“The most important bank in the most important city in the world,” it once boasted.

Completed in 1858, it was converted to a hospital during the Civil War.

He built and lived in an imposing mansion on Lafayette Square.

The venerable department store began before the Civil War on 7th Street NW

Very few of the buildings in this photo still stand.

Beginning in January 1925, they held an annual conference in Washington.

Mary Foote Henderson commissioned the grand house at 3224 16th Street NW.

Mary Foote Henderson (1846-1931) was a force of nature

It goes back to Thomas Jefferson

It's been called "The Sistine Chapel of the New Deal"

Truman and others thought it a "monstrosity" but didn't change it.

The complaint alleges Trump’s plan would ‘permanently alter one of the most architecturally significant and historic structures in the Nation’s Capital’

A grand remnant of the Colonial era in Southern Maryland

Taking the Wilson Line to Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall was once the ultimate summer day trip

This was 1857, and violence had been fanned by the American Party, which posited that the influx of German and Irish immigrants was responsible for declining moral standards.

A $30 million restoration effort seeks to save the National Baptist Memorial Church from a fate suffered by aging churches across the country that have been shuttered or repurposed for other uses.

Steamboats to Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall have a long history

Two 1920s hotels and an Art Deco apartment house on E Street NW

He ran a thriving nightspot on what was called Washington's Broadway.

It's the last of the city's 1920s vaudeville/movie palaces.

The "Bonus Army" protesters were routed and their encampments destroyed.

Contrary to urban legend, Hogate's didn't invent rum buns.

The Hecht Company tore it down in 1936 to build a parking garage.

Two popular restaurants once competed half a block from each other.

Meridian International Center occupies two exquisite mansions designed by John Russell Pope.

It was one of three hotels that have stood at this intersection.

A few Brutalist buildings, notably this one, are iconic

If you were White, Garfinckel's was the place to go for the latest fashions.

The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.

..and sometimes ice. It's a place to see and be seen.

Most had been brought back in 1899, but some languished on the sea floor for 14 more years.

Exotic floor shows, drinking, and dancing in the days before the Cold War

The story revisited of a landmark Washington, DC department store

It's how they switched between underground and overhead power sources