Embassy Row, Halloween History Tour, Oct. 28!!

Embassy Row and Dupont Circle are a center of architecture, statesmanship—and crime and intrigue. Perfect for a Halloween-themed event.
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Embassy Row, Halloween History Tour!!

Founded as D.C.’s ritziest neighborhood, and long the sites of foreign embassies and espionage, Embassy Row and Dupont Circle are a center of architecture, statesmanship—and crime and intrigue. Perfect for a Halloween-themed event. Take a walk into the exciting past and alluring present of this world-renowned locale!

MEET at the Dupont Circle fountain, 1 Dupont Circle NW Washington, DC 20036.

Length: c. 2 hours.

Nearest metro stop: Dupont Circle. You might bring water and walking shoes.

Some of our scary itinerary!:

· The site of the worst terrorist attack in D.C. history

· How American agents stole intel from an enemy embassy

· Vanished, and preserved, mansions of the Gilded Age

· The home of a Cursed diamond

· The architect of Dupont Circle, and the Lincoln Memorial

· The home of a doomed President

· Dueling statues of a great imperialist and a great anti-imperialist

· The moveable ghost of the moveable graveyard

· Where the Attorney General, and a future President, were nearly bombed to death

· The site of the M**der of a ranking foreign diplomat

· Cavalry duel--General Sheridan vs General Stuart

· The traitorous spy of a valued ally

· The secret espionage tunnel

· George Washington’s private club

· And Washington, D.C.’s even more exclusive club

· Dupont Circle’s craziest house

· The Confederacy’s retirement home

· Statues of famed leaders from Turkey, Czech Republic, India….

· House of a witness to a presidential assassination

· A Russian spy nest hiding in plain sight

· Museum of a brewer who outwitted Prohibition

· The most qualified man to be President--who was never elected

· The suicide that spun off from a great tragedy

· And more!

Your guide is a former writer for the “Tonight Show”, and ex-White House speechwriter, and author of the new historical novel, based on actual World War II espionage in Embassy Row and Georgetown, Femme Fatalité:

www.amazon.com/Femme-Fatalité-Lizzy-Thorne-Novel/dp/B0F5WCR39S

Also a forthcoming history of Georgetown, the neighborhood adjacent to Embassy Row:

mcfarlandbooks.com/product/georgetown-on-the-potomac/?srsltid=AU7gw4WgKf7XxuSzdm9EUVIsD38KkvfilIuDiMJbXjDdPkqfNQY5lHNQ

MEET at the Dupont Circle fountain, 1 Dupont Circle NW Washington, DC 20036.

The Dupont Circle metro is nearby.

Think history is boring? Not on this tour!

Join us on the tour of a neighborhood steeped in history, beautiful buildings, and M**der & espionage!