[PDF] Lost Washington Dc eBook

Author : John DeFerrari
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1614233209

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The author of the popular blog “The Streets of Washington” shares new vignettes and reader favorites exploring the colorful history of America’s capitol. In Lost Washington, D.C., John DeFerrari investigates the bygone institutions and local haunts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Washington may seem eternal and unchanging with its grand avenues and stately monuments, but longtime locals and earlier generations knew a very different place. Discover the Washington of lavish window displays at Woodies, supper at the grand Raleigh Hotel and a Friday night game at Griffith Stadium. From the raucous age of burlesque at the Gayety Theater and the once bustling Center Market to the mystery of Suter's Tavern and the disappearance of the Key mansion in Georgetown, DeFerrari recalls the lost city of yesteryear.

Author : Paul K. Williams
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1862059934

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Lost Washington, D.C. looks at the cherished places in the city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside. The Lost series from Pavilion Books looks back in loving detail at many of the things that have helped create a city’s unique identity that have since disappeared; the streetcars, the shops, the parks, the churches, the amusement parks, the communities, even the annual parades. It looks at the landmark buildings that failed to be preserved, the hotels that could not be adapted and fell to the wrecking ball and the novelty buildings such as the General Noble Redwood Treehouse which stood on the Mall from 1894 to 1932. Lost buiildings include the Washington Arsenal and Washinton Penitentiary where the Lincoln conspirators were hanged. The distinctive Center Market building which was razed along with Arcade, Liberty and Dutch Markets. Many theaters have gone; Victorian (Albaugh's Opera House) and Art Deco (Translux), but the grandiose Fox entrance remains to front a modern office block. Other sites include: Hoover Aiport, the Matthew Brady and L.C. Handy studios, the Ebbit House Hotel, commerce on the Chesapeake and Ohio Cabal, Baltimore and Portomac Railroad Station, faux castles such as Henderson's and Stewart's, the Corcoran School of Art and many Victorian vistas of Washingtom from the top of the Capitol and Washington Monument.

Author : Kim Prothro Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1625858302

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Washington has a rural history of agrarian landscapes and country estates. John Adlum, the Father of American Viticulture, experimented with American grape cultivation at The Vineyard, just north of today's Cleveland Park. Slave laborers rolled hogsheads - wooden casks filled with tobacco - down present-day Wisconsin Avenue from farms to the port at Georgetown. The growing merchant class built suburban villas on the edges of the District and became the city's first commuters. In 1791, the area was selected as the capital of a new nation, and change from rural to urban was both dramatic and progressive. Author Kim Prothro Williams reveals the rural remnants of Washington, D.C.'s past.

Author : Edward P. Jones
Publisher : Amistad Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060566289

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Set in the nation's capital, a collection of stories about African Americans living in Washington, D.C., introduces characters who struggle daily with loss--of family, of friends, of memories, and of themselves. Repritn. 15,000 first printing.

Author : John DeFerrari
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1647121574

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DeFerrari and Sefton have created a highly illustrated architectural “biography” of one of DC’s most important boulevards. From the front door of the White House, this north-south artery runs through the middle of the DC and extends just past its border with Maryland, making it as central to the cityscape as it is to DC’s history and culture.

Author : John Skewes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1570618992

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Join Larry the pup as he explores the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, and all the best sights in Washington DC. When Larry gets separated from the family by the scent of a yummy treat, he searches DC for his owner Pete. Along the way, Larry discovers the city’s greatest landmarks and learns about the city’s—and the nation’s—history. Larry makes friends along the way, but will he find Pete and be reunited with the family? Will he come snout-to-snout with the beloved First Dog? Filled with charming retro illustrations, Larry Gets Lost in Washington, DC, is an educational and fun tour of our nation’s capital.

Author : Christopher Hodapp
Publisher : Ulysses Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569757739

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Traces the footsteps of the fictional Robert Langdon to explore te symbolism, rituals, art, architecture and very real Washington D.C., locations.

Author : John DeFerrari
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1625856199

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Washington's first streetcars trundled down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Civil War. By the end of the century, streetcar lines crisscrossed the city, expanding it into the suburbs and defining where Washingtonians lived, worked and played. One of the most beloved routes was the scenic Cabin John line to the amusement park in Glen Echo, Maryland. From the quaint early days of small horse-drawn cars to the modern "streamliners" of the twentieth century, the stories are all here. Join author John DeFerrari on a joyride through the fascinating history of streetcars in the nation's capital.

Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307741907

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Robert Langdon, while at the U.S. Capital Building, finds an object encoded with five symbols, which is an ancient invitation to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's belived mentor, Peter Solomon, is kidnapped, he realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations - all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.

Author : Kathy Jakobsen
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0316394262

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Welcome to My Washington, DC! Vibrant, lush paintings by acclaimed folk artist Kathy Jakobsen bring the capital city to life. A young girl and her friend explore all their favorite places in Washington, DC, from the White House to the Lincoln Memorial. They peek inside the National Air and Space Museum, glimpse the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives, and bask in the beauty of the cherry blossoms surrounding the Tidal Basin. Complete with a map of the city, fun facts, and seek-and-find challenges, My Washington, DC is endlessly fun and educational. Kathy Jakobsen's lavish paintings invite readers to return again and again to this dazzling tribute to America's capital!