The Great Depression hit Washington differently than most American cities. FDR’s New Deal brought a massive expansion of the federal government, filling the capital with new agencies, new buildings, and hundreds of thousands of new workers. The decade that devastated much of America actually transformed Washington into a modern metropolis.
Discover Hollin Hall, the plantation on Little Hunting Creek that was deeded to Thomson Mason, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Learn more about this historic landmark today!
Take a look at this beautiful shot of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. as seen from the Washington Monument in 1936. See the full picture here!
Copley Hall opened at Georgetown University in 1931 as one of the campus’s major new buildings. Here are the original photos from its opening.
We dug up three stories about McKinley Tech in Washington DC: their football dynasty, star athlete “Snookie” Kernan, and a tragic auto accident involving a graduate. Enjoy this post on the history of McKinley Tech!
Stoddert Elementary School in Glover Park is named after Benjamin Stoddert, the first Secretary of the Navy. Here is the history behind the name and the school.
Where was the last farm in Washington, DC? It was located in Congress Heights, in southeast and was gone by 1939.
Check out this awkward photo of Vice President John Nance Garner, one of FDR’s three VPs, squished in a car with a lot of other men. Taken around 1939
On May 12, 1937, Sally Halterman stamped her foot at a skeptical D.C. police examiner until he handed her the first motorcycle license ever granted to a woman in the District. Four months later, she eloped on it.
FDR wrote his “Nothing to Fear” speech in suite 776, Monica Lewinsky stayed in room 860, and the Mayflower Hotel was nearly named the Walker.
