Witness the past in modern-day Washington, DC, the Penn Quarter Neighborhood

Stops include the Carnegie Library, now the DC Historical Society; Statue commemorating Louis Daguerre, on the grounds of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery; the home and office of Belva Lockwood, first woman admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court bar; the United States' first telegraph office, operated by Samuel Morse; the Old Patent Office, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Ford’s Theater in Lincoln’s Time; Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office; Photographer Matthew Brady’s Studio; Center Market in the present-day location of the National Archives; the National Gallery of Art, before it was built; and the National Archives and Records Administration.

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