What Once Was columns from The InTowner

What Once Was — Matthew B. Gilmore

Washington DC, Center of Manufacturing . . .

PUBLISHED: JULY 18TH, 2015

Washington’s Lime Kilns: Creating the stuff of building

PUBLISHED: AUGUST 19TH, 2015

Bellevue Becomes Dumbarton House: a moving experience

PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2015

Washington Goes Wireless: The District’s 20-Year Struggle to Put Utility Wires Underground

PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 17TH, 2015

The YMCA in Washington: Shifting With the Times

PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 18TH, 2015

DC Prisoners on the Hudson: Abraham Lincoln, Amos Pilsbury, and the Albany Penitentiary

PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 17TH, 2015

Washington’s Lincoln: The First Monument to the Martyred President

PUBLISHED: JANUARY 11TH, 2016

“Dignified, restrained, and well-proportioned”: the Making of the District of Columbia Municipal Building

PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 17TH, 2016

“High-handed usurpation and outrage”: The End of Washington City Canal

PUBLISHED: MARCH 20TH, 2016

Honk that Horn — Go to Jail: Evolution of Noise Regulation in Washington, DC

PUBLISHED: APRIL 15TH, 2016

Enterprise over Washington: Airship history at the Nation’s Capital

PUBLISHED: MAY 29TH, 2016

The Bridge a Traffic Jam Built: Arlington Memorial Bridge

PUBLISHED: JUNE 24TH, 2016

Mrs. Cole’s Bay Window: Parking, streets, trees, projections, and the Secretary of War

PUBLISHED: JULY 19TH, 2016

New Yorkers Transform How Washingtonians Live: Washington’s 19th Century Apartment Revolution

PUBLISHED: AUGUST 28TH, 2016

Kidwell’s gambit: One man’s gamble and the creation of Potomac Park

PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2016

The City of Our Hopes and Desires: Zoning Comes to Washington DC

PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 26TH, 2016

The Liquor License Did It: “Georgetown as a separate and independent city by law is hereby abolished.”

PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 19TH, 2016

“Here to feast on historic places” — First Stirrings of Historic Preservation in Washington

PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 25TH, 2016

1845—Washington’s First Thanksgiving

PUBLISHED: JANUARY 11TH, 2017

Sesqui-what? Truman Throws a Party for Washington

PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 2ND, 2017

Georgetown Becomes Colonial — Reborn at 200: Georgetown’s 1951 Bicentenary Celebration

PUBLISHED: MARCH 14TH, 2017

Past Planning for the Future: DC’s 1950 Comprehensive Plan … or, Planning Atomic-Age Washington

PUBLISHED: APRIL 10TH, 2017

Selling the Eyes of the Public – Washington Wages War on Billboards

PUBLISHED: MAY 22ND, 2017

“Good order, good taste, and with due regard to public interests involved”: the origins of the Shipstead-Luce Act

PUBLISHED: JULY 20TH, 2017

It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity: Ninety years of manufactured weather in Washington

PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2017

Memories Fade: Washington’s most memorialized (and least known) President

PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 21ST, 2017

One Final Flutter at Benning — the End of Horse Race Gambling in the District of Columbia

PUBLISHED: JANUARY 1ST, 2018

Making Washington’s “Swampoodle”: Irish Neighborhood in the Tiber Valley

PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 4TH, 2018

1845—Washington’s First Thanksgiving

PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 25TH, 2018

One Last Tempo: Liberty Loan Building

PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 30TH, 2018

Merry Christmas, Washington: Evolution of the Holiday in the Nation’s Capital

PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 30TH, 2018

Commandeered Housing in WWI Washington, DC: A Federal Landlording Nightmare

PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 21ST, 2019

Pensions, portfolios, and printing: J. Worth Carnahan in Washington, DC

PUBLISHED: MARCH 20TH, 2019

Washington Welcomes the Automobile: 120-year Romance — Part I,  Anticipation and Local Innovation

PUBLISHED: MAY 21ST, 2019

Washington Welcomes the Automobile: 120-year Romance — Part II, Adoption and Regulations

PUBLISHED: JULY 24TH, 2019

Teddy Roosevelt and Washington DC’s “Smoke Nuisance”

PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2019

Franklin Square: Park or Parking? Evolution of a Public Space

PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 4TH, 2019

Pneumatic tubes: technological innovation and politics in Shepherd-era Washington DC

PUBLISHED: JANUARY 5TH, 2020

Food on the Streets: Street vending in the District of Columbia

PUBLISHED: MARCH 24TH, 2020