Irish Washington, D.C. history 2024
Irish Washington, D.C. (it wasn’t just Swampoodle) sources on the history originally here: https://matthewbgilmore.wordpress.com/bibliography-irish-washington-dc/ Swampoodle history blog post-Feb 4th, 2018: Making Washington’s “Swampoodle”: Irish Neighborhood in the Tiber Valley Swampoodle history blog post resources: What … Continue reading
Alison K. Hoagland – Interview with a Washington DC History Author – “The Row House in Washington, DC: A History”
Alison K. Hoagland. The Row House in Washington, DC: A History. Charlottesville:University of Virginia Press, 2023. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5375/ 1. Tell us about the book. The Row House in Washington, DC: A History … Continue reading
(Repeat) What Once Was “Good order, good taste, and with due regard to public interests involved”: the origins of the Shipstead-Luce Act
What Once Was “Good order, good taste, and with due regard to public interests involved”: the origins of the Shipstead-Luce Act By Matthew B. Gilmore* originally PUBLISHED: JULY 20TH, 2017 … Continue reading
(Repeat) The City of Our Hopes and Desires: Zoning Comes to Washington DC (in 1920)
By Matthew B. Gilmore For complete article click: http://intowner.com/2016/10/26/the-city-of-our-hopes-and-desires-zoning-comes-to-washington-dc/ (originally PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 26TH, 2016) It had a curious beginning. The tale begins with a bit of a mystery: The August 21, … Continue reading
Merry Christmas, Washington: Origin and Evolution of the Holiday in the Nation’s Capital
Merry Christmas, Washington: Evolution of the Holiday in the Nation’s Capital orginally PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 30TH, 2018 By Matthew B. Gilmore* During December of 1923 a 48-foot balsam fir tree arrived in … Continue reading
Mark L. Goldstein — Interview with a Washington DC history author — “Before the Gilded Age: W. W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture”
Before the Gilded Age: W. W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture. By Mark L. Goldstein. Georgetown University Press, 2023. https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Before-the-Gilded-Age Before the Gilded Age is the first modern … Continue reading
Smoke! — Teddy Roosevelt and Washington DC’s “Smoke Nuisance” (repost)
In of December 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt’s annual message to Congress contained a passage which would seem rather extraordinary to us today. In that day, the President sent his annual … Continue reading
Celebrating Eastern Market for 150 Years – Preservation Cafe
Image: Eastern Market in 1943 (loc.gov)
Robert Pohl, local historian, author, and tour guide, will present “Celebrating Eastern Market for 150 Years” at an in-person Preservation Café, Thursday, March 30, 2023.
Merry Christmas, Washington: Evolution of the Holiday in the Nation’s Capital
Merry Christmas, Washington: Evolution of the Holiday in the Nation’s Capital orginally PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 30TH, 2018 By Matthew B. Gilmore* During December of 1923 a 48-foot balsam fir tree arrived in … Continue reading
1845—Washington’s First Thanksgiving
To continue what is now a tradition I am republishing one of my holidaqy origin blog posts. There’s so much to know, learn, understand about the past and how it … Continue reading
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