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pizzagatesleuth ago

The following is a contemporaneous comment left at the bottom of the Dyar tunnel-digging article from 2011 you link above. It seemed relevant because the location the commenter describes is only a 3 minute walk from the Transformer Museum (2115P Street). It may be an alternate entrance to the same tunnel. Here's the google map link to the 3 minute walking distance. I've reproduced the comment below:

Pat Conover on July 12, 2011 at 6:58am I heard you on NPR. You might want to check out a tunnel underneath 2025 Massachusetts Ave. NW There is a vertical entry sort of underneath/at the back steps,easily accessible from Q St (com9ing in from Florida he little parking area behind the second building on the right. The building was originally owned by a tea merchant who was also a stamp collector and dealer. The story I have was about the underground railroad but that may well be fanciful. I'm told the tunnel goes to the middle under Mass Ave and connects to a storm sewer that was built when Mass Ave. was built by filling in a ravine that had a stream. The sewer routed the stream. I looked down the vertical entry but did not go down because I am large and I was not confident of the “ladder.” The house is also interesting because it had a third story hay loft. Aloha, Pat Conover

quantokitty ago

Ha! I found the contemporaneous comment. This is interesting. Yes, this confirms that there are these little entry points all the way along the route. There would have to be access. It can't just be entering at P Street and having to walk five miles to Rock Creek Park. Awesome. Thanks.

Dressage2 ago

It would be interesting to find out who owns 2025 Mass. Ave. prop. It would be crazy if JA had bought this in the last couple of years since this Comment. I would have the "vapors" at that moment!

quantokitty ago

You and me both.