If you have a photo of a neat find from your house, place of work or neighborhood please send an email to [email protected] thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Claudia for sending this great find from “the St. John’s Opportunity Shop in Chevy Chase.”
The description on the back is the best: (more…)
Einstein memorial 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW photo by Mark Kelner
At Rodman’s grocery store: (more…)
4530 Wisconsin Ave, NW
From an email:
“From being the first to supply the now-famous “Landfill Harmonic” Paraguayan children with instruments to servicing nearly 100 instruments for D.C.’s Jefferson Academy, over the past 20 years, D.C.’s Middle C Music (4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW) has been a pillar of the local community and beyond. When word got out in 2004 that the nearby Best Buy was going to build a music store, the community successfully organized on Middle C’s behalf and Best Buy pulled out. Since inception, there has been three “Middle C Music Day Recognition” as voted by D.C. City Council.
And on March 19 they’re celebrating 20 years in Tenleytown. (more…)
If you have a photo of a neat find from your house, place of work or neighborhood please send an email to [email protected] thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Katie for sending: “A neighbor in Mt. Rainier sadly passed away from Covid. His relatives have been cleaning out his house a bit and occasionally put some things on the curb. Another neighbor grabbed one of those pieces of furniture and found this neat relic in it!” (more…)
photo by Black Georgetown
Thanks to Peter for sharing: “the reason for the continued P St NW to Calvert NW closure hasn’t been publicized nearly widely enough, and trail users are continuing to ignore the closure signs. If folks realized the reason for the closure I doubt they would continue.” (more…)
Found this beauty in my yard – dirty but in perfect shape! Apparently it’s from the 1930s/40s. Based on the number of listings for sale they don’t seem too rare but I can’t seem to find much about the dairy where they came from. Still a pretty cool book end. (more…)
“3rd and T NE, but it covered quite a few acres.”
“Dear PoPville,
Most of these photos are from the early 1900s, certainly pre-WWI. The little book I have dates from about 1910, so I think the school opened around 1905 and closed just before WWI. My g-grandfather, the Rev. Flournoy Menefee, purchased the mansion (which I believe was a hotel at the time) and converted it to the Washington College for Ladies (see ad).
He had previously been the president of a woman’s college in Liberty, Missouri. My grandmother and her siblings grew up in the manor with chefs, servants, gardeners, and other employees. (more…)
via NASS
Wowza, thanks to Scott for sending: “Thought you might be interested in this ‘Color remastered video of 1940s Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol to White House’. (more…)
1628 15th Street, NW
Obviously whoever buys this (it’s going for $1,825,000) will likely be doing a massive renovation, understandably. Hopefully they are able to preserve much/some of the exterior (and interior I imagine) awesomeness . The brickwork, the windows, the stairs, the details are incredibly. I’m not holding my breath but hoping for a miracle. Behold some of the awesome: (more…)
From the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton:
“Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the District of Columbia will score a historic victory for equality with the states on February 28, 2022, when D.C.’s second statue in the U.S. Capitol will be unveiled in a ceremony with congressional leaders. D.C. will join each of the 50 states in having two statues in the Capitol. The statue is of Pierre L’Enfant, which D.C. commissioned more than a decade ago with the hope that it would one day be displayed in the Capitol. (more…)