We are obsessed with old maps, and here's another one to obsess over! Take a look at this map of Rockville, Maryland in 1879. Learn more about the history of Montgomery County too!
Take a look at the Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House in Alexandria, VA. This house has remained unchanged since the 1930s. Take a look at the house today with Google Maps.
Explore the lives of the poor in Georgetown, DC in the 1930s before World War II. Learn about a photograph taken in 1935 showing a group of young children playing on a street in Georgetown and the sheer joy on the face of the kid to the left.
On Capitol Hill a few blocks from the Eastern Market Metro Station is a relic of a time gone by, the Metropolitan Police Department's First District Substation. Read here to learn about the mysterious ghost seen on the video cameras at the station.
Meet Albert Freeman Africanus King, the Washington doctor who proposed a giant mosquito net around the city and attended to President Abraham Lincoln at his death bed. Learn more about this fascinating figure!
Discover three fascinating stories from the history of Dorchester House in Kalorama, from a robbery at gunpoint to a house fire that killed an elderly woman to a ban on dogs in the building.
Donald Trump's newest property is the beautiful Old Post Office Pavilion. Let's hope the businessman doesn't ruin the historic building and make it ridiculously ostentatious!
We’re hoping to earn a GoDCer for life in Ayanna by posting Hillcrest-related advertisements from 1955. See the historic ad & compare it to the present home today!
Discover the story of Jasper Johns' first lithographs in Washington, D.C. and the surprise location where they were presented - it's not what you'd expect! Read the full post here.
