Lost History

These 1870s photos are incredible, showing the District just following the Civil War. Click on them for more details.

This most incredible image shows what the Ulysses Grant Memorial Bridge would have liked like today. It would have been where the current Arlington Memorial Bridge is today.

These are some amazing old images we dug up showing a far more bucolic Kalorama. Managasset from Kalorama...

Why doesn't 395 cut through Washington, DC? This is the history of highways in DC.

A little-known story about upper northwest is that Reno Road, which cuts right through the heart of North Cleveland Park to Chevy Chase, was...

Between 1930 and 1950, the population of Washington expanded incredibly. The crush of people needed a way to get to work, and though a...

You're going to love this amazing photo of a long-lost building in our city. You're looking at the old Raleigh Hotel, formerly located at...

Check this out. Here's a map of something that didn't happen. Howard University proposed extending Vermont Ave. from Florida Ave. to Georgia Ave. back...

Fascinating drawing of the U.S. Capitol from the 1870s showing proposed modifications to the building. This is the west elevation of the...

Here's an interesting proposal for the Southside Freeway in Arlington, which never came to be. This graphic is from The Washington Post printed on October...

The sad truth is that slave pens existed in and around all of Washington. This photo shows one of those in Alexandria...

Wait, Hamilton Circle? Do you know where that is? Probably not, because it was never completed. The neighborhood surrounding the circle was once dubbed Fairview...

Check out this photo showing the old Republic Theatre at 13th and U St. back then. The theater opened up back on May 30th,...

Long gone are the days of the German beer hall in D.C., though some would argue that Brickskeller (ahem, Bier Baron) remains as one...

We posted a great old photo of the old State Department Building earlier. Here's another, similar angle photo of the building, but much clearer....

This is the oldest known photo of the U.S. Department of State. The photo is from 1857 and shows the old State Department building,...

Let's do a little lost history again and dig into the old saloon history of our city. We found a great photo of an...

Now here is an interesting article that we dug up in the old archives. We found an article in The Baltimore Sun, from January 28th,...

I came across the following Facebook post on Friday and was horrified to see the following post about the beautiful home at 3400 Massachusetts Ave....

Have you driven up Rock Creek Parkway (when did it become one-way?) from the Watergate (check out this amazing aerial photo) and wondered what...

Believe me, this came as a shock to us as well when we came across an article in the Washington Post about renaming the...