Ben's Chili Bowl, Washington, D.C.

ID: 3188 ~ Source: Library of Congress ~ Creator: Carol Highsmith ~ Date: between 1980 and 2006

This file appears in: Ben's Chili Bowl: Ben's Chili Bowl is a well-known restaurant in the Greater U Street Historic District and is one of the few businesses in the area that predates 1968.

Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

This file appears in: Ben's Chili Bowl: Ben's Chili Bowl is a well-known restaurant in the Greater U Street Historic District and is one of the few businesses in the area that predates 1968.

Ben's Chili Bowl: Ben's Chili Bowl is a well-known restaurant in the Greater U Street Historic District and is one of the few businesses in the area that predates 1968.

By The DC Historic Sites team

The Greater U Street Historic District is a Victorian Era neighborhood, developed largely between 1862 and 1900. The area consists of a coherent group of row houses constructed overwhelmingly by…