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A Rare Look at Warder Mansion in 1937

Take a rare look at Warder Mansion in 1937 – this castle-like building was much greener then with ivy growing on it and far more shrubbery. Check out the photo from Library of Congress.

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Washington Was Originally Named Rome, Maryland

Washington DC Street Names Unveiled: From States to Letters and Numbers

Rayful Edmond III: Washington D.C.'s Noted Drug Kingpin

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What D.C. Looked Like in 1970: Check Out This Amazing Photo from DDOT

Never-Built Ulysses Grant Memorial Bridge

Three Sisters Bridge Across the Potomac Was Never Built

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Children playing in the Defrees Alley, NE Washington, D.C.; Near Capitol Building; One basement room rents for $9.00 a month, two rooms upstairs for $ 16.00, one bath and cold water in the hall for entire building.. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer

A Look Back at Defrees Alley in Washington D.C.

Chain Bridge at the end of the Civil War (Library of Congress)

Where Washington's Historic Chain Bridge Gets Its Name

May 29, 1959. "Prince George Plaza, Hyattsville, Maryland. Night view." An actual mall (a long, open plaza) when it opened in 1959, the shopping center was enclosed in the 1970s and renamed the Mall at Prince Georges. Large-format safety negative by Samuel H. Gottscho.

Exploring Prince George's Plaza in the "Wonder Years" Era

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