(Repeat) What Once Was – Washington Welcomes the Automobile: 120-year Romance — Part I, Anticipation and Local Innovation
originally PUBLISHED: MAY 21ST, 2019 Click this to find our archive of What Once Was articles. By Matthew B. Gilmore* “… Not calculated to frighten the horses. . . .” … 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
NCPC – Special Event: One Night, 100 Years, January 23, 2024
Tuesday Special Event: One Night, 100 Years 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Online Meeting Overview Put on your favorite sweater, grab a hot drink, and “join us in the … 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
2019 Washington DC history books
What follows is a list of books on Washington DC history (and biography) published in 2019. A Goodreads link is included for those available to provide more details on each … Continue reading
Remembering President James Garfield
https://www.c-span.org/video/?445754-1/remembering-president-james-garfield Remembering President James Garfield Matthew Gilmore, who edits a Washington, D.C., history blog, talked about the complicated and controversial building of a memorial to President James Garfield on the U.S. Capitol … Continue reading
“Missing Bones: Exploring Washington’s Lost Cemeteries” September 28, 2016 7 p.m.
On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 The Capitol Hill Restoration Society (CHRS) will host Matthew Gilmore’s presentation, “Missing Bones: Exploring Washington’s Lost Cemeteries” at 7 p.m. in the Chapel at the … Continue reading
Kidwell’s gambit: One man’s gamble and the creation of Potomac Park
“Kidwell Meadows — riverfront views!,” contemporary advertisements might have read had John Kidwell’s bold real estate gambit succeeded. His attempt failed but the federal government’s long legal efforts to quash … Continue reading
New Yorkers Transform How Washingtonians Live: Washington’s 19th Century Apartment Revolution
By Matthew B. Gilmore* In May of 1880 Congressman Fernando Wood, former mayor of New York City, applied for a permit to build “French flats” at 1418 I Street , … Continue reading
Whither Washingtoniana – issue raised at the August 17 DCPL Board meeting
The issue of access to Washingtoniana collections while MLK Library is undergoing renovation was raised at the Board of Trustees meeting August 17, 2016 in the public comments at the start of … Continue reading
Washington DC History Resources 