Washington, DC neighborhoods and buildings that aren’t there anymore. Murder Bay, the old Center Market, brownstones erased for federal office blocks.
In 1967 the National Capital Planning Commission mapped out the freeway grid Washington was supposed to get: a K Street expressway, a Three Sisters Bridge, an I-95 extension up through northeast. Almost none of it got built.
In 1959, DC surveyor Francis E. Healy proposed renaming Reno Road NW for Washington state. Nevada Sen. Howard Cannon objected: it honors Gen. Jesse Reno.
At the end of World War II, Washington came within a study of building a $56 million, 7.1-mile streetcar subway, which would have been the longest in the country. Here is the 1944 plan, the map, the artist renderings, and why it never got built.
The gold-and-white top-floor ballroom where Buddy Holly danced for Washington teens on live TV. Then a wrecking crew in 1964.
In 1877 a 23-year-old draftsman named Richard Siebert filed a sweeping redesign of the U.S. Capitol with the Copyright Office. Then he vanished.
This post explores the proposed Southside Freeway in Arlington which never came to be. Learn about the 1960 proposal, the public opinion, and why the highway never came to fruition in this post.
1860s Library of Congress photos of a slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia: a row of cells, a barred door, and soldiers and an officer across the courtyard.
The Republic Theatre opened May 30th, 1921, a block west of the Lincoln Theatre on U Street. It was knocked down in 1976 to make way for the new Metro.
Before World War I, Dietz’s Rathskeller was a popular beer joint in the heart of D.C. Learn about its history, explore the area today, and be amazed at what this spot has to offer!
