Posts the Ghosts of DC editors hand-pick from the archive. The strange, the vivid, and the ones worth pulling back to the front page after a few years buried.
The Big Hunt opened in 1992 inside a 1928 storefront at 1345 Connecticut Avenue NW and closed for good in 2020. Inside Dupont Circle’s three-story dive bar with the safari kitsch, the hidden patio, and the Hell’s Kitchen basement.
On June 9, 1893, the floors of Ford’s Theatre pancaked into the basement, killing 22 federal clerks 28 years after Lincoln was shot in the same building.
The stone arches near the Kennedy Center are the Godey Lime Kilns, Washington’s last 19th-century industrial ruin.
View a spectacularly illuminated photograph of the Washington Monument in 1933. Click the photo for some great details on the Nation’s Capital during this time!
Take a step back in time with this 1861 photo of Washington, DC. Click on it for a larger version and marvel at the history of our nation’s capital
In 1928, Prohibition agents raided an oyster house on 18th Street in Adams Morgan. The raid led to legal complications, a trial, and the bizarre disappearance of a jury member.
GoDCers, we need your help! Can you guess when this image of the Lincoln Memorial was taken? Share your thoughts and help us out!
Read the story of Queen, the wild dog of Potomac Park who was slain in 1913. Learn about Queen’s reign of terror over pedestrians and motor car drivers, and the efforts to shoot her that ultimately failed.
Where did Jefferson Davis live when he was a senator in Washington, DC?
