Library of Congress Under Construction [PHOTO]

We love old ads here at Ghosts of DC and this is a great one from The Evening Star, printed on June 24th, 1906. Source:

Is this right? We need your help. We’re doing a little pre-posting for the next week and came across this fascinating photo. It appears to

This is the first guest post by Jason R. This blog is about “uncovering stories that have long been forgotten.” It is about knowing a

Here’s a fascinating article from the Washington Times, printed on April 22nd, 1916. For those of you unfamiliar with The Birth of a Nation, it’s

Think your commute home today will suck? Check this out … Constitution Avenue circa 1937. By the way, do you know why it’s called Constitution

This is a guest post by Rick. He also wrote a good one on the alley dwellings in Foggy Bottom. In recent years here in Washington pork has

Check this out … a great old advertisement from 1890 in The Sunday Herald. See the Washington Monument from Rockville? Wow. Related articles Move to

This is an aerial image of the Willard Hotel undergoing major renovations in the 1980s. Source: Library of Congress

This is both amazing and bizarre. Teenage girls with ukuleles, frozen in time. Random enough for you?

This is an area we have sadly neglected, and it has some tremendous history. If you have never visited Congressional Cemetery, you need to. At

We haven’t always had daylight savings … back in 1918, there was debate on Capitol Hill about time zones and daylight savings. Interestingly enough, we

This article that we came across in the Washington Post is probably something we would never see today. I’m pretty sure Bo Obama is pretty