Adams Morgan (June 19, 2020) Today, we started exploring the heart of Adams Morgan. It’s a little more urban and gritty than neighboring Kalorama. The neighborhood gets its distinctive name from the two formerly segregated area elementary schools. The older black school was named for Thomas P. Morgan, an American writer, editor and poet who …
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Day 87
Kalorama Triangle / Adams Morgan (June 18, 2020) Today we enjoyed walking the tree lined streets of Kalorama Triangle. The Triangle does not have the beautiful embassies and mansions of Kalorama on the other side of Connecticut Avenue. However, it does have more than its fair share of beautiful apartment buildings. It also has many …
Day 86
Lanier Heights / Adams Morgan (June 15, 2020) Lanier Heights is named after Elizabeth Lanier Dunn, who with her husband General William Dunn, began developing the neighborhood in the 1880s. William Dunn was a U.S. congressman from Indiana from 1859-63 and in 1875 he became the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. During …
Day 85
West End / Downtown (June 13, 2020) We walked from Georgetown along N Street and back along M Street on a sunny Saturday afternoon. It was relatively peaceful after the chaos of the previous week. We passed by the Francis-Stevens Education Campus, which despite the sign, is now more accurately called School Without Walls at …
Day 84
Mt. Pleasant (June 12, 2020) We finished up our exploration of Mt. Pleasant on a perfect Summer day with virtually no humidity which is almost unheard of here in the District. This part of Mt. Pleasant appeared more urban than the parts that we have seen on previous days. There was a mix of apartment …
Day 83
Mt. Pleasant (June 10, 2020) It turns out that there is a reason that only Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. We headed back out onto the streets of Mt. Pleasant on a sweltering humid day but soon beat a hasty retreat back to the welcome confines of our air conditioned …
Day 82
Mt. Pleasant (June 7, 2020) Today we started walking in Mt. Pleasant. The neighborhood gets its name from Anthony Holmead who in the 1700s owned an estate called Pleasant Plains, that included Mt. Pleasant as well as the adjacent neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, and Pleasant Plains. The population used to be very diverse …
Day 81
Crestwood (June 5, 2020) We finished up our exploration of Crestwood today. It has become one of our favorite neighborhoods with its diverse range of houses and quiet, tree lined streets. Here are some of the houses we passed along the way. But our favorite, and perhaps Lauren’s favorite of all the houses that we …
Day 80
Crestwood (June 4, 2020) On a hot muggy day, we headed back into the peaceful streets of Crestwood. We are really enjoying this neighborhood with its tree lined streets and wide variety of homes. A number of the homes had steps going up to their front yards with interesting iron hand railings. This house had …
Day 79
Crestwood (May 31, 2020) With chaos once again erupting a little further down 16th Street, it seemed rather surreal to be walking the peaceful, suburban streets of Crestwood. Along the way we passed some beautiful houses of all styles. Here are a few. Walking down 16th Street we continued to pass houses of worship of …
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