Sheridan-Kalorama is one of Washington’s most exclusive residential enclaves, home to ambassadors, cabinet secretaries, and presidents for more than a century. The neighborhood takes its name from General Philip Sheridan’s statue at the Massachusetts Avenue traffic circle and the Kalorama estate that once occupied the hillside above Rock Creek. These posts dig into the mansions and the people who lived in them.
On Chinese New Year 1919, three Chinese diplomats were shot dead at the Mission house on Kalorama Road, and the case set in motion the Brandeis opinion that helped build Miranda.
The Maret School began in 1911 in a rented Washington apartment, founded by three immigrant sisters. The story of how it started, and of the school’s first student.
The buildings at 3003 and 3005 Massachusetts Avenue NW have been locked and silent for 46 years. Before the doors closed, they saw legendary parties, student protests, 4,000 bottles of champagne poured down the drain, and hundreds of riot police. This is the full story.
Oleg Deripaska’s mansion at 2501 30th NW replaced a 30-room Tudor Herbert Haft razed in 1985 to build his ‘mini-Versailles.’
The Windom House at Scott Circle was home to a Treasury Secretary who died mid-speech in 1891. The Queen Anne mansion was razed in 1964 and is now the site of the Australian Embassy.
In these 1966 drawings, train cars roll under Connecticut Avenue, but above Rock Creek. These amazing early Metro plans never came to fruition. They depict the Red Line between Dupont Circle and Woodley Park.
From an 1820 Nourse farmhouse to a Masonic temple that never got built to the Washington Hilton of 1965, three entirely different DC landmarks used the same ten acres.
Before it was the Obamas’ house, 2446 Belmont Road belonged to a Navy radio pioneer whose daughter shot a film with Marlon Brando.
Take a look at the amazing transformation of Kalorama over time. From an empty lot in 1907 to a bustling, vibrant neighborhood worth over $200 million today – explore the comparison of these two maps!
