Showing posts with label Historic Sites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historic Sites. Show all posts

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Belfort Meteorological Observatory

and the Baltimore Rescue Mission

Along East Baltimore Street, at the corner with Central Avenue, in the Jonestown neighborhood of Baltimore, we find this intriguing building. It identifies itself as Belfort.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

The Cabin John Bridge


The Cabin John Bridge carries MacArthur Blvd. across Cabin John Creek and the Cabin John Parkway. It also carries part of Washington's water supply.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Where Valor Proudly Sleeps

 Battleground National Cemetery

On Georgia Avenue, two blocks south of Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC, is a tiny Federal cemetery, a little more than an acre of ground with 41 graves arranged in a circular pattern.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Grover Cleveland Slept Here


The Pennyfield Inn at Lock 22 on the C&O Canal was built in 1879. President Grover Cleveland stayed here on several occasions to fish for bass in the nearby Potomac.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Lady with the Harp

 Eliza Ridgely
This 1818 painting by Thomas Sully may have saved his 15-year-old subject's home, Hampton.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Roger Brooke Taney Didn't Live Here.

The Roger Brooke Taney House


 121 South Bentz Street, Frederick Maryland