Tag: 1890s

How cool is this? If you live in Brookland, you're going to love it. Click on it for a larger version and...

Source: Library of Congress The hotel on the left is the Southern Hotel, a hotel for African-Americans which was situated at 311 Pennsylvania Ave. NW....

Here is a crazy story from Tennallytown that we found in The Washington Post, printed on November 8th, 1896. A serious accident happened at Tennallytown about...

Look at this great photo from 1890. It shows a group of people riding their horse and buggies through Rock Creek Park. I don't...

Sorry, this was supposed to auto-publish yesterday afternoon, but didn't. Here's the solution to Donovan's Baseball House Puzzle, printed in The Washington Post on October...

Here's a terrific puzzle for you to solve, from our last post about the Baseball House and William Donovan. Below are the directions printed...

Washington is a baseball town. There is no doubt about that. In fact, there is a rich history going back to the 19th century...

You may or may not be aware of this, but in the early days, Cleveland Park was referred to as Cleveland Heights...

We posted a cool old rural map of Tenleytown a short while back. Here's a map from the same group, showing Anacostia back in...

What a cool map. We posted one last week showing the area around Tenleytown as it looked on an 1892 map. The...

Difficult to believe this ... really difficult, but back in 1892, what is now Adams Morgan, was very rural. Less jumbo slices, more trees....

How cool is this old map? It shows a very rural upper northwest Washington in 1892, with the area surrounding what is now Tenleytown....

Here's a beautiful old photograph of the National Bank of Washington back in 1892. Source: Library of Congress Both of the buildings in the above photo...

Now this is interesting. It's a map from 1891 that shows the street sweeping schedule. Source: Library of Congress

During the administration of President Benjamin Harrison, there was a push to renovate the Executive Mansion, bringing it up to the elegant standards of...

This is amazing. Look how crisp the photo is. Click on it for a larger version. the White...

Reverend Alexander Crummell was an African American who was recognized by WEB Dubois for his abilities in the book Souls of Black Folk (1903)....

This is a small, little known block in Georgetown, but the photo below is beautiful. it's from around 1899, and below it,...

Forgive us if we posted this before, but we can't remember, and second ... it's amazing, so you should check it out (and share...

These photos are all part of the Frances Benjamin Johnston at the Library of Congress and were taken in 1899. They depict women exercising...

What's better than a photo of two nuns and a dog? Here's a shot from somewhere in the 1890s of Sister Beatrice, the superintendent...