Celebrating eight accomplished women in downtown D.C. call boxes

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“She used to sing around here,” Charles Bergen said as we looked at the bronze sculpture of Flora Molton nestled in an old call box in front of a Macy’s store downtown. “She sang at the intersection of gospel and blues.”

We were at an intersection ourselves — 13th and G streets NW — and about to set off on an informal walking tour of eight sculptures that Bergen created inside cast-iron fire and police call boxes, infrastructural relics once used by the city’s first responders.