National Building Museum Archives

Washington, D.C., circa 1918. "Pension Office interior." This former repository of Civil War veterans' pension records is now the National Building Museum. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

Awesome 1918 View Inside the Pension Building

This is now the National Building Museum. What an amazing photo. Source: Shorpy

neon sign Uptown Theater in Cleveland Park (tawbaware.com)

Three Big Movies at the Uptown Theater

It’s been a while since our last “Three Things…” post, so we queried the Twitterverse for GoDC suggestions on our next one. DrCapsFan, an old school GoDCer (i.e, a follower since week two) threw out a great suggestion to focus

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Awesome 1918 View Inside the Pension Building

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