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The Rotonda McLean: Tysons Corner’s Original Condo Island
Five circular towers, 1,168 condominiums, and the man who built the Watergate built them too. The story of The Rotonda in McLean.
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Before Shanklin Hall: 2325 18th Street Was the First Headquarters of D.G.S.
Shanklin Hall and Columbia Station made 2325 18th Street NW famous for music. A century ago the same Adams Morgan storefront was the home, store, and headquarters of D.G.S. founder William Hornstein.
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The Crazy Horse: The Wild Life of 3259 M Street, Georgetown
Walk into the Everlane store at 3259 M Street NW today, all blond wood and folded denim, and you are standing in what used to be the rowdiest room in Georgetown. For about a quarter of a century, this three-story building was the Crazy Horse, a beer-and-boogie nightclub the neighborhood spent years trying to shut down. It announced itself in December 1964 with a full-page horse joke, and it slipped away quietly at the end of the 1980s. In between,…
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The Kalorama Triple Murder of 1919: The Case That Helped Build Miranda
On Chinese New Year 1919, three Chinese diplomats were shot dead at the Mission house on Kalorama Road, and the case set in motion the Brandeis opinion that helped build Miranda.
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How Joe McCarthy’s Doctored Photo Ended Sen. Millard Tydings in 1950
In 1950 Joe McCarthy's team spliced Senator Millard Tydings into a composite photo standing next to America's top Communist. The manufactured image ran in a Maryland tabloid days before the vote, and Tydings' Senate career ended…
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Dan’s Cafe: Six Decades of Dickie Dickens in Adams Morgan
Inside Dan's Cafe at 2315 18th Street NW: the windowless 1911 building, the immigrant Dan family, and the six decades Clinnie 'Dickie' Dickens ran one of D.C.'s oldest dive bars.
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Five Forgotten Murders in DC’s Murder Bay
Five forgotten people, robbed, slashed, shot, or stabbed in Washington's Murder Bay slum between 1865 and 1868. We pulled their names out of the old Evening Star: named victims, named killers, and real intersections that no…
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