To See Fairlawn Means a Lot

Some of us get up every work day and take the Metro, quickly finding ourselves standing on a platform waiting 10 minutes to board, as

Wow, this one is great. I wish I had a higher resolution version of this. This looks like a view up 15th Street with the

This is a bizarre piece that we found in The Washington Post from January 12th, 1900. Considerable excitement was aroused in the corridors of Georgetown University

My last post went way back to the 1920s. This one is a couple of decades after that, but well before the Washington Capitals arrived

Now this is interesting. It’s a map from 1891 that shows the street sweeping schedule. Source: Library of Congress

GoDCer Andy has an amazing collection of D.C. imagery in his Flickr collection. You should definitely check it out. Source: Flickr user Andy Moursund

This is a terrific old photograph from the south tower of Healy Hall. It’s looking over the Potomac River toward the Washington Monument in 1890.

Here’s a great shot of Dupont Circle. You can clearly make out the Patterson House (now the Washington Club) in the background. What an amazing

How cool is this old photo? Check out the White House as it looked in the late 19th century. It appears to be a view

Here’s a cool ad for Hollin Hall, the plantation on Little Hunting Creek (read about it here). Hollin Hall was a plantation deeded to Thomson

Source: Glen Echo-Cabin John History This is a terrific email that I received from a GoDCer earlier this week. Getting emails like this always makes

View from the White House in 1848, looking at the Capitol Building.