This connector lane between 3rd St (then Kentucky), Tennessee St and Minnesota St existed only on historic maps for the past century, until a new development brought a stretch of it back into existence.

 

It was one of those oddities typical to our neighborhood not seen in other more "official" parts of the city: The thoroughfare was once fenced and gated by the Reiss family who owned it in the 1880s. They closed the gates for only a few days each year to get around a statute that said that land used by the public continuously for five years would become public property.

 

Now partially reopened (and not gated) the new cut-through offers a rotating art display, plantings, places to sit and to gather--safely.

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Visit dogpatchna.org/scavenger-hunt to join the community fun as our gift to you during this year's "holidays at home" Shelter in Place.