Get to know American University Park

American University Park is a lovely, quiet, and convenient neighborhood named after the eponymous university at its borders. American University has a self-contained 84-acre campus — itself an accredited arboretum with more than 2,500 trees — and some 13,000 students, but AU Park is light on college town vibes. Instead, this neighborhood in upper northwest D.C. feels more like a patch of suburban splendor, with a tightly knit community of neighbors who dip in and out of houses for dinners and playdates. Most of the homes in AU Park have front and back yards — a rare feature for D.C. — and are flanked by sidewalks and alleyways, making it very pedestrian-friendly. Homes here are often Colonials and bungalows, but larger properties are also available. AU Park is frequently grouped with Tenleytown, its more commercial neighbor, and it’s easy to hop on the Red Line at the Tenleytown-AU station.

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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.