Adams Morgan has been one of Washington’s most vibrant and changeable neighborhoods for more than a century. Known as Washington Heights before it was renamed in the 1950s as a symbol of racial integration, the neighborhood has seen waves of immigration, the birth of DC’s go-go scene, and a transformation from divided enclave to one of the city’s most cosmopolitan addresses.
Shanklin Hall and Columbia Station made 2325 18th Street NW famous for music. A century ago the same Adams Morgan storefront was the home, store, and headquarters of D.G.S. founder William Hornstein.
Inside Dan’s Cafe at 2315 18th Street NW: the windowless 1911 building, the immigrant Dan family, and the six decades Clinnie ‘Dickie’ Dickens ran one of D.C.’s oldest dive bars.
A few doors south of Heaven and Hell, 2321 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan was the Blue Room lounge, then Bill Thomas’s Bourbon whiskey bar, and now Death Punch.
Heaven and Hell is the name people remember at 2327 18th Street NW. But the building’s first life as a political address began in December 1969 with the Black Panther Party.
Frank Lloyd Wright drew Washington a glass city of twenty-one towers on a Connecticut Avenue hill. The height limit refused to let it rise.
A peek into the tragic history of a purportedly haunted home in Adams Morgan: could the tormented spirits of the Walter family, who suffered immense loss and grief, still be lingering within its walls?
Named for two segregated elementary schools, Adams and Morgan, that DC parents organized to integrate after a rock-throwing fight in 1955.
These homes on Euclid Street were some of the first in Washington designed by a woman. Check our the ads from 1907.
![Capital Transit demonstration run of a Twin Coach articulated bus (a model they did not end up using), April 3, 1948. This turnaround is still used by buses today [photo by Robert S. Crockett].](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2015/12/10896004463_3f7d28bb16_o.jpg)
Take a look back at the bus turnaround in Adams Morgan, DC – then and now. See the old photo of the bus turnaround and how it looks today, minus the Toddle House in the background which is now Mama Ayesha’s.
