Foods that bring familiar comfort change from year to year and decade to decade as residents of the nation’s capital bear witness to the ebb-and-flow of culinary tastes. Lingering on the Palate is a tour that will take you through some of the iconic restaurants that once peppered their way throughout the city’s neighborhoods and history, highlighting some of their lasting, inspiring dishes that can be recalled throughout generations. From taverns to power lunches, the history of food in DC is…

Nowadays, it is surprising when a common product isn’t available on the store shelf. Most grocery stores, supermarkets, and big box stores have a wide variety of offerings in a multitude of options – a level of convenience that the modern consumer takes for granted. Even when a brick-and-mortar store doesn’t quite have what you need, the product can be purchased online with just a few clicks, and delivered within a couple days or even within hours. This wasn’t always the case. In fact, the…

Washington, DC's suburban neighborhoods are largely defined by their early to mid-20th century detached dwellings reflecting a wide variety of Revival-style buildings from the popular Colonial Revival styles to more picturesque Tudor and Mediterranean-style residences. Within these traditional neighborhood settings, however, are pockets of Mid-Century houses that were either privately commissioned or part of speculative developments. Largely constructed between the late 1940s up through the…

Historic preservation is almost always focused on the protection of a building or a structure's exterior. Because of this flexibility, residents of historic districts freely remodel the interiors of their homes while external facades are saved from the wrecking ball and incorporated into new construction. Nonetheless, DC's historic preservation regulations allow for the designation of "building interiors." Therefore, interiors are occasionally designated for their historic and/or architectural…

Each year, Washington, DC, hosts millions of visitors from around the world. These tourists, along with the District’s 700,000 residents, wander and explore the city’s numerous streets, parks, and other public spaces. With so many people out and about, outdoor art has been installed along the city’s streets, and within its parks and plazas, enhancing the city’s landscape. This tour seeks to highlight some of the public abstract artwork found throughout DC, from large metal sculptures in the…