Richard Longstreth
DeFerrari and Sefton have probed a wide range of sources and scholarship to provide a rich and stimulating view of one of the great avenues of Washington, DC, and the United States.
Sally Berk
A prodigiously-researched, myth-busting treatise. Authors DeFerrari and Sefton consulted well over two hundred sources–including biographies, landmark nominations, technical construction manuals, novels, magazines, journals, and newspapers–in order to document not only the built environment of Sixteenth Street, NW but its planners, architects, builders, developers, and occupants, as well as those who sought to demolish many of its most prized edifices (sometimes successfully) and those who prevailed in preserving one of America's most renowned streets, including DeFerrari and Sefton.
Kim Prothro Williams
Sixteenth Street is one of the grand avenues of the L’Enfant Plan, a cardinal axis through the city from the White House to its northern border, but its history is anything but linear. DeFerrari and Sefton compellingly weave together a complex history of people and events that unexpectedly and intentionally crisscross and overlap the avenue as it courses through the city and time.
