Capitol Hill began as a thinly settled agricultural area. Beginning in the 1790s, the Capitol and the Washington Navy Yard, a large industrial employer, spurred a building boom in new houses, hotels, and stores, a trend that continues to present day. This book focuses on buildings lost and saved. --from Amazon.

Rare photos: Lincoln's inauguration, Ford's Theater in 1865, Frederick Douglass, Women's Suffrage Parade, Georgetown in 1893, White House East Room in 1893 and more. Views by Brady, Bishop, Peale, others. Pre-Civil War to modern era.

Washington National Cathedral is a Gothic great church built between 1907 and 1990. Despite being built entirely during the 20th century, the techniques used were the same as those used on the centuries-old Gothic churches in Europe. What powered the larger tools and cranes was different, but otherwise, the processes, ordering, and artistic finishing were almost entirely medieval. The last time a building of this magnitude was built using these techniques,...

A spectacular armchair tour of Washington, D.C. from the unique photographic lens of Carol Highsmith, photographer of the Photographic Tour and Pictorial Souvenir series. Oversized, with 300 four-color photographs, this is a treasury of pictures of America's beautiful capital. --from Amazon.