Archive for May 2014

Historic luxury Beaux-Arts hotel located at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Among its facilities are numerous luxurious guest rooms, several restaurants, the famed Round Robin Bar, the Peacock Alley series of luxury shops, and voluminous function rooms. Frequented by Presidents since the 1850’s.

A historic building at Judiciary Square in downtown. Originally built for the offices of the D.C. municipal government, the city hall was subsequently used as a courthouse, and was the scene of several notable criminal trials including those of three accused presidential assassins. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960. It now…

Located north of the National Mall on Constitution Avenue, opened in 1935. It holds the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. It also hosts a copy of the 1297 Magna Carta confirmed by Edward I. These are displayed to the public in the Rotunda for the Charters…

The Old Post Office Pavilion is a historic building located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Completed in 1899, it was used as the city’s main post office until 1914. Used primarily as an office building afterward, it was nearly torn down during the construction of the Federal Triangle complex in the 1920s. It was nearly…

The Newseum is an interactive museum of news and journalism located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. The seven-level, 250,000-square-foot museum features 15 theaters and 14 galleries. The Newseum’s Berlin Wall Gallery includes the largest display of sections of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany. The Today’s Front Pages Gallery presents daily front pages from more…

Arthur Erickson’s combination of modernism and neoclassicism evokes I.M. Pei’s design for the National Gallery of Art’s East Building across Pennsylvania Avenue. The new building was designed by British Columbia architect Arthur Erickson. This decision generated some controversy as Erickson was handpicked by his friend, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, but the building itself was much…

The statue honors American Civil War general and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. It sits at the base of Capitol Hill, below the west front of the US Capitol. Its sculpture of Grant on horseback faces west, over the Capitol Reflecting Pool and toward the Lincoln Memorial, which honors Grant’s wartime president, Abraham Lincoln. The…

The US Botanic Garden (USBG) is is the oldest continually operating botanic garden in the United States, and located on the grounds of the United States Capitol, near Garfield Circle. The Botanic Garden is supervised by the Congress through the Architect of the Capitol, who is responsible for maintaining the grounds of the United States Capitol. The USBG is open every day…