It’s hard to believe, but the run down building viewable from the railyards heading into Union Station in DC was the site of the first live concert by the Beatles in the United States. Used as a trash transfer station until new regulations forbade its use for that grimy purpose, it apparently serves as a…
Tag: Washington DC
The University That Ate Foggy Bottom
Foggy Bottom in Washington, DC used to be a blue collar neighborhood just to the west of the White House, complete with lumber yards and gas storage tanks. Modest rowhouses lined the streets, and it was a relatively inexpensive tract of land, until George Washington University moved in. Ironically, the university moved because the expensive…
Washington Circle, Foggy Bottom and the West End, Washington, DC
Washington Circle sits at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue and K Street in the heart of downtown. It was once lined with rowhouses, but now only one block still retains its original appearance. K Street is carried under the circle in viaduct, where speeds often reach 65 mph in a posted zone…
Eastern Market, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Update: The market later burned after I was there, and has since been restored. Eastern Market is an anchor of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and after suffering a devastating fire a couple of years ago, the mayor was out front the next day promising to rebuild. To be honest, I bought a lot of fruit…
Washington, DC
I went a little crazy in Washington, DC and Baltimore, taking just shy of nine hundred photographs in the five days I was out on the East Coast. Here are some awesome photographs I took from the balcony of my host, Neena, in Adams Morgan. I experimented with taking pictures with the night function and…
Modernist Church Threatened in Washington, DC
Update: The church was granted landmark status but was still demolished in 2014. Having lived in DC for six years, I distinctly remember this Brutalist church at the corner of I and 16th Sts NW. Apparently they want to tear it down because they think it is ugly (and were successful).
Protest, Washington, DC
Photograph by Jeff Phillips, text by Chris Naffziger. I went to so many protests in DC that I have lost track. The best part is that any given day, you could stumble across one with little effort. I think this was a labor strike of some sort.