Lanier Heights

Situated two miles north of the White House, Lanier Heights is within the larger and newer neighborhood of Adams Morgan,[1] and is usually considered to be a part of that more prominent locale.

Most of the land beneath Lanier Heights was part of a large, undeveloped piece of property granted in 1714 to John Bradford, who named the tract "Plain Dealing".

But in general, the land that became Lanier Heights was being only lightly used—mostly (if at all) for common farming—until shortly after the end of the Civil War, when Washington started to grow with more vigor.

For a time after that war, there was a small quarry, for construction stone and gravel, located along Rock Creek at the northern edge of the area.

The subdivision then developed into a fairly affluent area of families and single people, including professionals, intellectuals, and city workers.

[3] In the segregated past, it was a white neighborhood, but by the 1960s and 1970s it had become a diverse mix of people and cultures, and, for a time, a local hub of anti-establishment politics where the Black Panthers, anti-Vietnam War organizers, and other activists groups resided.