1907 Map of Gallaudet University and Union Market

Here’s a cool old advertisement for Connecticut Avenue Highlands, now known as Cleveland Park. Click on the ad for a larger version to read the

Not everyone wins an election. Here's a sample of some people who ran for D.C. Council and didn't make it.

I can’t make out the sign above the door at left, can you? I’d like to do a little digging on this collapsed building. The

For this edition of “Why Is It Named…?” we will head out to the Maryland suburbs of Gaithersburg. Do you know the town’s origin? We

Where were the police and fire stations located in Washington back in 1880? Check out this great old map. Source: Library of Congress This was

We’re trying out a new category called “Lost History” today. We spent a good part of the weekend reading James Goode’s excellent (and depressing) book Capital

Now this is a rather interesting article that we dug up from the newspaper. It was printed in The Washington Post on October 20th, 1938, and

With the ridiculous rise in cost of living here in DC, maybe we should go back to the time of boarding houses. We came across

Remember this super ugly Giant on Wisconsin Ave. near the Cathedral? It’s soon going to be the new Cathedral Commons. This old photo was taken

What a horrible story. We found this printed in The Washington Post on April 6th, 1907. Fire Chief Belt yesterday ordered a thorough investigation of the stabbing

By 1854 the Washington Monument was about a third complete when the Washington National Monument Society ran out of funds and had to halt construction.

This is amateur 16mm film shot and uploaded to YouTube. The voiceover is amusing, but the scenes are a great step back in time over 80 years.