Events

Join DCPL for this exciting tour offered in partnership with Washington Walks! Discover an overlooked aspect of DC’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood: a collection of Federal era mansions hiding in plain sight that were homes to men such as Founding Fathers James Madison and James Monroe. In the early 1800s wealthy, influential politicians and officials built substantial ... Read more

This tour, presented by the DC Preservation League and the DC Office of Planning, will visit several LGBTQ+ historic sites in the Dupont Circle neighborhood -- long seen as the historic center of DC's queer community. This history is local, but by nature of being in the nation’s capital, ties into larger stories of the queer ... Read more