I drive south on 13th Street often, so regularly pass through the intersection of 13th…
Author: Robert Malesky
National Hero or Neighborhood Eccentric? November 19, 1881, 3pm: The most hated man in America sat uncomfortably in…
It Was Once Called Metropolis View That chunk of land to the west of Colonel…
When I was researching my last post on the oldest remaining pre-subdivision homes in the…
There’s a great new resource for people interested in house history in Washington. It’s an…
Brickmakers, Bottlers, and the Occasional Haunted House If you live anywhere in Ward 5, you…
The Monroe Street bridge is about to undergo a complete and long-needed rehabilitation. The original…
1887: Col. Jehiel Brooks had died the previous year and his 200+ acres of land…
When I first moved to Brookland I quickly noticed how many cemeteries there seemed to…
Brookland had a number of different development partners in its formative years: Benjamin Leighton and…
Bygone Brookland 