 The Brentwood Road realignment (essentially, the creation of 9th Street NE and Brentwood Parkway NE, to connect Brentwood Road NE with 6th Street NE Extended) was complete in September 1942 with the opening of the 9th Street NE Bridge.Ivy City became the location of the District of Columbia Receiving Home for Children in 1949.The city began operating a facility for the temporary housing of mentally ill, violent, abandoned, addicted, or criminal children in 1928.