Beautiful Snowy Photo of the Capitol

Look how amazing this old map is. You can see the outlines of proposed roads in and around Takoma. Source: Library of Congress

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

Here’s a fascinating old photo from President Ford’s Administration. It was taken on August 10th, 1974. That’s important because Nixon resigned the previous day (remember,

This is a cool old photo that we dug up via Google. We found it here. It appears to be some time in the 1920s,

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

This is a great picture, shared by GoDCer Mike, showing Harry Atwood, taking off from the South Lawn of the White House. This photo was

Here is the lovely Old Post Office Pavilion, currently the Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Ave.

This is an advertisement for new development and real estate across the Eastern Branch, near Anacostia. Click on the ad for a closer look at

Here is an ad from The Evening Star printed on Saturday, September 14th, 1912 (seven weeks later Woodrow Wilson was elected president — and he

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 is an interesting article about President Teddy Roosevelt attending church, and then verbally berating a child for trying to take his photograph. Roosevelt was

I came across an article in the Washington Times about three giants of the Washington police force … and I mean real “giants,” as in