Today’s piece really should be called, “Hooray, the National Intelligencer is online!” Yes, the first run of this venerable newspaper, founded in 1800 as Washington’s paper of record, is finally available at the Library of Congress. The insights that can be gleaned about the early days of the nation’s new capital are invaluable. In looking […]
One last summer holiday for 2016 and I do hope most of most of my readers are out enjoying the weather instead of reading what I have come up with this time. So I will make do with a rerun – though the vast new information that has been added online since I last looked […]
46 Units Will Replace Capitol Hill Church and Adjacent Rowhouses (UrbanTurf) D.C. Is Well On The Way To Getting Its First Winery (DCist) Pre-Construction on 11th Street Bridge Park Could Begin in September (UrbanTurf) Separating Fact from Fiction on the Maryland Avenue Road Diet (Frozen Tropics) From Anacostia to Cleveland Park, The Startling Home Price Increase in […]
Given that France was the first ally that the United States had, it is remarkable that it was not until the Civil War that a French warship visited the capital of the United States. However, this is exactly what the newspapers of the time insisted was the case when the Gassendi visited the Washington Navy […]
D.C. Streetcar project gets off on the wrong track for many locals (Washington Times) Residences, Artist Incubator Space Planned For Star and Shamrock Building on H Street (Urban Turf) Whole Foods is Slightly Delayed, So What? (Frozen Tropics) This DC park is pretty much the definition of desolate. How can the National Park Service change […]