Lost Washington, D. C.

by John DeFerrari, James M. Goode (Foreword by)

Overview

The author of the popular blog “The Streets of Washington” shares new vignettes and reader favorites exploring the colorful history of America’s capitol.
 
In Lost Washington, D.C., John DeFerrari investigates the bygone institutions and local haunts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Washington may seem eternal and unchanging with its grand avenues and stately monuments, but longtime locals and earlier generations knew a very different place.
 
Discover the Washington of lavish window displays at Woodies, supper at the grand Raleigh Hotel and a Friday night game at Griffith Stadium. From the raucous age of burlesque at the Gayety Theater and the once bustling Center Market to the mystery of Suter's Tavern and the disappearance of the Key mansion in Georgetown, DeFerrari recalls the lost city of yesteryear.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614233206
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/10/2022
Series:	Lost
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	147
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

John DeFerrari, a native Washingtonian with a lifelong passion for local history, pens the Streets of Washington blog and is the author of Lost Washington, D.C. (The History Press, 2011) andHistoric Restaurants of Washington, D.C.: Capital Eats (The History Press, 2013). DeFerrari is active in historic preservation and serves as a trustee of the D.C. Preservation League. He also has a master's degree in English literature from Harvard University and works for the federal government.

Editorial Reviews

…mainly a collection of charming tales of yesteryear…much of Lost Washington is still here, and books such as DeFerrari's push us to look up from our devices and enter a past that is not virtual, but part of a living city.
—The Washington Post

Marc Fisher

"Books such as DeFerrari's push us to look up from our devices and enter a past that is not visual, but a part of a living city." --Marc Fisher, The Washington Post

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