Joel Barlow named the estate he purchased in 1807 Kalorama for the expansive views to be had from its place overlooking today’s Rock Creek Park. No more exquisitely beautiful enclave exists in America’s capital....
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Woodley Park Art on Call
Artist Nancy McGill highlights landmarks including the Taft Bridge, the Wardman Park hotel, and Woodley mansion (now the Maret School).
Tenleytown Art on Call
Artist Lena Frumin commemorates the Hot Shoppes, Tenleytown's 1903 firehouse, neighborhood schools, and Fort Reno and the Civil War.
Mount Pleasant Art on Call
Compelling, original, bronze sculptures by Michael K. Ross recall the neighborhood's history -- and prehistory.
Dupont Circle Art on Call
Twenty-two artists' clever and whimsical interpretations of the Dupont Circle fountain plus neighborhood history and fire tales.
Sheridan-Kalorama Art on Call
Gilt-edged boxes display sculpture, paintings, and other artwork honoring the neighborhood's diplomatic and cultural pasts.
Cultural Tourism DC's Art on Call Project Awards Grant to Seven Communities to Restore Antique Call Boxes
Cultural Tourism DC announces seven communities to receive an Art on Call grant for the restoration of antique police and fire call boxes into mini-showcases for original art.
Seven organizations from across the city will transform 21 call...
Walk Washington!
The Nation's Capital is regularly singled out as one of the nation's most walkable cities, and just about every avenue, street, and alleyway has a story to tell. Whether you're into history or greenery, jazz or espionage, pound the pavement to...
Art on Call
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From 2000 until 2009, Cultural Tourism DC led Art on Call, a city-wide effort to restore Washington’s abandoned police and fire call boxes as neighborhood artistic icons. Cultural Tourism DC partnered with the DC Commission on...
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