Downtown
The year the Washington DC Metro opened.
What is 1976?
These two formerly segregated elementary schools gave this neighborhood its name.
What are John Quincy Adams School and Thomas P. Morgan School
The abandoned streetcar station below the neighborhood's streets that was turned into a public arts space.
What is the Dupont Underground?
The full name of the C&O Canal.
What is the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal?
The famous abolitionist, writer, and statesman who once resided in this neighborhood.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This letter is skipped in the alphabetical grid of streets.
What is the letter "J"?
This was the original name of the large neighborhood.
What is Lanier Heights?
The designers of the Dupont Circle fountain, Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon, also designed this memorial.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
The year Georgetown University was founded.
What is 1789?
This quirky and iconic neighborhood landmark was built in 1959.
What is "The Big Chair"?
The architect and urban planner best known for designing the original plan for Washington, DC.
Who is Pierre Charles L'Enfant?
This once popular, then defunct, and now resurrected children's store with a giraffe mascot was founded in Adams Morgan in 1948.
What is Toys "R" Us?
Evelyn Walsh McLean once owned this famous gemstone, as well as the mansion where the Indonesian Embassy resides.
What is the Hope Diamond?
The coming-of-age movie starring the "Brat Pack" of the 1980s that takes place in Georgetown.
What is "St. Elmo's Fire"?
The original name of this neighborhood.
What is Uniontown?
The year the Smithsonian Castle was completed.
What is 1855?
This 1922 incident was caused by the weight of a huge snowstorm, killing 98 people and injuring over 100.
What is The Knickerbocker Theatre disaster?
The tragedy let to many needed changes in Washington's building codes.
The Walt Whitman quote on the Dupont Circle Q St. metro station was carved/added in response to this.
What is the AIDS crisis?
The year Georgetown became a part of the District of Columbia.
What is 1871?
The indigenous group the neighborhood gets its current name from.
Who are the Anacostan people?
The Act of Congress, passed by the 61st US Congress, that limited the height of buildings in the District.
What is the Height of Buildings Act of 1910?
The number of restaurants in Adams Morgan in 1975.
8
Today there are over 100!
The number of embassies actually located on "Embassy Row".
What is 50?
The 3 architectural styles spanning, more than two centuries, that can be seen in the neighborhood's row houses.
The first community-based museum created by the Smithsonian Institute devoted to community history.
What is the Anacostia Community Museum?