Tag: Meridian Hill Park

This is a view of Meridian Hill Park, back when it was pretty rough. It was once a beautiful and amazing park, and now...

Meridian Hill Park was largely the vision of Mary Foote Henderson. So, we have her to thank for the great park sitting at the...

Really? I bet you're thinking this is a truly bizarre image. It shows a 32-year-old Fidel Castro (read the letter he wrote as a...

Amusing and true, this is an article we came across in the New York Amsterdam News, published on June 18th, 1938. WASHINGTON, June 15 --...

This is a great bit of Washington trivia for everyone to commit to memory ... especially if you live anywhere along 16th St. NW. Pierre...

Here's a good one from the Library of Congress archives. It's a drawing of the proposed new Executive Mansion, to be built...

Prince of Petworth has a couple of posts on this statue already, but I wanted to add a few then and now photos and...