Latin American Youth Center muralists at work, 1988.
immigrant community and centers for group houses and counter-culture politics. More recently, the neighborhood, like other inner-city areas, has experienced higher housing prices and the loss of rental housing to private ownership. However, some constants remain: Mount Pleasant’s signature Colonial Revival mansions, early apartment buildings, and rowhouses are remarkably intact. The bordering Rock Creek Valley, preserved since 1890 as parkland, contin- ues to lend the area the “beauties unthought of” and “healthfulness” noted in 1879 by a newspa- per reporter. Residents continue to visit on front porches and stoops, and shop and greet each other on Mt. Pleasant Street. And they still hear the roar of the lions at the National Zoo.
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