Keys Denote Building Locations

History:  The land that is now the Trinidad neighborhood once belonged to the family of a man who lived in Trinidad. He planned to relocate to the D.C. neighborhood, but died en route to the states. It later belonged to a member of the Corcoran family who bequeathed it to The George Washington University. The university sold the land to the Washington Brick Machine Company. Realizing that they did not need all of the land, the brickworks company began selling off parcels, and, in the late 1800s/early 1900s, the first houses in Trinidad were built.