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Hotel Bar · Downtown-Penn Quarter-Chinatown · 33 tips and reviews
Library Lady: “You adopt the universal habit of the place and call for a mint-julep, a whiskey-skin, a gin-cocktail...for the conviviality of Washington sets in at an early hour,” wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1862
Historic and Protected Site · U-Street · 4 tips and reviews
DC Public Library: In the 1920s this was known as the 12th Street Y, home to Langston Hughes. Zora Neale Hurston met Hughes while he was living here in DC. They would later become close friends and collaborators.