Terrific 1918 Photograph of Mount Vernon

Amazing find on the Library of Congress website. This is a map of Alexandria done by George Washington somewhere around 1749.

We need your help … this is a photo from the Library of Congress showing a home in Cherrydale. Can anyone identify this home (if

Below is the Baist real estate map of the area around U St. and Vermont Ave. NW. So if you’re a frequent patron of Dodge

This is a photograph taken on March 23rd, 1929 from the South Lawn of the White House. Source: Library of Congress

The Rough Rider president, Teddy Roosevelt, was a total badass, the likes of which we won’t ever see again in the White House. Below is

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

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

It’s still amusing to me when the papers refer to anything north of Boundary St. (i.e., Florida Avenue) as the suburbs. I came across an

Michelle Obama isn’t the only first lady to set foot in Columbia Heights. Grace Coolidge took the drive up 14th St. to attend a benefit

I checked my email the other day to find this email from a GoDCer. Emails like this are exactly why I started this blog. Not

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

We looked at Alexandria Gazette newspaper from July 15th, 1841 to see what people were talking about. What a different world.