Photograph by Evy Mages .This 130-year-old building at 219 M Street, Northwest, recently hit the market. A quick look at the offering: The history: Located in the Truxton Circle neighborhood, the firehouse was built in 1895. It remained in service until 1974, and in 1985 it was sold off as part of DC’s surplus-property disposal program. […] The post Want to Live in a DC Firehouse? first appeared on Washingtonian.| Washingtonian
Swiz performing in 1988. Photograph of Swiz by Alexis Fleisig/courtesy of Akashic Books.Keep Your Ear to the Ground By John R. Davis Davis, a curator of the University of Maryland’s DC punk collection, wrote this intriguing history of the city’s punk zines. It may seem like an arcane topic, but the stories of publications like […] The post DC Punk Explored in Three New History Books first appeared on Washingtonian.| Washingtonian
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