Stories about Old Ebbitt Grill

Featured, Lost History / 13.08.2014

What Did 14th and F Look Like in 1903?

Now this is an incredible photograph of 14th and F Street in 1903. The big, ornate building is the old Ebbitt House. You're looking straight at it, with F St. heading to the left and 14th...

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Faces & Places of Yesterday, From GoDCers / 21.02.2013

Incredible 1889 Photo of the Old Ebbitt House Hotel

Photo shows a horse-drawn sleigh carrying what may be Melinda and Elise Painter across 14th St. at F St. in front of the Ebbitt House hotel. The modest buildings to the right of the grand hotel housed Newspaper Row, and just across the street at number 501 was Painter's office as Washington correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. (Source: Ison article on Painter, 1990)

I wish I could take credit for this discovery, but this came in from GoDCer Brian. In the background, you'll see the Ebbitt House Hotel, the precursor to the popular restaurant of the same name.

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Three Things... / 11.06.2012

Three Notable People Connected to Old Ebbitt

Ebbitt House in 1865 as photographed by Matthew Brady (Wikipedia)

GoDCer and long-distance reader Ben sent in a request to do a little digging on local favorite Old Ebbitt Grill. The restaurant has...

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