trapezoidal blocks sandwiched between Pennsylvania and Missouri Avenues (now the site of the National Gallery of Art) became home to such expensivebrothels that it gained the nickname "Marble Alley."[5] In the 1870s and 1880s, the avenue was the site of significant competition between horse-drawn streetcar and chariot companies.[7]
A large house known as Bull's Head existed at the rear of the hotel that is now Old Ebbitt Grill. The house marked the northeast corner of "Murder Bay". Bull's Head housed prostitutes and contained a large, lower-class gambling den, and was considered the northeast corner of Murder Bay
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