Tag: 1870s

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

This great old photo shows the Arts and Industries Building on the Mall under construction in 1879. The...

This is a great old map of Georgetown. Click on it for greater details. 1877 map of Georgetown

This amazing find was dug up courtesy of the National Park Service. You're look at a grainy image of Frederick Douglass standing in front...

Many of you know that the Washington Monument sat unfinished for decades, an eye-sore of a stump on what would become the National Mall....

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

Well, you might not know this, but there really was a Mr. LeDroit ... sort of. LeDroit Park was...

Here's a cool bird's-eye view of the Capitol and the rest of Washington from 1872. Source: Library of Congress

This is a great old map, about a decade earlier than this one of Columbia Heights and Mt. Pleasant. Click on it for a...

Check out this terrific 1874 map of Georgetown with the old street names. Source: Dig DC

Here is a map of the Carlin Springs subdivision in Alexandria, now Arlington County. Source: Library of Congress The above map shows the area south of...

Ulysses Grant was arrested for directing by William West, an African-American metropolitan policeman. This is a great historical story.

This is what the Library of Congress could have looked like if Leon Beaver's design from 1873 was selected. Here's a second rendering of the...

This is a colorful story for the lost neighborhood of Swampoodle. We came across the article in The Washington Post, printed on October 20th, 1879. Morris...

Here's an old print from 1873, showing Ulysses Grant's second inauguration, looking down Pennsylvania Ave. Source: Library of Congress

What a cool series of old photos from 1879. We've published so many posts that we can't remember if these went up before, but...

You think the roads are bad today, with all the potholes? I assure you, they were worse in the 1870s. Here's a really cool...

Check out this cool proposed design to finish the Washington Monument. Construction didn't restart on the unfinished monument until 1879 after Congress appropriated another...

Here's a great photo that we found on Park View DC. Of course it wasn't called Georgia Avenue then, so read up on the...

Here is a fantastic old photograph of Ford's Theatre that we've probably shared previously, but this time it's extremely high resolution. Thanks to GoDCer...

Before the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, the District of Columbia had separate local municipalities, including Georgetown and the City of Washington...