Selections from Around Washington, DC
On our way to visit family for Thanksgiving, we spent a few days in Washington, DC. You could spend a month in the city and still not visit all of the museums and sites in …
Tag: Washington DC
The President Woodrow Wilson House
And we knock off another presidential site with a logistically challenging schedule (offering just four time slots for tours in any given week). This time we toured The President Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, DC …
Architecture / Art / Museums
National Building Museum
The National Building Museum in Washington DC, focuses on, naturally, buildings! The collection is focused on designing, building, working, and living in structures throughout history. But it also had a LEGO exhibit on view, so …
The Society of the Cincinnati at Larz Anderson House
When the Society of the Cincinnati at Larz Anderson House in Washington, DC, came on my radar, I couldn’t quite figure out what it was, but I knew we had to see it. It was …
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
While neither of us is into stamp collecting (Doug gave up the hobby decades ago), we and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum were both right in the area, so we went in for a meander. …
Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery
Doug and I visited the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, after a long day walking around the city, which is, admittedly, not the best time to slow down and …
President Lincoln’s Cottage
The day after visiting the family home of President Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, we headed to the outskirts of Washington D.C. for our second attempt at touring President Lincoln’s Cottage. While it is quite …