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Dumbarton Oaks: The house's owners transformed the site into a premier research facility.
Purchased in 1920 by Mildred Barnes Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks has expanded and transformed over time from a private home to a key research center within Washington, DC. The house…
Chevy Chase Savings Bank: This community savings bank, an Italian Renaissance Revival style building, served clients in the Chevy Chase neighborhood.
As more people moved to DC in the early 20th century, newly-established neighborhoods, like Chevy Chase, drew local businesses, including banks to deposit and withdraw money, to support the…
Potomac Aqueduct Bridge Abutment and Pier: The structure was a feat of engineering and transport.
In the early 18th century, one of the main modes of transportation for goods between DC and Virginia was by boat and waterway. The continued development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal),…
Exploring DC’s Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: Metro PCS, Shaw: The cellphone store doubles as one of the last places in DC to buy live go-go performance CDs.
Despite the tense relationship between go-go music and city officials throughout the 1980s and 1990s, fans kept the genre alive and well. Private businesses and venues continued to provide a home for…
Exploring DC’s Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: The Ibex: The club was located in a three-story building filled with food and music.
With three floors of music and plenty of food and drinks, The Ibex was an unforgettable experience for patrons to enjoy music of different genres and for bands seeking a performance venue. Many were…
Exploring DC’s Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: Breeze’s Metro Club (Deno’s): The well-known club was famous for being the site of one of Rare Essence's live performance albums.
Owned and operated by Daniel “Hollywood Breeze” Clayton, Breeze’s Metro Club (also known as Deno’s and the Metro Club) was one of the longest-standing and well-known clubs in DC. The club got its…
Exploring DC’s Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: The Maverick Room: The venue is believed to be the birthplace of go-go.
Cited as the club where Chuck Brown first crafted the go-go genre, the Maverick Room – on 4th Street NE, just north of Rhode Island Avenue – is seen as the birthplace of go-go music. While the year…
Exploring DC's Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: Club U (Franklin D. Reeves Center): The club's location in a city-owned building stirred attention from locals and officials.
By day, this city-owned and operated building housed city offices and civil servants; by night, its clientele changed to function as a go-go club. Club U might have had a strange address, but for…
Exploring DC's Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: Go-Go Clubs (‘the Go-Go’): Go-go clubs were the center of activity and socializing for fans and bands.
The most important feature of go-go music that continues to make it so popular is the fact that the audience can take part in creating its unique sound. No two go-go performances are the same, partly…
Exploring DC's Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: WGTB 90.1 Radio Station (Georgetown University): The left-wing radio station drew attention and ire to the university's administration.
Georgetown University might have been a Jesuit institution, but throughout the 1970s its university radio station was anything but. WGTB 90.1 became one of the area’s leading and only left-wing radio…