This photo is an interior view of the Childs Restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue, c. 1920

ID: 4609 ~ Source: Library of Congress (Prints and Photographs Division)

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Civil Rights Tour: Protests - Childs Restaurant Sit-Ins: 2 Massachusetts Avenue NW

The distinctive stone building at the apex of Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street was designed and built as a Childs Restaurant in 1925 to attract visitors—white visitors, that is—as they…