Last week, we looked at the urban legend surrounding Adelaide Johnson’s The Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Standon and Susan B. Anthony located in the rotunda of the Capitol. Although there is a hunk of unfinished marble connected with it, there is no reason to believe that Johnson ever intended this to be ‘finished’ with […]
I am currently in the last throes of the writing of my latest book, on the urban legends of Washington DC, so today, I will talk about a statue in the Rotunda of the Capitol, around which many different stories have swirled. According to a writer on the website Conservatives4Palin.com, “Within the walls of the […]
I have several times looked at the various taverns, hotels and boardinghouses that ringed the Capitol in the early days of Washington DC. A number of names reoccur frequently, and one of those who seems to have operated each of the three main hotel buildings at one time or another was Robert Long.
There are all sorts of places that I find old things to write about. This week’s story comes from Old Time DC, a place on Facebook to find wonderful old pictures of Washington. They are from all across the city and from all times, but I am partial to those showing parts of Capitol Hill […]
My research often begins with an old map, on which I notice something that no longer has a place on the Hill. Usually, it is a building of some sort that catches my attention. Sometimes, it’s a name such as Heckman Street on a 1921 map. Who was Heckman, I wondered, and why was his […]