Is Walter Reed the next St. Elizabeths? They're both large scale medical campuses, now suddenly being redeveloped and reborn. They're both old. They've both treated famous people within their boundaries—Walter Reed of the more noble variety: President Dwight Eisenhower died there in 1969. Meanwhile, St. Elizabeths was home to “the man who tried to shoot [...]

St. Elizabeths campus is the future home to the Department of Homeland Security—and a former insane asylum, Civil War hospital, and shelter to “the man who tried to shoot President Andrew Jackson, the man who did shoot President Theodore Roosevelt and, of course, the man who grievously wounded President Ronald Reagan,” as the Washington Post [...]

Penn Quarter's Old Post Office Pavilion, another building that had to fight for its survival.
The D.C. Historic Preservation League has begun soliciting suggestions for its 2009 Most Endangered Places list, which names sites around the city that are being threatened with development, demolition, and death by deterioration. One of last year's selections, the Third Church [...]