The House History Man

 Developer W.O. Denison, as he was known, was responsible for developing the Northeast Washington suburbs known as Metropolis View and S...

We're proud to be an contributor to the popular Prince of Petworth Blog (PoP) with a new series of brief "Then & Now" typ...

Old Central High School, 7th and O Streets, NW The site of the Kennedy Recreation Center, which opened in 2003 along 7 th Street betw...

The unusual house at 2133 R Street, NW often attracts onlookers, curious about the history of the house with a door that could b...

With the opening of Dark Shadows in theaters this week, we take a look at a direct link to the soap opera of the same name and a Washi...

African American entrepreneur and banker John W. Lewis built the building on the northeast corner of 11 th and U Streets, NW in 1922.  ...

Another brief blog post due to the looming deadline of my latest book, Lost Washington.  It will be done soon! This interesting picture ...

Over the twenty years that I’ve been researching historic houses in Washington, DC, I find that in only about 15% of the cases do we dis...

Once and awhile when your researching through thousands and thousands of rather boring vintage photographs looking for a building or hous...

First African New Church, about 1930. Ever made a cool $1.1 million in a year flipping a property without doing anything to it?  The o...

The Saunders mansion at Wyoming and Connecticut Avenue The Washington city landscape began to change dramatically after the turn of ...

Putting the Nail in the Coffin Have an old house in Washington, DC?  It’s most likely that you had a dead body resting in it for a fe...