Foundry Branch Trestle: DC’s Last Streetcar Bridge
The Foundry Branch trestle carried Glen Echo streetcars over Glover-Archbold Park from 1896 to 1960. Now DC’s last streetcar bridge is coming down.
Lost History
Washington, DC neighborhoods and buildings that aren’t there anymore. Murder Bay, the old Center Market, brownstones erased for federal office blocks.
Northern Liberty Market and Boss Shepherd’s 1872 Raid
Nearly 200 laborers showed up at 6 p.m. with orders to tear down the Northern Liberty Market that night. By 11 the roof was gone.
Barnaby Woods’ 1937 Promise of ‘Social Restrictions’
In 1937 the Post promised Barnaby Woods buyers “social restrictions.” The deeds we read don’t spell them out. One of its builders’ deeds nearby did.
The Reform School for Girls That Stood Where Sibley Hospital Is Now
For sixty years a reform school for girls stood on the Palisades hill where Sibley Hospital is today. The troubled history of the National Training School for Girls, 1893 to 1953.
Nathans Georgetown: 40 Years at 3150 M Street, and What’s There Now
A bookie named Nathan Detroit opened it in 1969, Howard Joynt ran it for 28 years, Carol Joynt closed it on July 12, 2009. Now a Capital One Cafe occupies the southeast corner of Wisconsin and M.
Robert Askins, 1938 DC Cyanide Killer: A Four-Decade Arc
On December 28, 1938, in a small alley off 6th Street NW, a 31-year-old woman named Ruth McDonald accepted a drink from a young chemistry student and was dead within the hour.
The Bishop Family Murders: A Bethesda Home, a Foggy Bottom Memo, and a 50-Year Manhunt
On March 1, 1976, a Foreign Service officer killed his family in their Carderock Springs home and vanished. The manhunt, now 50 years old, is still open.
The Crazy Horse: The Wild Life of 3259 M Street, Georgetown
Walk into the Everlane store at 3259 M Street NW today, all blond wood and folded denim, and you are standing in what used to be the rowdiest room in Georgetown. For about a quarter of a century, this three-story building was the Crazy Horse, a beer-and-boogie nightclub the neighborhood spent years trying to shut … Read more
Dr. Dremo’s, Bardo Rodeo, and the Oldsmobile Showroom at 2000 Wilson Blvd
How a Court House Oldsmobile dealership became the Plymouth-in-the-wall brewpub Bardo Rodeo, then Dr. Dremo’s Taphouse, then a condo tower.