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Carver Langston
Neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Carver Langston within the District of Columbia
Coordinates: 38°54′03″N 76°58′38″W / 38.9009°N 76.9773°W / 38.9009; -76.9773
Country	United States
District	Washington, D.C.
Ward	Ward 5
Government
• Councilmember	Zachary Parker

Carver Langston is a cluster of two neighborhoods, Carver and Langston, just south of the United States National Arboretum in Northeast Washington, D.C. The two neighborhoods are most often referred to as one, because they are two small triangular neighborhoods that together form a square of land on the western bank of the Anacostia River.

Carver is the smaller and northernmost neighborhood of the two, bordered by Bladensburg Road to the west, M Street NE to the north, and Maryland Avenue to the southeast. Langston is bordered by Maryland Avenue to the northwest, 22nd and 26th Streets NE to the east, and Benning Road to the south. Directly east of the neighborhood on the very edge of the river is the Langston Golf Course, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the first course in the United States to allow blacks; boxing champion Joe Louis was one of its most frequent visitors.

Carver is named after George Washington Carver, a famous black inventor. Langston Terrace is named after John Mercer Langston who served as the first black American from Virginia to serve in the United States Congress. Langston Terrace is famous because it is the city's first federally funded public housing program to be built in 1938. The housing projects were explicitly designed for African American residents, since the District was rigidly segregated at the time.

Carver Langston is a middle-income residential neighborhood populated by retirees, families, young professionals and renters. Although now it is starting to gentrify particularly on its western and southern edges.

The area's main retail center is Hechinger Mall, with its namesake having been closed since the late 1990s. The entire area is part of Ward 5.

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Carver, intersection of 18th St and L St NE, September 2018
Carver, intersection of 19th St and M St NE, September 2018
Langston, intersection of 21 St and I St NE, September 2018

Places adjacent to Carver Langston

United States National Arboretum

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v t e Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.
Ward 1	Adams Morgan Columbia Heights Kalorama Triangle Lanier Heights LeDroit Park Meridian Hill Mount Pleasant Park View Pleasant Plains U Street Corridor (Cardozo/Shaw) Woodley Park
Ward 2	Burleith Chinatown Downtown Dupont Circle Foggy Bottom Georgetown Sheridan-Kalorama Logan Circle Mount Vernon Square Penn Quarter Shaw Southwest Federal Center West End
Ward 3	American University Park Berkley Cathedral Heights Chevy Chase Cleveland Park Colony Hill Forest Hills Foxhall Friendship Heights Glover Park Kent Massachusetts Heights McLean Gardens North Cleveland Park Observatory Circle The Palisades Potomac Heights Spring Valley Tenleytown Wakefield Wesley Heights Woodland Normanstone Woodley Park
Ward 4	Barnaby Woods Brightwood Brightwood Park Chevy Chase Colonial Village Crestwood Fort Stevens Ridge Fort Totten Hawthorne Manor Park North Portal Estates Petworth Queens Chapel Riggs Park Shepherd Park Sixteenth Street Heights Takoma
Ward 5	Arboretum Bloomingdale Brentwood Brookland Carver Langston Eckington Edgewood Fort Lincoln Fort Totten Gateway Ivy City Langdon Michigan Park North Michigan Park Pleasant Hill Queens Chapel Stronghold-Metropolis View Trinidad Truxton Circle Woodridge
Ward 6	Barney Circle Capitol Hill Judiciary Square Mount Vernon Triangle Near Northeast NoMa Southwest Waterfront Sursum Corda Swampoodle
Ward 7	Benning Benning Heights Benning Ridge Burrville Capitol View Central Northeast Civic Betterment Deanwood Dupont Park East River Heights Eastland Gardens Fairfax Village Fort Davis Fort Dupont Fort Stanton Good Hope Greenway Hillbrook Hillcrest Kenilworth Kingman Park Lincoln Heights Marshall Heights Mayfair Naylor Gardens Northeast Boundary Penn Branch Randle Highlands River Terrace Twining
Ward 8	Anacostia Barry Farm Bellevue Buena Vista Congress Heights Douglass Fairlawn Garfield Heights Navy Yard Park Naylor Shipley Terrace Skyland Washington Highlands Woodland

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