On a 46-acre bluff over the Potomac in McLean, a developer paid $650,000 for Jackie Kennedy’s childhood home and drew up three 17-story apartment towers, and then the Interior Secretary next door started making phone calls.
The man whose name is over the door at 1264 Wisconsin Avenue was a Boston Braves shortstop in the 1914 World Series before he opened a Georgetown tavern the year Prohibition ended. Ninety-three years and four generations later, it is still open, still owned by the same family, and still has a brass plaque on the booth where John F. Kennedy proposed to Jacqueline Bouvier.
A candid photo from March 31st, 1963 shows the Kennedy family happily spending time together at Camp David, with Caroline atop a horse and John holding his mother’s hand
A 1965 photograph of the JFK gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery during construction of the Eternal Flame memorial, before it was completed.
In 1955 a young Senator John F. Kennedy bought Hickory Hill on Chain Bridge Road in McLean, Virginia. When state highway planners proposed widening the quiet road past his front door, JFK helped push the new alignment onto open farmland instead.
Check out the best commencement speeches ever given in Washington, DC from President John F. Kennedy to Ken Burns, Tony Snow and others. See the full lists from NPR and Vox.com.
In 1964, Nathaniel Owings and a council appointed by JFK unveiled a radical plan to tunnel E Street, brick Pennsylvania Avenue, and build a National Square.
A 1947 photograph captures Kennedy and Nixon as young House colleagues, fourteen years before they faced each other in the presidential race.
President Kennedy threw the first pitch at the 1962 MLB All-Star Game at D.C. Stadium, before 45,480 fans. Here’s the story of baseball’s biggest day in DC.
