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(05-02-2013 01:08 PM)KateH. Wrote:  Hi everyone,

I'm going to DC with a friend for a few days in May. Do you guys have any must-see suggestions? We're definitely going to Ford's Theatre and the Surratt Boardinghouse. Sadly, we don't have enough time to go to Maryland or Virginia.

Thanks for the help

So SORRY!!!! The Surratt Tavern Museum isn't that far out of town!! It is a treasure!!! And the tours and docents are so good...not to mention the most amazing treasure of all, Laurie Verge, the director.

Mudd's house isn't too far.

I have just been thinking about my first visit to Ford's Theatre. I will never forget going up the more private spiral staircase to the side of the main interior staircase! I don't know if it was a reminiscent feeling of my past going up the spiral staircases in the old Andrew Carnegie Library I mentioned in Port Huron, Michigan, or the way the air flowed in that enclosed circular space...OR...did I feel a passing ghost as I ascended the narrow stairs, but I distinctly felt a chill and goosebumps as I made my way up. Does anyone know if JWB ever used that staircase?? I had no such feeling on the main staircase.

Here is another nod to the Industrial Revolution, besides the Andrew Carnegie Libraries, have any of you ever seen Thalien (sp.?) Hall, in Wilmington, North Carolina?? It would give you goosebumps, too. It's another feat of modularization! Praise God!! They were able to reconstruct so many things after the fire at Ford's because it was still there.

The museum in Ford's basement is very cool!

The Metro is very accessible and easy to use.

The Holocaust Museum is amazing!

Don't forget the Petersen House across the street. There's a post about the pillowcase.

You could do lunch at the Boarding House. Is it still The Wok and Roll?

The Catholic Church where Mary worshipped is around the corner.

You could to a drive through of Arlington.

I haven't been here, but one of my next destinations is the Clara Barton Civil War Offices...not sure the museum name, but the offices were just found not too many years ago. It is a real treasure story with her clothes and everything! They were working on a building there and found her office had just been closed up and never entered again, SINCE THE CIVIL WAR!!! Gives new meaning to the empty offices the GSA owns doesn't it!?! I mean these offices with her clothing were found by workmen, I think, not more than 6 or 7 years ago and they have made a museum there.