Spanish Steps (Washington D.C.) located at the top of the steps. Following a car collision that damaged the original balustrade and fountain, the steps were restored in 1999. Spanish Steps (Washington D.C.) The Spanish Steps are an urban arrangement in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on 22nd Street NW just south of S Street NW. Inspired by the City Beautiful movement, the steps accommodate a steep difference of level between S Street and the parallel immediately to the south, Decatur Place NW. Named with reference to the Spanish Steps in Rome, though obviously of no comparable scale and grandeur, they were designed by
George Baker (died 1723) City at the 1713 general election. They were both returned unopposed at the 1715 general election. He was a Tory and like his father in law voted against the administration. He did not stand at the 1722 general election. Baker died, at Bristol, on 1 June 1723, and was buried at Lanchester on the 12 June. He and his wife had two sons and two daughters, but only one of each survived. George Baker (died 1723) George Baker (died 1723) of Crook Hall, Lanchester and Elemere, county Durham, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from