What does your home reveal? Does it match how you want to be seen? What stays, and what goes? (1/4) 🗃️

What do Washington, Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Longfellow, Schiller, Von Humboldt, Homer, and Raphael have in common? They’re all men. And - according to whoever chose them - all distinguished (at least in Western tradition)

The Builders https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/the-builders-1947

Happy 183rd Cristian Heurich! 🍺🎂 📸 Amelia Heurich's Diary from Sunday, September 12, 1915. Heurich House Museum collection.

🍻 History & Hops: Heurich Revival Edition is ONE WEEK AWAY on Thursday, September 18th from 6–8pm! Step back into DC’s brewing past and raise a glass to the revival of three historic Chr. Heurich Brewing Co. beers! ✨

If you stand and look up in the Heurich mansion’s Reception Room - originally designed to be a Library - you’ll notice a series of faces along the top of the walls. 📚🗃️ 1/5

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Nighttime forest girl summer

The Heurich House Museum stands as a memorial to labor in DC, with physical reminders of people’s work – from: 🗃️

This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org

Trombone Shorty releases new album from New Orleans, a tribute to the city's soul, marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

PHOTOS: @darrow-m.bsky.social has spent the past 10 days documenting Trump’s federal takeover of D.C., where roughly 2,000 National Guard troops have been stationed.

#Ward4 neighbors: please don't order any food delivery right now if you can help it. Delivery drivers are being targeted heavily in our neighborhoods.

Three Republican Governors are sending hundreds of National Guard troops to DC. Come with me to see what the ones currently deployed in DC are up to.

Today's Message

All this talk about Taylor Swift when you should be talking about Naylor Court (The DC Archives)

It’s almost time.

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.

In a year of many difficult budget decisions, we are grateful to the DC Council for keeping funding for the new DC State Archives building at UDC in the capital budget, and including additional funds to improve Naylor Court. These projects preserve important DC and federal history!

What a sick-ass archive pull.

Thank you Councilmember for keeping the DC Archives at UDC where it belongs!

"brutalism fans rejoice, swiss post just unveiled concrete stamps made with cement pigments" r/brutalism

u kno if u really think about it, Ovaltine and Ardbeg 35 are the same thing 🤔🤔

Fear not!

When I first learned that the Office of Planning put the Chevy Chase historic district on hold to do an equity study, I imagined something more...equitable.

In this article, Bowser money man Kevin Donohue claims their harebrained scheme to put the DC Archives in a shed will cost half of the 2018 budget estimate. Putting aside the effects of seven years of inflation, he is just lying. They haven't taken a cost estimate for their scheme.

To everyone who wrote a one line email, testified, or just bothered your councilmember at Safeway, this is your victory. The new archive will open later than we hoped, but the funding for the current building will make DC's most valuable historic resource available like never before—and soon. 🗃️

Celebrating a win for DC this morning!

How does a historic house museum stay relevant to its modern communities? Our Assistant Director, in conversation with our CEO, explores this question in a new guest blog for the American Alliance of Museums' Center for the Future of Museums. www.aam-us.org/2025/07/10/t...

You should put two spaces after a period when: - Writing a fax to your travel agent - Penning a eulogy for your uncle who just died of "confumption" - Addressing the constable or lorde of the duchy

Listen to Neil!

It is 2025(I think) and new restaurants still aren’t putting purse hooks under thr bar.

Great to see the BLD boys get attention, they are definitely THE firm to watch out for in DC, especially for regenerative architecture.

estuarycore tidepunk

Another awesome local history project by @jgbollard.bsky.social 🤩

"...DC needs a new, modern archives that captures, preserves and shares its powerful story, told through its government, local leaders and ordinary citizens. It needs a place where researchers and residents can go to learn about their city and themselves..." thedcline.org/2025/06/20/j...

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The text of our testimony from the budget oversight hearings is now up on our website. The budget process goes until August, so there is still plenty of time for you to submit your thoughts to DC Council and the Mayor! www.dcarchivesfoundation.org/learn

Upset about the proposed cancellation of the DC Archives but live in Montana or have a day job? You can still help! 🗃️ Send a single word email to Mayor Bowser's chief of staff. Don't overthink it. Just say you want it completed as planned. Be nice. Curse. Whatever. 👀 [email protected] 👀

Student housing should not be pitted against the city's historic resources in a year that 1/2 a billion dollars is going to a stadium.

We've added a statement to our website and added ways to help save the DC State Archives building project: www.dcarchivesfoundation.org/statement-ab...

The Mayor of Washington, DC wants to cancel its badly needed state archives after ten years and millions of dollars of work. Why? Seemingly to subsidize the billionaire-backed stadium she has been working on with Donald Trump. Send a note to [email protected] if you want to help. 🗃️

After so many years of careful planning, this drastic and last second change to the DC Archives’ plan only makes sense with one explanation: Is the Mayor funding her new stadium with our city’s heritage?

The Mayor completely ELIMINATED new DC Archives building in her budget. See the thread below to learn more and stay tuned for ways you can help save DC's history.

You might think museums are in the business of collecting objects. Or maybe telling stories. But what if their most radical function—especially in a divided society—is to give people power? Read the full article on: www.museumnext.com/article/what...

Next weekend!

What the Heurich House has done with the DC Makers Guild shows that the best way to connect a small history organization to a community is to become a part of it. 🗃️ nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Learn all about how museum Assistant Director, Alex Fraioli, helps small local businesses with through Urban Manufacturing Incubator program. @ilanapreuss.bsky.social nextcity.org/urbanist-new...