White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Play image association with the words “Washington, DC,” and chances are the first thing that comes to mind is the White House. The president’s pad is…
Must-see attractions in White House Area & Foggy Bottom
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Designed by Italian architect Luigi Moretti and DC-based landscape architect Boris Timchenko and constructed between 1963 and 1971, this five-building…
Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
This neoclassical behemoth is supposedly the largest complex of buildings in the world owned exclusively by women. They own the entire city block! Enter…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
This gem is the country’s only textile museum. Galleries spread over two floors hold exquisite fabrics and carpets. Exhibits revolve around a theme – say…
Department of the Interior Museum
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Responsible for managing the nation’s natural resources, the Department of the Interior operates this small museum to educate the public about its current…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Part of the Smithsonian group, the Renwick Gallery is set in a stately 1859 mansion on the same block of Pennsylvania as the White House. It's emerged as…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Getting inside the White House can be difficult, so here is your back-up plan. Housed in the splendiferous 1932 Patent Search Room of the Department of…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
The headquarters of the American diplomatic corps is a forbidding, well-guarded edifice – modernist, monolithic and unfriendly. In stark contrast are the…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Made up of approximately 2000 members, including almost 200 Nobel Prize winners, these are the folks the government hits up for scientific advice (whether…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
The expansive, oval-shaped park on the White House's south side is known as the Ellipse. It's studded with a random collection of monuments, such as the…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Built in 1887, St Mary’s was home to the first black Episcopal congregation in DC, which was established in 1867. James Renwick, designer of the…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Designed in 1818 by Benjamin Latrobe for naval hero Stephen Decatur and his wife Susan, this brick building holds the honor of being the first and last…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
The Organization of American States operates this small art museum in a separate building on its property. It features changing exhibits of modern and…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
St John’s isn’t DC’s most imposing church, but it is arguably its most important. That’s because it’s the ‘Church of the Presidents’ – every president…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Designed by William Thornton (the Capitol’s first architect) in 1800 for one of the largest slave-owners in the state of Virginia, this minimally…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
‘The Fed,’ is the Olympus of the Gods of the American Economy. Housed in a monolithic white building that closely resembles a Soviet ministry, it is…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
The land north of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave was originally deeded as part of the White House grounds. However, in 1804 President Thomas Jefferson decided to…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Known as ‘G-dub’ or ‘GW,’ this university has been a bedrock of Washington identity since its founding in 1821. Besides shaping much of the American…
Organization of American States
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
A forerunner to the UN, the OAS was founded in 1890 to promote cooperation among North and South American nations. Its main building on the corner of…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Together, the 1824 Blair House and adjoining 1858 Lee House have functioned as part of the official presidential guesthouse complex since 1943, when…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
The descriptors ‘K St’ and ‘lobbyist’ have practically become synonymous since the 1990s. This is where high-powered lawyers, consultants and, of course,…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
The grounds in front of the National Academy of Sciences feature DC’s most huggable monument: Robert Berks' bronze 1978 statue of Albert Einstein. The…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
One of the best bits of the George Washington University campus, where Colonial-revival buildings flank a green park bedecked with roses and a statue of –…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Attached to Blair House as part of the official accommodations for the President's overnight guests, this building was built for Robert E Lee’s cousin in…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
This memorial in the Ellipse honors the US Army Second Division's dead from WWI, WWII and the Korean War.
George Washington University's Corcoran School of the Arts & Design
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Opened in 1890, the Corcoran was DC's first art museum. It closed in 2014, but the George Washington University has taken it over, and the historic beaux…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Named for Civil War general James B McPherson, who once commanded the Army of Tennessee, this square sports an 1876 statue of McPherson on his horse…
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
Located in the Ellipse, the Zero Milestone is the marker for highway distances all across the country.
White House Area & Foggy Bottom
The spot from where White House tours embark.
