Get to know Adams Morgan

Adams Morgan is a fun and funky neighborhood, well known for its celebrated nightlife scene and eclectic and fabulous dining options. Though the neighborhood dates from the 19th century, Adams Morgan is a relatively new name for the area. The moniker came from the Adams-Morgan Better Neighborhood Conference, a community group headed by the principals of two local elementary schools — the John Quincy Adams School and the Thomas P. Morgan School — created to integrate and improve the local schools. The name Adams Morgan was adopted in the 1950s and 1960s and is a legacy of the neighborhood’s strong community spirit. Adams Morgan is a blast to hang out in, whether it’s during the day or at night, with great vintage stores, record shops, and bookstores, as well as live music at Madam’s Organ or craft cocktails at a basement speakeasy in the evenings.

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Living in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., is a beautiful city with gorgeous architecture and a vibrant cultural life that also just happens to be the nation’s capital. Of course, Washington, D.C., is a company town — the company being the American government — but only a quarter of Washington, D.C., residents are federal employees, with the biggest employers being the major hospitals and universities. Washington, D.C., is an exemplar of urban planning, thanks to the vision of military engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant. L’Enfant’s plan symbolically put the people in charge by placing Congress, and not the White House, at the pinnacle of the city, with D.C.’s wide boulevards radiating out from the “People’s House” on Capitol Hill. L’Enfant also laid out the National Mall, which stretches for more than two miles from Capitol Hill to the Potomac River, creating a public space for marches, monuments, and museums.