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[[File:Ivy City 1887.jpg|thumb|200px|Map showing the growing Ivy City in 1887.]]

[[File:Ivy City 1887 Hopkins map.jpg|thumb|200px|Ivy City in 1887, showing Patterson Avenue and Gallaudet Street.]]

Jones laid out 205 lots in Ivy City. He envisioned the subdivision as a bucolic, rural community catering exclusively to [[African Americans]].{{sfn|Prince|2014|page=70}}{{Efn|Racial segregation in housing was legal and routinely enforced in the District of Columbia until 1948.}} Many streets in the area were named for adjacent landlords ([[William Wilson Corcoran|Corcoran]], [[Amos Kendall|Kendall]], Fenwick, [[Edward Miner Gallaudet|Gallaudet]]). Lots were priced at $100 each (${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|100|1873}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars),{{sfn|Prince|2014|page=70}} and the earliest publicly acknowledged land sale occurred in December 1873 when F.P. Blair purchased Lot 9 for $150.<ref>{{cite news|title=Real Estate Transfers|work=The Evening Star|date=December 13, 1873|page=8}}</ref> A major auction of lots occurred in May 1875,<ref name=auction /> but while many lots sold there was little building.{{sfn|Sternberg|1908|page=40}} Nearly all the residents were African America-American, and structures consisted primarily of wooden shacks with no heat, electricity, [[natural gas]], or sewer. The city provided drinking water from public pipes.{{sfn|Sternberg|1908|page=40}} Lots, however, were quite large compared to many of those in the Federal City.{{sfn|Sternberg|1908|page=40}}

===The Ivy City horse-racing track===